Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-02-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Garibaldi is seriously Ill.
J. Madison Wells has been released
on $4,000 bond
The Portland Press says Senator
Blaine does not represent the opinions
of his constituents on the financial ques-
ton.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont hopes
soon to pass in the senate his bill to
provide for commission on the national
liquor traffic.
The Senate passed the House resolu-
ton. declaring it inexpedient to change
the tax on spirits, by vote of 40 ayes
against 9 nays
The Kentucky House of Representa-
tives, by vote of 63 to 81. has passed
a bill restoring the whipping post as
punishment for certain offences.
1t is stated now that Turney's defal-
cation in the Bank of North America,
New York, reaches $2S3,0O0. and that
the capital of the concern will be reduc-
ed.
Gideon Welles, the well-known Secre-
tary of the Navy during the administra-
ton of President Lincoln. died at his
home in Hartford, Conn, Mond ay even
ing
Rev Henry Ward Beecher in a sermon
Sunday evening, spoke of the late pope
as ''that dear and good old man who
had just gone to heaven from the ponti-
Gcal chair.
The revival labors of Moody and San
key at Hartford closed Friday at the
rink, having lasted five weeks. At the
closing meeting there were present eight
to nine hundred persons who were count
ed as converts during the meetings.
despatch from Montreal says that
| Mr.. Golf, late manager of the Canada
: Agricultural Insurance Company, and
president of the Montreal, Portland &
a Boston Railway is believed to have left
the province A warrant was issued for
his arrest, but he is not to be found.
S Mr.. Flood, the well known million
o aire of California. is Roman Catholic,
but is apparently liberal minded man.
f Recently. by the foreclosure of a mort
f gage. he came into possession of the
: Central Presbyterian Church, worth
: 100000, and then redeeded it to the
d society.
5. After the failure of the late Insured
! ton in Japan, a richly -attired japanese
h young lady was found lying dead in a
castle moat, with her fathers head in
n her left hand and bloody knife in hel
i right. The devoted heroine had cut of
. her fathers head, at his command, and
then killed herself, that the two might
not be taken prisoners.
N There is a singular story that Roman
S. Catholic Bishop Domenec, of Allegheny
: Penn, did not die in Spain last month
re as reported, but is held as prisoner fol
Or life in Rome. He was summoned t,
Rome to answer charge of misappro
Of priating eight hundred thousand dollar
% of the funds of the diocese, and it i
,e said that be was condemned to perpetua
as solitary confinement.
S, According to the assignee's statemen
g. the financial affairs on the bankrup
firm of John f. Henry, Curran & Co., o
as New York, stands as follows: Liabili
to ties, SLOPE, 187, of which accounts an,
n bills payable are S555,273; assets
f. nominal, S777,544 actual, $3.50
an Mr.. Henry offers thirty cents-fve cent
Id cash, five cents each in six, twelve
eighteen, twenty-four and thirty months
ce The creditors were dissatisfied with thi
Sc proposition, and appointed committe
u to investigate the affairs of the firm.
re ROME. Feb. IA. The conclave wi
-. meet on the 18th instant. The partisan
=. ~ of the moderate party are very confden
''i of success. In Mondays consistory th
Cardinals discussed the advisability G
Is, the Sacred College binding the new Pop
Id to predetermined line of conduct. Cal
OF dinal Pecci spoke against the propose
ee which was supported by Cardinal Mar
as ming. By large majority it was d.
ay cided that the Pope should have th
he. fullest freedom of action. The foreig
VS. Cardinals arriving here announce thu
no public opinion of their respective cour
h. tries is favorable to conclliatory pol
IL cy.
y. Saturday of week before last, C. "
ut Alexander of Berlin, and Ed. Zero {
st. Waterbury, who are drawing wood fl
the railroad company at Slip Hill, ju:
a below Middlesex village, were sent I
IL the village for some grain. They wei
ID, compelled to go on the railroad a di
en lance of 40 rods, and while passir
rs, through cut in the ledge were overtal
yer en- by three engines. Alexander, wi
he was ahead, caught his horses by tt
head and managed to restrain them ii
tly the engines dashed by, the space betwee
A. the rail and the ledge being only Fl,
$. and one-half feet Zero was about
els feet behind him, and his team W;
am struck by the first engine, the horses b
ul. ing killed and the sled smashed in fra
is ments, not piece two feet long beir
i'll left. He was thrown a distance of
feet, but was not severely injured. I'll
or team was owned by Jack Potter of Ne
100 York. and was valued at $500.
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