Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27
General News Items.

Secretary Gresham continues to
improve.
Representative Hit remains about
the same.
Gail Hamilton I" { Mary Abigail
Dodge is still alive, but unconcious.
There are said to be 536 lady physi-
clans practicing medicine in the cities
of the United States.
The Harvard faculty has decided
to let the undergraduate play at foot
ball next fall the same as usual.
The committee of the upper house
OF the German Parliament having the
matter in charge, by a vote of 10 to 4,
has accepted Mr.. Mirbach's bimetallic
motion.
The supreme council of A. P. A.
met in Milwaukee last week. 1t was
| the seventh meeting. representatives
from all over the United States and
Canada were present.
The exports of the United States
have fallen off 800, ,OOO,O 900 in the past
ten months and the balance of trade,
which used to be in favor of this coun-
try, is now against it.
It is reported at Washington that
Joseph Choate received a retaining
| fee of 800, ZOO for arguing the in
come tax cases, and that his contin-
| gent fee was similar amount.
A sporting item is going the rounds
| to the effect that Corbett will meet
the co1ored fighter, Jackson, in Lon
| don next August or September, and
settle the championship of the world.
The nitro glycerine house of the
California powder works at Pinole,
Cal, exploded May 81, killing IA men.
Five white men were killed and two
| injured. Nine Cinnamon were killed
| and three injured.
The Democratic deficit for the cur
rent fiscal year is $500,000, with May
and June yet to report. Secretary
Carlisle estimated that there would
blk a surplus. No wonder that he is
called Micawber statesman
julius Hawley Seelye, for 81 years
teacher at Amherst college, and 13
years president, died at his home in
Amherst Sunday evening from nerv-
GUS disease, which for years had been
wasting away his magnificent powers.
Tt is extremely probable that Sec.
Carlisle, on his return to Washington,
will hSve estimates prepared as to the
increase insthe revenues to be derived
from an additional tax of 81 upon
each barrel of beer. He is said to
favor shis as we'll as higher tax on
whiskey and tobacco.
1t is good news that comes from
Pittsburgh to the effect that the
Carnegie Steel Company, employing
$4,000 men, has decided to advance
wages 10 per cent. Papers that have
been finding fault with Mr.. Carnegie
the past four or five years will of
course publish the above item.
A conservative estimate puts the
number of skeletons uncovered in
the subway excavation along the line
of Boylston street mall, Boston, at
800. No accurate record could be
kept. Some fifteen have been identi
fed by coffin plates. Bones of the
unidentified are enclosed in small
boxes.
The annual meeting of the Society
of the Sixth Army Corps will be held
June 18th next, at New London, CT,
headquarters at the Crocker House.
This meeting on the occasion of, and
in connection with, the e-union of
the Army of the Potomac. All veter-
ans, officers or privates, who ever be-
longed to the Sixth Corps, are eligible
to membership in the Society without
expense, and are cordially invited to
be present.
After next September the age of
consent of females in New York will
be IS instead of Is years. A section
of the penal code provides that any
person who takes female under the
age of IS without the consent of her
father, mother guardian, or other
person having charge of her person,
for the purpose of marriage, is guilty
of abduction, punishable by fine and
imprisonment. The act does not de-
clare in terms such marriage void, yet
being in violation of law, it may be
voidable.
Sunday, May 5, marked the sixth
anniversary of the Epworth League,
young peoples society of the Meth
odist church. It is the strongest and
most numerous denominational young
peoples society in the world. 1t has
nearly twenty thousand chapters and
one million members. It's work is re-
igious, benevolent, literary and social.
It's motto is ''Look up; Lift up" The
second international convention will
be held at Chattanooga, Tenn, June
27-3O. Delegates from all parts of
the world are expected to be present.
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