Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-05-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Gen. McCook, commanding officer OF
the United States troops in Utah, believes.
that kindness and Cancellation are lost on
the MormOns, and that the only way to
suppress the iniquity is to apply martial
law with firm hand.
According to a despatch from Montreal
''all the money realized by the liquidation
of the Exchange Bank of Montreal up to
the present amounts to only $170,0 to
meet liabilities aggregating 50, 205 900,
of which 1925 900 constitute a first charge
that must be met before the depositors
and general creditors can receive a cent.
The recent food at Cincinnati is report
ed to have done much toward cleaning
and purifying that part of the city which
has always been the starting place of all
zymotic diseases that have prevailed
there. Since the floods have subsidized
the city is said to have been unusually
healthful, which was said to be the case
after the inundation last year.
Jessie Gum, of Monroe, Ga, shot and
killed his father, Willis Gum, some days
since with a pistol. The father was a
widower, and he and the son courted the
same young woman. The son married
her two weeks ago, and the father sent
him word to be on the guard as he was
on Wednesday coming to Kill him, and
was about to shoot his son when the lat
ter shot and killed his parent
Orange Judd, editor of the american
Agriculturist for some thirty years, but
unconnected with its business manage
ment for year or two past, has lately re-
tired from its editorial department and
located in the West. He desires to gath
er Il complete ''PoStdl- Card Album" of his
old readers and friends, and requests
them all to send him now u Postal giving
their present location and address, nam
ing also, when convenient, the years in
which they were his subscribers. Mr..
Judds address is Chicago, Illinois.
The advance guard of the Greedy relief
expedition set out for St. John last Thurs
day. The Bear will take in coal at that
port and proceed to the Greenland coast
to watch the chance of proceeding north
ward through the ice. The Thetis is eX-
pected to be ready to start by the end of
this week, and the Alert will follow some
days later. BY the first of June the last
north as the Upernavik. The Bear and the
| ThetiS are to take the earliest opportuni-
ty to push on in the direction of Lady
Franklin Bay. The expedition is equipp-
ed for Il two years search, but if the sea-
son should prove favorable its task, it is
thought, should be accomplished by next
September. The Alert arrived here last
week from London.
Hollands control of the northern por-
tion of Sumatra is so uncertain that she
is unable to secure the release of the
British steamer Nisero, whom the rajah
of Tenom has for months been holding
prisoners. Great Britain will therefore
send an expedition at once to attempt the
/ rescue of the imprisoned men. It would
not be surprising, in view Of the long and
deadly war to which Holland was forced
in this country, if the present undertake
ing should prove one of some difficulty
though the resources of this rajah are I'M
known. 1t seems, however, as if his OBJ
iect is now something more than the get
ting Of money. The ransom which he de
manded has been offered and refused
and seemingly he is using his possession
of these unfortunate seamen to exact from
Holland CREATE political powers.
| From the edition of Messrs. Geo. P
Rowell & Cos. AMERICAN NEWSPAPER DI
REcroRY, now in press, it appears tia
the newspapers and periodicals of al
kinds at present issued in the Unite
States and Canada reach d grand total O
13402. This is net gain of precisel
: 1000 during the last twelve months, AM
[ exhibits an increase Of 5,618 over the to
tai number published just ten years since
, The increase. in 1874 over the total 70
: 1873 was 493. During the past year til
e dailies have increased from l, 1913 to ,254
: the weeklies from 9,o62 to l0.028; an,
: the monthlies from 1,09l to 1899. Th
f greatest increase is in the western states
e Illinois for instance, now shows, 90
y papers in place of last years total of 80.
+ while Missouri issues COZ fnstea
/ of the 523 reported in 1888. Oh
er leading western states also exhibit
:, great percentage of increase. The tot
of number of papers in New York State
ic 1923, against 1880 in 1888. Canada ha
shared in the general increase.