Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-15


half the city was totally destroyed and
-Ihnn- nersons- lost their lives.
O'Connor the assailant of Queen Vic
toria, has had his trial and been SEN
fenced to be imprisoned for twelve months
at hard labor and to receive 20 lashes.
Both the Federal and Boston, and
Concord and Montreal railroad bridges
at Fast Concord, N. H., were carried
away by ice last Thursday. Loss $780,
600.
Mr.. Belmont, the chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, has
called a meeting of the committee, to be
held at his house in New York, May s,
to appoint the day and date of the Ma
tional Democratic Convention.
Stokes, the murderer of Fisk, is evil
IDENTIFY man of good deal of 'cheek.'
He is tired of prison life poor fellow
and thinks it is too bad that he cannot
be allowed to run the streets and 60
where he pleases till the day of trial.
He says he will be glad when he knows
what his fate is to be. Perhaps he will
be sorry.
News from Mexico of April report
that volcano in Colima, which for two
or three years has been showing signs
of activity, is now in full eruption throw
ing out clouds Of ashes which fall over
large section of the country, and smoke
is so dense as to obscure the sun. The
spectacle is described as one of awful
grandeur.
Reports from Cincinnati, Ohio, Louis
vile, KY, Memphis, Tenn, and other
Western cities, state that the surround
ing country was flooded bridges swept
away, railroads seriously damaged, and
travel interrupted by the heavy rain
storm of last Tuesday and Wednesday.
A Washington paper made the state
ment last Saturday week that Senator
Sumner would make no further opposi-
ton to the denomination of President
Grant, and would steadily labor to Sc
cure his election if nominated at Phila-
delphia. Senator Sumner says this story
lis pure invention and that he will not
support Grant under any circumstances.
Mr.. Van Trump of Ohio has addressed
a long letter to his assistants, IN which
he warns his Democratic brethren against
the passive policy. He declares that nc
matter chow large, enthusiastic or re-
spectacle the Cincinnati Convention may
be, it will represent no comfortable def
mite element of strength" He wants a
Democratic National Convention and a
Democratic candidate
The National Convention of "coloreG
folks" at New Orleans last Wednesday
nominated Fred Douglass for President
and James H. Ingraham for Vice Presi
dent and framed the following resolution
ReSOtCed, that we, in the name of thu
colored men Of the United States, repu
date any sympathy with the late Labor
Reform Convention held in Columbus
and also with the Liberal Republican
Convention called for the lst of May a
Cincinnati.
Mr.. ROLAND Mclean, in a lecture il
Boston, on the subject of Oliver Crom
well, one evening last week, said:
The Cromwell revolution stood in al
important position as affecting the strug
gle for independence in this country, AM
the former epoch in the history of nation
had much to do with the success of tina
revolution which gave to America tn
Declaration of Independence SO close
ly allied were they that chad there BEEF
no Oliver Cromwell in 1912, there woulc
have been no George Washington il
l776."
A terrible steamboat accident occur
red about 80 miles above Cairo, Ill, O,
the Mississippi river last Thursday morn
ing. The steamboat Oceanus explode
her boiler, blowing her upper works al
most entirely away and Immediately al
forwards took fire and burned to the wa
ter's edge, so lives are supposed to
lost by drowning, burning, scalding an
freezing. A steamer lying a few mile
below saw the light and went to the res
cue but succeeded in saving only fe
who were clinging to pieces of the wrecl
Another steamboat exploded on tn
same day at Jersey City, killing six PEI
sons and wounding many others.
Reports from Albany, N. Y, say tn;
the water in that city has risen to a gre;
height, Quay St. being submerged i
entire length, in some places to the dept
of two and three feet The basemen
of buildings in the lower part of the eli
are filled with water and good deal
Inconvenience and damage has resulte
therefrom. At Cincinnati 200 coal ba
ges were carried away and 10 SUNK
One million bushels of coal have bee
lost. Sawmills lose logs and lumber
the amount of $4,000. The tot
loss on the river at Cincinnati reach
100000, In Kentucky and West Vi