Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-03-05
LETTER FROM NEW YORR.
Special Correspondence.
New YORK, Feb. %, 1877.

If any of your readers read my letter |
one year ago this week, they may re-
member the account there given or the
Martha Washington reception and tea
party at the Academy of Music on the
last anniversary of the day. The one
this year was quite similar in charac-
ter; perhaps not quite as profitable, pc
cuniarily, but no less attractive. The
same crush of elegance and beauty. the
same CLEAN of satin and rustic of silk,
the same array of stately danes and de-
mure damsels with powdered hair and
costumes of past centuries, the same
wealth of jewels and charms, the same
multiplicity of young couples ostensibly
drinking tea, and really flirting desper-
ately, the same profusion of flowers,
flags and drapery-all this was there
and more than all to feminine New York,
there, too, was Alexis, and with him the
rest of the noble Russians. Many and
romantic are the stories told regarding
the condition of this young mans affec-
tions, but whatever be the truth in the
matter, those affections must be very
firmly fixed indeed, if they escaped en-
tanglement in the maze of admiring and
coquettish chances from the bright eyes
of Americas fairest daughters, of which
his august person was the centre,
throughout the evening. No other distin-
guished foreigner has ever touched, SO
deeply, the aggregate feminine heart OF
the metropolis, as Alexis, and shrewd-
ly suspect that the number of them who
could be induced to leave country and
home, and even to brave the rigOrs OF
Russian climate, to preside over the
Grand Ducal establishment in St. Pc
tersburg, exceed the number who coulc
not be pursuaded, "by large MAORI
, = 7-,,z-.-A l~vie -hnwevar takas-alL this
adulation with great composure, and the
, prospect for an American Empress O
all the Russias" in case of his succession
to the throne is depressingly poor a
4 yet.
| Revival work, which is at present al
most at standstill among the regula
: churches, is being vigorously pushed il
? the slums. One of the most singular in
cidents of the movement occurred on
%5sfFyg tR 5Ad Hssf MfsslRBHf n 70 arose
prayers, who said that he was just OIL
of state prison. He had planned
q ''crack" a store that night to ste;
4 $4,000, but an hour before coming
/, the mission he became "troubled in h
If mind" He postponed the burglary
\ some other day and went to the missio
n and while there, conviction of sin can
70 upon him. Before the meeting was ov
70 he said that he was converted, and ga
- evidence of his new foolins before Il
IS. ~~-o--c-t:---
o A strange sort of miser has just be
ce discovered in one of our back streets,
no the shape of an old Trash rag-pickt
Of seventy years old and almost an idiot
S. all appearance. Under some rags
,rt his room we're found bank books sho
no ing him to have good many thousa
dollars deposited in different places.
,e. was taken in charge by the police. a
he on searching him nearly hundred d
les lars in currency were found in his poe
Of cts. 1t may be inferred from this, Il
err rag-picking is not such poor busin
ad after all, especially in large city a
IN. indeed cases are plenty where the ru
of mayer in gutter ash barrels and the lii
Af- has discovered money, jewelry and oil
we valuables sufficient in amount to req
to him for weeks and months of unprofi
not BILE searching.
we And now it seems that the vaG
s." threats made by disappointed heirs
bv the time of the publication of Wand
" bits will were meant in earnest. 1t
out now formally announced by the reI
on sentatives of several of the children t
md they shall contest. and if possible br,
ere the Commodore's will, with view
of securing larger shares of his prope
than he himself awarded them. Thi!
AL good for the lawyers, but won't hurt
ce will bit.
ese A peculiar will is the latest t.
ven talk. The daughter and heiress of M
CHI Dancer, years ago the liking be-"
,est New York gamblers, has just died
7in- left over 100000 to New York Oh
om- ties. Thirty-one different institute
feet benefit by this queer freak of the &
lass bler's daughter from $4,000 to 500,
ms. each /; and while modern Christian
ery cannot show itself sufficiently horri
iorl. at the vice of gaming, l have yet to /
bile that any of the churches or mission
the societies who are to share the wealth
en- cumulated In the practice of this vice
2x- fuses to receive the furnished 2
nee. Probably "the end sanctiies the meal
are RADI1
''er Never has there been a more conn
anu defeat of party than that of the