Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-08
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.
NEW YORK, Oct. |, 1877.

y
has just made another hit, almost as
great as the former of his great special
tiles. The new play he calls the Crush
ed Tragedian." and he has been giving
it for the last three weeks at the Park
Theater. Mr.. Sothern's part in this
piece is that of a very tragic and infe
rior actor, upon whom an unappreciative
world smiles not and who is consequent
ly one of the most wretched of mankind.
Now the point of all this is just here,
we have in New York, and have had
for some time, sort of harmless lunat-
ic, originally named Jones, believe,
but who now by virtue by the alleged
act of some European sovereign, invar-
iably speaks of and signs himself
George, the Count Joannes. Those
of your readers who see the New York
papers will doubtless recognize this
knightly cognomen; for the Count rush
es into print, either about some point in
connection with the code of chiValry, to
which he is fully as devoted as Don
Quixote himself. or else to refute some
story about himself. started by the wags
for the very purpose of provoking opo
of his grandiloquent replies, and is
heard from on an average several Zines
week. The Count is nominally law
yer, but seldom hear of his .ppear-
ance in court excepting on the not IN
frequent occasions when he goes there
for redress for some imaginary grievance
of his own. He is also an actor of the
most tragic variety, and once in while
gets up Shakesperian play to give
himself chance to show this hcnighted
city how Hamlet or Macbeth should be
rendered. On such occasions the unfor-
tunate nobleman gets we'll laughed at
for his pains; fact which
awakes no suspicion in his chivalrous
breast that there is anything the matter
with his acting, but only excites his
pity for community in which dramatic
appreciation is so utterly lacking.
Now when Sothern came out as the
Crushed Tregedian, his make up" and
acting had, in order that he might tru
ly personate the supposed character, t.
resemble those of the Count to such ;
, degree that the cratic nobleman got i
t into his head that caricature of him
self was intended, and after nursing hi
= indignation up to the proper heat. ha
now sued for an injunction restraining
Mr.. Sothern from exposing him to rida
: Guile in this manner, and also for $50
900 damages for what he has alread
done. The comedian is furious at thi
Il absurd annoyance but he is such an il
/ veterate practical joker, that he will b
e sure eventually to join in the laug
/ against himself, especially as the el
W quisitely ridiculous affair has attracte
ie SO much attention that the theatre
IL packed every night in the general 9
frosty 10 see inc aIIegeu caricature.
The Brooklyn Bridge Commissioner
u although they have got their huge pie
III and anchorages about finished and Il
70 spinning of the big cables fairly und
ie way, find themselves just at the begi
u ming of the real troubles of their unde
IL taking. TO build the long approach
y to the bridge at either end, land h;
40 got to be taken and buildings torn dow
~ to the value of several millions of dc
~ lars. OF course some of the owners
III property hereabouts will "kick'' at ha
81 ing their property demolished for t
~ damages that nav he awarded them al
90 no end of trouble will result. In ia
CT the trouble has already commenced,
connection with one of the large
~ structure affected. The owner of IL
has just refused the Bridge Company
nc offer of $4,000 for the privilege
" slicing off thirty-six feet of the bull
nc ing on Cliff st. and ten feet Jacob
vi He declares that the sum is not me
70 than two-thirds the cost of erection
VI 1857, when he was forced to sink 5 ,O
60 piles to support the foundation of th
oe portion of the walls. The Bridge Co
~ pany has taken the matter into cou
u and the case will be argued at the Ge
~ eral Term next week. This is saml
AZ of what we may expect for the next t
-eS years.
:. H. | suppose the rage for low priced pc
lic ular literature will be satisfied son
'u' time, but as yet it is rather on the
'ia crease than otherwise. Low priced !
'ne pers, cheap editions of books. VIII,
Vet two-volume novels for ten cents i;
ns what the people demand nowadays, a
'ne the New York publishers, whose har
are are never removed from the popu
NY pulse are working night and day to 81
'cn ply them. know one man alone "
!" is keeping hundred and fifty print
NC busy setting up English and non-col
I've right novels, in this cheap shape a
es. there are dozen others doing /
no same business on lesser scale. H
ply completely this general lowering
ar prices has affected periodicals may
seen from an offer which | noticed a {
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