Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-11-05

feat and humiliation.
There is news from Cairo which is
important in relation to the English
occupation of Egypt. 1t is that the
False Prophet of Soudan has been
totally defeated by the Khedive's
soldiers under Colonel Hicks, the
Englishman. If this is true, one
good reason why the British forces
should remain in the Nileland is re-
moved. The authority of the Khe-
dive was so weakened by Arabi's re-
bellion that he needed English au-
thority to hold his native troops to-
gether to resist the progress of the
False Prophet in the south. If this
pretender's career is finally ended,
the Khedive will feel better recon-
ciled at the prospect of soon being
left alone with his subjects.
A war against tobacco is being
carried ON in England with ferocity
which must delight the shade of
George Trask, if he still knows and
cares about what passes here below.
The anti-tobacco society and anti
narcotic league have been holding a
big meeting at Manchester, and rev.
cling in horrifying descriptions of
the cancerous, bronchial, stomach,
liver, lungs and nervous diseases
caused by smoking. But it is melan-
choly to reflect that these dreadful
warnings do not make converts, not
even among the people who should
best know what diseases, if any, to-
bacco causes. The meeting naively
confessed to the Greatly incompre-
hensible'' fact that the use of tobacco
is increasing among medical men.
criminal mysteries. Certain towns
and counties in Illinois and New
Jersey are now greatly excited over
murders as remarkable as those of
Jennie Cramer and Rose Clark. In
Lincoln, ILL.,, a young woman about
to be married was recently found
with her throat cut and at Perth
Amboy, New Jersey, the headless
body of woman has been discov-
cred in the woods. In neither case
is there the slightest clew which
promises to lead to the detection OF
the murderer. At Perth Amboy the
authorities have been especially slow
in their Investigations, but it must be
admitted that little progress can bt
made on nothing. 1t may be true
that murder will out; but it is alst
true that many murderers are neve
found out.
Iowa, the Vermont Of the West
does nothing politically by halves
Returns from every county in Iowa
more or less complete, and from fit
ty-one counties complete, show tina
the Sherman majority over the Kim
will be from $4,000 to $4,000. TIL
Senate will have 40 Republicans, II
opposition the House will have
Republicans, 81; Democrats, 80
Greenbackers, Z; Independent, l
One district is in doubt, although re
turns gives Haskins, of Washingto
county, three majority. The officis
count may change it. Prohibtio
has majority in the Legislature o
the Republican votes. The Hous
will have one or more than const
tutional majority necessary to pass
bill. If five of the seven Greenbacl
erS are ProhibitiOniSts, as pledged
there Will be five votes more.
If Mr.. Kelley does not make hast
and finish his ''motor" he will fin
himself anticipated by other niger
ious inventors, who are working
the same general line. One of thes
Frenchman, is turning the sun
practical account by concentratir
its rays upon various forms of indu
trial work. Three of his machin,
have been set up in Algeria for ii
French government, while at I'll
island of Porquerolles. near Hyere
he is threshing Indian corn and raj
ing water by solar power.
Charles Dixie has also lent him pa
of his land at Cap Brun, near To
Ion, for his experiments and he pr
poses to utilize the sun in boring Il
holes for blasting, for tree plantil
in the hard rocks, as well as in pun
ing water from the winter wells in
the summer cistern.
The newspapers have repeated
IL ol al.