Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-17

dispatch from Madrid, Aug. 18th,
says: In the "a hours. ending Yesterday,
6464 new cases of cholera and 21O9 deaths
were reported from SIC towns in 81 prov
inces in Spain. This is the highest num-
Der Of victims yet reported.
The deepest sea-soundings known were
made in the Pacific, where the line reach
ed down 1915 fathoms, and off the east
coast Of Japan, 1900 fathoms. Thus it
seems that the greatest heights of noun
tains and the greatest depths of the ocean
correspond very nearly.
Further advices from Tonquin, China,
say that the bishop of Quinhon reports
that over 10000 Christians have been
massacred in the provinces of Biendinh
and Phy-Yen; murders and incendiary
fires are of daily occurrence. The vicar
late has been annihilated.
A large crowd of people from Appomat-
tox courthouse assembled and draped
the house in which Generals Grant and
Lee signed the terms of surrender, in APP
ril, 1866, in mourning. 1t is proposed to
allow the draping to remain thirty days,
out of respect to the memory of General
Grant.
The family at the Grant cottage at Mt.
McGregor were startled by thunder and
lightning on the 30th ult. All the tele-
graph wires from the mountain to the
outer world were burned. The lightning
struck the roof of the Grant cottage and
tore several shingles off. 1t also entered
the cottage through the roof, tore off the
plastering and extinguished the electric
light above the Generals casket.
At Montreal the president of the loca
Board of Health declares that smallpox
| is now epidemic here. The civil hospit
| al is crowded with SO patients, and new
wing is in progress of erection which viii
| hold SO more patients. 1t is not known
how many are suffering from the disease
| in private dwellings. Four deaths were
reported yesterday in st. Jean Baptistt
village, the continuation of this city.
| The new silver dollars, coined for the
| purpose of preventing counterfeiting, are
| out. The coins are struck from the same
die as the regular dollar of 1885, but thu
| edge, instead OF being milled or 'reeded,
is inscribed ''E pluribus unum" in raised
letters. This change was made by Colon
ell Snowdon, the recent superintendent o
the Philadelphia mint, and the advantage
claimed for it is that it will be more diff
ficult to counterfeit. There is nothin.
new or original in the change. Most Eu
ropean countries have used this lettere,
edge for the past two centuries.
dispatch from California, Aug. Sth
says: The calamitous flood, which begu
the work of destruction on June 10, dev
astated part of the Province of Canton
causing death to 1000 people, and en-
gulphing whole villages, nearly ruinin
the rice and silk crops, destroying an i'm
mense amount of property and reducing
vast number Of people to poverty an
starvation. The food was caused by tn
bursting of an embankment at Tam Kong
IA miles from Canton city, which wa
rapidly followed by breaks in other place
within 80 miles of Canton, putting Il larg
area of the country under water, incluC
ing Canton.
The damage done by a cyclone at MOI
wood, N. Y, Aug. 10Th, was somewhf
over-estimated The loss of life so far q
reported includes only Michael Martin
The injured are /: Myra Ormsby, aged Il
probably fatally hurt; Mrs. Geo. Crane
S. E. Leslie, Mrs. Oliver Lundermar
Carl and Rufus King and Charles Mine
The storm ragged over a territory Is mile
in length and from one-half to thre
quarters of a mile in width. The win
was accompanied by a terrific hail storm
The damage done to growing crops an
to fruit cannot be estimated Over or
hundred residences and innumerab
barns and sheds were destroyed or dar
aged. The damage done in Norwood al
the immediate vicinity is estimated
$15O,0O0.
A disastrous fire, attended by loss
, life, occurred in Webster's block, Ma
, chester, N. H., on the night of the 9th ms
: The fire burned rapidly, and the emit
structure was soon mass of fame The
were some five hundred persons in Il
G tenement apartments of the building
the same time, and all were rescued e
0 cept seven, the remains of that numb
+ being eXhumed from the debris by t
n firemen. The firemen made heroic fig
! and several of them received serious I'M
d ries. The origin Of the fire is unknow
e The loss is about $4,000 and the inst
:. ance $4,000. Mary Ann O'Brien, ag
y thirty-fiye years, who was among the fiji
of those rescued, and whose child W
r found dead by her side, died in the he
y pital at eleven O'Clock Sunday mornin
=. thus making eight deaths so far. Liz
= Burns remains in a critical condition.