Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-30

morning the myrmidons of justice took
possession. The lawyers may now di-
gest the worth of that tug.
don't often cuss or discuss weather;
leave that to the farmers but the out
come in these parts Of some of what we
have enjoyed, or otherwise has been re-
markable in some cases. Tt was rather
warm when | penned my last weekly
contribution, and as the ink flowed from
ny pen, perspiration flowed from the
skeleton brigade of four veteran militia
regiments who man@uvred at Prospect
Park in heavy marching order. The of
fcers took it lazy, swilling champagne
in cottage, while the men, with KNAPP
sacks and rolled overcoats. were kept
out in the full blaze of torrid sun, and
when lunch was over and the exhilarat-
ed officers turned to drill them, they
were played out, seventy fell sunstruck,
as if shot, within few minutes, and the
scene resembled battlefield in some re-
spects. Several are not yet out of
danger.
Barnum's circus has departed after
triumphant success, and with only three
funerals, SO far, this season. The last
was young woman who used to be shot
out of cannon, ostensibly, but who was
really bounced by system of springs
simultaneously with the noisy ignition
and pungent smoke of some gunpowder.
They bounced her crooked, one day. She
fell parlyzed, but would not interrupt
the performance, and was carried off smi-
ling. Her sister took her part on sub
sequent occasions, and, till the news of
her burial was published, none of the
spectators of her terrible accident knew
she had been hurt.
Two or three hundred fresh--very fresh
Lawyers have just been graduated from
sundry metropolitan colleges. What
can we do with them? There are too
many lawyers now. We find some of
them glad to earn $40 week, as report
ers, stenographic clerks to merchants,
etc., and course of such life is apt to
leave them with noses red, while their
books are not read in fact, most of the
latter have gone to the book-stall to fur
nish pabulum for the former. 1 fancy
we are getting too much educated, or not
enough. If we were all educated, we
might settle down as of old to dig or
shove plane, and not be ashamed. As
it is, there seems to be a growing tend
ency to despise the agriculturist or hand
icraftsman as following something low,
base and mechanical, and our boys all
want to be lawyers, priests or doctors, or
at the very worst, college professors. 1t
costs much in time and money to make
even poor specimen of either, and the
outlook for all but small minority, is
not bright in a pecuniary sense.
There is good deal of hogishness in
sexual matters among some of our insult
} ficiently acclimated foreign population.
; For instance, German cigar dealer
: wife left him few months ago, went
out to service as domestic, accumulated
: some money, picked up another man,
: marched him over to Jersey, married him
7 (having first informed her relatives Of
her intention). and then was calmly
, pounded to death with rocks by the OBJ.
| ject of her latest affections, who proceed.
ed to decamp to France with his bigam'
Gus wife's money and valuables. 1t wa;
! horrid murder, but the events which
! led up to it were surelysbad enough t.
) have led to some energetic remonstranct
e on the part of the persons cognizant o.
: them. They seemed to have taken thu
: woman's proceedings quite as a matter
: of course, impolitic possibly, but neither
f immoral nor Objectionable in any poin
t of view known to them.
e The monumental cheek of tram,
: has at last served the more or less use
full purpose of saving his life. A trail
Q near Mount Vernon struck a man anc
the Mortified engineer expected to fnt
i nothing but mangled remains of the OBJ
: ject he had seen flying through the ali
but was amazed to find nothing but
dazed looking man who seemed puzzle,
s at being addressed. He was astonishe,
at hearing any one had been hit, an,
r then seemed to remember that he ha
o dreamed he had fallen from freight ca
while stealing ride. His head an,
!. shoulder were cut so that he was IN
y questionably the sufferer besides ther
was no one else within forty rods, an
he had most narrow escape. RADIx.
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