Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-01-29


swooped down on the case, and the
heroine of the combat bids fair to be
a very celebrated woman.
Jacks in office manage to make
themselves a good deal of a nuisance
whenever they get chance. Some
of them are likely to rue their recent
proceedings. There is poor old
half OF quarter-witted Irishman who
squatted with an oyster knife and
basket of bivalves under one of the
stairways of the L railroad. He be-
came general favorite, his business
grew, and police justice made him
a present of a shanty, while neigh
bors subscribed to fit it up with a
stove and other comforts. This was
enough for the blackmailers. On
the plea that his stand was a public
obstruction, the petty officials de-
manded fines, and in default pounced
on the edifce and bore it off in frag-
ments in official wagons. They have
raised a hornets nest, and it is
probable some of the licensed plum
derors will be out of a job. Another
brilliant genius with nose for noto-
riety has taken advantage of the
Milwaukee fire to busy himself with
inspecting our hotels. He has some
cranky notions about building, and
last session at Albany got beautifully
defeated in a pet new law-chiefy
by the exertions of that very well
informed paper, the Real Estate
| Chronicle-but has bobbed up serene
| ly again, and now wants to drive
architects crazy by sticking fire.
escapes of iron-which in a fire get
red-hot and can't be used-all over
the finest buildings in the city. New
| OIh VIII lOOh ttS IL III udu llle SlUdll-
pox if this paticular jack is allowed to
have his own way
| Easter, or rather Lent, comes so
early this year that the gay and fes-
tive fantastic toe is getting plenty
of exercise. Balls and gaieties of
all sorts abound and night is turned
into day. SO continuously in pursuit
of pleasure by SO many of our fash
ionables who have to work for q
living in the day time that it is lucky
the time is short or they'd be rapidly
burnt out like the candle lit at both
ends.
Perhaps it is the manifold attrac-
tions of pleasure which brings sc
many visitors here-for the city is
thronged in way very unusual 81
early in the year by sojourners from
all over the country-but it is prob
ably more because there is, notwith
standing strikes and rumors of strike:
and general ''poor mouth all over
settled conviction that business il
to boom most boomingly this spring
1t is time-we were promised boon
last fall. 1t didn't come. Now
everybody seems to be sold out ant
to be coming here to fill up thei
stores again. This will bring boon
anyhow, and in point of fact in Ger
tain lines of business it has begun
The midnight gas and the electri
spark are being largely consume
; and the papers are beginning to b
: filled with ''Want Help" advertise
ments in a proportion that has bee
unusual for many years. Usually
for instance, book-keepers seem t
be drug in the market. Now, the
5 are in request, and so it is all over
The Wall street menagerie may be
q low and roar, but the boom, it boon
!. eth in spite of their jaw.
e Sundry car companies have bee
S mulcted severely of late in damage
: for running over people, starting cal
/ in motion and upsetting them and S
s on. They are not popular, somehow
and nobody SCENE to sympathii
) with them when they get sued. A
: ingenious way to defeat the law abo1
II sailing the tracks has been adopte
" of late and puts the Board of Heal
= and Bergh's Great American Socie
N for the prosecution of performers
re alleged cruelty to animals to the
lt trumpS to circumvent the ingenlOl
inventions, so called gravel is us'
I'd now instead of pure salt to gi
~ horses fair footing in slippe
weather. The gravel, however,
I'd mixed with salt, and there is quite
on large sale of the nefarious compoul
ne which is regularly sold in kegs Ii
any legitimate merchandise.
The nautical world has suffered
loss in the death of. Captain Fis
the famous modeller of the Sappt
Meteor, Enchantress and score
other yachts which have won rae
by dozens and where challenges
" foreign waters have been pretty u
formly evaded. 1t is to the effo
" of such men that naval architect
~ owes the great improvement of rect
years. The time of a passage
Europe has been shortened fu
twenty-five per cent. in the last
y years. By the way, our old friel
~. the National Line, is going to ms
- another-and it promises to be
n'' successful trial for first place on
'on roll of honor, with a new steamsl
~ to be called the America, and VIII
" will be the largest Except the CIR