Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-26

The governments case has been
so firmly that legal ingenuity
and ability cannot undo it, while the
are sick with a sickness
that can neither be concealed nor
mistaken.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
neutrality-suspicious. ofthe Monitor.l
Neav York, February 10.
Perhaps our Street Commissioner
has an interest in numerous clothing
1t is difficult to I'M
derstand why on any other hypothe-
sis, such an excellent chance for
cleaning the streets as was presented
by the thaw and downpour was neg
lected. The snow was soft and very
little labor would have assisted Ma
ture to excavate the long forgotten
payements. There is the less excuse
as the Commissioner has shown that
he can clean the streets when he
wants to, and what he has done not
once but often he ought to be made
to do again. There was some excuse
for some of the rascals who preceded
him, as, considering they never clean
ed the streets, a charitable view
might be taken and they might be
supposed not to know how.
A Hebrew hero has been developed
in mild merchant who employs a
number of girls in the manufacture
of gimp and other millinery fixings.
His place caught fire, when, like a
general or the captain of a sinking
ship, he guided his bewildered help
to the means for escape and judi
ciously hurried them without excite
ment or furry from the danger. He
had just passed the last one safely
out when the supports of the fire
escape gave way and he was cut off.
Through the volumes of smoke and
flame he managed to get to window
and then was scorched till he had to
Chamber out and hang on to the sill.
Every moment was an hour and an
extension ladder became enmeshed
in the network of telegraph wires
which disfgule the city and the Sec
onds were prolonged to minutes.
Every ear was listening for the sick
ening crash on the sidewalk of the
exhausted man now hanging for dear
life by his hands five stories above
them. Finally a fireman got the lad
der clear after some desperate aero
batic work and got the man down
They both received an ovation anc
if that comparatively poor manufact
urer doesn't become rich pretty soor
it will be remarkable.
Fitz Hugh Lee and his chivalry
have gone. The old raider got of
one very capital thing in the course
of one of his numerous brief, jolly
soldierly and sociable speeches. HI
remarked that this was great coun
try, bounded on the north by ice ant
on the south by bananas, and an.
one who tried to slip in against GU
will would be apt to slip up. fame,
these sentiments will be very gener
ally endorsed.
: A jackass of coroner has bee
: trying to make himself conspicuou
l and has succeeded in covering him
; self with even more than the usua
contempt .appertaining to the ex
, Founders of Growers Quest Law b
1 summoning all the prominent res
dents of the city in case of hon
g icide. Gould, Grant, VANDERBILT
t and score of eminent bankers
:! merchants, spectators and politician
S were invited to determine the caus
q of death of one Michael McGrallaha
4 or some such name, whose head an
: a beer pitcher had become too int
. mately acquainted for the benefit {
e the former. Strange to say the bi
T men were all afflicted with sudde
g sickness except ex-Mayor Wickhan
a who is not such very big man an
d came meekly as lamb to the sacr
flee.
a The Treasurer of the Dock d,
n partment has had the pleasure,
e second time within seven or eigl
G years, of paying the amount of tt
/. defalcations of thieving clerl
e The first time it was $15, 900, th
l. time the amount was under $1,000
k and the Commissioner was reimburse
i the next day by the brother of Il
n culprit. 1t is a mystery to some pc
a pie as to what fun there is in being
e treasurer under such circumstance
" Where does his Doodle come from
lie make up for such annoyances?
;, Ex-Congressman Thomas Kinse
'e la, editor and part proprietor of Il
% Brooklyn Eagle, the great promot
e. of the Hancock boom, has bong
+. the Brooklyn Union and is going