Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-13

A formidable section of the great
Smith family, to the number of several
thousands have had reunion at a
place in New Jersey rejoicing in the
extraordinary title of Peapack. The
Smiths were packed like sardines and
we're as like each other as peas, so it
was all very appropriate and pleasant.
Gold is fast becoming drug here.
don't mean to say everybody has as
much as he wants of it, but there's
good deal of gold and more coming. In
order to exchange for foreign gold coin
which is expected to arrive the ensuing
week to the tune of some $6,OOO,OOO a
corresponding amount in our own coin
age has been placed at the disposal of
the Sub Treasury officials. Merchants
pay off their help in gold and if one
gets cheque cashed at a bank and
leaves the cashier to choose what it shall
be paid in, large proportion of the
proceeds is sure to be in solid gold.
Very comfortable and promising all
round. There is some talk of a mint
being established in New York and the
removal of the Assay Office which, in
the heart of the moneyed centre of this
continent amid the most superb business
palaces of the planet gives forth sicken-
ing and choking odors in the most dis
gracefully health robbing way. 1t is in
truth a most shocking nuisance.
1t appears we have long been enter
tanning Angels unawares in the shape Of
a real live Prince and Heir apparent to
kingdom and his Princess, now alas !!
a widowed Queen. Their lives were
sable aud their occupations here quite
democratic. Prince Agamon, who ap-
pears really to have been what he rep
resented himself to be with no bogus
about it was a kalsominer and his wife
took in washing. Whitewashing is dull
in Winter and washing clothes became
poor reliance for the healthy young
couple in view of the close competition
of almondeyed invaders from the flow
cry land of China, so the Prince thought
he'd 60 to his fathers kingdom and try
what he could do with the elephants
and gorillas in Africa. His wife heard
he was dead and married waiter who
used her i'll and now wants divorce o.
5 a null-and-void decree because, as h
t alleges. the woman's royal husband was
D alive when he espoused her. 1t seems
this was the case, but the Prince VIII
r had become King Of some nation il
p. equatorial Africa actually did die, from
8 an incision in his skull of two or thret
: tomahawks just after he had written t.
0 say he was all alive and kicking, ant
r was coming for the Queen. Her Males
e ty still washes clothes for living.
when rogues fall out, &c.
t needn't 60 on. A new gas company il
Brooklyn has been gobbling up custom
S ers by hundreds, many having taken t
= oil fixtures because of the extortionat
! rates of the old companies, the bait be
# ing rate ofS1 80 thousand feet, wit
O a solemn pledge that it will not be rails
;. ed. One of the old Companies has be
e gun the old Vanderbilt plan of crush
e ing out. and has circulated offers t
;. supply gas for Sl.OO thousand mex
:. month, rs cents in November, so cent
r in December, and so on till they q
down to one cent thousand. 1t is SUI
posed the new men will be forced out {
competition by this heroic treatmen
and then-the Brooklynites may loo
out for heavy gasbills, or else 60 bac
W to oil as they did before. Meautin
e gas is cheap in the City of Churches.
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