Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

the trustees of his acceptance.
The class which will graduate next
year at West Point numbers eighty-three
the largest fourth class known in the
history of the academy.
The Hecla came into collision with the
Liverpool and London steamer Cheerful
in a fog off Plymouth, England, on the
2lst inst. Ire latter foundered and IL
persons were drowned.
There are now but two living ex-presi-
dents-Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester
A. Arthur. The widows Of four presi-
dents are living Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Polk,
Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Grant.
movement is on foot in Chicago to
Immediately raise money for colossal
statue of General Grant, to be placed in
Lincoln Park. Five thousand dollars has
already been raised. The statue will cost
$4,000.
President Cleveland bids fair to equal
ex-President Arthur as a fisherman. In
his recent trip to the waters of upper
Potomac he is reported to have captured
"a black bass one of which weighed eight
pounds.
A new railroad is projected from Fab
vans in the White Mountains, to Ply
mouth. The distance is only forty miles,
and by means of this link the time from
Boston to Fabyans would be reduced over
two hours.
Another frightful explosion occurred
last week Tuesday night on the South
Pennsylvania railroad, one mile and
half south of Fort Littleton, Trenton coun-
ty, instantly killing one Hungarian and
two Italians, and probably fatally injur-
ing the foreman and an unknown negro.
The body of Mrs. Mcintyre, who was
swept over Niagara Falls on the day of
the opening of the International Park,
was found on Sunday afternoon wedged
between the two rocks at Swift Drift,
on the Canadian side. All the clothing
was torn from the body by the force of
the current.
A lifeboat, containing fifteen men,
started from Yarmouth, England, on the
morning of the 22d inst, to the rescue of
the crew of brigantine which was in
distress. Before reaching its destination
however, the lifeboat struck a sunken
wreck and sank. Eight Of it's occupants
| were drowned.
A notable monument is to be erected at
Atlanta, Georgia. Near the base in inches,
are to be statues of Grant, Lee, Johnston
| and Sherman. Near the top of the col
umn will be two soldiers, the blue and
the gray, clasping hands, and at the top,
| standing on globe, will be the Goddess
of Liberty. 1t is to be one hundred eighty
feet in height and will cost 100000.
The largest gun in the world for throw
ing dynamite projectiles has just been
completed in Jersey City machine-shop.
The barrel of the gun is sixty feet long,
with bore of eight inches, and is brass
lined throughout. With its ponderous
frame and carriages the great weapon
weighs forty-three tons. Compressed air
| is to be used instead of gunpowder and
the projectile contains one hundred eighty
pounds of dynamite.
/ A dispatch from Cairo says that news
has reached there Kassala to the effect
that a large force Of rebels attacked that
al attempts to carry the place by assault
They were finally repulsed, and the gar
rison at Kassala, following up their vic
tory, captured the rebel camp with 1900
oxen and sheep and 700 rifles. The ene-
my lost 5000 killed and wounded, while
the garrison's casualties were small.
The mutilated remains of woman OF
middle age were found in Charles river
at Boston recently. The body had beer
cut into four sections, and these were
found floating about in bags of coarse
cloth. The whole city is Mortified at the
terrible crime, and detectives are devot
/ ing all their energies to solving the mys
terry which surrounds the affair. Severa
theories are advanced and some encour
aging clues have been found, but nothing
positive has as yet been ascertained.
MADRID, July 80. The cholera is mo-
only increasing in the poor quarters O
this city, but is making its way into tn,
streets of the better quarter Of the CAPT
tai, which have hitherto been exempt
King Alfonzo has intimated that if the
cholera continues to spread in Madrid h.
will return to that city.
1t is impossible to obtain complete re
turns from the. cholera districts, az
heavy storms have broken the telegraph
wires. Returns from all Spain so far az
: received show total for Monday of 12l,
new cases and All deaths including 8,
new cases and % deaths in Madrid city
and So new cases and IA deaths in Mad
rid province.