Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-01-14
LETT Err FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.

NEW 1Okk, Jan. 4, 1919.
Anybody who takes an interest in the
gun must admit that he has at least
heard of Capt. Bogafdus. the champion
wing shot. who has probably shot more
matches than any one else in that bust
ness in this country. Well. the Captain
having come out victorious in all the
ordinary m odes of competition. and
signing. like Alexander. for new worlds
to conquer, has invented. and on Thurs
day last perpetrated. novel exhibition
of his skill. by which he gained much
applause, a goodly assortment of aches
and pains, and $4,000 in money. What
he did was of no particular use to any
one in fact. seems to the uninterested
beholder like rather foolish waste of
powder and strength: but | don sup
pose it is any worse than trying to walk
million miles in a million hours, or
'.wrastling" bear. or throwing double
somersaults over the backs Of half doz-
en- elephants, or attempting any other OF
the thousand and one eccentric feats
which SO delight unregenerate humanity,
and so don't know as have any rea-
son to grumble.
The match which now refer to was
against time" in sporting parlance.
and consisted in Capt. BIS successful
efforts, for the wager above named. to
break 5000 glass balls in 500 consecu-
tive minutes. 1t took place in the
Hippodrome, aud lasted from little
before in the afternoon till almost | |
o'clock at night, during which time the
marksman raised his ten pound gun te
his shoulder, $500 times, and fired
nearly that number Of shots at the s.,
900 little blue glass globes that were
sprung into the air from traps so fee
away. Bogardus is man of enormous
frame and power. but the task was al
most too much for human endurance
and when the tinkling fragments of tn
5,0O0th ball had fallen to the ground
amid the cheers of the audience. he ha'
hardly strength enough left to get gu
of the building. $1,000 is wonderful
healing plaster to wounds and bruises
and pre- sumo the much lionized shoot
ist will soon be ready to do it all owe
again if any one can be found to put u
the same money.
Gas happy as a lord" is not a goo
figure of speech for New York just a
present. A large family of that nam
is in state of mind quite the revers
of happy. on account of the sudde
marriage and disappearance of the fl
Their. Thomas Lord. who is gay youn
spark of SO summers. and whom the
now pray to have adjudged insan
Whether the mere fact of the old gel
tleman's having committed an eccentr
folly would in itself have been suficieI
to cause so much excitement among tt
second generation. is hardly q proftab
inquiry. The governing fact in tt
present case is, that the venerab
Thomas is worth something like a mil
ion and a half of dollars which Il
young Lords have doubtless been r
: g&rding with lively interest for son
years past. and which they now just
imagine that they stand a splendi
chance of not getting. if time is give
the dashing young widow who has ca
tured their venerable sire to make suit
BILE arrangements for securing it to hiI
: self. So all the children, simultaneou
~ inspired with a filial solicitude
, beautiful as it is touching, have rushs
into court to have their parent tol
from the arms of his fond bride and i
) cased in strait jacket 1t is not Y
: decided whether they will be able to g
: the proper order of the court for th
purnose. If they do. the next thing
Q do will be to ''catch their hare;" f
Thomas has elected to pass his hone
. moon in parts unknown, and so far ca
u not be heard from.
. Your readers will be Interested
D learn Of literary alliance which h
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| noticed last week the sumptu
hall given nv Mrs. Pierre Lorilla