Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-10-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Returns from all but eighteen towns in
Connecticut give total vote of AZ, 500 on |
the biennial sessions amendment, with |
majority for the amendment of 10, LOT.
The bonded warehouse Of J. B. Roach |
& Co., at Uniontown, KY, was burned on
Saturday, with 1000 barrels of three
year old whiskey. The total loss is esti-
mated at S175,0O
Mrs. Ira Young died at Orwell last
week, aged 101 years and months. She
was born in Athol, Mass, and before her
marriage was school teacher. Of late
she has been a generous giver of the am
pie means she possessed.
1t turns out that the additions to re
Gently published letter from Hon. Geo. F.
Edmunds of Vermont, in which the sena-
tor is made to say that Mr.. Blaine twas
on the side of the railroads in the struggle
of 1875" is q forgery, and that the New
York Post, one of the highly moral indie
pendent newspapers, is its sponsor, as it
is the sponsor of several other campaign
lies.
card has been issued from the Pro-
hibition headquarters in Chicago to the
people of the United States, reciting that
Sin view of the misery and crime result
ing from alcoholism and of the guilt fast
| ened upon the people by governments
| municipal, State and Nationality per-
| hitting and even licensing the traffic in
| poison drinks, the Executive Committee
of the Prohibition party call upon the peo-
October 80, as day of fasting, humilia-
| tion and confession.
| Later advice from the Nile region con-
| firm the report of the massacre of Colonel
Stewart and his party by the natives. All
| were killed except four. Colonel Stew
art has been one of the most prominent
figures in the Soudan campaign and had
been entrusted with several important en-
terprises. He was Gen. Gordon's Chief
of Staff in the military operations at khar-
toum, and aided in the subsequen cap
|
the Nile with communications for the
Government when he became the victim
of native treachery.
The body of Mrs. Henderson, was re-
Gently found in a cistern at Troy, Ind,
with the head cut off, and hid i'll some
lumber near. Her husband and two sons
| wara tad loSt Friday on fharua ~
having murdered her. That evening the
mob took the eldest son out of Jail, anC
hanged him to u beam in the barn where
the crime was committed. He made i
er, and that he cut her head off with al
ak. At 10 O'Clock the mob started fo
Candleton, three miles above, to hang tht
) father and other son in Jail there.
The Chief of the Bureau of Statistic:
has handed his annual report to the Sec
rotary of the Treasury. 1t shows tina
, the value of the products of the variou
industries of the United States is sever
times the total value of our foreign com
merce, nearly three times the total valu
| of the foreign commerce of Great Britai
: and Ireland, ane five times the total valu
q of the foreign commerce of France, in
Guiding in each case both imports and eA
ports. The total value of the product
c of industry in the United States is ais
Il shown to be a little more than twice th
!, total value of the exports of merchands
+ from all the countries of Europe. Th
United States is now the largest manu-
:" featuring country on the globe
A mysterious explosion occurred r.
Gently at the new Parliament building
y Quebec, destroying much OF the masonl
re and the windows of the structure, whie
IF was just being rooted. The workmen b
r ing ut dinner, no person was injured e.
cept one man, who was slightly cut by
piece of flying stone. Windows of hous
~ in the neighborhood were shattered al
he the shock of the explosion was fe
a. throughout the city. A second explosit
r. occurred later in the afternoon, but 1
s, damage was done. It is said that the c
, ifice is so badly cracked from the first e
plosion that it is feared about half of
., will have to be taken down and rebui
On Carpenters employed on the building {
sir sert that they noticed box lying all t
H. morning close to the wall where the fiji
explosion took place, but they suppos
it was placed there by the plumbers.
u trace of the box, which is supposed
les to have contained an Internal machir
nd could be found after the explosion.