Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-01-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The Grant monument fund now aggre-
gates s1ll,72S.
Twenty-six college graduates enlisted
last year in the signal service.
Much damage has been done by gales
and high tides on the New England coast.
Gold bars to the amount of 81, 400, 900
were shipped to London recently.
The Newark, N. j., boys sent to Paris
for treatment for hydrophobia are doing
well.
All efforts to recover the bodies of the
entombed miners at Nanticoke, Penn,
have ceased
The Boston city government voted q
gold watch to Mr.. Beecher for his me-
mortal Grafton on Grant.
Judge S. T. Goode of the nineteenth
judicial district court of Louisiana has
committed suicide.
Adelaide Rudolph, a niece of Mrs. GAR
field, has deem elected Latin professor of
the Kansas State University.
John Blgelow, recently appointed and
confirmed an assistant United States
treasurer at New York, has resigned.
The Pennsylvania Coal Company at
Pittston has closed its collieries, throw
ing 1000 men and boys out of employ
ment
In the basement of Philadelphia auc-
ton store is an antique writing-desk said
to have once been the property of William
Penn.
Two hundred thrifty Welsh families
will COLOMBO in Dakota next spring. They
will each bring from $1,000 to $4,000
with them.
Thirteen buildings, including stores
and factories, were burned in George
town, Mass. the Goth ult. Loss, $50, 900.
Two tremen were killed.
Counterfeit half dollar silver pieces of
the mint of 1877 are being circulated in
Albany. The spurious coin has clear
ring and is perfect counterfeit of the
genuine.
The savings banks of New York are
preparing petition asking for Il repeal
of the Silver Coinage law. These banks
represent over $500, ZOO, 900, and the num-
Der of depositors is 700, 700.
The first orange box made in California
was the handiwork of woman, who has
built up an industry in box making that
amounts to $4,000 boxes year.
A terrific storm has prevailed through
out Scotland. A railway train headed
by three engines and two snow plows is
imbedded in the snow in the county of
Caithness. All the roads are blocked.
The popularity of theatrical entertain
ments in London may be inferred FROM
the statement of the manager of one Of
the theatres that during the II years his
house has been open it's receipts have
been no less than f675, 900, or an average
of 100000 year.
The mad dog craze in New Jersey and
New York is becoming laughable. The
superintendent of the New York dog
pound testifies to its foolishness. iPeo-
pie come here almost every day and ask
us to take away mad dogs. When we get
there the dog is no more mad than the
people. .
Earthquake shocks appear to have pass
ed over the country Monday night and
early Tuesday morning, although they
are reported only at Hartford, Ct, and
Bloomington, Ill. Several sharp shocks
were felt at Hartford between 80 and
5 80. One was felt distinctly in Bloom
ington and other places in the immediate
vicinity. The shock disturbed people
while in the streets and at their homes.
There also was similar shock on
Saturday night. The rumbling Of both
resembled the noise made by the bursting
OF boiler or the distant firing of artillery.
The temperance movement has pene-
trated far enough into the Capitol at
Washington to order stop to be put to
the sale of liquor in the building. the
| Senate having adopted a resolution to
| that eftecr. In the debate which preced-
| ed the adoption, statements were made
/ in regard to drunkenness among the Sen
| ators which we would be ashamed to re-
| peat and cannot believe. man addict
ed to intoxication is not fit for the lowest
position of responsibility, much less one
of the highest in the gift of the people.
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