Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-10-06
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNrToRl
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 1879.

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NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 1879.
A peculiar phase of the walking
mania is the appearance of SO many
eccentric people on the sawdust and tan
bark track. The ex-champion Weston.
father of long distance walking, is
prominent specimen j; once sort of
journalist, he has acted SO strangely
before the multitudes watching his
performance. that very general doubts
have been expressed as to his sanity,
and his mountebank tricks have been
anything but dignifed. Another mans
reputation seems chiefly to depend on
his capacity for his eating pie, and
another on his long hair. and SO on.
One thing is certain, that to win a prize,
grit and bottom are necessary, and that
no amount of antics or catch penny devil
ces to attract little cheap notoriety
are worth cent. The Englishmen
have been singularly modest in their
behavior, looked on the whole affair as
business. and went at it in steady,
business-like way. This walking must
be terrible task. They say the ftful
slumbers of the wretched pedestrians are
haunted by the most terrible dreams,
and that when they resume their pacing
after them they suffer untold tortures in
every limb till they warm up to their
work. The prizes for the foremost have
certainly been very large and tempting,
but the losers who lost their entrance
money seem to have undergone even
more bodily pain. Very good order pre-
vailed on this occasion, the only notice
able exception being the hurting of a
stone at Hazael by ruffian who feared
to lose bet.
The rush back of residents from the
country and of visiting strangers with
pockets full of money continues, and
cheering indications Of positive and
general revival of business on healthy
basis are multiplying on every hand.
The only American nobleman, George
the Count Joannes, as he calls himself.
has been celebrating the centennial of
the victory gained by his alleged relative.
Commodore Paul Jones, over the English
line-of- battle ship Scraps. The queer
old gentleman was good naturally allow
ed by the Mayor and Aldermen to hoist
a flag painted by himself and stated to
L. e. l. IS thn he
American ship during the action. from
the roof of the City Hall. and has been
boiling over for days with joy and pat
riotism. His contributions to the press
have been voluminous. and really inter.
esting as we'll as comical.
A very tall story is told by the ven-
cradle father of General Daniel E. Sick.
les, of much matrimonial and army fame
1t appears the old gentleman is very
fond of music, and that on several occa
sions of late. a ghostly orchestra of sur
passing merit. led by most polite and
accomplished disembodied spirit, have
visited him in broad daylight and play
ed enchanting airs, to his great delight
That jolly joker, Senator S. s. (Sun
set) Cox, has earned the gratitude 0
those friends of all of US. the Post Offic,
carriers, by getting their pay raised
and the New York boys organized
little surprise for him the other day
and gave him a superb watch, which h
acknowledged in as good a speech a
he ever made.
Mr.. Bergh. of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, is in tn
throes of conflict with the doctors
Vivi-section is the trouble this time
The doctors claim that cutting up dog
alive is very necessary in the interest
of science, Mr.. Bergh takes issue there
on. The fight is quite exciting.