Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-07-29
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.

about it now?
AS a general rule haven't much of
an opinion of man who talks about the |
weather, and as to the man who writes
about it-unless indeed he be Old Prob |
abilities Meyer or some other high me-
neurological INDEPENDENTLY, he is
simply beneath criticism. Nothing in
the world is so utterly and wildly ex-
asperating as to have fellow come up
to you while you are hopping your coun-
tenance or wiping out of your neck the
beads that are rapidly willing your clean
collar, and with his inane grin ask,
"Well, is this warm enough for you p
| mention these facts to prove that I ap-
preciate the threadbare character of the
subject but what is man to do when
this is the subject uppermost in every
mind, when the papers are filled with
nothing else, and when even the dogs
in the street pant their complaints and
considerations to each other at every
corner?
| don't know what the matter is,
whether the sun, in defiance of the as
tronomers, has got twenty or thirty mil
lion miles nearer to us than usual or
whether the blame is to be laid at st.
Louis door, for starting this abominable
"wave." But settle the responsibility
as you please, the fact remains that we
are visited with a most disgusting state
of the atmosphere. The story of Shad-
raeh, Meshach and Abednego has always
furnished one of the stock arguments to
the literal minded scoffers at Scripture
truth but, our survival through the
past week is almost enough to shut their
mouths, for it is not much of an exag-
geration to say that, New York has been
fiery furnace for several days. Every
pore in our bodies is like an Artesian
we'll, flowing night and day; and, to
make our condition more pitable, the air,
even with the mercury humping its
head against the top of the glass, seems
so saturated with moisture as to have
lost all power of absobing the prespira-
ton.
While our location so near the ocean
renders our plight more tolerable than
that of the western cities from which we
have had such terrible reports of suf-
fering and death, the heat has still pres
sed very heavily upon New York City.
Many cases of un-stroke are reported,
but they represent only small part Of
the casualties. The majority of fatal
cases are not sudden enough to be clas-
red under that head They occur in the
packed tenements, where there is bad
ventilation and worse sewerage, and
where women and children and the sick
of all ages and both sexes have died by
the hundred, actually smothered to death
Business is neglected as far as possible
, and not even the veriest Gradgrinds O.
the counting house find it in their hearts
to complain that our humane Postmas
ter James has temporarily intermitte(
the midday delivery of mail matter by
| the overworked and underpaid army O
> letter understanding which has no
3 occurred before, since the fierce spell o
5 the centennial summer.
S But, whew | find it don't make m,
5 any cooler to write about our burnin,
miseries, so let US change the subject.
e On Wednesday morning that eve
youthful Aladdin of journalism MI
D James Gordon Bennett, having gracious
/. ly decided some days previous to homo
{ his native land with a call, steppe
!. ashore from the French steamer St. Lau
J. rent. and stood upon the dock in gloom
n magnifcence during the unloading an
v custom-house inspection of his baggage
}, which, judging from accounts, must hav
formed the larger part of the ships Cal
:, go. Tt consisted of no less of 1913 peie
es, consisting of trunks, packing cases
!, bags, packages of guns, umbrellas, canes
. and sporting implements. His horse.
lf carriages. and Polo ponies and variou
h other cattle had preceded their lord an
master. and were already ensconced i
their quarters at Newport, whittier M
. Bennett and his sister, who has accom-
: wanted him everywhere in Europe. an
: who now returns with him, immediatel
; hurried.
Miss Bennett, it is said, is to be ma
;, ried in this city. It seems to be gre;
= mistake that Bennett was not born a
" English lord, so closely does he initial
" the appearance and habits of that ''effe
: aristocracy" He owns four or FIVE e
" tates in different parts of the world, il
:. Guiding a shooting box" in England
- and the regulation "hotel" in Paris, an
: evidently feels more at home in eth
= of the latter than in any part of tn
- country. His stay here will be shol
:, He cannot stand this 'blarsted country
~ more than few months at time, al
before winter sets in will be re-esta
. lished with all his retinue of men al
beasts in one of his foreign residences.
Two once noted fugitives from ju