Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-07-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The public debt was reduced about
$40, 900, 900 in June.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe celebrated
her 74th birthday June 80.
Rev. J. H. Babbitt, of Swanton, is pre-
pairing Sunday school statistical report
for Vermont.
Another Portland fishing schooner has
been seized by a Dominion cruiser on a
frivolous charge.
The population of Chicago, as indicated
by the new directory, is over $50, 900, an
increase Of sc, 900 over last year.
The hot wave extended all through the
West. The thermometer stood above
100 in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Ex-President Arthur is gradually gain
ing strength, and feels that his general
condition has improved since he reached
New London.
The guard of United States soldiers has
been withdrawn from the tomb of Gen
Grant, and it will now be guarded by
the local police.
A citizen of Atlanta, Ga, recently
scratched the end OF needle out of his
head which had been there ever since he
was a boy, twenty years ago.
The English election excitement still
continues. Both the liberals and tories
claim advantages. The total number of
votes so far cast and counted is Gladston-
ian 34S ,227, opposition 375,752
The rhionoceros recently added to the
| Central Park collection is already dead.
| He lived only one week after being re-
| ceived. He weighed over 1000 pounds,
and his skin weighed 800 pounds.
The Ne,v England Farmer Of July Sd,
| publishes an agricultural college edition
with portrait of President Goodell, what
| Cousin Ahijah of Oniontown saw at COM
mencement, and other appropriate mat
ter.
| A sea-turte, weighing 1000 pounds, was
caught by fishing party in Narragansett
bay the other day. They towed the mon
ster as near the shore as they could get
him, and then anchored him with strong
ropes.
Cardinal Manning has written letter
to deny the statement circulated that he
was an opponent to Home Rule. On the
contrary, he says, he has alwaye favored
| ~ D,1J4 h
integrity of the Empire and the sover
eighty of the Imperial Parliament.
The highest astronomical observatory
in Europe is now being erected at Som.
blick, one of the Tyrolese Alps. The sol
itary resident observer, who will be 1900
feet ABOVE any house, will conduct his in
tercourse with mankind by means of the
telephone wire.
A grand scheme for a national exhibit
ton to be held in Washington in 1892
the four hundredth anniversary year o
the discovery of America by Columbus, il
proposed by prominent citizens of tina
city The proposition is that govern
ment shall erect on it's park permanent
structures, which are needed as an Amer
lean museum, an American art CALLER.
and great public hall, land that the states
and territories and other American ma
lions be invited to erect buildings.
, OF the four hundred eight senators
members and territorial delegates wht
compose congress, seventy-two are Meth
odists, sixty-three Baptists, forty-on'
Episcopalians, thirty-seven Presbyteri
, ans. thirty-six Catholics, fifteen Unitari
, ans. eight Lutherans, ten Christians
(Campbellites) and two Quakers, making
; a total of two hundred eightY-three who
are actively connected with some chqrcl
organization. This leaves one hundred
twenty-five who either never belonged tt
any church or have drifted out OF suct
associations.