Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-02-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The California Senate refused to
pass to a third reading the resolution
recommending the adoption of the
Government postal system
Rev DR.. Post, of St. Louis, for TWEEN |
ty-five years pastor of the First Congre-
gatlonal church in st. Louis, and one of |
the most vigorous preachers in the de- |
nomination, has resigned his charge, his
resignation to take effect in June next.
A young man who formerly drove a
pie cart in New Haven, but had lately
risen to the position of a driver on a
horse railroad, received letter the other
day informing him that his uncle in
China had recently died, leaving him
fortune amounting to S450,O0O.
Mator Head, late cashier of the Rhode
Island National Bank, has been arrested
on charges preferred by the Bank Exam
liner, of embezzling 100000 of the
funds of the bank, and of making false
returns to the comptroller, and is held
in SIS, 200 for examination on the 9Th.
Robert A. Pierson, late teller, is held in
$25, 900 to answer to the charge of aid
ing and abetting in the frauds of Cash
Ter Head.
The schooner Antecedent, with gran
tie for Williamsburgh, was wrecked on
Eaton's Neck, L. l., in the terrible snow
storm on Saturday. VIM. Nash, the
mate, was drowned, and the captain and
steward nearly persisted, being an hour
in the ice. The cargo will probably be
saved. The schooner was valued at
$4,000, and was owned by J. II. Palmer
of Stonington.
On Friday a party of twenty five or
thirty masked men went to the jail
where Slough, who murdered his wife,
was confined. overpowered the sheriff.
took the keys of the jail and proceeded
to Slough's cell and marched him out a
short distance, where they hung him to
tree. The mob then quietly dispersed.
The circumstances attending the murder
are so brutal that the action of the mob
seems to meet general approval.
There is promise of an abundant sugar
crop from the Jamaica plantations. The
influx of visitors seeking the benefits of
the climate of Jamaica is increasing, and
the fact has induced two enterprising
Americans to speculate in hotel build
ings. An establishment for the manu-
facture and expectation of preserved tur-
tie soup is in operation at Kingston, A
subsidy for the mail service between
Kingston and New York is spoken Of.
Though its author has long been in
his grave, the ''new departure doctrine
which Mr. Vallandingham brought for
ward last summer, gained notable vic
tory in the House of Representatives, the
other day, when Mr.. Brooks, of New
York, introduced, and all but % of his
party associates voted for a resolution
recognizing the recent amendments t.
the constitution as valid thus taking {
long step in the direction of common
sense and sound party policy.
A Boston reporter while loafng abou
the Preble house at Portland, the othel
evening picked up pair Of hand-cufi
which an officer had left there. Exper
imenting with them, he found they slip
ped on easily, but alas would not sliI
off Thinking that the officer would
come back in short time, he kept hi.
courage up, and was rather jovial ovel
the affair, but as the night wore on hC
became uneasy and anxiously sought
some one who could release him, but al
in vain About o'clock, the mex
morning, he presented himself at the
station, looking like an escaped convict
and was liberated.
A young girl was enticed from Mer
idan, CT, by a married man who live
at Hartford. She was found by he
friends few miles from that place
week before last, and returned to he
home. She tells story of most bru
tai treatment, her companion not onl.
beating her, but threatening to xii
her if she refused in the least to yiel(
to any of his fiendish demands. Sht
was at all times kept locked in he
room, and only escaped by dropping
note out of a window to her land
lady, while her seducer was away TO
few moments. Since her leaving
home the mother Of the poor girl ha
died, and her father has become a ia
wing maniac.
Stokes LAwYER.-A New York let
ter says of Stokes lawyer: John Ora
ham is not genius, but as the slang is
he is laundering smart. He has studiet
up our jury system to dot He is n
orator, has harsh, grating voice, and
the most ill-tempered and vulgar man a
the New York bar; but he just hits tn
: nail upon the head every time he wishe
to impress his point upon the twelve in
{ telligent' men before him. He worrie
witnesses, trying to malign their char
acter without introducing a witness t
asperse; then threatens to spank op
posing lawyers, and reads all kinds Q
ill-mannered lectures to the judge upol
, the bench This is just the kind 0
thing to impress New York jury, Sc
lected according to medieval usage.
A SUFFERER.-A short time ago
valued and respected clerk Of the BAN
of New York shot himself No reason
could be conjectured to account for tn
| act of suicide, except THAI he had bee
I suffering from intense pain in the head
which was supposed to be caused by neu
ralgia. After the death of this youn
man, who was not twenty-five years old
his family physician made a scientii
examination of the brain, which reveal
ed the fact that for years he had been
sufferer from strange and terribl
cause. The fits Of headache, which 70