Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-03
Our New York Letter.

ATHLETIC ANrUsEAiENTs-p EBsoNA1,-TALMAaE
BEEcHER, COX, uEBGH, AND GEORGE TIL
COUNT JoANNEs-A GHosrLY ORCHESTRA
New YORK, Sept 29th, 1879.
A peculiar phase of the walking mania il
the appearance Of so many eccentric people
on the sawdust and tanbark track. The ex
champion Weston, father of long distance
walking, is prominent specimen once O
sort Of journalist he has acted so strangely
before the multitudes watching his perform.
ance, that very general doubts have been ex.
pressed as to his sanity, and his mountebank
tricks have been anything but dignifed An.
other mans reputation seems chiefly to de.
pend on his capacity for eating pie, another
on his long hair, and so on. One thing is
certain, that to win prize grit and bottom
are necessary, and that no amount Of antics
or catch-penny devices to attract a little cheap
notoriety are worth cent. The Englishmen
have been singularly modest in their behavior.
looked on the whole affair AZ business, and
went at it in n steady, busincss-lke way.
This walking must be terrible task They
say the fitful slumbers of the wrctched pedes-
triaus are haunted by the most terrible dreams.
and that when they resume their pacing af-
ter 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 under
gone even more bodily pain. Very good or
der prevailed on this occasion, the only no
ticenble exception being the hurting Of u
stone at IInzaol 10y ruflian who feared to
lose bet
The rush back of residents from the couu-
try aud Of visiting strangers with pockets
full Of money continues, and cheering indica-
lions Of a positive and general revival of
business on Il healthy basis are multiplying
on every hand.
Cricket is grand old English game which
has somehow never got quite naturalizcd
among us, except at Philadelphia An Irish
team has been among us, and played havoc
with the best men we could put up to meet
them. There is some consolation that in Il
flying trip to Canada, wher, the game is very
much more generally rlny,d, they had equal
ly unvarying success.
1t is probabl, that the daily running races
and st,eplo chaaes on the Brighton race track
at Concy Island, viii shortly be brought to u
close. A number of valuable horses have
been destroyed in these constantly recurring
contests and even the jockeys have not cs-
capped unscathcd. But the sport is popular.
and the public must be pleased Next year
Will 10 doubt witness a repetition Of thu same
sort Of thing.
We are all apog with expectation Talmage
the Great is coming back, and the mouths Of
the faithful are yawning agape in emulation
of his own. He is, 1t is understood, laden
with ,heksis spoiled from the Britishers who
listened to his talk and witnessed thu gyrn.
tons OF his wonderous cxtrcmities But the
Tabernacle il, alas, not that peaceful HON,
the good man might wish to return to- There
are discussions therein aud no less than four
prominent officials have manifested symptoms
Of serious dissatisfaction with the way things
are and have been carried on. There is the
more than probability OF another trial by the
assembled Presbytery on appeal from the de-
csion Of the former council, and then the
newspapers, illustrated and otherwise, will
not let the man alone Poor Tnlmage
Talking Of Talmage make one think of
Beechor The Plymouth pastor has just lost
one of his staunchest friends old Freelaud.
the Brooklyn Internal Revenue Collector-a
firm, not to say obstinate patriarch who has
been repeatedly turned ont of Office and has
simply declined TO go. There has been an
uproar for day or two, and then Beecher
would go down to Washington, see the Presi-
dent for the time being, and after a good
laugh come back victorious The deacon
used to take the matter very philosophically
quite as thing Of course, and one really
wonders if, il case Beecher had ever failed
the entire army and navy could have succeed
ed in ousting this most tenacious of Office
holders.
The only American noblomau. George the
Count Joaunes, Us he calls himself has been
celebrating the centennial Of the victory gain
ed 10y his alleged relative, Commodore Paul
Jones, over the English liue-of- battle ship
Scraps. The queer old gentleman was good
naturally allowed by the Mayor and Alder
men to hoist flag painted by himself and
stated to be IL fac similc Of the one used OF
the American ship during til, action, from the
roof of the City Hall, and has been boiling |
over for days with JOY and patriotism. His |
to the press have been volumi- |
nous, and really interesting Us well as conf |
cal
A very tall story is told by the venerable |
ather of General Daniel L. Sicklcs, of much |
and army fame. 1t appears the |
I'D gentleman is very fond of music, and .
hat on several occasions Of late, a gLostly |
orchestra of surprising merit led by most
polite and accomplished disembodied spirit,
ave visited him in broad daylight and played
airs, to his great delight.
That jolly joker, Senator 5. S, Sunset
jox, has earned the gratitude of those friends
# all of US, the Post Office carriers, by get
ing their pay raised, and the New York boys
organized little surprise for him the other
lay and gave him a superb watch, which he
acknowledged in as good speech as even ne
Yer made.
Mr.. Bergh, of the Society for the Proven
ion of Cruelty TO Animals, is in the throes of
conflict with the doctors Viysection is the
rouble this time. The doctors claim that
utting up dogs alive is very necessary in the
interests of science, Mr. Bergh takes issue
hereon. The fight is quite exciting.
RADIx.