Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-01-07
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.
New YORK, Dec. 81, 1877

falcation would be, in these days, some
thing like a performance of Hamlet
with the omission of the title role. We
have no such fiat. stale, and Improbable
record to show this time the seven days
last elapsed having given no one such
sensation ofquite respectable proportions,
In this case the present Excise middle
has acquired a fresh complication
through the fight of Owen Murphy.
treasurer of the Excise Board. with !
nearly 100000 of moneys received by
that body. mainly on applications for
liquor licenses. As | mentioned
couple of weeks ago, but few licenses
have been issued of late, receipts for
the money having been given to the sa-
loon men pending the investigation of
their cases. Now that Murphy has run
away with the money. the city raises
the question as to whether it is respon-
sible for the amount which implied rep
udiation raises howl among the ILL
starred liquor-men who look upon this
probable loss. piled upon the recent
prosecutions of which they have been
the objects, as the straw which, accord
ing to tradition. broke the camel's back.
The whole liquor matter as it now
stands. is very pretty illustration of
what confusion lot of stupid. blunder-
ing law makers and officials can intro
duce into the city government, and it
will be quite interesting to watch and
see how they will manage to founder
out of the bog in which their own in
competence has trapped them.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher seems to
have rather bad luck with some of his
connections. Not long ago it will be
remembered that his nephew by mar
rage. VIM. c. Gilman, was sent to Sing
Sing to wear striped suit furnished by
the State. and now Ma. B. again brought
into unpleasant notice through the
shooting of his sons sister-ln- law by
her husband, which occurrence Is now
the nine days wonder of Brooklyn.
The unhappy young couple who played
the chief parts in this tragedy were
married only year ago They proved
uncongenial. and after few months OF
suffering the wife returned to her ia
theirs house. One night this week the
young man went to the house and tried
to persuade his wife to return to him,
and on her persistent refusal. drew a
pistol and shot her, inficting wound
from the effects of which she still re-
mains in critical condition.
| suppose most of your readers have
by this time either seen or heard Of tn.
Improvements which the New Yorl
Tribune has recently put upon its Week
ly, making it a sixteen-p page. sixty fou
column paper. filed with specially pre-
pared matter upon every topic. and rails
ing it entirely out of the ranks of dali,
newspaper weeklies. 1t its presen
form and character the Weekly Tribun
is only comparable to the high GLASS
So and 81 weeklies, all of which it ex
cells in amount of reading matter fur
nished. Its price remains unchanged
however. except that there is Sigh
advance on the club rates.
The changes referred to have neeessi
tated an enormous expenditure 70
!, printing and folding machinery of ne,
and greatly improved pattern, nothin
similar to which exists either in thi
country or Europe but as they give tn
Tribune marked advantage over al
competitors, they are well worth al
they have cost. Simultaneously wit
, this enlargement of the Weekly, til
Tribune company offered as premium
. under certain conditions, Webster's Or
abridged Dictionary; and it is sign
ticant fact, showing what class of reac
. ers the Tribune has, that this premium
, has proved such an attractive one tia
3 the dictionary has had to be furnishe
q in great numbers. sometimes to the e1
tent of several hundreds in a sing
day.
A foolish story has been started, b
q the way, to the effect that Whitela
q Ried intends to retire from the edito
q ship of the Tribune. There is not,
@ course, word of truth in this.
The ancient and honorable sport
f wrestling has Of late been revived her
| it has become one of the standal
}. amusement of certain large class
q our sporting fraternity. All the prom
: nent athletes have had bout after DO,
; before large audiences, until that sir
y pie form of the entertainment began
. pail upon its patrons, when the ma
ayers of such affairs had to look abo
a them for some novelty to introduc
r. The idea of getting up matches betwe,
d men and bears was suggested, and h;
J proved quite success. Several eve
: ings of this kind of entertainment ha
: been given before delighted crowd
D. Strange to say, the bears seem to u
derstand what is required of them, al
give and take heavy falls with composu