Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-09-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

In Harrisburg, Penn, last Friday,
several railroad rioters were sentenced
to the county Jail for terms ranging from
two to eight months, and to pay fines
varying from twenty to five hundred and
ten dollars.
A Salt Lake letter says the Mormon
prosperity is fiction. The condition of
the people is Eopelessly wretched. Their
earnings are swallowed up by the lead
ers, and many of Brigham Young's un-
dertakings were failures
The search in the ruins of Hale's
piano factory, in New York, resulted,
Monday evening, in the finding of two
barrels full of charred flesh, supposed
to represent three bodies, age and sex
unknown. Three more persons are re-
ported missing.
Two boys recently attempted to climb +
to the top of a cliff on which the Point
Lobos telegraph is stationed, near San
Francisco, and found themselves in
position from which they dared neither
ascend nor descend They remained on
their lofty perch all night, and in the
morning were rescued by rope ladders
let down from above.
New Orleans proposes new and
shorter cut to the ocean by ship canal
cut through to Barataria Bay-an es-
tuary of the sea that penetrates far into
the land on the south coast Of Louisiana.
The distance from New Orleans to the
Gulf of Mexico by this route would be
only fifty eight miles, and the cost of
digging the canal about 100000.
Forty.two head of Canadian Shorth-
orn cattle were sold at Windermere,
England, on the 9Th instant and realized
sixteen thousand, two hundred andl
eighty guineas. The average realized
on the whole sale was close upon two|
thousand dollars per head, an average
not realized before in England or on'
this continent, and which has only BEEN
exceeded once in Australia.
The California election, according to|
latest returns, has resulted in a subj
stantial democratic success. The mair|
fight was over the legislature, which isl
to elect successor for Senator SARGENT
This the democrats are reported to havd
carried by majority was ffty-fourl
showing Republican gain this year Of
thirty-six. But unfortunately eighteen
is enough for all practical purposes, AM.
insures democratic Senator after 1871
The new North end bridge over thd|
Connecticut river at Springfield, Mass.
is said to be the finest highway bridge
in the United States, except the Wall
nut street and Girard avenue structure
in Philadelphia. Its total cost has bee i
, 100000. 1t was opened with mucI
ceremony on the 9Th inst. The count]
: commissioners and city government rodI
to the dedication in hacks, headed by
brass band an artillery salute greete(
! the entrance of the cavalcade upon TIL
bridge Rev. Mr.. Eustis and other
made addresses.
] A sixteen-year-old lad by the NAM
e of Tague was bitten by cat in New
: bury, S. c., on the 1st of July. Th|
e wound was cauterized an hour or tw|
afterward. The young man went abou
as usual until the Oath of last month
f when the first symptoms of hydrophobi
: appeared. He found it impossible t
0 swallow anything. This was followeI
e by commissions, occurring at intervals d
: about two or three hours. A breath d
air, or the slightest noise, or the ed
trance of any person into the room, wa
b followed by commissions. He died Of
the 26th of August.
e A very distressing accident occurred
n on the Lake Shore Railroad, just cas-
J. of Painseville, Ohio, on the 9Th ms
}. Stephen Lockwood and his wife, an age
S couple, were driving diagonally acros
n the track, when their buggy was struc
a by the western bound express trair
a Their horses were killed, the carriag
IS demolished, and the occupants hurle
dead upon the pilot of the locomotive
where their bodies were held by th
: fireman until the train reached Paine;
: vile. The deceased persons were in
:, huential citizens of Geneva, Ohio.
d The New Bedford and Billerica, Mass
+ two feet-gauge railroad, the first of th
e kind in this country, has been complet
g ed, and the first trips, which were mad
Saturday, showed that the road is il
n ferior to none in speed, smoothness, an
o safety. The road, which eight mile
n long, has cost but fifty thousand dollar
d including buildings, bridges, and equiv
b ments. The latter consists of two Il
,e comotives and eleven cars, the forme
h weighing but eleven tons each, Will
e. the passenger cars, carrying half tn
,e number of the standard cars, cost bu
t. one-quarter as much.
A. The Very Right Reverend Amedil
Rappe, concentrated Catholic Bishop
i the Diocese of Cleveland, Ohio, Octob,
- 10th, 1S47, resigned August 22d, 1877
! died at st. Adams last Saturday nigh
- of complicated diseases, after four day
IF illness, aged seventy-seven years. Bisl
;s op Rape was we'll known throughol
- the United States and Canada as ten
II perance reformer and missionary of IL
- Catholic Church. Many bishops, hig
] priests and prominent Catholics fro
Canada and the United States attendt
the imposing funeral services Tuesds
r. morning held at st. Mary's church
I'D st. Adams.
y re New York specials say that Fral
~ ~ Leslie, the well-known publisher, h
On made an assignment of his property al
as effects to Isaac W. England, publish
MS of the San. His liabilities are estima
e. ed at three hundred and twenty tho
OF sand dollars, the principal creditors /
'sS ing Rice, Kendall & Co., of Boston, W
IN supplied the establishment with pap,
10 The assets are unknown, but include {
'p- Leslie's publications, some twenty
number, valuable presses, machiner