Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-12


gentleman, born and bred, and as
much like an American as an Eng
lishman.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
neutrality-suspicious. ofthe Monitor.1
Ney York, February 5.
Calamity has followed the Inman
line of steamers. With the City of
Brussels lost they hired the staunch
liner, the Egypt, the Commodore's
vessel of the National Line, to fill
the vacancy, that successful line be-
ing willing, for consideration, to
stop the gap, and then they succeeded
in setting fire to the Egypt and to
their pier. Over two million dollars
were swept away like a flash, but the
Egypt lost nothing but her running
rigging and sails, though a sheet of
flame from stern to stern, as she was
towed out into mid stream, lighting
the Hudson River for miles with the
majestic display. Here came in the
beauties of her construction and right
under our noses proved what we have
several times had occasion to refer
to the guarantee of safety enjoyed
by all who trust this National Line
for freight or passage. No fiimsy
bulkheads gave way and let her to
the. bottom like an old pot with a
hole in it. Not much. Her hull is
as good to-day as ever, and $4,000
| will cover the damage to her clothes,
as her sails may be termed.
Lightning in January played some
curious freaks the other day. 1t is
very unusual for an ordinary dwell
ing here, in block where many
houses of the same height are togeth-
er, to be struck. One was in Brooklyn
very near where your RADIx stores
the domestic crowd, and consumes
the midnight kerosene, inditing these
fluctuations, and played havoc with
that home, while indoors in stores
and dwellings people in circuit of
miles complained of being "struck. "
Some sort of sport was evident
enough in many of these cases by a
kind of electrical wave rather than
bolt. The sufferers were in some
eases lifted clean off their feet and
dashed violently to the earth as if in
4 an earthquake, while all complained
of sudden nausea and acute neuralgia
pains. The whole circumstance is
remarkable, and will give the scien-
lists something to talk about anc
Il ponder over for some time.
j The great society of ''sluggers'
), has been reinforced by the long ex
: pected arrival of Mace and the half
breed New Zealander, Slade. The,
J are attended by large staff of ad
, mirers wherever they go, and ar
! mobbed whenever they show them
, selves in their walks abroad. TIL
: announcement of sparring exhibi
3 ton drew forth shekels in multitudes
! but the only music they had to fac
= was the martyrdom of the polio
: court. The irrepressible Bergh ha
t managed to get them arrested, an
:. after much fuss and feathers the
n have been put under bonds to kee
n the peace which there was no ev
: dence to show they had the remotes
e idea of breaking, and this sort of mai
Is tyrdom has made heroes of them an
y been kind of an advertisement. Pc
= haps it is as well, though Mace trul
y says that the encouragement of tt
noble art of self-defence. discourage
e the general resort to knife or pisto
d but it also encourages lot of hoo(
il lums and ruffianism. AS when wall
s. ing matches abounded, half the pei
( pie one met were more or less bite
le by the craze, and INDUCED in abno
IS NAL tramps till they tired of
V, millionaires walking several miles
is their offices and clergymen takir
re constitutional breathers to brace the
es up for the labors of hunting ov
ne their old barrels for something Il
b. congregations hadn't heard for
ne year or two, SO pugilism bree
blackguardism, and fourishing fis
tb becomes a festive fashion.
ty One plug developed by SOL
IL former epidemic of the kind has ju
IS been settled for while. / refer
the bill-poster Kenney, who murde
nv ed car-driver, after stealing an 0
lis pipe and battered silver timepiec
re This noted thug had been arrest
IS. over fifty times for aggravated {
It's saults, and was suspected of sever
he murders. 1t has been proved tt
BIZ like the Italian braves we read abol
k. be would take FIVE dollars to thra
IL some one he had never even laid
It. eyes on before and then, after If
er. tifying" himself with firewater, ia
as the victim unawares and 'sknock h
al out. How he has been shielded