Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-07-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

There has been no rain for twelve
months in New South Wales.
The emperor of China has ordered the
destruction of 81 900, 600 worth of opium.
An explosion in the Wellington colliery
at Nanaimo, B. c., killed "a miners Mon
day and hurt number of others.
The largest zinc producing locality in
the world is the district around Galena,
Kansas. Last year 10000 tons were
mined.
A Gorham, n. H., schoolmistress
caught $50 brook trout, one day recently.
Many 'schoolma'ams' angle to much
smaller purpose
While Henry Ward Beecher was in
Suffield, Conn.,, last week, writ was
served on him for failure to keep lee
ture engagement two years ago.
William Gethener, Il Scotchman who
recently came from Bangor, Me-, COM
mitted suicide ut Dover, n. H, on We'd
nesday by drowning. He had been out
of employment for some time and was
apparently discouraged
Miss Nellie Arthur, the daughter of the
president, Tuesday afternoon went to the
top of the Washington monument, and
under the direction of Mr.. Purcell, the
principal stone setter, with her own
hands set one of the stones in position.
j. w. Burnham, of Hotchkiss s Burn
ham, brokers in New York City, who re-
Gently failed, shot himself, last week, at
Nyack, n. Y, and died in a few minutes.
He was much depressed because of the
failure, and has acted strangely ever since
the panic.
Sir John Lubbock is interested in pass
ing bill in England for extending the
Factory Acts to shops. It proposes to
establish hours for employment and hours
for meals, and prohibits work on Sundays.
1t requires that shops should be kept in
q Clearly state, not overcrowded and
properly ventilated.
Mr.. Blaine delivered the diplomas to
classical and scientific academy recently,
and gave brief review of the history
and progress of the institution. He was
one of the founders, and for many years
president Of the board Of trustees. He at
tended the commencement exercises at
Colby university in Wateryille last week.
Rev. David N. Bently, who died in
Norwich, Conn, on Wednesday ut the
ripe old age of 100 years, was undoubted-
| the oldest clergyman in the country. He
| began preaching when but 10 years old,
/ and besides being the pioneer of Method
| ism, in that part of Connecticut, he de-
| voted 70 years of his life to its mainte-
nance. In his lifetime he preached over
200O sermons, married 514 couples and
buried 23o0 persons. c
The esteemed Post is already driven to
reprove the bumptiousness of some of the
republican seceders who are too flush with
their advice, and gravely admonishes
them that the mere fact that their OWL
party has outraged their sense OF fitness
and even decency does not justify then
in taking control of the Democratic or
ganization at the outset and debating
within the narrowest limits what it mus
do if it expects their cooperation 1t j:
early to begin disciplining the new re
cruits. ~ 81 1a naoa 3gI
A Marseilles dispatch says: ssThe re
moval of all doubts as to the existence o.
cholera in this city has caused a pani
among the people here. The railwa..
trains leaving the city are crowded wit
people, fleeing from the contagion, ant
the stations are blocked with people an2
ious to getaway. The railroad officials hay
put on extra cars to accommodate TIL
panic-stricken people. Huge fires ar
kept burning day and night in the street
to purify the reeking air. Six deaths OF
Y Cured here Sunday from the dread dis
: ease and nine at Toulon, where there
t no change for the better" Other di:
e patches say that there were five death
: from cholera at Marseilles Sunday nigf
It and that Capt. Bellot of the navy wa
driven to despair when his wife was sci
/ ed with the cholera, and killed himsel
; A mosquito plague at Marseilles increase
II the gloomy aspect.