Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-04-03

with the operations of illicit distiller-
les. He was one of the brayest,
kindest, most honest men / ever
knew and in his special line of duty
without question the best officer the
government ever had. A letter is be-
fore me from the Collector of Inter-
nal Revenue in the district in which
he served. He writes II feel as if
my good right arm had been struck
from my body. No man can fill his
place.
So you see, though things are vast
ly better than they were, law and or
der are not fully established and
there are still pistols in the commu-
nifty, else such g man would not now
be lying beneath the tender blades of
grass which are springing up, and
his murderers trampling beneath their
accursed feet the same green growing
things. Oh, that this sweet young
grass had voice with which to cry
aloud when pressed by the foot of
murderer My whole nature revolts
at the shedding of such blood as was
in the veins of Captain James M.
Davis, the famous moonshine raider.
Braver man, more noble-hearted man
never gave his life in his country's
service. May God give to him the
crown of the conquerer and forget not
to avenge his murderer
FROM COOKvILLE TO GAINsBORoUGH.
Leaving Cookville early in the
morning, we started for the county
seat of Jackson county-Gainsbor-
ough. Jackson county, away back in
the times of which history tells us
nothing of America, and tradition on
| ly scanty tales, was the home of the
Pigmy race-the Tom Thumb and
Commodore Mutt sort of men; little
fellows, three feet high and less.
Many of their graves have been dis
covered and opened, and the story of
their exceeding small size verified by
measurements.
Of course this race is extinct
though, come to think of it, believe
it is not, for / am sure I've seen a
good many whose intellects have
never got beyond the regulation Pig
my size, though their physical devel-
opment has been abnormal.
wanted to go grave hunting andit
successful in the hunt, grave digging
but the mercury was coquettine
around just above one hundred de-
grees Fahrenheit, we decided to post.
pone our cemeterial operations unit
cooler weather.
After leaving Cookville our route
lay through wooded country, will
houses only at long intervals. In 60
ing a distance of twenty miles W.
saw neither church, schoOl-house no
) store-now and then a log house
around which were few acres in cul
tivation, but no good farms. Wha
; the land would be if cleared / canno
say. Like other portions of tn
state, all the choice timber is rapid,
disappearing, and soon even tn
sound of the woodlands Ak will be
) thing of the past.
I For sixteen miles we had a yer
f guou road, but the remaining fou
were sufficiently bad to equaliz
things. First we came to precipi
tous hill. / observed that the tw
gentleman, who, on horseback, &C
companied us, had dismounted and
supposed it was to rest, but 500
found they proposed to walk close t
our horses, ready to secure them i
: case of an accident. The hill was a
I least mile in length, the road yer
straight and very steep; / questio
: if good wheelbarrow load of din
I could have been gathered in the en-
tire distance; there was nothing bu
i rocks, some of them being what, i
. Vermont, are known as stones, 9th
. ers veritable rocks, which the horse
= had to pull with all their strength t
. get the wheels over. There wer
'' gullies, and there were piles of rock
Ii there was as much wear and tear @
. horses, harness, carriage and human
u ity in getting down that hill as in
IL month of travel on an ordinary road
; And the bottom of the hill failed t
u bring us good road again; for tire
e miles we wound about, most of th
II time over what would have been th
{, bed of a stream had there been an
Is water, but, as the natives expresse
e it, ''everything was done dried up.
n The valley we had descended to wa
Il not wide enough for river and
+ road, and as the water had the rigl
q of way, the road had to make til
e best shift it could. On both sides {
q US the hills rose almost perpendicula
+ the houses were damned into the sid
IS of the hill, making them about thre
tt stories in front and foot high b,
hind up above the houses on tt
II steep hill sides, the ground was Gu
o tivated, the corn actually hanging G
er by its ears while waiting to groy
he How the land was ever ploughed wi
+ remain a mystery to me through N
g natural life.
At We were pretty thoroughly shake
or down when we arrived at the 'scity
$ of Gainsboro'. Court plaster hat
Ill for the time, more interest for n
y than Pigmy graveyards, and my CHI
anxiety was to know whether it W: