Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-06
General News items.

1t is estimated at the Treasury Depart
ment that the decrease i'm the public deb
for January amounted to 5000, 900.
Both branches of the Iowa Legislature
have declared James Wilson elected u. S
Senator from Iowa for six years begin
ming March 4, 1889.
The village Of Aisone in Italy has beer
almost wholly destroyed by fire. Tive
persons were killed and many injured
The inhabitants are destitute.
Ex-Vice President Hannibal Hamlin has
accepted an invitation to deliver the adj
dress before the William IL. IL. Rice Post
of Ellsworth, Me-, next Memorial day.
An English musical wonder is Robert
Smith, now performing on the clarionet
in London. He is not quite ten years OF
age, and plays the most difficult selections.
The estate of Thaddeus Stevens, con-
sisting of 1900 acres Of valuable timber
and mining land in Franklin and Adams
counties, Pennsylvania, has been sold 10 a
syndicate, and its resources will be de-
veloped Immediately.
James Redpath, the journalist, was
stricken with paralysis in New York Sat
urday afternoon, and is lying very low at
his residence. His throat is affected so
that he is speechless. There is little hope
of his recovery.
dispatch from Sandwich, Mass,
a few days ago, says that Barnstable Bay
is frozen, as is also Buzzard's Bay. II is
the coolest season for ten years. and an
old resident says that it is the most dis
astrous for seafaring men since 1874
"Tomah Witch" the oldest member of
the Passamoquoddy tribe, in Maine, is Sc
riously i'll. He is lO7 years of age, and
up TO November last was active In varied
work. He raised good crop last year and
engaged in hunting and trapping during
the fall.
BY the railroad disaster near Urbana,
Ohio, last Monday night, four persons
were killed and two fatally injured, and
the rolling stock was badly wrecked. The
killed were: Frank Brown, engineer;
Charles NJ. Alhands, fireman; Roadmas-
ter Welch, Solicitor Shade.
The coolest weather for thirty-five
years was experienced Jan. 29th i'm the
upper part of Westchester county. At
Croton Lake, Chappaqua and Mount Kis-
co the thermometer registered 20 degrees
below zero. Navigation between New
York and Port Chester was suspended
several days.
On Feb. LIST Senator Cameron introduce
ed a bill to place on the pension roll all
officers and enlisted men who have served
in the army or navy between March 4,
1861 and Feb. l, 1866, at the rate of one
cent per month for each days service, this
to be ''service pension bill" and san adj
dition to invalid pensions for disability"
The Signal Corps station at Nantucket
reports upwards of fifty vessels In the ice
near Nantucket, and Great Point TO Tuck
ernuck Shoals. Many of them are adrift,
is ten inches or more thick and the most
powerful tugs can render them no assist
ance. Most of them will be wrecked, un-
less prompt assistance is rendered when
the ice breaks up.
A dispatch from Maryland says the
gifts TO the Pope have come I'm so rapidly
that two additions have already been made
to the building in which they are exposed
So far 1000 cases of articles have been
handled and the end Is not yet. Up TO
January l3,presents to the value of SllO,-
600, 900 have passed through the hands of
the Vatican inspectors. Even that sum
has been exceeded in money The Span
ish Catholics of South America sent, In
coin, 100000. Ireland has been likewise
generous in that respect. Archbishop
Walsh of Dublin brought from his do
cese 500, 1000, and the bishop Of Clonfert
$4,000. The United States has outstripped
every other country in cash donations,
the archdiocese of New York forwarding
by itself $4,000.
The way 70 make money il to save t. Hoods
Sarsaparia is the most economical medicine 10
buy, 1t is the only medicine Of whirh can truly
said, 100 doses one dollar" DO not take any
other preparation il you have decided % buy
Hoods sarsaparilla.