Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-22
THE FISK ASSASSINATION.

AiO - oAOhSi Gil uuCpO dG ulSSIInuIdClOD,
or that he does not realize his peril A
reporter who recently visited him says
that on shelf in his cell we're arranged
eight bottles of Murray g. Lanman's
Florida water with which he batbes
Standing by the side of the Florida wa
ter were several suspicious black bottles.
While the reporter was conversing with
Stokes, friend handed him the evening
newspapers, card with mourning edge,
on which was the name of Robert F.
Stobo, and small vial. "What have
you got in the vial, Ed?' asked Keeper
Dwyer. "Only little bergamont sent
me by friend, replied Stokes. "Oh
all l thought it was something else,"
politely said the keeper Stokes laugh
ed heartily and said, at might be nitro
glycerine; but 1 am not ready for that
just yet. Oh, no indeed, not YETI DR..
Nealis then took Stokes to the end of the
corridor and there the two remained
about ten minutes. in conversation.
Keeper Dryer then said, ''Ed, now comes
the disagreeable part of the business
1 must lock up shop" Cali right" re-
piled Stokes, "I'll see the boys in the
morning.
An Albany admirer of James Fisk
comes to the defence of his memory with
the statement that he had long inter
view with him on the Thursday evening
before the shooting, when Fisk confessed
very frankly that he had been guilty of
intimacy with Miss Mansfield, and had
squandered some $25O,O00 on vicious
and criminal pleasures, but declared that
all the reports of his liaisons with Mon
taland and other French actresses were
untrue. He said that he had resolved
to reform his personal habits he had
for the past six months led regular
and correct life, and intended to do so
in the future.
Rev. DR. T. Dewitt Talmage COM
menced series of addresses to young
men at the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday
evening, with a sermon on the doom
of the Libertine, the Defrauder, and AS
sassin, " from the text, sHe shall be
buried with the burial of an ass drawn
forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
He made some pointed illusions to re-
cent events in New York, and, apropos
of the abuses in the administration of
Justice, said: eff man in low life COM
mits wrong he is convicted, but if he
is in high life the lawyers plead and the
ladies weep. The Judges delay and the
trial is put off, and one day the murder
er is out If capital punishment be right
there ought to be no partiality in hemp.
Murder is murder wherever committed
even if the President afterward appoint
the murderer Minister to SPAIN
OF Fisk and his wife, who was older
than he, a Boston letter-writer says /:
with his notorious sins against her,
there had never been estrangement be-
tween them. She excused everything,
and he held for her sort of platonic af-
lection. He wrote to her constantly and
visited her very often. She was his con-
fdant always, and his adviser in many
things She was more like an elder sis
ter than wife to this mercurial being,
who appears to have had the highest re-
spect for her traits of character, and to
have been compassionately regarded by
herself as an incorrigibly hayward men,
Der of the family who must be humored
in almost any eccentricities.
Col Fisk's friends say they will spend
S250,0O0 to convict Stokes, who will be
tried in February Mr.. Judd's bill reg
ulating juries may then be passed, and
will prevent the usual trouble in choos-
ing jurors.
Sunday concerts are to be given at the
Grand Opera House, New York, for the
benefit of the Fisk family.
Rev. Dr. Cook of Wilbraham Acade-
my, in sermon at Jenksville, Sunday,
drew sharp contrast between James
Fisk, Jr., and Isaac Rich. Fisk, he said
got his wealth by robbery, and spent il
to keep brothel; Rich acquired his by
industry, and devoted it nobly to educa
ton and religion.
The following note from Mr.. H. l.
, Powers, proprietor of the Grand Central
Hotel, appears in the New York Sun:
[ have not as yet made out or present
ed my bill against the estate of the late
James Fisk Jr. In an interview with &
gentleman on last Friday, who called il
9 behalf of Mrs. Fisk. to obtain articles
belonging to Mr.. Fisk, the subject of my
: charge was casually mentioned. | asked
l the gentleman, name unknown to me
: whether he thought $500 exorbitant
in view of the fact that Mr.. Fisk's
friends had taken possession of the hotel
S at the time he remained here, and that
all the private parlors on that floor were
: appropriated, meals furnished to larg,
: number of friends and considerable
Y amount of money paid at the Office fo
S carriages, medicines, &c.
The gentleman promised to call on tn