Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-22
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoN1ToR.]
NEW YORK, Dec. 10, 1879.

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIToRl
NEW YORK, Dec. 10, 1879.
Holiday Happenings are the order of
the day now. The women have begun
already to lay in their stocks of Xmas
presents, and articles of nobbiness gen.
eral, of dress, chiefly in particular. The
uptown shopping districts Of New York
and the corresponding ladies block on
Fulton street, in Brooklyn, are thronged
with beauty and fashion all day from
quite an early hour. Such stores as
Stewards and Macy's and five hundred
others of more modest prctensions are
literally damned and the streets in the
vicinity are lined three deep on either
curb with carriages owned by the wealth
lest of the wealthy. Union square,
Fourteenth street and Broadway are full
of attractions every store seems to have
put its best foot foremost, and art, fash
ion and utility are combined in bewil-
dering variety to tempt the yawning
purses of the gazers. There are evidences
of prosperity abroad on every hand.
Eighth avenue looks as gay as Sixth did
year or so ago, and Sixth avenue is
a finer and buster street any day in the
week than Broadway was in its famous
days of old when the bulk of all the re-
tail business of the city was done on the
great thoroughfare. Third avenue and
the Bowery, that peculiarly cosmopolitan
street, are scarcely less filled with the
surging tide of eager humanity.
Indians fakirs, and the well-known
Simon Stylites, those oriental fanatics
who are in the habit of standing for a
few years in one position for religious
purposes, have been rivaled by a genius
who probably went mad by too much
study of pedestrian go-as-you-please con-
tests. Misther Michael Carey astonish-
ed an intelligent policeman by standing
for some hours on tombstone in mar
BILE yard, and refusing to come down or
move on when requested. He said he
had bet $4,000 he would stand just
there for seven days, without eating or
sleeping. A tolerably big contract to
fill. The officer evidently thought it
wasn't good for the mans health, SC
softly tapped him with his club, and in
duced him to change his intentions.
A brave and otherwise remarkable
boy, John McEvoy by name. has just
shown how in some cases the human
family can rival the feline race in vital
ity. The young fellow was sent fol-
some sawdust in Paterson, N. j., fac
tory and was gathering it from under ;
circular saw which was not in motion
when suddenly the man running it, no
knowing the boy was there, set it going
The poor boys head was cut clear through
to the nostrlls like piece of cake. H
was conscious when taken out and spok
nationally frequently afterwards. Com
planning that the pain was very severe
not whimper escaped the young here
who was still alive at last accounts. Th
most eminent surgeons declare the cas-
to be the most remarkable on record.
The neighboring City of Churcht
seems to be in very bad way, to judg
from the statements of the Brookly
Eaqle, a staunch and devoted friend
e our great suburb where he made b
money. 1t appears the taxes and a
I sessments in arrears amount to $l0,01e
;. 625.24, and the property owners pref
e to let their possessiong 60 rather tn;
! pay up. The publication of the fax
t has, of course, stirred up lively new
: paper war;
It told you recently about an alleg
" sea-serpent said to have been seen by
,e multitude of fishermen near Sandy Hoo
i By curious coincidence, brig came
% the next day badly damaged by c
Dc lision with a whale. Singularly enou
,e a dead whale has just been stranded
in Shinnecock Beach on Long Island. I
,e Indians there, small remnant of OF