Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-03-20
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dirty during the next few months
General NeicS Items.
Daniel Drew. the great New York
broker, has failed for 100000.
Secretary of War Taft took the oath
of office and began work in his new po-
sition Saturday. March IL.
PARIS. March 1.-THE rivers Loire
and Seine are still rising, and great
damage to property has been done.
Mexico sends block of silver to the
Philadelphia exhibition weighing 4, 200
pounds, and worth $4,000 in gold.
Thursday, April IS, has been appoited
by the Governor and Council of Massa-
chusetts as day of fasting and prayer.
BERLIN. March 1.-THE storm of
rain and wind continues and the lower
pats of this city is flooded and many
acres in the suburbs are submerged 1t
is feared that much property will be
ruined.
James Golden Benefits special train
over the New York Central railroad on
his return from Canada, recently, did
the l57 miles between Niagara Falls
and Syracuse in l65 minutes. including
two stops which consumed Z minutes
1t is announced that Hon. Elihu B
Washburn, minister to France, has sig.
nifed his willingness to be the republican
candidate for governor of Illinois this
fall The republicans of Illinois are
much elated in consequence.
The secretary of the treasury and di
rector of the mint appeared before tn
appropriations committee Wednesda,
morning on the immediate substitution
of silver coin for fractional currency
Both of these officers believe that this i
now feasible.
Five masked men entered the house Q
James Crosby, wealthy farmer, nea
Farmer Station. N. J., early Monda
morning. ard took off $4,000 worth O
bonds and $4,000 worth of silverwar
and jewelry, having threatened the fam
| lily with revolvers.
The Scraps, with the prince of Vale
and suite, has sailed for England. Ate
calling at Malta, where series of gran
receptions is awaiting his royal highnes
and also at Lisbon. the prince of Vale
is expected to reach Portsmouth abou
the Goth of April.
The great trial of the City of Ne,
York versus VIM. NJ. Tweed has ende
and the City receives over Sc, 100000
by the verdict. The whereabouts
Tweed still remains mystery, but b
property. such as car be found, will
taken by the City.
Widow Van Colts revival in Pougl
keepsie ended Sunday. March Is. Du
: ing her stay between FIVE and six hui
dred have been converted Seventy we
baptized at the Hedding Church Sunda
and twenty-five taken on probation
Mrs. Van Colt goes to Troy, n. Y.
a Mr.. L. S. Grant, Jr., now occupi
/ the desk at the executive Office heretofo
occupied by Generals Porter and Ba
cock, and within the past few weeks
Colonel Grant, and Mr.. Sniffen, the a
: sistant private secretary, occupies t
e desk just as vacated by Luckey, W.
has entered upon his duties at the Int
o Tor Department.
March 20 and 80 meetings will
held in the Hippodrome, New York.
which the pastor and one layman frc
. all churches desiring to send delegat
5, are invited. The object is to discr
l.. the subject of religious revivals and t
,e best methods to promote them.
Moody will conduct the exercises VIII
' Mr. Sankey leads the singing.
= 1t is now believed that fourteen D,
IS sons were burned in the aims house
t Norwich, Conn.,, recently. Most of tn,
were from sixty to seventy years of a,
Seven bodies we're taken from the ru,
!. Monday, burned to cinder, and unre q
nizable. Five inmates were injured
; jumping from the window, two of tn
n fatally. The entire number Of luna
was fifty four. The Coroner's inqu
- began Monday, but was adjourned.
NC Saturday, March IL, one Of the b
II journalistic writers in the country di
of he being VIM. S. Robinson, of Maid
in Mass, for twelve years, from 1862
"a 1874, Clerk Of the House of Repres
tatlves for that state, and we'll known
u Nv arlington" of the Springfield Rep
ed bean. During his life he was connec
he with several papers, with high repu
I'D tion as a writer. which he eminen
.s deserved, and as a man stood very b
10 the esteem Of those who knew I
ng best.
% lronclads are like bank safes in t
re- every new protection is met by some /
IN danger. 1t is now proposed to enyel
in iroheiads with a network Of iron W
zee supported by booms at a distance
- twenty-five feet. and kept rigid to be
"u the depth Of the keel by heavy weio
ng ! he danger to be guarded against is
he nSh-torpedo, one species Of which can
10. unernngly propelled under water a
lance Of mile, and if it then strik,
~ snip beneath her watcr-line she must
iie esitabiy sink for it is understood /
ri all the pumps on board a turret- !
the WORKING at their highest pressure. wa
md Oe incapable Of discharging the V,
bes ~hieh would be admitted through a
i % larger than that made M the Y
ING guard BY the prov Of the Iron y,
Fas An experiment with the netting Is Al
% be made on the ThundererS,he !,
ng, costly Of all ironclads--and there i
"a a chance that. notwithstanding the Z
4. pune she may be sent to ioin what
II been called the submarine feet