Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-08-19
General News Items.


Governor Ames of Massachusetts is
steadily regaining his health.
An epidemic of typhoid fever in Chi
cago has been caused by foul water.
The town of Truckee, California suf-
fered great confiagration last week.
The lowest estimate of the losses of
900.
New York city is making a great effort
to secure the proposed Worlds Fair for
1892.
The value of the Columbia River sal
mon catch for this season is estimated at
So, 100, 900.
The Hon. Hannibal Hamlin and family
are spending some time at the Bluffs,
Mount Desert Ferry, Me.
Enough Sioux have signed the treaty
to open the reservation to settlement to
make the document effective.
A young barber at Newburg, N. Y, has
been notified by the German consul that
he has fallen heir to 5000, 900.
w. X. Perry, an aeronant, had a terri
BILE fall at Mount Holly, N. c., Thursday
evening and was probably fatally hurt.
Two men were killed and seventeen
wounded, Friday, two of them fatally,
by an explosion of natural gas at Pitts
burg.
A large tract of land has been pur-
chased near Manchester, N. H., for the
establishment Catholic college and mon
astery.
Kalamazoo, Mich, expects to realize
81 100000 for celery this year. The bus
mess is chiefly in the hands of Holland
ers,
1t is expected that the Minnesota and
Dakota wheat crop will yield $4,000, 900
bushels, the best crop harvested within
six years.
1t is reported that negotiations are in
progress for the formation of a combina-
tion to control the sugar product of the
world.
Rev. Frederick Mayer, a clergyman of
Lansing, Mich, invested recently in
lottery tickets and drew $4,000. He will
probably be requested to resign.
Bozeman was chosen as the capital of
Montana at the constitutional convention
in Helena, and North Dakota declared in
favor of Bismarck as the capitol site.
Gen. Boulanger, the notorious French
character, who has been kicking up so
much dust and mischief of late, has been
convicted of conspiracy by the French
senate He fed the country some months
since.
The venerable General Francis Z. Spin
ner, ex-treasurer of the United States,
is said to be hopelessly ill at his home at
Pablo Beach, Florida, so that his death
is likely to occur within few weeks.
Chicago is pushing its measures to Sc
cure the worlds fair of 1892 with energy
and confidence characteristic of that mar
vellous city. New York will have rival
for the prize that she cannot easily down.
Some engineers in Switzerland are de-
vising an aerial railway by which they
propose to connect two of the peaks of
Mt. Pilatus with wire rope about 1000
feet long, and to send tourists from sum
nit to summit in cars running on the
wires.
1t is evident that a large number of
the people who visit the Washington
monument are inspired by laudable am
bition to rise in the world. Since last
October, when it was thrown open to
the public, nearly $4,000 persons have
ridden to the monuments lofty summit.
Senator Dawes of Massachusetts and
Stockbridge of Michigan, of the commit
tee to investigate Indian affairs i'm Alaska,
arrived in Chicago on Sunday, after
travelling five weeks in Alaska. Senator
Dawes stated that the stories of Indian
outrages had been greatly exaggerated.
Secretary Tracy intends to have each
United States man-of-war fitted with
submarine diving outfits. When the
Samoan disaster occurred, the American
officers had to rely on the English man.
of-war for the necessary diving suits.
All the European naval services carry
divers who are practical men.
The most alarming news tor the Re-
publicans of Ohio which has been pub
lished this year, is ihe report that Mr..
Cleveland has backed out of his project
to make few rattling speeches against
Foraker. After all, the Buckeye Repuh-
licans will probably have to be content
with majority of $4,000 this year.
The Republican League is preparing
for systematic work in the Southern
states. There is not promising field
for political effort, but it has been ne
elected and abandoned too long by re-
publicans, and should be occupied once
more. The League is the organization
that has the best chance of accomplish
ing useful results in that quarter If it
can found and multiply republican clubs
and Systematically undertake the political
education of the South, especially on in
dustrial questions, it will do great work |
for the country as well as the party.
PORTLAND, ORE. Aug. 14.-The at
for miles around is thick with |
smoke and cinders and burning brands
are falling in showers. All the North
western country seems to be burning up |
in forest fires. The smoke has been so
dense in Portland for the last two or
three weeks that for a time it was inn
possible to see far up the street, and the
sun and moon look like great balls of
fre. In the harbor the smoke has had
the effect of fog, and steamers have been
required to blow their whistles every few
to avoid collisions. 1t is esti-
mated that the total damage by forest
fires in the Northwest this year will
amount to nearly $500, 900.
Deafness can't be cured by local application, as
hey cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There only one way to deafness, and that is
Dy constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by
IN infamed condition of the mucus lining Of the
tube. When this tube gets infamed you
nave rumbling sound imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed. deafness is the result,
md unless the inflammation be taken aud this