Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-11-25

different class of epistles are from
anonymous writers who sneer at the
$50. 900 reward offered and say that if
it is not raised to some higher figure
usually form 500, 600 to 81 900, OOO)
the body will never be found. One
letter from down South somewhere
warns Judge Hilton that plan is on
foot to kidnap him and extort ten mil
lions of dollars as his ransom. Truly
this is great country in which we live
In view of the we'll recognized fact
that striking and novel crime always
creates an epidemic of similar out
RACES, it would be well for those every
where who have charge of cemeteries
to exercise special vigilance for the
next few months. Already dispatches
from the West show that the Stewart
dissertation is beginning to have its
effect.
But I turn from the catalogue of
misdoings to less depressing subjects.
Amid all the excitement and labor incl
dent to the search for the body of it
founder, the great commercial machine
OF q, 10
its uninterrupted workings The firm
are just now executing an important
and long contemplated measure, name
ly, the abandonment of their down town
building, on City Hall Square, whers
for years their whole trade has been
transacted. and the consolidation Of
their whole business in the immense
structure at Broadway and Tenth street
until now only occupied by their retail
department. ST.
| This uptown tendency of our most
important business houses is simply
irresistible. Take Union Square, for
instance, which within the memory of
thousands of New Workers was quite
out of town, and which no one in those
DAYS dreamed could over become more
than a fashionable residence locality.
Years ago the business wave began to
encroach upon it, and now every trace
Of its residence character has disappear
ed, the last of the fine old brown stone
mansions going down more than a yeal
ago, to make way for the Merder
Britannia Company's elegant building
on the south side of the Square. Some
of the old Knickerbockcrs lament thi
invasion Of their beautiful retreat, blu
their protests are good deal lik'
:. Dame Partington's attempt to SWEEP
back the Atlantic with broom.
This silver palace of the Meriden Com
: pany have no doubt many of you
readers have wonderingly and admir-
ingly visited. Located just where tn
tides of Metropolitan high life pou
y their continent streams from lowe
y Broadway and Fourteenth street int
the Square, it is an object as prom
nent as it is ornamental. Within, th
warerooms are simply magnificent. n
'" sign here of the workshop confusio
y which attends the production of Il
. glittering ware at the great factory U
:, at Meriden, where over thousand ope
= atives are kept busy fashioning its m
; Rad beautiful forms. Everything
y the rich goods which line the long Wis
- of show cases. set off by velvet a.
% plate glass. and which are acknowledg
. to be the finest made in the world. L
:. fine white metal invented by this Coz
~ pany and used as the base of all the
goods, and which is constantly but u
: successfully sought to be initiated
y other makers, both European and Anne
- rican, makes their ware the practic
zoe equivalent of solid silver, and as a CO
- sequence their manufactures form me
" than one.half the total silverware pl
- duction of this country.
- The eminent English divine, De
- Stanley, has just returned home after
flying trip among the Eastern citi
y during which he seemed to form gold
opinions of this great and glorious /
public. He was thoroughly lioni2
r" during his brief stay. which was crow
=, ed SO full of visiting preaching, sig
: seeing and dining, that the poor m
. must welcome the few days of rest viii
> his homeward voyage affords him.
~ last evening here was celebrated by
=" dinner given in his honor at Delmonic
by Mr.. Cyrus w. Field, followed by
=, reception at Mr.. Fields house.
" which over eight thousand invitati
were issued, and which was one gra
:. crush of distinguished people.
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