Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-02-14

Ets- -AohtsoE Inc NS1le1nl1l year
was ushered in With 4 great noise all
over our land, and the City Of the Gold
en- Gate was in no wise behind the east
ern and Olden cities. For several days
the papers were filed with suggestions
frCm A. B. and c. as to the proper thing
to DO and the proper manner Of doing it,
but the quiet people who prefer coed
nights rest&o a watch meeting with =
laundering 6uale. fondly hoped it would
blow over. But no: definite arrange
ments were made. orders for the illu-
minatiOn Of public buildings. the firing
Of cannon and ringing Of bells were is
sued from the Mayors 0fnce. while citi-
zeus took up the subject with a gustO
that promised to give Us taste Of 4th
Of July in midwinter.
Friday. Dec Slst. was like an April
day. One moment the sun would shine
out glOriOusly; the next, rain would
come pattering down from above-as if
some cloud were shaking itself to get its
eyes open Weather prophets were as
plentiful as Kansas grasshoppers, but
the good clerk would not consent to be
propitiated, and night shut down with
out star to wink at anxious enthusi-
asts. Of the bay a perfect gale was
blowing, while the skies seemed empty
ing all their 1875 wash-tubs preparato-
ry for the new year. Nothing daunted.
the bou6res were piled as high as arms
/ could reach fireworks, roman candles,
blazing wheels-everything that would
make either light or noise, Was brought
into use and helped to increase the fu-
rOr. At II o'clock. every church and
fire bell in the city commenced ringing.
the chimes playing their very best
Whole streets were suddenly ilIumiuat-
ed. until every building seemed one
blaze of light; cannon were fred, small
er arms discharged. and joyous shouts
went up from the assembled people For
thirty minutes the bells rang out their
merry peals, while the New Year march
ed in. through drenehiug. pouring. pitt
less rain. to be sure, but heralded as
was never year before Everything and
everybody that comes into San Francis
CO at this season Of the year stands a
tolerably fair chance Of coming in the
rain. | came in a rain and should have
done 50 had my coming been on either
of the succeeding ten days l am only
one Of the many who make the trip
across the continent nowadays, but as
all do not see The sights by the way with
their own eyes | kept my wayside notes,
as usual. and. with hasty wishes for the
prosperity Of the MONITOR and its read
ers during this Centennial year, l hand
you NY first installment-
left Vermont on the 18th of Novem-
ber- cold. clustering, wintry day, the
most like old Winter himself Of anything
I had seen in many year Ny most
direct route would have been to Chicago,
thence to Omaha. Nebraska. but I made
a little dst0ar touching at Cincinnati
aud ST. Louis.
Ny route led me through some Of the
finest of the smaller eastern cities.
I Springfield, Mass, first, which has the
largest q. S. Arsenal in the Union-es-
tabIished in 1895. 1t Is busy little
city, with not little Of the old ''blue
blood pride which crops out largely all
through the southern New England
states. A nominating convention. with
Sam Bowles as chairman and chiei
spokesman. viii be held there every day
until further notice, and Charles Fran
CTS Adams will be regularly nominated
for every Office Of honor or emolument
within the gift Of the people. If San
Bowles' voice were only the voice Of thi:
nation how much wind might be saved
in the coming presidential campaign.
Then across to Albany, New York
where. perehed upon the bluffs which
rise from the banks Of the Hudson, Is +;
city Of over seventy thousand inhabi
tants; in summer charming place il
winter filed with members Of the Legis
lature with numerous delegates frOu
their eonstituencies-alI with their lit
tie political axes to grind
Here all .xestern-bound travellers tax
the New York Central road, which run
through central New York. famed IA
and near for its wealth and enterprise
The distance to Buffalo Is 298 miles an,
cities, large villages and thrifty hamlet
are 50 frequent 1t seems Ike one vast
far-reaehing, suburban town. nesting il
the lovely Mohawk valley.
Seventeen miles cut We come to Sche
nectady, With her twelve thousand in
habitants; a little further on LIttl
Falls. with bits Of scenery tenptinl
enough to lure Us to stop over for dal
had We time Utica with thirty thou
! sand people. the county seat Of the ne
I county Of Oneida, the terminus Of sever
al railroads, aud the site Of the Stat
Lunatie Asylum; Rome, with twelv
thousand souls Syracuse with forty
: Eve thousand, aud steadily advancing