Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-06-09
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.

elevated railroads, which have been
seething and bubbling for several months
to the great worriment of the two roads
themselves and the partial incommode-
ment of the public. The aid of the
Legislature was invoked to re-establish
peace but the lawmakers refused to
mix up in the fight, and told the bel
ligerents to settle the affair among them
selves-thereby displaying an amount
of common sense almost unprecedented
in the history of State Legislatures.
This good advice the roads apparently |
took to heart, for they have just agreed
to turn over all their property to new
corporation formed for the purpose and
called the Manhattan Company, which
will hereafter operate both lines and
apportion to each of the original compa-
MES its share of the profits.
The Thirteenth Regiment of Brooklyn,
which boasts of having Henry Ward
Beecher for its chaplain as its chef dis
tinction, has started for Canada to par
ticipate in the celebration of the Queens
birthday. 1t had been previously and
privately arranged that in the sham
fight, which was to form part of the fes-
tivities, the Canadian troops were finally
to give way and courteously allow the
American Eagle to screech in triumph.
The Princess Louise was to present the
regiment with colors, and great time
generally was expected. The passage
of the regiment through the streets Of
Brooklyn at its departure was in the ma
ture of triumphal procession, cheers.
banners and flowers being freely employ
ed to honor these blood stained warriors,
and especially, perhaps, their intrepid
chaplain who was to air his gold lace
and earn his spurs in fierce encounter
with the Kanucks.
came across the other day, copy
of the new edition of Webster's Una
bridged, in more senses than one the
greatest of American books, and con-
fess | was surprised to see the changes
and additions which it embodies.
We are accustomed to think of dict
ionary per Sc as one of the most stable
and fixed of publications, and indeed we
are correct enough, SO far as most works
of a kink are concerned but the pub
fishers of Webster's seem to look upon
its nature and mission in quite differ
ent light. l venture to assert that for
twenty years there has been no single
volume before the country of greater
value than the unabridged Still its
owners are not satisfied. They have
gone on republishing. revising and en-
larging it until now it becomes fair
presumption to believe that they intend
it ultimately to become whole ency-
clopedic library in one volume. This
last edition reaches nearly 1000 pages
and contains full 5000 engravings. 1t
retains all the comprehensively treated
features which raised it to its present
position, with the addition, since the
last previous issue, of almost five thous.
and new words and meanings and new
biographical dictionary of nearly ten
thousand names. This latter is one Of
the most useful and sensible addenda tx
, the great work that could have been de
vised. In our reading we are constantly
asking ourselves "who was this person
and what, when and where was he 2
3 Here we have the whole thing in nut
q she'll. A few words only are devoted tt
each subject, but they are words care
fully chosen and give just the genera
$ information we require. The new Web
9 ster is ''Unapproached' as well as "Un
e abridged"
t That particular squad of Uncle Sam
e Custom House employees who earn thei
: bread by searching the incoming imml
v grants at Castle Garden for contraban
and dutiable articles, found themselve
: in quandary the other day when
!; Frenchman landed, with good, bi
s grizzly bear as his companion. Tn
e officials ordered him to halt, and afte
S examining their prize from respectful
# distance, informed the man that he mus
is pay ten dollars duty on the beast. Th
j. immigrant objected on several ground;
n of which perhaps the strongest was ths
is he didn't have the ten dollars. Th
blue coats insisted, however, SO afte
is slyly poking the bear until the latter So
IS up on his hams and showed the assen
!; blage fine open countenance, he blanc
IS ly informed them that if they wante
s. their money they could just take I'll
,e bear. This was fair enough propos
r tion, but somehow the officers didn't a
W as though they wanted to take it u
After considerable skirmishing, howeve
:; during which the bear tore some cloth
I'd and came near doing more serious dan
er age, he was temporarily secured, ar
b. is, believe, now waiting some suficien
;" ly secure conveyance to take him up
K Central Park. Somebody suggests tina
:" instead of doing that, they send him |
I'd to Wall street. He could certainly wa
be that short distance, and would, of cours
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