Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-08-08
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence ofthe Monitor.1

cnilleS packed IN barrels OF cement
shipped from New York to Liverpool
has created a great deal of excitement.
Note-paper, marked with the name and
business address of O'Donovan Rosa,
the well-known Irish agitator of this
city, made many suspect that he had
a good deal to do with the shipment.
What they were for, and when intended
to be used, is only a matter of surmise.
1t is my belief that they were to be ex-
ploded at some time in the House of
Commons when the Irish members
might find it convenient to absent them
selves. Threats of such outrages have
appeared in Fenian papers for months
past, and subscriptions have been col
lected for the purpose. Active steps
are being taken to discover the guilty
ones.
The Presidents relapse the other day
increases his chances of ultimate recov-
cry, for it will keep one of the two con-
sulting physicians at the White House
constantly, Why it was not necessary
all the time since the shooting occurred
[ am unable to see. The attending
physicians may be skillful but Drs.
Agnew and Hamilton discovered what
caused the relapse, and now that they
are to be present it will insure public
confidence that the old physician Ma
ture is at least to have fair show.
Following up the example of Guiteau
I hear of an attempt made to shoot
Governor Cornell by crazy blacksmith.
He appeared at the capitol at Albany
with an old shot gun in his hand and
was about to enter the building when
he was stopped by the superintendent,
to whom he said he was the Adjutant-
General of the State and was commits
stoned by the highest power on earth
to shoot the Governor. A struggle en-
sned for possession of the gun, which
would not have been of much use to the
would-be assassin, for it was found to
be unloaded and generally out of order.
And this is not all, for this morning
news comes of an attempt at the life OF
Governor Pillsbury, of Minnesota, by a
wealthy contractor made insane from
Guiteau's act. When is this sort Of
business to cease ?
The railroads are still cutting rates
and now adopt the rebate system, under
which you buy ticket giving the reg.
ular, full fare and at the point of DIES.
tination the company repay the differ
ence between the full and the reduced
rate of fare. This is done to prevent
people from buying ticket to Chicago,
for instance when they are going only
to Buffalo to which latter place the reg.
ular fare is more than the reduced rate
to the former place. A gentleman
bought one of these reduced rate tick.
cts the other day, before the rebate sys
tenn was adopted, for Cincinnati and was
going only to Rochester, N. Y. He
sent his baggage to the depot and had
it checked as he supposed for Rochester
and arriving there, he discovered that
it had gone to Cincinnati. The cheal
ticket in this case was not so cheap af
ter all, since he had to pay the express
age on the baggage for Its return.
At well-known depot for books an(
papers, | noticed the other morning +;
stupendous pile of Scribner's midsum
mer number. In the evening. the pill,
had disappeared, The next day it wa
the same and the next. And no VOL
der. The magazine has surpassed itself
Nothing more beautiful was ever print
ed. The reading matter. as usual, un
der the fastidious eye of DR.. Holland, i
brilliant, crisp. refined, while the illus
trations are simply exquisite. The top
les treated are all interesting and tn
artists with pen and pencil have Ger
tainly put forth their best efforts. 1
is liberal education to study Serb
ner's. No home should be without tn
fresh numbers and no library is com
plete without the bound volumes.
The Society for the Prevention of Cru
city to Children have an important pros
cution on hand, and one that deserve
more than ordinary notice. A bruta
waiter at Delmonlco's, named EissneI
has an eleven year old son, whom tn
father thinks he can bring up bette
with the use of a club than by any 9th
er and more human methods The boy
screams the other day when his fathe
was hogging him attracted the attentlo
of the neighbors, one or two of whor
rushed to the rescue of the boy an
begged the father to stop his bruta
work, but it was no use, and bein
women they were powerless to compe
him. Finally the police were called in
the boy released from the ropes b
which he had been tied, so that tn
punishment might be the more severe
and the brutal father borne off to a pc
lice court where, in default of bail, h
{ was locked up. He will be indicted b
the Grand Jury and tried, when [ trus