Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-06
LETTER FROM NEW YORK,
Special Correspondence.
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This is holiday week; not only by
the calendar, but by thousand other
and equally convincing tokens. The
world is enveloped in different atmos-
phere, for these few closing days of the
year, from that which ordinarily encom-
passes it; and a wonderful atmosphere
it is. It may be cold, or wet, or bright
or dark, but it is still quivering with
the pulsations of the wings of that "mul-
titude of the heavenly hest" and with
the echoes of their first and matchless
Christmas song Frosty as it is. what
strange and penetrating vitality is in
it 1t throws great, glorious Christmas
trees into more than summer bloom. Its
jovial blasts force open the doors of
churches, homes and hearts. 1t may
freeze water, but it thaws the blood.
More wonderful than all, it can work
itself down into the most tightly but
toned pockets, and heat the coin so hot
that it burns its way out. 1t is the
very reverse of the i'll winds that blows
nobody good for it bears up Santa
Claus-that jolly old almoner-in his
aerial flights, drops fuel and food on
to the novels doorstep, costly trinkets
down the mansion chimney, and good
cheer all along the route. 1t is so full
of moral oxygen that it sets people
allowing, smiling, shaking hands, ars'
slapping each other on the back, like
so much laughing gas. It-it-well,
wish you and your readers merry
Christmas and happy New Year.
Geld has given 1T up at last, and
comes down to earth again. For half
a generation it has been proud miner
al, disdaining to associate with anybody
outside a small coterie of bankers and
brokers, or to do any harder work than
lying in state in safes and vaults. 1t
has, so to speak, been ballooning so long
that it hated to give up the aristocratic
recreation and come down to biz. But
the balloon sprung a small leak even be-
fore the war ended. and, in spite of all
effort, has been slowly sinking ever
since. 1t touched ground some days
ago, and though it has bounded feebly
several times since, otter the manner Of
balloons, it is now being made fast, anG
the sybarite gold, reluctant to leave hi
long vacation, is rolling up his sleeves
preparatory to going to work.
And speaking of resumption remind
me to relieve you and your readers from
the anxiety you must have felt as t
how you should be able to carry aroun,
your wealth when metallic money i
> again current. The Government ha
just finished the plates of the new So,
900 and $4,000 notes, which will a
u once be put into circulation. Won't
be comfort to dispense with the Other
wise necessary wheelbarrow, and be abl
. to carry all the pocket-money We nee
;, in little roll of these bills, hardly big
ger than your fist?
!. There is reaper whose name
IS Death" according to the old poem. an
ii rUr slckle ho usoa great variety c
10 IusVrumou eaiteios. vi all UiOso weapon
,s Disease is his favorite; but when TIL
N fails to accomplish his purpose, the fe
IT destroyer has recourse to firearms, pa
ir ing-stones, boiler explosions, and eve
If bakers wagons. 1t was this latt,
1t agency which enabled him of the sku
TT aud cross-bones to gain the victory,
,e few days ago, over Eliza Thompson,
,e this city, an old colored woman who fl
d, four years more than century had d
le fed his every effort. Mrs. Thompso
t. was born on Long Island tive years b
b. fore the Declaration of independence
ut New York and even Massachusetts, we
10 slayeholding States at that time,
~ that she was born a slave and RENAME
of such until knight-errand appeared
i. burst her bonds in the person of a your
ly negro who, having fallen in love Wi
of her, labored patiently till he had save
We enough money to purchase her freedo
nv and his own, when he married her.
As For more than half a century MI
D. Thompson lived in this city, a humb
rv but worthy member of the communit
of and at the time of the accident viii
mt resulted in her death, was possessed
At. degree of health and strength that e
nd titled her to at least dozen years mo
of active life. Curiously enough, on t
day of this centenarian's funeral, t
death was reported of another one,
W. woman just one hundred years old.
lp- Paul Boyton, the adventurous swi
wn mer, whose exploits are known to t
re- world, arrived here the other night,
ess ter absence of three year in Euro
his During that time comparatively lit
his has been heard of Captain Boyton, /
es, he has been by no means idle. He
er. made many exciting and perilous VI
,u- ages, among them being trips down I
Job Danube, the Pc, the Arno, the lib
ish the Rhone, the Loire, the Tagus,
be Garonne, and the Seine. The voya
RS down the Tagus extended over eig
In hundred miles. through a wild a