Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-01-13


right to be in business for three
years. The trouble has just begun,
But it is for the best after all, 1t il
very much like q sick man taking
mcdicine-the drug makes him sick
or, hut the foul matter Is thrown of
and no comes out better than ever,
The hard times are simply wedding
out those who were never entitled
to credit, and hereafter business will
DO on q better basis. But 1t is ug,
ly, just now.
Is q great day with young New
York, and with very old New York.
The old Knickerbocker, those OF
the very first society, make sober,
decorous calls upon their friends,
as did the old Dutch, when New
York was village. Young New
York arrays itself in gorgeous at.
tire, and hires q costly carriage,
and enters into rivalry as to the
number of calls possible to be made.
And as, despite the effort of the
temperance people to keep liquors
of the tables of those receiving, the
vast majority did have wines and
cordials, Young New York got about
as full as usual, and arose the next
morning with villainous headache,
and a total unfltness for business,
From the corner of Broadway and
Fourteenth street, at eight o'clock,
=. NJ, counted eight parties, not a
man of whom could stand truly
erect, and they were still making
calls. One young sprig at ten boast
ed that he made three hundred calls,
"and should have made two hun.
drcd more, only l was too full" Not
one in ten of them can afford the
carriage that they rode in, and to
say nothing of the gorgeous clothes
they wore. A carriage for four is
$50 a day, and the other appurten-
ances makes it cost tho young m an
fully 800. This is all we'll enough
for the heir of an estate, but the
counter jumpers, who makes up the
mass of callers, find it digs vicious
ly into their $1,000 a year.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD.
The "Reform" Democracy have
nominated David Dudley Field for
Congress, in the place of Smith Ely,
elected Mayor. Field is fair rep.
resentative of the Democratic Re.
form. He was Tweed's right bow.
er, and if there is an INSCRIPTIONS
trader in politics and spoils in New
York, who is entitled, after Tilden,
to be closely watched, he is the man.
There hasn't been a nasty thing in
the city for years, that he hasn't
had his hand in, and there hasn't
been job since Tweed's day that
he hasn't profted by. But, as the
district is overwhelmingly Demo.
cratic, he will be elected, and as he
is very rich, he will be an ornament
to Washington society. We have
no right to sheer at the ignorace of
the negro, when constituencies can
he found in the Northern States to
elect such men as Field.
There is much more crime than is
usual, and it is not committed by
professionals either. The $4,000
men out of work and out OF bread,
are driven to desperation, and as
they have, in many instances, TAX
en- the bread that they would glad
ly have worked for, if they could
have had the work to do. This has
been the worst winter ever known
in this city, and it is growing hard
er and harder every day. There is
no work for the half of the mechan.
les and laboring men, and the des-
titution is appalling. 1t is no won
der that thefts and garroting are
rapidly increasing-the wonder
rather is, that there is not more of
it. Thank heaven it is only a few
months till the Spring opens.
PIETRO.