Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-31
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.

why paint fatrlck, who, as so prom
inent and pious saint, ought at least
to have had the gift of prophecy, should
have selected such day as the II of
March for his own particular anniversa-
ry, is puzzle. 1t is always wet and
miserable. 1t looks as though the wealth
er bureau were attempting to accomplish
1000 storms in 1000 consecutive 17ths
of March. The oldest inhabitant can't
name recurrence of this anniversary
when the weather was not to some eX-
tent bad, both over head and under foot.
And yet the invariable programme con-
tinues to be carried out. Paddy puts
on shocking bad hat and parades, and
Biddy stands on the sidewalk and ap-
plauds, both more or less heavily draped
with green and mud, and, toward night
especially, more or less heavily charged
with the national beverage. 1t is great
and glorious day, and was duly OBJ
served in the metropolis last week, the
traditional wetness. procession and whis-
key being all present.
Apart from the occurrence Of St.
Patrick's Day, the calendar week past
las celebrated itself in various small
ways, a few of which | will notice brief
y. In the first place the three success
full walkers in the late match at Gill
mores, have had their final business
meeting, audited their accounts, receiv-
ed their respective checks, been mildly
feted, and at last dispersed, leaving
Gotham only partially convalescent from
her pedestrian lunacy. I thought that
when this big match was over, the pop
ulation would calm down and resume
their senses but that result has not yet
arrived.
! Not only are every available public
hall and inclesure in town still filled
with pedestrians bent on fame and gate
money, but three. fourths of the people
one meets in the street plainly show the
symptoms of the general mania. When
walking abroad and watching the pass
ing thrcng | have even found myself
nnconsciously affected by the pedestrian
atmosphere, and caught myself wonder
ing whether my gait was the regulation
'toe-and heel, whether my elbows had
just the proper play" and if my "knee
action" was exactly what it ought to be.
It's awful, but we can comfort ourselves
with the old Tartar's motto. that "This
too shall finally pass away"
Some of those who govern us are hav.
ing passably breezy time oft just now
After hard fight on the part of oul
Tammany County Clerk to keep his spec
ulations and his place at the same time
he has had his official head taken off by
Governor Robinson with such clear
and sudden stroke that he was out OF
the street and his successor In his place
before he had any opportunity to maxi
the forcible resistance to his ejectmen
which he had threatened. There wa
raylng in Tammany for a little while
!, with threats of suits and arrests ant
troubles of all sort; but the raging Sa
chems have finally settled down into
. sullen quiet. In the City Hall ais
there is war. Mayor Cooper being full
. aware of the disgraceful Decentralization
> which has of late come to be the distin
] gushing characteristic Of the New Yor
b Police department and all its subordi
nate bureaus, has written to each of GU
a three Police Commissioners brief bu
= pithy letter, charging them with bot
i inefhciency and malfeasance, in term
! 4 which must have made their ears tinglt
= and ending with a request for them
h come before him and show cause VIII
d they should not be removed. The sam
j officials having been similarly summon
It ed during the incumbency of Mr.. Cool
n er's predecessor, engaged sharp lawyer
j. to conduct their base, which the latte
r did with so much cunning that not onl
It was Mayor Ely unable to remove tt
J. sly worthless, but the city was forced
l. pay their lawyers bill.
" Naturally enough the Commissions
g were SO we'll pleased with that exper
d ence that they wanted to repeat it in tt
d present instance and SO when they can
le before the Mayor in response to his c
" tation, each one was attended by ret
tie nue. of .'eminent counsel" But NJ
ID Cooper was not to be caught in IL
II same way and positively declining
l. recognize the limbs of the law direct,
at all his questions to the accused partie
e. The latter refused to answer exec
IS through counsel and high old time e
ne sued. The lawyers got up to talk al
ne the mayor ordered them to stop,
n which order no attention was paid Th,
the Mayor got excited and sent for
O. officer whom he directed to stop the 6
ce torney's harangue, but when the blu
re coat approached with the apparent pu