Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-23

bable, if not impossible. But New Jersey
has duplicated the case. and this time
there IS no fiction about it. An elope-
ment IN (about two and half feet)
high life has been nipped in the bud by
the cruel and very heartless inform
ing neighbors Of George FEEDER aged four
and half years and Ida Coyle aged
half a year younger than the wonderful
groom, both residents Of Paterson.
neglected to say that Georges middle
name is Washington, SO when he poured
the story of his passion into the ear Of
Coy Qe) Ida, he couldn't have been a
base deceiver, from the cherry-tree point
OF view and thus in the matter of pre-
cocious truth-telling he got ahead of the
original G. W. by two years. Certain
it is that Ida believed him, and hand in
hand they wandered to the nearest rail-
road station, and affectionately occupied
one seat while waiting for the cars.
Whether the bride stood upon the
groom's shoulders and reached up money
to the ticket agent with long handled
broom does not appear. But Georges
heart sank to the tips of his copper-toed
boots when two shadows fell across the
threshold and Cupid's victims were not
to put too fine point upon it, led home
by the ear, to say nothing of a early
meal and painful retiring for the night.
Some say it was slipper, but that
-vanld scarcely reached the seat of the
difficulty. As for Ida, we'll l can best
retire from the subject under cover of
the usual "Tableau and curtain
The frequency of defalcations has
naturally made bank officers nervous,
and so when the receiving teller of our
great city institutions turned up missing
the other morning, there was a grand
hue and cry over the presumed embez-
element. 1t was, therefore, agratifying
disappointment to the directors to find,
on an examination, that the mans ac-
counts were all right. The disappear
anca remained a mystery for several
days, but was eventually cleared up by
the detectives finding the missing teller,
with his little son whom he had taken
with him on leaving home, both in an
exhausted and bedraggled condition.
The man was evidently slightly insane.
The liquor question, as I presume all
your readers are aware, has for years
tormented New York. The excise laws
are loose and obscure. They are not
stringent enough to suit the prohibition
lists and claimed by the liquor sellers tc
be unjust to them. Hence has arisen
many a conflict. The teetotallers are
constantly striving to have the laws en-
forced in their strictest construction
and the dealers are as constantly seek
ing loopholes through which they cal
escape their effect. At present are Their
pending about FIVE hundred indictment
against people who have sold liquor OIL
the sabbath, one of which was this weel
called up to test the question. The la,
reads that no person shall sell or Civ
away any wine or liquor on Sunday a
beverage. At the opening of the cas-
referred ~, thv counsel for Tho aoaln
staggered the prosecution by CALLING at
tention to the fact that the indictmen
of his client accused him only of sellin
liquor on Sunday, without alleging tia
it was for beverage. There was som
hum-ing and having from the Coul
and the other side, and at last the Gas
was adjourned to give them time to r.
feet upon this unexpected turn of thing
A final decision has not yet beenreache
but the saloon and hotel men regal
their victory as foregone conclusion
Hereafter, then, they will only have
ask their Sunday patrons whether the
desire their pisen Gas beverage"
'as medicine" and if the latter, me-
sell it to them and snap their fingers
DIR. Crosby and Oliver Cotter.
RADIx.