Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-16

cleaning department as at present. Shell
tering themselves behind technicali.ies,
or squabbling among themselves. or bra
zenly and openly refusing to act, they
have almost totally neglected their busi-
ness ali winter. 1t is but a few DAYS
ago since | was one of company of over
hundred pedestrians, who at one of the
busiest corners Of Broadway found them
selves confronted with a Shiny pond of
semi-liquid filth, broad and deep enough
to be utterly impossible.
Such being the state of things on
Broadway the condition of the poor and
densely populated streets on the East
and West sides may be imagined. On
one of these unfortunate avenues L no.
ticed, short time since, within the
space of a single block. some dozen piles
of garbage. the accumulation of many
weeks One of these stood over ten feet
high, and into its top some of the neigh
boring sufferers, in bitter derision of the
city government they are taxed to sup
port, had stuck an American flag.
1t seems as though the Ring suits and
Investigations never would find an end,
The last insertion of the probe cpne-
quent on Sweeny's return has revealed
the fact that the old cancer ran deeper,
and spread its roots more widely, than
any one suspected. The cold steel SEEM
ed to touch Oakley Hall-for this theory
of his disappearanceis now generally ac-
cepted as correct-and he vanished into
thin air. 1t reached a tender spot in old
gentleman Tweed who remarked with a
groan that The might as we'll give it up
now" Woodward has told tales out of
school which Sweeny can hardly help
corroborating, and we seem to be on the
eve of revelations which will be as start
ling as the first ones of II. 1t was sup.
posed till recently that all participants
in the plumber were known to the public
: by name at least Should the clews nov
: in hand, however, prove to be genuine
ones, somo thirtye- forty .siotirA
; have yet to be hauled over the Goals, ant
they will be selected from among politi
clans. legislators and business men VIII
have carried their heads as high as eve
during these years of prosecution. The,
have relied confdentially on the sol
mans grit for the preservation of thei
s guilty secrets. and to do him justice
g Tweed has held out with Spartan firm
> ness through all his troubles, agains
u the repeated efforts to make him disclos
u the whole list of accompl,ces. 1t lool
IL now, however, as though this ''hOnt
'e among thieves" were to fail of its pu
IN pose after all, and as though the 'tr'
K inwardness" of the great swindle we
to be completely uncovered.
be The whole city press is out this wet
4 with genuine sensation, a tale of a
er venture and escape by land and sea
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he fiction. with the additional charms
m' being founded on fact, and relating
nc one of the most prominent characts
as now before the public. This is the sto
ICE of Tweed himself from before his esca
70 in December, 1875, to the present tin
as made up from his private diary and
no personal narrative. The mysteries
oi1 this flight and absence, which we're
'or ninefold "nine days wonder" at the til
ne of their occurrence are now explain
ne for the first time. How the fugitive Il
yer his plans, how he finally eluded his C:
'he tors, how and. where he lay in conce
LOT ment. and all subsequent circumstan,
Or are here given with graphic power.
ms view of the present renewed interest
ing the hero of this story, and his old G.
Iir' federates, its publication is creating
Tor unusual excitement.
U.s. A beautiful scene was witnessed
hey the Academy of Music on Thursday e
hat ming on the occasion of the long expt
OF ed Children's Carnival, in which owe
n wv
aiy thousand happy Juveniles with fal
reo costumes, happy faces and sparkling Q
we. participated. The dresses, decorate
ne and dances were very handsome. and
ted freshness and exuberance of the lii
rye ones enjoyment stood out in refresh
OH contrast to the Wdse and semi indiffer
out air which pervaded the ball of child
ler' of larger growth which followed I
and pretty festival. Both Carnival and
the were for the benefit Of a charity,
Tor Melted between four and five thous
lay dollars.
orm Steinway Hall has this week been
eyes theatre of series of semi-miracnl
to performances called Telephone {
re- certs,' in which the practical success
man this marvellous achievement of scie
rnal has been publicly demonstrated. Nan
Gus piano pieces were played by APP
jur- ist in Philadelphia, and were, distin
suf- audible to our New York audieu
ear What aoiH these fellows do next?
lood RADI,
IN How TO MAKE KITEs.-It is a g
and art to make good kite. 1t. should
as shaped even so as to balance we'll.
e''er sticks should be just strong enough
the size of the kite, without being