Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-08-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The wheat crop of Indiana is larger
than ever before.
Mrs. Scoville has applied for divorce
from her husband
Minnesota estimates it's wheat crop at
100000, 900 bushels.
The Democrats carried Alabama on
Monday by about 10000 majority.
The number of emigrants from Europe
the past year to the United States was
7S9,OO3.
Remember that Gen. Grant is bolter.
He says if Blaine is nominated in 1884 he
will bolt.
The President has been invited to ego
west in the fall, and will probably go in
September
There have been such heavy rains in
Northern Ohio this week as to seriously
damage the crops.
But sixteen newspaper correspondents
will be allowed to accompany the British
expedition to Egypt.
Virginia has made the greatest wheat
crop since the war, ahd the corn crop
never looked better than now. Fruits
and vegetables are equally prolific.
The Des Moines Qa.) Leader says ::
''The next legislature will have to SUBJ
nit the woman suffrage amendment, and
in 1884 the women will vote in this state.
During severe shower at Keene, n.
H., Tuesday night, Chapman's barn on
Beach Hill, was struck by lightning and
burned. Loss $1,000; small insurance.
| The barn was owned by t. w. Hale.
The Detroit Post and Tribune declares
| that ''the marked feature of current pol
| itics is the widespread revolt of the con-
| science against the violent assumptions
and unbridled RIGHTEOUSNESS of the liquor
traffic."
De Lesseps has sent a telegram here
declaring that the whole of Egypt has
| embraced the cause of the national party,
and that the English will find every
where determined and intelligent dc
| Tense to check their enterprises.
The Richmond Dispatch (Dem.) upor
discovering that the river and harbor bill
appropriates something like 100000 fol
the improvement of Virginia rivers, is
'rejoiced at his passage, and applauds
the Virginia members in congress fol
voting to override the veto.''
Workmen are engaged in repaintinG
Bunker Hill monument by means of
sling attached to beams protruding from
the lofty windows. Since the same worl
was done dozen years ago, the filling o
the seams has been washed out in man.
places to the depth Of six inches, ant
from the openings moss is sprouting
The cost will be 800.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 9. Hundreds o
letters received by business houses her
from correspondents through the south
southwest and west say that there neve
have been such crops of corn and oat
raised in Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi
Alabama, Tennessee, Indian Territory
Kentucky, Missouri and Kansas as thos
of the present season.
The steamer Gold Dust blew up an
burned to the waters edge Monday, nea
Hickman, Ky. 1t is estimated that 2
were killed and 4S wounded Their
were five lady passengers. All wer
saved; one was slightly scalded. Th
steamer had only 100 people aboard q
the time of the accident. The majorit
of the wounded are badly scalded.
, A numerous incident of the bombar(
ment of Alexandria is recorded in TIL
fact that gentleman wrote note to AC
miral Seymour, stating that shell b.
: longing to the Int1exible was in the draw
I ing room of his house, and requesting il
removal The captain of the Inflexib
found that the shell had not explode,
and he instructed half a dozen seame
to remove it. The seamen placed I'll
+, shell in feather bed, rolled it dow
stairs and conveyed it back to the ship.