Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-08-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

General B. F. Butler will be &c years
old in November
1t Is reported from Paris that Hartman,
the notorious Nihilist, who was implicat-
ed in the assassination of the Gear, Alex
ander IL, has committed suicide.
Cholera does not seize its victims by
any one hundred who die of this disease
ninety were in the habit of drinking alco-
Frank M. Casey, dry goods commits |
sion merchant, of White street, New York, |
has left for parts unknown, leaving sew |
eral creditors, whose bills amount to |
| 10000. -o4
John Hersey of Pennington, N. H.,
lost the hay on two acres of land, on the
| 22d ult, by fire caused by one of his men
| throwing a lighted match down after
| lighting his pipe.
| Theodore H. Gyowney, an American
engineer who has just returned from Pan
anna, says that the money is foolishly or
fraudulently expended, the contractors
are failing and the canal is likely never to
be finished.
Parties from Springfield, Mass, acting
in the interest of the Agawman bank of
that city, have attached the property of
on Bradley Barlow's paper, and Friday
his homestead Cat $4,000 and his store
Cat So, 500 were appraised and set out to
satisfy an execution in favor of the said
bank.
The Greedy survivors arrived at Ports
mouth, n. H., Friday. The meeting be-
tween Lieutenant Greedy and his wife and
mother was very affecting. A numerous
company of invited guests, including ma
ny distinguished persons and the fami-
lies of naval officers, were conveyed by
steam launches to the flagship Tennessee,
on the quarterback of which the chief
ceremonies were held. The officers of
the relief squadron were received by Sec
rotary Chandler without public display.
Reports from Ohio, Indiana and Ken
lucky say that wheat is the best in quail
ity and quantity that has been gathered in
years. Corn has suffered from drouth,
{ but the rains of the past week have res
cued it, and the yield will be an average
one. Oats are good crop. Tobacco
has suffered more from drouth than any
thing else, and in some localities is fail
ure, the rain being too late. In other
parts the crop is in an excellent condi-
: ton, but the yield will be below the aver
E age The rainy weather continues.
: Washington was startled on Sunday
n evening by the announcement of tie col
e lapse of the old United States Hotel, in
y Pennsylvania Avenue. The building has
. frontage of 125 feet and is 1S5 feet in
? depth, containing Accommodations for sew
: eral hundred guests. 1t is not yet known
:, whether over three or four persons were
" buried in the ruins; first report exagger
J. ated the number to forty. The few SO il
= fatedl were all employees of the house, thu
guests escaping by the front. 1t is ex
pected to recover them all alive, as tn
L rescuers are conversing with them Will
2 they work. sis
N The forthcoming annual report of tn
D. Postmaster General will show an increas
,r of Il, 200, 900 in the number of postag
% stamps sold during the past year over tn
sales of the preceding year. This wi
bring the total number sold during th
year up to about l, 2l5 ZOO, 900, or an ay
erage of about "a each for the populatio
90 of the country during the year. Their
/ were, in addition to this, about 220,00'
!, stamped envelopes, bringing the total
W about 900, 900, 900. Adding 375,000,06
= postal-cards, which will be shown to b
s about the number used during the yea
OF will bring the total mail communication
al of the year up to 1880, 100000 in rom
'a'- numbers, or an average of about 50 letter
or postal cards for the whole populatio
nc Mr.. Henry NJ Stanley, the explorer, a
III rived in Portsmouth Harbor on the 28t
NC inst. He is much improved in health
his sea voyage. He said he had returne
ne to England considering that he had cor
vn pleted the work of establishing satisfa
nd tory trading stations along the Cons
TX. River, from it's mouth to Stanley Pool,
Ias distance of l 400 miles by river. M
tai Stanley eulogized the trading prospec
of the country in the vicinity of tbs Con:
M River, and affirmed that General Gordt
uc- commands perfectly practicable routes
led escape from Khartum, whether by w
ear of Zanzibar on the east or down the Co
ore go to the west coast, if the Nile
ent blocked. He will go on to Ostend
ne meet King Leopland, of Belgium, a
he the directors of the African Information
Association.