Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-03-13

the audacious round-the-stump-devil-
beaters defy the law and chuckle.
1t is pleasing to note the constant
Improvement caused by keen compe-
tition in our American magazines.
They all keep getting better and bet
ter with every issue, and among the
foremost is that old favorite publica-
ton of the city of Brotherly Love,
Lippincott's. 1t has a character of
its own of the highest standard. By
the way, that is the rank deservedly
claimed for the Worcester's Dietion-
airy, issued by the same publishers.
1t has maintained a rigid consistency
from its first edition. The other die
tionary which once varied SO radical
ly under the supposed idea that to
mutilate the English language accord
ing to the unlearned vagaries of
country schoolmaster, who didn't
know any other language and didn't
know his own, was to Americanize it,
which made it popular with "patri-
ots,'' has been obliged to return to
England in way that, as has often
been said, must make old Noah Web
ster uncommonly restless in his
grave, but it retains enough Web
sterese to render it an unreliable
guide. The Worcester has the full
est attainable vocabulary and a mass
of cyclopadic information of the
greatest value, with an enormous
number of excellent illustrations
which are correct as we'll as well ex-
ecuted.
Alderman Harry Jones, the red
headed youth who shirked going with
his regiment on the campaign against
the railroad rioters few years ago,
has been arrested again, and held to
bail in the sum of 100000 in the
case of the money stolen from the
Brooklyn Board Of Education, with
some of which the ex-secretary Stew
art his brother-in-law skipped. To
the amazement of the prosecuting
lawyers, who seem to think the NOUS
ing of accountant something wonder
full, though bookkeeping is the sim
plest of work to careful men, the ex-
perts have traced the course of every
dollar stolen. The thieves were as
cunning as foxes, and by depositing
and withdrawing, now in one name,
now in another, in different sums, in
half dozen banks, thought they had
covered up their tracks effectually,
and then bought blocks of valuable
dividendpaying stocks, which they
still hold. They didn't speculate at all
and lived like princes, as they easily
might, on the interest of the proper
ty bought with the proceeds of theil
thefts. Of course it required pa.
tience to unravel these transactions
and supply each link Of evidence
from old vouchers punched up in the
vaults of various banks, but they
have been got at, and the plainest
proof of his villainy has been drag
ged forth to the discomforture of the
dashing young Alderman, the gay
splashing, MASKING young Alderman
the much used up, in a dungeon
teeth-gnashing young Alderman.
To catch real estate lawyer nap
ming is something like catching ;
weasel asleep. This, however, was
the task arranged by some ingenious
gentlemen of fair positions who go
tired of getting rich slowly, and pro
ceeded to offer for sale to the lawye
in question a free and unincumbereC
9 piece of property which didn't belong
to them. They brought reputable
witnesses to their Responsibility
which so far as known was neve
questioned before, and explained tn
hurry they were in by the necessit
of raising funds to meet a contrac
for which the time had expired ant
been extended two days. Their ia
miliarity with the property was evi
dent. They gave the whole histor
of previous mortgage to partner 0
Steinway, the pianomaker, and pro
duced the satisfaction piece-forged
of course, as was the deed they Offer
ed. The lawyer, however, is one O
those who don't do business withou
knowing somthing about the partie
:, he deals with, and though the affai
IOOh6O dDOul dS SlIdlSHllOIN dlu q
the purchase of a pound of suga
across a grocer's counter, proceede
to make inquiries. He asked Stein
way if he knew the seller. ''Cel
tainly,' said Stienway, she's vic
y over and ''Aha p said til
lawyer. The deed purported to hay
been executed a few days ago b
Otto Ernst and his wife. His viii
: had been dead ten years. The
came little telegraphing and an an
bush of detectives. When the file
arrived to collect their cash, an
hand over the deed, the spiders gait
cred them in. 1t was a bold an
plausible swindle.
Dean Stanly's friend, Cyrus v
Field, has been greatly annoyed
the act of a patriotic American