Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

day before and left Oh the three o'clock
train north on the morning of the robbery.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The cholera has appeared at Nice,
France.
The Grant Monument Fund has reached
about $85, 900.
There are said to be no less than 5000
white opium smokers in San Francisco.
slight earthquake shock was felt in
Pennsylvania on Saturday, the Sd inst.
Cholera has decreased greatly in Spain,
but the number of victims daily is still
very large.
Mr.. Bancroft, the hale historian of
many honors, celebrated his S5th birth
day on the Sd inst.
A circular advocating vaccination was
read in the churches at Montreal on Sun
day, the Sd inst
The pope has agreed to mediate be-
tween Germany and Spain in regard to
the Carolines question.
The Turkish losses in the ten days
| fighting at Dwakova were 200 men. The
Albanians lost thousand killed.
During Il fearful tornado in the Bay of
Bengal several ships foundered and a
great many persons were drowned.
The number of prisoners sentenced Tor
| life in Illinois since it became a state is
one hundred fifty-two men and one wo-
| man.
Fighting is reported in Bulgaria. Six
| thousand Russian troops have entered
| that country, but peaceful result is ex-
pected.
Charles Clayton, California pioneer,
| and ex-member of congress, died of con-
gestion of the brain in San Francisco re-
Gently.
An emerald said to be worth a thous-
and dollars, was found in the gizZard of
| chicken in Alexander county, n. c., a
| few days ago.
| The president has decided not to ac-
cept the resignation of DR.. j. B. Hamil-
| ton as surgeon-general of the marine
hospital service.
| The completed census of Massachusetts
shows the population of the state to be
1,941, 49, The population of the city of
Boston is 800, 4O6.
There were one hundred seventy-five
deaths from cholera throughout Spain on
the Sd inst. The mortality in Italy on
the 4th reached seventy-nine.
When the United States Cremation
| Company is ready for business, the cost
of incineration will be S25 for each body
| At Washington, Penn, the rate is $40.
Professor Doremus has recommended
Il coating of parafine wax to preserve the
obelisk, which is slowly, but very percep-
tibly disintegrating under the action OF
our climate.
1t is estimated that there has been q
decrease of about $12 900, 900 in the pub
| lie debt during the month of September.
The payments on account of pensions
during the month were about $4,000,000
At a meeting of the civic board of
ton committee reported that the work
of relief had revealed 1000 cases of small
pox in 1856 houses scattered throughout
the city.
Mr. D. L. Moody, at the close of his
meetings at Newton, Mass, will labor in
Connecticut towns during two weeks
He will then go to New York city fol
three days, and later will hold meetings
in Hudson River towns and in Pennsyl
vania.
The Danish expedition to East Green
land, after q twenty-nne months alb
sence, has returned to Copenhagen.
made special chart of a hitherto un
known coast, reaching latitude &C de
grees, eight minutes north, and named i
Christian Land.
Shortly after O'Clock on Friday morn
ing, the I'd inst, battery of boilers a
the Solar Iron Works of Clarke & Co., OF
Thirty-slxth street. Pittsburgh, Penn.
exploded with disastrous effect. Tire
men were fatally scalded and fourteen
others horribly injured.
Robinson Crusoe will soon be com
memorated by fine bronze statue at hi
prototypes birth place. the fishing vii
lage of Largo, in Fife. This village wa
the early home of Alexander Selkirk, VIII
: returned there from Juan Fernandez
bringing the relics Of his solitary stay O
that deSolate island.
The famous Victoria Bridge at Mon
/, treal is to be supplemented by anothe
. Lachine to Caughnawauga, four mile
above the city. 1t will be OF iron trusses
the eight spans measuring three thous
I and feet, and will cost, with Its approach
y es, over million dollars.
!, The Soldiers Monument presented t
: the city of Springfield, Mass, by Nj
Gurdon Bill, was dedicated on the pot
: ult, in the presence of Governor RobiI
:, son and staff Two thousand Grand Al
!. my veterans and large attendance {
p citizens were in ATTENDANCE. The ded
: catory address was delivered by Gener;
Joseph r. Hawley ofHartford.
t The corn crop of the United State
having passed the critical stage, an
d whatever menaced the cereal from fro
T being now ended owing to the maturii
}, of the grain, the Farmers Review, of tt
city of New York, has called in repor
N from it's l, 400 correspondents, giving I'll
st area and probable yield in every coun
D. in the ten leading corn-producing state
m and has complied from these close e
v innate of the approximate yield of ii
s. crop of 1885. These estimates place I'll
G. WELD at the enormous figure of 2 ,OOO, OOC
900 bushels.