Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-19
LETTER FROM NEW YORK..
Special Correspondence.
New YORK, Feb. II, 1877

Trade is quiet, dull in fact, in spite of
the most vigorous efforts of the press to
yalvanize it into brisk activity. People
wont buy if they can help it, and the
merchants who have been watching
these three weary years and more, for a
into the driving times of before
the panic. are still looking blank as they
see the season for the spring trade of
1877, from which such great things were
hoped, slipping quietly by without much,
if any, change for the better from last
year. That is the dark side. On the
other hand, the "'good old ante-war
times" when ga dollar a0aS dollar"
and when prices were down to "a point
which seemed almost incredible ten
years afterward, are substantially back
again. All this time, while we have
been fretting and complaining about the
hard times the days of hard pan in cur
rency and prices have been stealing up
on US like thief in the night. Gold
has been quietly sliding down the scale,
till here week or so ago the little yell
low dollar fairly trembled in the balance
with the big green dollar. No wonder
the specie payment question has been
briskly agitated of late, for it looks very
puch as though the government would
| AAJ - lanisIation If
it wants to claim any of the credit OF re-
sumption. If things are left to them
selves we shall have the Secretary of the
Treasury, on Jan. lst, 1879, hunting
round with a lantern to find that depre-
ciated currency which the law directs
him to redeem on that date.
And with practically gold basis, the
cost of living and doing business have
shrunk, as well as the profits. so that
there is really not so much to complain
about after all. The large and signif-
cant items of store and house rents are
a good indication of the general tenden-
cy. These rents have not been so low
IN New York before in fifteen years and
: interviews with the leading brokers show
that they are going to drop still lower
this spring. Labor has rarely been low
| er, clothing never, and the whole list Of
necessaries of life are arranged on q
: very moderate scale Of prices. All Of
4 which goes to show that we are not 81
| badly off after all, which is some com
fort.
: If any one doubts my assertion tina
}. wages are low, refer him to the RECORD
S of the District Court for this week
] where it is shown that several young
q girls employed in large book binder,
t of this city, are suing their employe
|. for wages due them at the rate of iron
|. three to six dollars month. 1t is a sat
o isfactiOn to add that they obtaine'
# prompt judgment in their favor, an
that their liberal employer was wit
equal promptness put in Jail for non
payment.
IL No mention of the weeks gazette
81 would be complete without some refer
re ence to the Heavy Weights" ball whic
= on Wednesday last endangered the III
u derpinning of Irving Hall. The evenin
l. was very justly reported by an enthus
l. astic participant to have been one {
solid enjoyment. 1t ought to have bee
III when twenty of the leading dancers as
e. gregated four and half tons in weigh
III The awe-inspiring gyrations of these TO
ne midable walters brought to mind wit
" great force the brief but graphic descri]
l. ton of the dancing of the belle of "Har
~ Breitmann's Party
"Und efery time she gave shoomp
Cd She made de windows sound"
IL The 1.-THE and active floor manag
is weighed 327 pounds and after his fail
Is. footsteps had resounded over the groa
no ing floor for three hours while he ma
he shalled his hosts of frisky obesity, t
n whole association adjourned for suppe
ar- and made meal which stood on ell
RI the hair of the most hardened report
an present
on An odd wedding in high life has st
'ut further distinguished the past wee
lat Miss Marcia Roosevelt, the sole and {
ry, phan million heiress of one of the q
NIL Knickerbocker families of New Yol
ely fell in love with the handsome and pc
are niless tenor of the church which she
'ns tended, and brief courtship was crow
en- ed by the grand wedding of the otf
to evening at st. Thomas. The lar
try church was crowded to suffocation wi
mt. the cream of society drawn thither p
'ws haps not more by the high social "a
the of the bride than by curiosity to
what the uncharitable insist on cons
and ering q notable sacrifice to MANN
ac- The sacrifice may have been v
lere painful one, but that feature was not
ub- parent. The net result may be v
the briefly summed up. st. Thomas
'sly lost her Apollo-likc tenor-a young n
Re- with no capital but passable voice ;
sing form like Adonis has exchanged a
are sition worth $500 year for anot
nay which will yield him at the very lie;
anne $4,000, that annual income hav
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