Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-08-21
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
The Abattoir's Question What shall we do with
Forty Million Dollar Nuisance-A jour-
nalistic Shooting Maich-Tho Winston
Homans Imbr0glio-A new Newspa.
per, "The scythe ofthe Grangers,'
From our Special Correspondent.)
New YoRK, Aug. Is, 1873.
THE ApArrorp orrprrroN

THE ABATToIR QUESTION.
The statistics of the meat supply of New
York will proba bly, astonish the peaceful cit
izen who has never given attAn'ien IN tho snh-
ject further than to order and pay for his dali
ly rations of beef and mutton. In the Com
muniPaw abattors, last year, 10000 hogs,
$4,000 sheep and 47,C00 bullocks were
slaughtered-the business amounting TO an
aggregate OF more than Forty Millions of dol
lars. The meat of the bullocks and the sheep
was sold chiefly 10 the Washington Market
dealers; the hogs went to the pork pac king
establishments in New York and Brooklya.
10 this enormous amount is to be added the
supply furnished from the smaller abattoirs in
the upper part of the city, and from the pri-
vate slaughtering-houses which are owned by
butchers in small way of business. A prop
osjtion is now before the Board of Health for
the concentration of all the Strengthening pro-
cess carried on in this city into one immense
establishment on the North River, between
Thirty-ninth and Forty-hrst streets; the chief
argument in its favor being the apprehension
that all the slaughterers will be driven out Of
the city to the Injury Of local interests and to
the advantage of New Jersey. If this class
of publ nuisance is welcome to Jerseymen,
let them enjoy the full benefit. New York
can get on without such aids &c its local en-
terprise.
THE GoosEQUILL BRIGADE.
Well, we are to have a journalistic rifle
match at Creedmore. Press dinners, press
excursions, press free fayors of all other kinds
we have mad hitherto, but never before
press shooting match. What shall be tar
get? a colored man or a Modoc? A tariff
document or free trade proviso? A salary
grab bill or Credit Mobilier bond? These
are important preliminaries to settle. The
eye that has been fixed intent on one of these
objects all the while, cannot descend 10 an
ordinary bulls-eye. Then, il what order shall,
the contestants step up to the line? But ali
these details confuse the mind. We respect
fully ask the National Rifle Association for
further information.
JOURNALISTIC SENSATION.
To the ''looker on in Venice" there is al
ways something of interest 10 be seen. He
chronicles no end of queer stories, which
grow out of no end of queer actions, and in
time the scribe who jots down the sayings
and doings of all sorts and conditions of men,
finds the same old stories repeating themselves,
the same old actions being reproduced until
he tires of the hackneyed round of his labors.
But now and then genuine sensation comes
athw&rt his vi sion and il is relished as new
sauce TO stalled gourmand. OF this order is
the imbroglio between Winston of the Mutu-
al Life and Romans who was, erstwhIle Of
the same great institution. The thing came |
about in this wise. A newspaper sinter- |
viewer" got President Winston under an ex- |
hausting pump and put home questions to HIM |
so sharply that Winston had TO disclose the |
fact, heretofore kept quiet out of mistaken /
regard for Romans, that Romans had been
dismissed for "unfaithfulness, incompetency.
obstinacy, impracticability and insubordina-
tion.' Well, Romans got mad and come
back at Winston with what was supposed TO
be crusher, but it didn't seem to crush much
for Winston quoted, as reply, the Official
reports of the Board Of Trustees and of the
Policy holders, over the signatures OF those
officials, and this settled Homans' case. and
the insurance world, and the world of those
in such matters, has been amused
and instructed by his utter discontinue.
THE scYTHE OF THE CHANGERS.
The latest sensation in the newspaper world
is the establishment OF weekly paper entitled
The Scythe, devoted entirely 10 the interests
of the Patrons of Husbandry, thT oughout the
United States. Politics are 10 be ignored
unless the movement of the Changers culmi-
hates in a new party-and Railway and other
nonopoIies lnimical TO the farmers and pro-
lucers IRE to be fought with bare steel and at
lose quarters. The Scythe has located in 7
be magnificent structure known as the Ben |
ct Buildings. From a knowledge of the
men and the money behind this enterprise Z
oupled with the fact that the mere announce
lent Of such paper is attracting great at g
sntion among the Changers, there is no 4
uestion as TO the success of The Scythe,-
.xtortioners and monopolists look out, some l
cen pens are after you now. HENRI. e