Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-10-22
General News items.

The decrease in the wheat crop OF
Minnesota and Dakota amounts to forty
per cent, as compared with last year.
There is general INSTRUMENTATION in the
ranks of the knights of Labor, and it
looks as if the order would go TO pieces.
The profits of Z. p. Hutchinson, the
manipulation of the September corner in
wheat, are estimated at over $4,000 900.
Another story of restitution comes from
the Province of Quebec. The inhabitants
of Moisic district are on the brink of
starvation.
The Chinese exclusion law, which went
into effect October l, is being vigorously
enforced No Cinnamon are allowed to
land in this country.
The present session of congress is the
longest ever held since the foundation of
the government. The longest before this
was that of 1850, which adjourned Sep
TENDER 80.
OF the twenty-five presidents of the
United States, including the present in
cumbent, fourteen have no middle name.
BENJAMIN Harrison will make the number
fifteen.
Pitcher, the Providence, r. l., default
er, has been taken to the Quebec peniten-
tiary to serve out his sentence of seven
years. All money seized has been handed
over to the bank.
The commissioners who were sent
to make a treaty with the Sioux Indians
have returned to Washington. They
were at least partially successful, and
anticipate 70 further trouble.
According to the latest reports, sixty
| two victims of the Lehigh Valley railway
have died. Many more are seriously in
! jured and the death list will probably
foot up i'm the end not fewer than 100.
A proposed amendment to the constitu-
tion of Georgia, increasing the number of
! Judges of the supreme court from three
to five, has been defeated by majority
| 5000. The lawyers favored it, and the
farmers opposed it.
Lake Malhern, in Oregon, which covers
more than seventy-five square miles, and
has been without an outlet, is rushing
through subterranean passage with
great roar. Miles of formerly submerged
land are now visible.
Work has begun on a railway bridge at
Wheeling. West Virginia, which will be
the hea,i - double span in the United
States, 1t will he ., 100 feet long, double
track, and the channel span will be 535
feet. 1t is expected to be finished Janua-
ry l, 1890.
A company has purchased the Settler
spring at Saratoga and will utilize its wa
tiers for the purpose of liberating and
storing in liquid form the carbonic acid
gas with which it abounds. Soundings
have been made to the depth of 1900 feet
without touching bottom.
When yellow fever broke out i'm Decat-
ur, Alabama, among the refugees were
! Charles Parker, his wife and two chill
| dren. They started to go to Oak Noun
tain, where they had friends. When with
in fifteen miles they were confronted by
the shotgun quarantine guards, and were
unable to obtain shelter. After wander
ing about in the woods several days, the
whole family died, and their decomposed
bodies have just been found.
Two Cinnamon from British Columbia
bound for New York by way Of the Cana
dian Pacific have been stopped at Lacolle
by the Plattsburgh collector of customs,
who refuses to permit them to enter the
United States. Meanwhile they are the
wards of the railroad companies. They
must either stay in Canada by the pay
ment of $50 poll-tax, or the company
must send them back to Hong Kong The
company will take no more Chinese as
passengers.