Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-08-14


stoned by the board of health for
oratuitous attendance of the very
poor. and to perform house to house
visitations among the ignorant, arm
ed with tracts giving brief but valu-
able rules for the management of
of the health of children and adults,
and it is splendid service splendid
ly performed.
The stock exchange governing
committee have been seized with a
fit of economy, and resolved on re-
ducing the expenses of that institu-
ton to the extent of the price of half
dozen lunches a week, or say, $50.
They have discharged all their mes
senger boys. replacing them by a
force supplied on contract by the
district telephone company, which,
to put it mildly, is not popular con-
Germ. They cut the little fellows
heads off with precious little notice,
too. One poor child, who had sup
ported his mother and himself out of
a pittance of 81 a week, was called
away to her death-bed, and on his
return to make arrangements for her
| funeral, was met with his walking
papers. The case excited sympathy,
and he not only had a handsome sum
raised on the spot given him, but the
indignant members called a special
meeting to see if they couldn't go
back to the old plan, which worked
well. The old boys knew the men,
bers, and had become as smart as
steel traps. The new boys were all
at sea. The other day a member
sent for q sandwich to Delmonico's,
who has several restraints, one of
them close by. The messenger re-
turned in an hour and half with the
sandwich, and bill for car-fare.
He had been up to Twenty-third
street. He had previously worked
up town and only knew one DELE
monico's.
The police are good deal harass-
ed by extra duty watching the strik-
ers in case the latter should at last
break out. The weather, too, has
been trying to their short tempers,
and they have been indulging in plen-
ty of clubbing of late. One of them
was badly sold the other day. Away
in the bad districts of the far West
Side, he dubbed his way through an
immense crowd till he reached an ap-
parent corpse, neatly dressed in a
shroud, leaning up against an ice
wagon. He sent out an alarm for an
ambulance, and was fumbling for
some spare change to help pay for a
funeral, some wag having started a
subscription, when he saw the corpse
wink. Half scared and half angry,
he gave the creature prog just as a
very young kitten will do with live
ly mouse, and leaped six feet in the
air at the yell that followed, and then
dubbed few of the bystanders who
were Sticking with laughter. The
prisoner proved to be small boy of
eleven who was very, very drunk,
and had been fixed up by some other
urchins little more sober but other
wise worse than himself.
Bergh has been comparatively quiet
of late, but has boiled over at last.
He caught a policeman battering the
nose of balky horse the other day,
and, to use his own language, collar
ed him and threw him around. He
is tall and wiry, but the policeman
could have eaten him for breakfast
and felt hungry by uoon. Still, the
foIce all know the great lover of par
ticular beasts, and the victim sub
mitted like lamb to the throwing
around, and returned to his usual pur-
suits with unruffied composure, as
Bergh walked away reeking with red
hot face and temper in search of
home and dry undergarments. 1t
: was quite funny incident, and the
: two athletes were cheered by the de-
lighted spectators. The horse was
scared by the row, and retired from
the scene without further remarks.
RADIX.