Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-03-19

from the outside, forced a passage
through the shrieking mass and ulti-
mately restored a degree of order which
permitted the clearing of the house not,
however, until six persons had been
crushed and trampled into eternity.
Almost at the moment of this start
ling episode, large, five story building
in the lower part of the city gave away
under the weight of heavy stock of
goods, and came down with rumbling
crash that shook the earth for blocks
around. and frightened large neighbor-
hood who must have thought the end of
all things had come at last Fortunate
ly no one is known to have been killed,
though large amount of property was
destroyed.
The verdict in the case of the Ashta-
bula bridge disaster has just been pub
| lished here, and renews the interest
which that calamity produced, and
which has inaugnrated general exam
nation of railroad bridges everywhere.
A searching inspection of the great Sus-
pension Bridge is now in progress at the
instance of the New York Central, which
takes every precaution against accident,
even to laying four steel tracks for its
traffic. No interruption of New York
Central trains results from the examina-
ton.
Some weeks ago | spoke of a grand
dinner at Delmonico's given by DIR. HI.
L. HelmbOld to the press of both hem
ispheres in celebration of his escape from
the mad doctors, and of his recommend
ing business on grander scale than
ever before. The history of the life and
sufferings of this remarkable man for
the last few years is SO replete with
dramatic interest, that he has been en-
gagged to write his thrilling experiences
in the lunatic asylums of Europe and
America, in narrative form, for the IL
Illustrated Times. This singular litera-
ry novelty will commence with the next
number of the paper named.
New York justice has taken a long
step toward retrieving its reputation by
its action in the case Of Joe Coburn, the
notorious prize fighter, whose arrest and
Indictment l noticed last week. As
things have been for years in the courts
of Gotham. influential roughs and plug.
uglies like the above named rascal could
almost always get off scot free in some
mysterious way or other. AS rule
this class are too valuable around the
polls on election day to have their sphere
of usefulness restricted by prison walls
and usually, whenever one of them in ;
moment of emotional insanity has bro
ken into citizens house, or broken
citizens head, there has been no lack O
dirty little politicians to aid the shyste
LAWYERS in nrntA~.;--o eiIv pulletheaoee
scoundrel. This time the little gam,
didn't work. Mr.. Coburn, with the con
fdence born of frequent success, in
dulged one night in the pastime o
shooting policemen, and now, only ;
, little more than a week thereafter, find
himself, to his unutterable surprise, dis
gust and indignation, with cropped heaC
and striped garments, settling down TO
ten years laborious residence at Sin:
Sing.
When he was sentenced, day or twc
ago, Coburn was cross, but had littl
idea that he was really going to be ''pu
through" When therefore, on Thurs
day morning he was reused from his eel
at an early hour and told to make read
T. to go up to the musical town just men
toned, he was inclined to treat the sum
mons as joke, intimating that he wa
going to have new trial and get of
When at length he found that the off
GERS failed to recognize any joke. hu
, PERSISTED in their intention to ship hir
up the river at once, there wasn't mad
der man in the city than Joe. His las
:, hope was that some of his rufian gan
would rescue him on the way to tn
train; but the authorities had provide
against that contingency by making th
transfer Unexpectedly and at an earl
hour, and there was no help for him.
RADIx.