Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-01-13

Homer, n. Y, Jan. 6, 1873.
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THE OLD ADAGE VERIFIED.
The old adage that ''evil communica-
lions corrupt good manners has again
been verified. j. S. Adams used to be
a dissipated man, then reformed, and be-
came noted man in Vermont, his posi-
ton and activity as Secretary of the
State Board of Education making his
name one familiar to all. Then he emf
grated to Florida, and became a Grant
Office holder, receiving the appointment
of Collector at Pensacola. Last week we
made an item of the fact that he had
mysteriously disappeared from Taylor's
hotel in Jersey City, N. j., and that foul
play was suspected, but it turns out that
Mr.. Adams had simply been on an elab-
crate drunk, and that the disappearance
was merely an incident of the spree. He
stepped off the Washington train at Jer-
sey City, Saturday morning hatless and
haggard, and wanted to know where he
was, saying that he wanted to go to
Washington On being told that lie was
in Jersey City, he inquired for Taylor's
hotel, and arriving there, he spoiled two
or three pages of the register trying to
write his name, and finally had to die
tate it to the clerk. Once in his room,
he nearly crazed the bell-boys and clerks
by his constant calls for champagne. He
wanted everybody to know that he was
a United States official, and showed lots
of money, bonds and coupons, paying for
everything in advance. The proprietor
didn't consider him a desirable guest,
and so Sunday morning, he told him he
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request him to git With vehement
expressions of discomfort, Mr.. Adams
took his carpet bag and went to another
| hotel, where he was relieved of his val
uablcs and put to bed by a volunteered
assistance, not. however, till he had
treated the loafers to fifteen quarts of
champagne. One Gleason, purporting to
be Secretary of State in Florida. took
him in tow, Monday night of last week,
and started for Neutrality-suspicious.
The FRENCH PRINCE IMPERIAL.-A
YOU'VE PRINTER.-The young Prince
Napoleon Eugene Louis Jean Joseph was
born on the 18th of March, 1856, and
is therefore now drawing towards the
completion of his seventeenth year. 1t
was intended that he should receive a
military education, and while still an
infant was placed on the muster roll OF
the French Imperial Guards as a pri-
vate. 1t was designed as a compliment
to the army that he should at least nom-
inally go through all the gradations Of
the service. Besides receiving first.
class military education he received les
sons in two or three handicrafts, the last
of which was the setting up of types in
the imperial printing office of Paris
The young prince always bore the repu.
tation of being intelligent, good temper.
ed and very much attached to his friends
and chosen companions. The late ex.
Emperor was most particularly and
thoroughly practical reader in his way
wonld not allow his spelling, accentua
ton, or pointing to be interfered with
in the least A compositor who was EN-
ployed in connection of some of the en-
peror's slips of work he had in prog
ress communicated some facts of inter
est He said the young prince was
capital compositor. that he had cabi
net of the best mahogany cases, small
imposing surface of slate, and the pref
test little press in the world.
The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
, one hundred and twenty five miles long
and twenty five wide. embracing tn
, counties of Augusta, Rockingham, Shen
andoah, Page, Warren, Clarke, Frederick
| Jefferson and Berkeley, with populatio
of 10000 to an area of 27,495 squar
miles, of cash valuation of $70,0OO,OOC
, 1t produces more from the same amour
, of agricultural labor, and is freer frol
v sickness of all kinds, than any other POI
o ton of the United States. There ar
1,001, 96l acres of improved lands, an
D 120,050 acres of unimproved Their
are 32l churches in the Valley, capabl
of holding 10000 persons. They al
|. divided among eleven different denomir
ations, the Methodist being the larges
: by far, the Presbyterians next.
Thursday afternoon seven convict
: succeeded in making their escape fro
Y the State Prison at Auburn, N. Y, b
: digging through the wall where shat
ran through it for the purpose of turn
ing the machinery in the prison. 1t
e believed that they had assistance fro
I, outside parties. The escape was led b
e Dean Noble, the Lord bond robber