The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-08
The 9atland Daily Glubs
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1876.
Especial Correspondence Of the Troy Daily
Times.l
THE HERMIT'S LETTER.
Charles 0'Conor-His Estato-Deceased Law
yers-Tho Style-vslentine's Day-Begin-
ming Life "Reminiscences Of Fashion-Byron
Dual Lives

-Dual Lives.
New York, Feb. 4, 1876.
A few days ago l noticed Charles O'Con
or taking the air in his carriage He Ger
tainly looks very natural, and bis wastin,
sickness has but little changed his appear
ance. One reason of this is found in hi
spare habit of body and features. He ha
survived very severe disease, and, as hi
escape was one of the very narrowes
kind, his physicians will be entitled to
handsome fee. They will probably collec
S2,OOO Tor their attendance, and perhsp
receive an additional gratuity as q present
This will be mere trlfle TO man who's,
income is estimated at $50, 900 a year from
his Notwithstanding that his prac
tice is now past. He is a widower, without
children, and no doubt his will contains
some large requests of charitable nature
His only natural heirs are his sister, Mrs
McCracken, and her family, who will prob.
badly receive the bulk of the estate. This
consists in land at Washington Heights (or
One Hundred and Fifty-sixth street,, worth
10000, and large amount of personal
property. His law library no doubt cost
$4,000, bus this, in case of his death.
would go for small sum, for law books
bring very little at forced sale, unless
they are wanted as momentoes. 1t is not
known what has become Of the libraries of
some of our great lawyers, such as Alexan-
der Hamilton, Brockholst Livingstone, etc.
The last death amoug our distinguished
lawyers was James X. Whiting. He was
an old man and had long been out of prac-
tce,. and as he had early acquired large
wealth by speculation he did not feel the
same necessity for professional labor which
forms the best impelling power. Whiting
distinguished himself for his vigilence while
district attorney, and during this service he
won the noted title OF "Little Bitters." He
prosecuted the John G.. Colt case with a
stern and irrepressible determination which
has seldom been paralleled.
OTHER NAMES
Next before him in the neurological list
is the name of James r. Brady, who was
the most brilliant member of the bar of his
day. He had an opulent practice and a
very fine library, which probably went to
auction and perhaps in large degree to the
paper mill. Brady was preceded to the
grave by William c. Noyes, who has been
dead ten years He was during the latter
years of bis life in the enjoyment of prac-
ice worth S25, 900 year, and had some of
The most important cases of that day. AS
tenacious and almost inexhaustble rea-
'oner he had few equals, and he could
argue, not only by the hour but also by the
week, and has labored thus day after day
n the court of appeals. The history of
.hese men and also of the important cases
which they have managed would form an
interesting book, and would suggest to
my uuaccupied writer this subject as one
Of much power. 1t would develop great
variety of biographical, legal and historical
'acts whose rules would be generally ad-
nitted.
CONCERNING FASHION.
and looking back to the days of Goldsmith
we find that his language can readily be ap-
to the present time. "Their
says he in the Citizens of the
World, 'are at one time bloated out with
At present they have laid
aside their hoops, and become as slim as
mermaids. All, all, is in constant state
of fluctuations" The march of fashion is
among few somewhat checked by the
hard Times, but display will be maintained
by fashion worshipers until the last. The
approach of Valentine day brings its del
uge of trash, but the undercurrent OF all
this is in the natural tendency of the sexes
one for the other. This reminds me that
the new styles of wedding cards are an
nounced. | advise each of our readers who
may be in matrimonial way to be careful
how these details are managed, for who
can forecast the consequences which may
follow an irregularity in so important a
point? Love, as it is SAID, laughs at lock
smiths. but dare he laugh at etiquette !?
"Cupid's shaft" as Shakespeare says, sis
too hard for Hercules club !" but that was
in old times. AS Valentine day draws
near, what an inspiration of amatory gen.
Jus is manifested? Smile not in disdain,
mature reader, for in your day you too
have made your "woful ballad to your
mistress eyebrows" Now let every lover,
like Armada in Loves Labor Lost in
woke all his powers "Assist me, some ex.
tempore god of rymne, for am sure shall
turn sonnetteer Devise wit, write pen
for am whole volumes in folio"
STARTING IN LEE.
Love leads to courtship and courtship to
marriage. This at least is the natural track,
but in hard times like these there are SC
many barriers that the course of true love
seems choked with snsgs. One thing how
ever is very certain, love in cottage il
thoroughly played out. "Wedded pairs
must come down to the plain reality Mar
ried life is an inevitable increase of ex
pense, and yet under proper system thu
latter can be encountered. The great fot
of domestic life is 's,yle." The necessity
of maintaining appearances is so grea
that everything must be sacrificed to it.
have seen couple start in life poor and by
dint of industry and good luck rise to al
easy condition. Their children are brough
up fashionably, and when they marry the.
expect to have house furniture and gran'
menage corresponding with that in whlcl
they have been bred. To start young neo
pie thus is simply TO place them on snlts
They may travel little while but they will
eventually come down. If they have wealtl
It may answer, but for those under salar.
and in moderate condition, this metho
soon leads to humiliation. 1t is much bet
ter to omit the stills and travel on th
beaten track. An acquaintance OF min
who was counting girl sent her for an en-
gsgement seal, instead of ring or gol
watch, a sewing machine. This act wa
the key note of future life. They married
and though poor have weathered the har'
times in very snug condition, and neve
having been on stills, are in no danger O
tall. A century ago Q775) George Co
man brought out his play "Bon Ton,' bt
fore London audience, aud the prologu
gives the following view Of the time,
view which may indeed be applied to GU
own day;
| "Fashion in everything bears sovereign swal
| And words and periwigs have both their day,
| Nature IL thwarts, and contradicts all reasol
Ills stin French stays and fruits-when out
| season,
| A rose, when half a guinea is the price,
| A set OF bays scarce bigger than SIX mice,
| To visit friends you never wish TO see,
| Marriage 'twixt those who never can agree:
Hearts may be black, but all should wear clea
faces,
"The graces. boy! the graces, graces, gracss,'
| such Il bon ton. and search the city through,
| In various shapes, Ills ever In our view."
The stage in those days made some pa
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