Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
surprised at the appearance of some ele.


gantly dressed ladies who proceeded to
confscate specimens of pictures on all
the cigar boxes, canisters of tobacco.
&c. The proprietor informed me that
the same parties had not only been there
before but that on the day l met them
there had been eleven other ladies bent
on like expedition.
The vulgar opinion of the average
common Englishman. who does not fnd
things 60 on here precisely as they do
in the tight little island across the wa
ter, Is that this is 'blarsted country,
you know" Unfortunately, New York
is blasted city, or large portion Of
it at all events. Chiefly founded on a
rock, the work of excavators is much
aided by the use of powder, and they
are apt to get careless with it. You
may think [ am joking, but it is solid
fact that anywhere within half a mile
of these mining operations rocks are
sent flying around at intervals in a very
alarming fashion. 1t is true, red flags
are displayed. when fuse is about to
be fired, and passers-by are yelled at
to get out of the way, but the powder is
so strong that semi-volcanic upheavals
of granite of portentous dimensions en-
sue in very many cases. A short time
ago worthy citizen had the wall of his
house battered in while he was shaving,
and, clad in very light costume, be-
ing displayed to the multitude outside
with a suddenness that must have been
very embarrassing to bashful man. A
few days ago child had her nose
smashed while at breakfast by missile
from a mine fired half a mile off. The
contractor was arrested, as he had been
three times before, and fined, an expert
ence which he had also undergone pre-
viously. He seemed to feel quite i'll
used and solemnly declared that he new
er, never used more than one pound of
powder for blast. On this particular
occasion his one pound of powder had
displaced eight heavy oaken logs aud
thirty tons of rock. 1t is understood
that the Russian nihilists are looking
for that contractor to get his recipe for
powder in anticipation of their next ef-
fort to blow up the Gar.
Poor DR.. Morgan Dix, rector of old
Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church. a
rigid churchman of rather "high" views
, and immense dignity, has been made
} the victim of the wicked wiles of some
, irreverend wag. The disguised clergy
, man has been overwhelmed for many
days, with visitors and letters from al
, sorts of missions; embroiled with hi
r fellow clergymen, who have received in
sulting letters purporting to come iron
, him. and with other parties from whom
he was supposed to order goods, and s.
D on. The freak must have considerabl,
5 taxed the perpetrators time and inge
? nuity and cost no little money besides
= and no one seems able to form even
0 conjecture as to who the culprit can pos
sibly be.
The steamship and railroad companie
are. so to speak. rubbing their hands a
the thoughts of the vast influx of imm
grants expected from the famine strich
' en- regions of Europe. A large porto
n of the funds sent to Ireland will be use
t to further the exodus of the poor peopl
v there to our new and happy land, an
1 their fate will be shared by others fror
1 far different places. Already, the En-
: igration Commissioners at Castle Gal
/ den have been called on to look afte
), destitute Hungarians and Poles, wh
!, are beginning to arrive in every steam
y er, and tell shocking stories of privatio
n endured at home. Meantime money col
# tinues to pour into the various reli,
l. committees for Ireland, large accession
r being gained on st. Patrick's Day, an
# the United States steamship "Constell
s ton" freighted with generous rapidlt
E, with breadstufs and other provende
l. will speedily sail on its mission of me
If cy.
8 AS | recently predicted, as cons
IS quence of the partial strikes among II
L. pianomakers, the manufacturers ha'
lie struck counterblow, and joined in
a. lockout" The results will, no doub
1t be precisely as always before in SUI
is cases. All will suffer in pocket. al
lie the weakest 60 to the wall. Taxpaye
D. will have to pay more for suppressiI
,r or punlshing more crime, and more f
e corporate charity, while every groce
50 butcher, dry goods dealer, or purvey
y of anything else. with whom these pc
lie pie have been in the habit of dealin
re will lose just so much custom, and
le the circles will widen from the centr
le splash till we shall all, in one way
Of another, feel the evil Strikes are
t. unmitigated nuisance. So at lea
N thought number of industrious facto
ne hands in Paterson mill the other da
W when the water, which had undermine
IS it, suddenly struck the building al
Id calmly wiped it out. RADIx.