Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-24
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.


LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL. CORRESPONDENCE THE MONITOR
New YORK, Nov IL, 1879.
The arrival of the first number of
new mystical and very learned magazine
from India, the Iheosophtst, edited in
Bombay by the famous Russian lady
Madame Blavatsky, suggests the number
of people of intelligence who in spite of
outspoken public sentiment, secretly
believe in various queer manifestations
of communion with denizens of other
worlds which scientists cannot explain.
Some remarkable condolences occasion
ally occurr that would stagger the in
credulity of the most confirmed sceptic.
For instance, in the case of the disas-
trous collision between a British ship
and the steamer Champion, bound to
Charleston, and only a few hours out
from New York, one of the victims was
a bright young bridegroom. who had
just been promoted to second engineer
after short but meritorious service,
ranging upward from the very lowest
grade, and got married on the strength
of it. His young wife woke up scream
ing on the very night and hour of the
catastrophe, when the vessels were far
out on the ocean, and sobbingly told the
alarmed occupants of the house of
frightful dream that had oppressed her,
and how her husband had been lost.
She described the incidents of wreck and
ruin with absolute accuracy, every de-
tail agreeing in every particular with
the account rendered by the survivors
on their arrival, many hours afterward,
within the Delaware breakwater.
The pilot boats of New York and New
Jersey, have long been the pride of our
ports, and the admiration of mariners
from all over the world. On their mod
ell was built the famous yacht America,
which so thoroughly trounced the pleas
ure squadrons of England in 1851. They
are SO staunch that no transatlantic
steamer affords so safe resting place in
the severest weather and their hardy
crews have and deserve the highest rep
utation for skill and courage Alas !!
there is war among those careful guides
of the trackless waters. Some innovators
have actually flown in the face of all
precedent, and discaFding their time hon.
ored schooner, have built steamer. A
putting boiler box is to compete for fees
with the pretty gull-winged beauties
which SO saucily await the incoming
ships hundreds of miles off shore, and
fury reigns in the bronzed bosoms of
the majority of the brotherhood. There
is likely to be quite warm legal scrim-
mage on the question.
We are having quite an epidemic of
suicides. One of the most romantic in
its way was the sequel of an adventure
in which a certain notorious medical
man who has suffered prosecution by
the United States on account of some
peculiar publications. narrowly escaped
being shot. A visitor came to him one
morning, and after few forcible re-
marks produced huge revolver and
proposed to try little surgery on his
own account. The doctor objected, and
in the struggle managed to wound his
assailant, who escaped, and to secure
the weapon. A. letter mailed to friend
of the rash person who proves to be q
Teutonic barber Of Hartford, Connecti
cut, reveals the cause of the trouble
The doctor, it seems, had bled his peck
cts to such degree that the poor mar
grew tired of life. He disposed of hi
affairs in the most business-like manner
asked his friend to act as trustee of hi
estate, and console bis mother. and thel
explained that he meant 'just to &c
square once" with that doctor and ther
retire from this scene of pills and othe
disagreeables. Two or three women o
certain or uncertain age have been cast
ing themselves before the wheels of 10
comotiyes, and another was saved by
friend of mine and her own petticoat
an evening or SO ago from long swirl
in the East River. Comfortably prime
with morphine she strobe tragically at
rapid gait to the end of a ferry boat. Sh
got one limb over the chain, when sh
was grabbed almost simultaneously b
, two bystanders, one of whom decorousl
| hoisted the outer boot back again insid
the chain and then braced up agains