Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.


Brooklyn and New York. are quite an
injury in some quarters in business
point of view. The quarantine regula-
tions are very stringent, and the own
ers of steamers running to Havana are
complaining bitterly. They say it costs
$500 extra to load steamer in the
stream as they now required to do. At
the same time some people are so anx-.
ious to distinguish themselves, on &C
count of their suffering by hard times,
that applications by the score have been
made for the positions of nurses at Mem
phis and other infected places down
South, mainly by unaclimated, persons,
and the days of news editors of the
great daily papers are made burden to
them by reason of the swarms of CORES
pondents who are ambitious to write
current history of the epidemic which,
unfortunately for them perhaps, does
not seem yet to have arrived, and which
we devoutly hope will not arrive, even
for the benefit of our more or less regu-
lar brethren of the quill. The heat
has been quite severe for some days, and
while there seems to be less average of
sun-strokes for human victims. the horses
have suffered abnormally, and several
| haua fallan 1o.-- :-----ss
tic way in Broadway every day.
The pioneer gospellers, Moody and
Sankey, are again with US, after seas
on of recuperation, the latter in Europe
the former at that charming country res
idence at Mortified, Mass, which has
SO mysteriously come into possession, he
being one of those good people who work
very hard and get no pay for their SER
vices. They are holding forth at Coop
er Institute, Sankey singing as sweetly
and Moody speaking as volubly and as
automatically as ever. The burden of
his discourscs is as usual to lay all our
burdens upon Jesus. Logically this
would seem encouragement to laziness
and general shiftlessness, in fact, not
differing much from the fatality doc
trines of the Turks. The terrible heat
! in the illventilated hall has not prevent
ed the assembling of the usual crush to
, hear the fluent preacher, and the en-
r thusiasm over the converts who are ex-
bited by the surroundings to stand up in
E the face Of the multitude and ask for
/ prayers it very great. The clergy of va.
rious denominations seem to have lost
interest in the evangelists.
y The gyroscopical Talmage, while alb
: sent in the flesh still exercises the spir
its of his Brooklyn flock and vast mum
a Der of outsiders. His movements have
o with more or less reticence, been tele
e graphed at considerable length by hi
u show-m-business managers in Eng
= land, and whether true or simply as /;
y dexterous advertising dodge, it is nov
d asserted that he has so charmed tn
is Englishmen with the eloquence of hi
70 convoluting arms, legs, hair. ears AM
. jaw that his own people will be left t.
N seek some other attraction. Some VIII
ID profess to know all about it even 20 8
Re far as to say the thing was cut and drie
:, long ago, and that Immediately at tn
h close of the trial on common fame,
to Talmage and a London theatre manage
nr made terms by cable for three year
a starring tour. .e..-
. The current number of Harper's Weel
no ty contains an article on the recent d.
s; ings of the Mutual Life Insurance Con
1g pany Of New York, which embody SON
49, remarkable facts and figures. 1t show
among other things that during 1877
= the company paid out to the survivors
- its policy-holders the enormous sum
three and half millions of dollars, an
:; practically accounts for this immen
NJ business by thus explaining the natu
DC of the institution.
IL "For those who only want insuran
it may be interesting to learn that Il
,.t Mutual Life is compact of individual
,.s all assuring each other. the new com
in and the old being on one footing. The
~, is no question of stock or proprietary j
oh terest Of the stockholders of corpor
N. ton standing up to absorb or control Il
70 common interest has now attained
no magnitude in millions, some twenty-f
M per cent. greater than all the capital
&c the banks of the metropolis, being in t
ok aggregate eighty -seven millions of d.
he lars. 1t is the largest financial corp
he ration known to exist, its policies OF
ed standing securing life insurance equal
IN amount the entire issue of the nation
m bank currency afioat.
;cb The constant increase of this incol
n parable success is still further account
ia for by the reduction of premium rat
his which the Mutual put in force son
cir thing like year ago, and which cnab
inc it to give insurance Of the most unqu
at TONED safety at the lowest known f
ures.
Poverty and the willingness to r
in heavy risks for light gain have caus
oil the death. or, at any rate. the asphyx
J of ton of brave man. He was diver