Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-04

water man l do not mean the vendor of |
that one refreshment exclusively. Some /
of them sell ginger beer; others dis
pense the various mineral waters, and a
large majority of him deal out Centen-
NAL mead. l take him to represent the
purveyOrs of any iced beverage that
stiDgs when it goes down, and immed-
lately comes tingling back into the
nose, making that organ feel aud look
like pin cushion, causing the eyes to
weep and the whole being to wish for
the moment that it had never been
born.
Emboldened by so illustrious an ex-
ample other regular summer institutions
are making their appearance. The
magnificent excursion steamers in which
New York is rich have thrown off tar
paulin coverings and musty loneliness,
and commenced to blow hot breaths
from their big black nostrils, as they
rush to and from half score of subur-
ban resorts. The parks fill and the
Battery is crowded. The yacht clubs
and racing associations show signs of
active life. Gilmore's Garden, after
passing through six months of vicissi-
tude as rink, race course, circus, dog
show and ball room, has thrown off all
communicating associations, disinfected
itself from dogs and carnival, and lifted
itself back into its normal position as
the promenade concert garden of the
country. The managers have put in
100000 worth of turf. gravel, foun-
tain and flowers, and Gilmore himself,
having drilled his band within an inch
of its life mounted the stand for the
first time this year on the evening of
the Oath.
The stringent law against gambling,
passed at Albany just before the open
ing of the sporting season, throws the
New York pool sellers and their num-
erous patrons into a sort of indignant
despair. Elections, ball matches, races,
etc.. without betting, seem to them like
the play of Hamlet with the melancholy
prince omitted. After considerable
cogitation the difficulty was partly got
over by the removal of the popular pool
rooms to the more hospitable shores Of
New Jersey, where sports of high an6
low degree can wager their spare cash
on the success of their favorites. The
principal ones are now located in hulk'
and barges fitted up for use in this
emergency, and moored around aban
doned wharfs in Hoboken. Such is tn
strength of the ruling passion.
The steamer Wisconsin of the sam
line as the Inflated Dakota, which wa
wrecked on the Welsh coast short tim
ago, has just come in, bringing the lat
, ter's three hundred passengers, who los
their baggage and almost their lives i
that accident. Among them were fy
} trained bears who were being brough
over for show purposes, and who lite
5 ally danced for joy at being rescued
e Another passenger was O'Leary tt
q champion pedestrian, who has bee
:, walking for some months in Eng1au
: and Ireland, and now comes back heav
y ly charged with glory and trophie
s He claims to have been lionized by Il
n nobility to his hearts content, and
e proof thereof displays diamond rim
e silver tea service, and other marks
e the traditional British respect for phi
l. steal power.
e After that terrible bridge disast
1t in Ohio last winter the unreasoning ar
n sweeping suspicion which usually fc
= flows such catastrophe tainted eve
similar structure in the country. even
the great Suspension Bridge over Ma
ara. To allay any fears on that SEQ
and to fully assure the safety of t
passengers over this favorite trunk lin
the managers of the Great Weste
h Railroad have caused rigid examin
St ton and special test of the bridge to
ID made independent of the regular inspe
rs ton to which it is constantly subjet
ve This special test was much more seve
IN than the original one in 1858. the stra
ne this time amounting to 100000 pount
at and showed that after almost a quar-
ir of d century's constant use the bridge
tn in exactly the same condition as VIII
to first opened. There is not soldier
as safer bit of roadbed In the country th
en- this magnificent point of view fir
RI which the Falls are seen by travel
at on the Great Western and Michig
he Central route. RADIx.
M The Chicago Tribune has recei,
h reports of the present condition of