Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-25

the suburbs, the assembled archers in |
Prospect Park were drenched to the |
skin, and in the city itself the telegraph |
and telephone had to cease working. In
fact the tender damsels at the telephone
central office were driven from their in
struments and paid no attention to hur-
ried business men who wanted to be put
in communication with their commercial
interlocutors. In my office, and | sup
pose pretty generally elsewhere. an in
termittent lambert fame danced on the
button of my instrument, threatening
shocks of severity to any one rash
enough to approach it. The diffusion of
the electricity over SO many wires no
doubt saved the city from some terrible
calamity, for the sturdiest buildings
were shaken to the foundations by some
of the thunder peals. A parn at Flat
bush had been insured for $4,000 two
hours before it was destroyed-just in
time.
The untameabllity of the Zulus, those
valient darkles who gave England so
much trouble uot long ago, and who fin
ished up the last hope of the Bonapart-
lists of France, has been exemplifed here
in rather ludicrous way. A party of
alleged Zulus is on exhibition at one of
the so-called museums on the Bowery
and appear to have picked up enough
United States while with the show to
have felt aggrieved when a spectator
remarked that they were "bogus Zulus,
nothing but Thompson street niggers,
whereupon the chief promptly dubbed
the rash man. Then came warrant, ar
rest, adjournment, several parades of
bowling furies in open carriages with
an imposing front of amused small boys
and finally fine of $40 for the warlike
clubber.
1t is queer how often churches become
transformed into theatres. The Brook
Ign theatre, where SO many people were
burnt to death few years ago, is on
the site of a church and graveyard, and
now the sanctuary of the reverend Mem
Der of Congress Hyatt Smyth has been
sold and theatre will be erected in
place of it, while another theatre is to
be built at Elm Place, Brooklyn, on the
ground once occupied by Congrega.
tioual church, ministered to by the &C.
centric DR.. Wild, whose theory that We
are the defendants of the lost tribes o.
Israel was the perennial an incessan
subject of his discourses that were BY
way of summons. He wore it to rag
at last and then the church departed il
flames.
1t is hard on the lawyers. but bushes
men who look closely into the cents a
we'll as the dollars in their transaction
find their own courts of arbitration jus
as effective as the law courts, and mucl
, cheaper. Two produce firms got into
wrangle the other day about the deliy
cry of some lard, there being differ
!, ence Of Que cent pound, one way 0
q the other, involving matter of som
$4,000, altogether, and the questio
being, | understand, very nice on,
1t cost them just $40 to have it settled
Quite reasonable.
The Orangemen had a quiet picnic o
the 18th, and turned out in large nun
bers to attend it, The affair was col
Quoted with so little ostentation tn;
nobody but Orangemen seemed to r
8 member anything about the day, an
b yet it is but a little while since the
IS was sure to be rumpus on this mast
T. little foreign anniversary, and once
g riot of respectable dimensions.
a A remarkable editorial iu last Satu
n days Herald. relative to the President
a wound, has set all the doctors at logge
<, heads about the question as to wheth
v there hasen't been considerable blunde
er ing from the beginning as to the locati,
~ Of the bullet. One notoriety-seekil
lie brute has been firing balls into suspen
D. ed "cadavers," as he scientifically ca
D. the remains of the poor and friendle
er deceased in the hospitals, with a viz
ly of supporting his theories. AS no t
d. men are made exactly alike and bullt
m are DETECTED all sorts of ways, accol
b. ing to the position of the muscles a
up bones they hit. it is needless to say
he experiments haven't established al
d, thing, and such needless idiocy ong
ed to be stopped. RADIx.
"a The table of contents for the Aug
'u' number of the International Reuieae is
In viting enough to tempt the attention 6
nd reward a thorough reading. George
it'll Julian opens the number with most