Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-02-17
General News items.

The civ of Boston has four women In
her school board and two colercd men in
the common council.
In a Kansas City stock-yard the hose
had to be turned on to stop kicking
match between IA horse and a mule.
One woman, it is said, has made the
silk gowns OF the Justices of the United
States Supreme Court for the past forty
years.
-Four new iron-clads, each of more than
$4,000 tons displacement, are about TO
be added to the British navy. The first
of them will be added at Birkenhead.
The Chicago Daily Nelos, which has
lately stood out so bravely against the sa-
loon, and in favor of Sabbath observance,
uses 575 tons of paper month.
A German farmer named Ballschelt, In
Helotes, Bexar County, Texas, has killed
800 rattlhsnakes in eight years. In one
nest he found three old ones and eighteen
young ones.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, has
served longer i'm the United States Senate
than any of his colleagues. On April 3,
1890, he will have been in the Senate with
out a single break twenty-four years.
The past years emigration was $4,000
from Ireland and 254, 900 from the whole
of Great Britain. This is large falling
off in the movement OF the United States,
Canada and Australia, and an increase in
the emigration to other places.
The Emperor William is in future to
appear at great reviews and at state func-
tions, when he is on horseback, on mag
nificent Arab steed which has been pre-
scented to him by the Sultan, and which is
entirely black, without a single spcck.
Several thousand families from England
and Denmark will be settled in the San
Joaquin valley in California this season.
A large tract of land has been cut into 20
acre fruit farms, and the colonists are
now on their way from the Old World.
Gen. Grants old farm of l2l acres, five
miles southwest of st. Louis, was sold
lately. On this farm is the old log house
which Gen. Grant (then captain) built in
1857. He hauled the logs and helped
hew them with his own hands. 1t was at
this time that he hauled wood into st.
Louis with a team of horses and sold it
by the cord.
FORT TOTTEN, n. D., Feb. ll.-Be-
tween 500 and 1000 Indians credited to
the Devils Lake agency are wholly desti-
tute of clothing, and in the last stages of
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clothing and medicine at once these In
dams will die like cattle. Disease has
brought fully One-half of them to the
grave, and the recent inclement weather
enhanced their sufferings. Indian Agent
Cramsie has issued an appeal for aid.
SPOKANE FALLS, WASH, Feb. 12-The
sale of the Spokane Mill Company's prop
erty to an English syndicate, represent
ing the Bank of London, is being negoti-
ated in New York. The property is one
of the most valuable in the city and con-
trolls one entire channel of the Spokane
river, furnishing immense water power.
There are four mills, and several acres Of
high-priced real estate, fronting on the
river, which go with the property. The
reported price at which the mill will be
sold is $3.50, 1000.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l2.-The next con-
tested election case to be brought up in
the House will be that of Atkinson (Rep)
against Pendleton (Dem.), from the First
West Virginia District. This is the case
in which a recount of the returns in Wet
eel county was adjourned from time to
time and protracted without excuse, in
order to find out how many votes Pendle-
ton would require to elect him, and when
this was ascertained the returns were
changed, and he was declared elected by
- majority. As a matter of fact, Atkin-
son had a large majority. This case will
be the next one presented to the House,
and will probably be taken up as soon as
the rules are disposed Of