Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-07-08
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.
NEW YORK, July /, 1878.


has proved genuine boon to the writ
ten-out newspaper paragraphers, the
sumner may be said to have fairly set
in. The mercury has at one leap gained
the top of the tube. All jokes involving
listers and fur caps have been sudden
ly called in, and squibs breathing sui
triness in every line fall copiously from
perspiring pens. Now are the days
when life is supportable only amid the
ease and accustomed freedom of home,
but during which the innate perversity
of man and-pardon me for uttering the
ungallant truth-more especially of wo-
men, persistency grown absolutely
despotic through annual indulgence,
strongly moves everybody to flee from
the one tolerable spot and court discom-
fort in various time-honored forms.
Hence the harvest to the polite but
mendacious keeper of the summer board
ing house, creature prodigal in promise
but scanty in fulfilment; creature
whose character is frequently shown up,
but who never fails to find eager victims
among the incurably credulous. Hence,
too, the hot, crowded and uniformly
Disappointing excursion by sea or land,
which is packed to suffocation day after
day throughout the season, and that,
too, by people who have repeatedly been
caught in the same silly trap and vowed
as often never to offend again. Hence,
too, the terrible but unavoidable church
picnic, that modernized relic of the In
QUESTION, through whose subtle torture
the average church goer is pitilessly
dragged at least once for every revolu-
ton of this poor old globe about the
central luminary of our solar system.
What there is in religion to impera-
lively necessitate an annual picnic in
the face of both reason and experience,
is far beyond the comprehension of the
mere observer of such phenomena, but
the horrid fact remains; and, indeed,
believe that the unformulated rubrit
which compels the observance of this
cruel rite is as much more binding thar
any one of the Thirty-nine Articles al
the unwritten constitution of England
is superior in authority to Parliamenta
ry enactments.
The man who is responsible for tn
saying that ''nothing is certain bu
= death and taxes" must surely hav
been a goddess worldling. Had he bee
like you or me, gentle reader, regula
, attendant at divine worship, he woul
infallibly have included the church pic
!, mic in his brief category of the inevita
BILE. 1t is as curious as it is sad
observe the action of this inexorabl
law as the season for its operation az
proaches. This season is usually th
first hot spell, and at that time minis
tiers and Sunday school superintendent
feel the spell upon them. No matte
how mild and kind hearted they may
by nature, then comes into their faces
hard, stern expression as they announ'
to their focks, sit is about time to
o thinking about our picnic.
g All know to their sorrow what tn
5. portends, but no one has the NOR
n courage to rebel, and in due time the
II comes to them day of heavy basket
1t of crying children, of WEAKNESS, al
IL unalloyed misery, at the close of whl'
it the one thought which soothes al
is cheers the aching soul is that of Il
L coming year of respite from the afii
N ton.
y DO 1 speak feelingly upon this mour
e. full theme? Well, it's hardly more th'
n natural. went through the mill m
= self day before yesterday.
h Another comparatively unknown Cr'
er sus has died here this week in the pr
he son of William G. Rhinelander, who
t. property is variously estimated at fro
d ten to fifty millions. Thos. E. Davis
D. another name which falls among Il
to weeks obituaries. He was comparati,
ID ly poor man, leaving to his distress
is family only couple of millions. st
II more sad is the condition of Will;
lg Vermilye's heirs, who this week Fl
le themselves the possessors of only a p
We try sum of 100000. 1t remains to
n seen whether these three wills will
r. allowed to stand or whether their me-
of ers are to be hauled over the Goals
n lawyers in the Surrogate's court, eve
nd act of their lives raked up, and eve
he personal popularity discussed public
Ply and at length, as in the poor old Co
y. modore's case. RADIX.
THE SECOND DIsTRIcT.-Politi
re matters have remained so quiet in t
is district, that people had almost forg
on ten that a member of Congress ,
'iff to be elected this fall. Within the