Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-01-14
General News items.

to the railway mileage of the United
States, tells well for the prosperity of the
country. The larger part of this increase
was in the single state ofKansas.
There are only 81 600, 900 pounds of
wool now, as against l1O, ,OOO, 900 pounds
year ago. The tariff of 'S3 and the fraud
ulent importations under this administra-
tion have discouraged production.
Within eight weeks General Harrison
will be inaugurated; and but one thing is
definitely known about his cabinet-it has
not been announced; but one thing is
known about his administration-he will
be the PRESIDENT.
A high license law went into effect in
Missouri six years ago, and its operation
has reduced the saloons in the state from
5000 to 1000, while the local option clause
has entirely abolished the liquor business
in Go counties and II cities.
Chicago appears to be the banner city
of this country in running the divorce
mill. It's courts seem to have reduced
the business to science, and, when hard
pressed, can grind out divorces at the
rate of about one in a minute and half.
The passage by the Lower House of
congress of the bill Incorporating the
Company to dig the Nicaragua Canal is
of happy augury, and we trust it will go
with a corresponding majority through
the senate. If Panama fails, Nicaragua
will have its turn.
In New Britain, when a man marries q
second wife after the death of his FIRST
the female relatives of the dead wife
gather together and are permitted to do
as much damage to his property as they
can. And yet widowers do remarry. We
are speaking of New Britain, Conn.
The wage-earners of this country be-
longing to labor organizations are annu-
ally paying a large sum to run these or
ganizations. The virtual taxation upon
them is in the aggregate heavy burden
for them to bear. Do they get cores
ponding benefits? This is a question that
deserves their serious consideration.
Not less than seventy-flve boys are i'm
plicated i'm the Pennsylvania railroad
brass robberies, for which Edward Sing
erman and three others were arrested
Monday. The gang operated on the mid
die division of the road and it is said that
thirty-siX locomotives were entirely dis
mantled by the thieves. The amount tax
en-, it is said, will not fall short of $780,
600. Singerman says he will implicate
prominent persons.
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