Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23
LETTER FROM NEW YORK..
Special Correspondence.

be those that vex the traveller through |
the great Sahara. The mud that was
growing about last time, dried by the
sun and pulverized by ten thousand
wheels, is caught up by the cold simoons
of our clustering spring and is thrown,
a driving. binding pail, worse than a
genuine London fog, over the town. One
consolation, and only one remains to us
in this trial. and that is that our rascal
ly street cleaning bureau, who could find
refuge in their carriages from the incon-
venience of the mud, can in no wise es-
cape their snare of the present plague.
They have to choke and cough and wipe
their eyes with the rest of US. and that,
perhaps, will do more towards making
them do their duty than all the indig-
nation which is finding public and pri-
vate expression against them.
That the three partners of one of the
heaviest manufacturing firms in the
country should be suddenly blown into
the air by hand grenade while quietly
conversing in their private Offices in one
of the busiest streets of New York, is of
itself sufficiently strange occurrence
but when to the fact itself are added the
n;ro,,r,etonoos xyh;ob s,,rroupd H. Ton,
ett Tragedy OF l~-4--EAaks the case be-
comes one of the most mysterious which
ever perplexed million of people. Just
previous to this strange catastrophe, pa
pers were being passed arranging for the
withdrawal from business of the junior
member of John Jewett & Sons, white
lead and oil manufacturers. While this
business was being amicably transacted
behind the board partition of the private
room, the outer office was filled with
clerks going through the routine work
Of tho morning. Suddenly deafening
explosion took place In the inner Office,
followed by four or five rapid pistol
shots. Before the paralyzed employees
could move hand or foot the door opened
and one of the principals staggered forth,
mangled and speechless. Then they
rushed in to find one of the remaining
partners dead and the other dying The
f survivor either can or will give no ex-
PLANTATION of the tragedy. the clerks per.
eiet in the most nrnfn"-1 ;s-e-q~an ~
any cause which might have led to the
event, and to-day the whole affair re,
mains almost as mysterious as on the at
Z ternoon of its occurrence. Where the
deadly missile came from, whether it.
{ explosion was by design or accident, anC
g who fred the pistol shots that killed
$ Orville Jewett-are questions which
may sometime be satisfactorily answer
r ed, but for the present they remain
Q among the ghastliest conundrums eve
n propounded in this eventful city.
r Ex-Governor Tilden is extremely fon,
y of horses, carriage and horseback ridinI
l. being his chief if not his only recreation
e Nor does he care for the ordinary equln
IS of steady and equable habits. but rathe
it prefers something in the way of fiery
y untamed steed. This preference ma
l. some day cost the illustrious gentlema
d his life. Shortly after his nominatio
l. for the Presidency last year he met wit
lie an accident while driving near Alban
which barely escaped being serious
Or not fatal. and two or three days ago h
Id had another warning in this city. HI
I'd team became unmanageable while con
ne ing down from Central Park, and rul
ne ming against heavy coach threw tt
1g venerable occupant of the carriage oil
x upon the pavement, where he was sever,
ly but not dangerously bruised.
sc A dwarf employed in one of the raj
gu road Offices in the Grand Central dep
d. came to his death in peculiar mann,
NC this week. On last new years evenir
" he was bitten by cat. and although e
IL periencing no immediate i'll effects fro
nc the slight wound, expressed the bell
that he should die of hydrophobia.
i'' week ago he began to get nervous ov
" the matter. took to his bed and in ft
u days died, the victim of disease
nu which he had not the least sympto
eli This little man, whose name was Ric
ey ardson, used to be quite favorite
lOi Jim Fisk, who made him doorkeeper
Pe' his private Office and used always to C;
H. him ''the deacon" on account of the e
III treme and ludicrous gravity of his d
g" meanor.
nd Following regularity which nothi
ny human can interrupt. P. I. Barnun
Greatest Show on Earth" comes to t
elr front once more. His earavansary ev
re- more than the crocus or the returni
IAN wild fowl is the ''sure harbinger
ere Spring" When Barnum spreads
Ire canvas no amount of doleful predictio
US from the weather prophets can keep ba
les the season. Green peas and gard
god truck" know the footballs of his pral
owl ing steeds even as a boarding sch
an knows the rising bell, and all gre
hat things push upward accordingly.
nts Such being the case look out for yC
the agriculture, for the old Snowman {
nee nounces himself on the warpath ag;
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