Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-10


There can be no doubt that the bust
ness of the country is improving, for the
reports at the departments show it. In
September the exports exceeded the i'm
ports more than $2O,OOO,000. This is
as good showing as was made last year,
and shows that the improvement is per-
manent and will stick. The capital
city is doing its share towards giving
evidence of better times. Never was
known so much building and identifying, |
and the plans for the future are grander |
than ever before. LOGAN.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIroR.1
New YORK, Nov. 3, 1879.
The great sale of eighty-slx blood
horses from Mr.. Robert Bonner's stable
came off, as advertised, last Wednesday
and attracted an enormous crowd of
representative horsemen from every Sec
ton of the country. The total realized,
under $4,000, was certainly far below
the general expectation, though probably
those best informed might know the
stock was not the choicest of the wonder
full collection. The highest price for
one horse was $4,000, paid by Mr..
Charles A. Dana, editor of the N. Y.
San, an old and obliged friend of Mr..
Bonner, for Jim Keene, horse which
they say cost $22,5OO. But one or two
others fetched more than $1,000 and
then they dwindled very rapidly low
down in three figures. General Withers
of Kentucky, secured the larges number
and took young horses invariably. evil
IDENTIFY with an eye to the future.
1t is strange what devoted admira-
ton Mr. Bonner has for fast horses and
what extraordinary sums he has paid
for them. often with what most people
would say, without the slightest infusion
of business prudence or sagacity. For
instance, am told that he actually paid
for colt, somewhere up the Hudson,
before it was born, to the sum of So, 000.
Whether it pays. however, to buy or
own such marvels as Derter or Uncas.
or the fifteen or twenty other perfect
beauties still retained in his stables,
Mr.. Bonner makes his business pay, as
everybody knows. and is lust as liberal
IN his cnndnct nf IL as IN the nnrchasa
of horses. With his writers he is a firm
and constant friend. He chooses them
by their notoriety, letting other people
test and try them. When some lucky
day bright reporter strikes Big b.
nanza in the shape of piece of news,
which he renders in a way to capture
popular admiration, or some forlorn
damsel makes everybody weep with a
pathetic poem, Mr.. Bonner at once seeks
to open communications with them and
their future is thenceforth assured. Their
subsequent work may not be as good as
their first, but if not up to the mark of
the Ledger, it is quietly pigeon-holed
and the authors get their checks all the
same, and when they grow old or stupid,
or otherwise untitled for the battle of
life, they still experience the bounties
of the kindly publisher. Just as he
pensions off his old horses who have
done good service or pleased his eye, SO
he pensions off his poets. Happy indeed
is horse or poet who feeds at Mr.. Bon
ner's crib.
The artillery of the National Guard
have just closed very interesting course
of instruction by officers of the regular
army at Fort Hamilton. Squads of
officers and non-commissioned officers
from every battery in the State were
| pun VniouSH ohO gun uIii do pIIFdCcS,
as we'll as in every other position in con-
nection with their possible future func-
tons. Then, in the evenings they at
tend lectures on the theory of gunnery.
The progress made and the interest
exhibited have been very great, and the
experiment just concluded has evidently
laid the foundation for systematic mill
tary instruction of the best sort for our
citizen soldiers War is an unhappiness
that we may we'll pray never to see
again, but the best way to avoid it is to
be always ready.
1t appears our military authorities
seem to think New York by no means
sufficiently prepared to resist invasion,
and two new forts are suggested, so
made as to be impregnable to the heav-
lest modern ordnance, while carrying
metal enough to annihilate feet of OBJ
trusive iron-clads. If it is decided that
they must be erected, they will cost an
immense sum of money, and other mill.
tary and naval men think that with our
torpedoes and other existing contrivanc-
es, we could cool the ardor of any un-
welcome visitors. 1t is quite journey
across the Atlantic for any ambitious
European potentate to undertake with
force enough to hold New York week.
even if he could get in.
The gallant Seventh Regiment, of
which New York is SO proud. has man
aged to raise among its own members,
its vafaranc and fr;ands q yarv loroo