Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-12-17
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.
Nrw YoRK Dac IN 1S

last three or four days has been the Gull
of the troubles of the saloon
keepers of this city who have been in
hot water for months owing to defective
laws on the subject of their privileges,
which resulted in a conflict between the
Board of Excise and the Police. Most
of the liquor sellers have been unable
to get licenses that would hold, and be-
ing unwilling to relinquish their bust
ness have been going on selling, in more
or less fear of the troubles which have
now come upon them. AS there are
some $500 of them within the city lin
its the work of the police in enforcing
any general order against them is
formidable one; but the latter won't ar
IL Dravely on Thursday afternoon under
orders from headquarters and so Jealous
were they by evening over 500 arrests
were made. Many of the unfortunate
ones were men of money and high stand
ing in ward politics, and hot was their
indignation, therefore, at being hustled
as most of them were, into crowded cells
where they passed the night. The next
morning the Police Courts were crowded
to witness the examination and bailing-
out of this heavy grist of alcoholic worth
les. This operation the judges went
through hastily and perfunctorily, &C
ceptlng any-body's name on the nominal
bail bonds, and only pausing occasional
ly to pass little digni6ed 'chaff'' with
some one Of irate culprits. In one en-
counter of this nature, justice got de-
cidedly the worst of it. A certain Muir
ply being called up to the railing for
the usual formalties, His Honor asked
with facetious sternness Haven't |
seen you before somewhere, Mr.. Muir
phy?" To which the unabashed drink
mixer promptly replied, "Yis, indade,
yer worship. Win l was BARTENDER
at the-HOtel, yer Honor used to
drop in on me quite frequently" At
this the motley audience yelled with
laughter, and the justice hastily re-
spOnded "Well, well, we won't go into
that now," proceeded to business.
And now they tell new story about
James Gordon Bennett, the eccentric
young man who owns the New York
Herald, and is the patron saint of ex-
travagant sports. 1 call him young
man because in the eyes of the public he
will always remain such partly because
he had distinguished father. and part.
ly because his own actions are mostly
such as men associate with reckless and
dissipated youth. In point of fact he
must be verging on forty and is growing
prematurely old. AS your readers arr
probably aware he has been in voluntary
banisment for about year on accoun
of duel with brother of his ex f
ancee. He divides his time between
the onerous duties of riding with tn
hounds at his shooting box" as tn
English call it, somewhere in the int
. rior of England. and attending to tn
: gayeties of the French capital, where b
is as well known character as in TIL
!, city.
Well, the tale is now that this patter
journalist, unable By all the ordinar
. methods of expenditure. to get rid {
income of the great paper which he
o prevented from selling by the terms {
!. the elder Benefits will meditates emf
! lating the late A. T. Stewards exampl
. by building new town. And appal
: emily agreeing with the latter that ii
. best site for such an enterprise is
ia barren and sandy plain. he is reporte
; to have selected such location
4 mosquito-haunted New Jersey SOL
!. twenty-five miles from the city. 1t
= certain that he has bought an immen
!. tract of land in the locality indicate
and is trying to increase it by buyil
up the surrounding farms but wheth
Il he will 60 on with his alleged scheme
cause this desert to blossom with pal
~ tial buildings it is too early to asse
Q definitely, in view of the uncerta
b character of its protector.
~ Among the prominent recent arriv;
:. in the city is reported that our n,
State Senator from Buffalo, DR.. R.
Pierce, who was returned at the |;
election by majority of nearly 800
or after stormy campaign in which
be opponent was Judge Clinton, a W
be known and prominent citizen of tt
~ district. Such popular verdict is
in recognition of DR.. Pierce's enterpr
en- and ability which have contributed
lie much to the growth of that city. T
of of the finest structures therein contain
all are the new factory of the Americ
I'll Grape Sugar Company. of which he
,n- president, and his own new mammt
the hotel for tourists and invalids, both
ich which have been recently complet
lie DR.. Pierce will carry to the the st
not Legislature high grade of judgm
cir and executive ability which will be
lily valuable to the community as they HI
Mt, proved in his vast private business.