Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-01-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

Mr.. Moody began eyangelistic service
in Montreal on Saturday, the 9th inst.
A large whale captured off Long Island
last week, yielded 1,OOD gallons of oil.
In Wabash county, Indiana, eight hun.
dred hogs have died from hog-cholera.
Dakota had wild blizzard last week,
with temperature of s40 degrees below
zero.
The days lengthen SO minutes in Janu-
airy and one hour and IA minutes in Feb
ruary.
The greatest cold experienced in Louis-
| ana for fifteen years was felt Saturday,
the 9th inst.
Three persons were killed In collision
of trains at Wilmington, Del, Saturday,
the 9th inst.
The Cunard steamer Pavonia has made
| the quickest time on record from Liver
| pool to Boston-8 days and Is hours.
1t is stated that heavy storm prevail
GU III ouiN CSUOU, lCAdS, vi Jan. ISUu,
Four inches of snow had fallen and it
was still showing.
A block of stores in Mobile, Alabama,
were burned last week Friday loss $780,
600. A large cotton warehouse in Louis
vile, Ky, was burned-loss $4,000
and three persons persisted.
| Sarah Althea Hill has married Judge
Terry, who was her leading counsel in
her suit against the late Senator Sharon.
Terry was the man who killed Senator
Frederick in duel in 1859.
| Alexander Gilchrist, union veteran,
blind, and a pauper in the Indiana, Penn,
| aims house, has received arrears of pen
sion amounting to S12, l5l-the largest
pension ever paid private soldier,
A dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla,
| says that the extent of the damage done
to the orange crop by frost cannot yet be
fixed, but is thought that the fruit has all
been frozen.
| The blizzard in the Northwest ragged
| fiercer than ever Friday and Saturday,
the 9Th and 9th inst. Many railroads
were blockaded, and at St. Vincent, MINI.
the mercury fell to As degrees below zero.
| Fourteen inches of snow fell in Boston
on the night of the 9Th inst, and eight
| inches in Washington, d. C. The snow
fall was quite heavy throughout New En-
| gland and New York state, and the rail-
ways were badly blocked.
| An experiment. is being tried at Ports
m outh, in England, with the object OF de-
termining the practicability Of applying
liquid fuel as steam generator to men,
| of-war. The fuel consists of creosote,
| which is procurable at a penny a gallon.
At jersey City, the boiler in the mas
chine shop of NJ. ]. Russell exploded
Monday morning while 20 employees were
| getting ready to go to work. All We're
| horribly scalded and when found were ly-
| ng on their backs unconscious, upon the
| floor.
| The American Pasteur InStitutS filed
| its certificate of incorporation in New
York on Saturday, the 9th inst. The OBJ
jects are ''the gratuitous care and treat
ment by the Pasteur system of innocula-
ton of all persons threatened with or suf-
fering from hydrophobia.
hunter up at Lake Megantic killed
four bears that had just gone into winter
quarters. He had traced them to lair
in hollow tree, and taking position on
tree leaning so that he could look down
upon them, shot them as they tried to es-
cape.
The total value of L. S. exports of
merchandise during the twelve months
which ended October 3lst, 1854, was
SIT, l79,352, and during the preceding
twelve months 734,s27.7s3. The value
of our imports of merchandise for the
twelve months which ended Oct 81, 1885
was S572, All, 1922 and during the preced-
ing twelve months S652,4l3,