Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-01-06
BARTON, MONDAY, JAN. 8, 1873.
VOLUME III AND THE NEW YEAR.

bObU vi Il III AND The NEW EAR.
This issue of the MONITOR is its birth
day number; it is now one year old-a
yearling, if you please, standing on the
second round of the great ladder of news
paperdom Only on the second round a?
A long way to climb, yet, if it would
aspire to reach the top--or even midway.
True. But the first and most difficult |
step, we trust, has been taken, and there
is no letting go on the pillow handles,
now, even if we were sick of the under
taking, which we arc not; and with the
patronage which we hope to receive
from the lovers of home institutions,
who have helped us thus far, we will
continue to press onward-ever onward
like q wheelbarrow Although we
have not, by any means, got rich,-as
some who know but precious little of
what it costs to run a newspaper, and do
not seem to remember that every letter
has to be picked up, one at time, have
limited that they should think we might
we have had enough of good victuals
to eat and poor clothes to wear, so that
we do not consider that we have any
cause to murmur-and we don't. We
sought at first, to try and please every
body but, gentle reader, we have got
past that point, now. We might as we'll
undertake to smother the volcano and
choke the young earthquake or pocket
the lightning and tie up the thunder.
Our disposition is as good as it ever was,
but our faith is greatly shaken and our
courage, on that score, is way down in
our boots. When, just a year ago, We
consented to risk the attempt to keep up
the publication of newspaper in this
part of the county, we did net do so
thinking that more suitable person for
the place could not be found, nor with
any high and swell-head aspirations for
popularity and the mighty dollar, but
because urged to do so. and because we
felt and interest in keeping alive the
business institutions of our own home.
And now that the first year has gone,
we do not pretend to say that the paper
has been perfect, but claim for it a lib
eral supply of faults, which we will let
our readers sort out. We are aware that
there are some who are "out of sorts"
with us ON account of some things that
have been said that did not exactly agree
with their way of thinking; but we
console ourselves with the thought that,
as Mrs. Darlington would say, there is
no publisher 'under the canister of
heaven" who has not some unfriendly
customers to deal with, and that if we
nave zone InJusUOv guy PcrsUn, we
have done it unintentionally. We are
also aware that we have gained some
friends-warm friends, too, whom we
do not intend to forget. We might give
many letters, containing cheering and
encouraging words. One who has done
much to help us paddle along and refus-
ed any compensation for his trouble,
says: what | can do to enlarge the
circulation of the MONITOR, is done vol
UNFAIRLY and cheerfully without regard
to pay. [ want her to live long and
float high above the snags." This man
lives at Barton Landing, and has a soul
a whole soul, too, MAY he not be
forgotten hundred years hence"
Old 70 is no more. She has gone
from us with her hot campaign bed of
tangled-up politics, steamboat disasters,
railroad smash-ups, terrible confagra-
tions, sudden death of great men, small
pox, cholera aud the "epizootic, togeth
er with floods, drouths, and hot and cold
weather. Good-by, old year may the
world never see the. likes of your wicked
old paw, again.
The New Year has come. Welcome
in, glad New Year while you last, may
you keep ''peace OH earth" If there
are any who have had any idea of ever
turning over new leaf" now is JUS
the time to commence. Who will try
Stop smoking, chewing, drinking, swear
ing, driving sharp bargains with oul
neighbors, &c. No more appropriat,
time can be found to kick all these thing
one side and commence in earnest tn,
sober practice of temperance, honesty
self-denial, and the like; of turning
ourselves right side out and letting 9th
er folks see us as we are. Do thes,
things, draw up your eyebrows, hold VI
your head, pay your honest debts anc
subscribe for your home paper, and w
believe you will enjoy what we hearth,
wish you all, viz: A HAPPY NEW
YEAR.
The Fifth Avenue Theatre, adjoining
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, wa
entirely consumed by fire on the evenin,