Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-12-01
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIToR]
NEw YoRK Nov. "a. 1879.

New YORK, Nov. "a, 1879.
The Seventh Regiment Fair is the
sensation of the day, and is an enor-
nous success. Husbands. fathers,
lovers, and amiable brothers are
likely long to feel the results in empty |
pockets, for the pickets thrown out
by the favorite militia corps are the
most charming of their feminine con-
nections and friends. Adorned by
nature and art to an indispensable de-
gree, these fair Amazons challenge every
visitor, and none is so bold as to refuse
to yield to their peremptory demands.
A rosebud costs ST., and other things
in proportion. The grand armory, to
help pay for which the fair is held, is
beautiful sight at night, lit up as it is
by the electric light, and blazing with
diamonds and happy faces. Prominent
dealers in all sorts of things have donat-
ed samples of their best productions with
lavish generosity. There are $1,000
pianos, and furniture, organs crockery
ware, jewelry, and every imaginable
species of knicknack and furniture to
tempt the eye of the visitor, and as
every one thinks it mean to go away
without buying something, if only to be
in the fashion of petting the Seventh,
the sums realized are remarkable. On
the first day alone over $4,000 were
gathered in the Golfers of the treasurer
of the Building Committee, and the first
four days brought in $4,000. There
are all the usual features of fairs exag-
gerated. Some of the swords, for instance,
which are put up to be balloted for In
order to be presented to the most popu-
lar officers of various grades, would be
cheap at $1,000. All the fashionable
world is to be found gathered together
at this transient headquarters of Vanity
Fair.
Sl6,8OO is rather large sum for a
man to pay for breakfast. This, &C.
cording to the complaint in case which
is now before the courts, is what an
eccentric old German paid involuntarily
year or two ago. The old gentleman,
who with economical ideas, frequently
ate in cheap restaurants and lodged In
COW stables, barns or the cellars of his
friends houses, called in, he says, for
some breakfast at downtown hotel.
He was served with pork chops. He
said they were bad. The waiter said
they were not. He ordered others.
They were brought He ate them. Then
he proposed to pay for those he ate, not
for those he rejected. The waiter re-
monstrated. Words flew and the pro-
prietor appeared and took a hand in.
Finally, the linen duster of the guest
was forcibly appropriated by way of Sc
curity and himself put out. The police
now entered on the festive scene aud the
coat was restored. Here is difference
of opinion. The old man said he had
SIG, 800 in the pockets, where he kept
it for safety, Directing to banks or other
supposed-to-be-places of security. The
hotel man declared no one had touched
the coat There is no doubt the plain
tiff was worth money, but whether ht
lost it is not so clear 1t is intimatet
that he had carefully disposed of hi
plumber before breakfast, and got up tn,
little pork-chop comedy on purpose t.
try and double his capital in an cas-,
way.
Professor Proctor, the great Englisl
star-gazer and philosopher, has beef
enlightening and delighting the scientist
and that section of society which goes il
for the ologies, by series of lecture
, which read like poetry. The hall b
discourses in is literally crammed ever
night by the most distinguished people
, eagerly hanging on the words of th
/ gifted orator. If there is a wonderfu
world we live in, it seems there are ott
; ers which deserve no little attention
; One good thing he promises US, and tina
: is grand display of celestial ireworA
{ on the evening of Thanksgiving Da,
4 when it is believed the earth will give
{ friendly shake to the tail of a broke
: down comet.
o True to its traditions, the Stock E,
: change has been stalking tumble" aft,
= "boom" of almost unprecedented d
s mansions. One day this week ov
y 100000 shares of stock changed band
= The "bulls" have had glorious tin
of it, and everybody seems to have MAJ