Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-22
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR
NEW YORK, March Is. 1880.

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoN1ToR1
NEW YORK, March Is, 1880.
In mystic seclusion, in the remotest
recesses of the top story of prominent
firm engaged in the manufacture of ar
tistic vehicles, is foreign painter.
The workmen know nothing of his pres
ence, or there might be war. He is a
Chinaman, refugee from San Francisco
and the Legislators of the sand lots. He
works cheaply, and with no little taste,
in an Oriental sort of way, and it by no
means follows that any one would object
to his presence, but then again they
might, and his employers, who rather
calculate on making sensation by his
novel decorations, don't want to run
any risks. There is quite stir about
the incoming Chinese, and ladies with
fine equipages may be observed any day
exploring the purlieus of Mott street in
search of male chambermaids, cooks and
washers with pigtails, under the impress
sion that thee are preferable to the aver
age Bridget. costing less and giving less
trouble. Perhaps they may find that in
going farther they have Jared worse.
Poor abused Bridget has many good
points.
After welcoming the heather, we have
been speeding our parting guest, Par
nell, the Irish M. p, and agitator. The
gallant Sixty-ninth turned out to escort
him to his steamer, and with lofty cour-
.tesy, the committee who were spouting
at him and hobnobbing with doch-au-
dhuruis, or parting glass of real peat
smoked whiskey, left Col Cavanagh,
the commandant, we'll known IN the war
as "the little major" of the Irish Brig
ade, cooling his heels in the binding
snow in front of the New York Hotel.
The visit of the somewhat cantankerous
parsonage has not turned out much of
success. He got into wrangle with
the Nea0 York Herald, and got the worst
of it. His friends have had to apollo
gize for him, and to be put on the de-
tense at the beginning of what was in
tended to be an aggressive camgalgn
was unfortunate for his objects. He
has been disappointed, and source of
disappointment to others.
The ingenious small boy who expends
his time in removing the cancellation
marks from used postage stamps has
been found to be sufficiently expensive
nuisance to Uncle Sam to render it de-
slrable in the interest of the Revenue to
Illustrate his knavish trick in some way
or other. No kind to ink could elude
the chemical researches of the scientific
culprits, and perforations were objected
to as liable to injure the enclosed manu-
script A thin steel stamp has now
been devised, which is rapidly heated by
gas and scorches design lightly into
the stamp to be cancelled, and the plan
seems very effectual.
A cremated Hebrew formed one of the
latest sensations 1t seems the conser-
vative Israelites have not been accus-
toned to burn the bodies of their dead
for several thousand years, if ever, and
the yielding to the latest fashion of fu.
nereal finishing up this mortal coil is
regarded as matter of great impor
lance. Itappears prominent puryeyol
of chromos, who got burnt out few
month ago, after notifying the world o.
an intended change of location, had hi:
attention directed to the desirability o.
having his own remains as comfortably
disposed of as the late more or less un
salable remains of his stock, especially
when fully insured, and exacted prom
Use from his son-in-law, doctor of some
repute, to have him cremated when b,
died. The physician cheerfully agreed
and asked the same favor IN return. Tn,
one man was old, the other young, boil
in excellent health, but the junior wa
the first to become eligible for the carry
ing out of the agreement. DR.. Alder
, the ethic culturist, performed the fna
services. and accompanied the corpse t.
, the cooking. 1t was nicely baked in al
, alum sheet, and the ashes gathered il
just one hour, at cost of $40.
Bearing banner with the strange de
!, vice, "Blood and Fire y brigade of tn
!, Salvation Army of Great Britain ha
, arrived in order to evangelize our wick
ed people. There is general, VIII,
is man, "sister captain" and sil
, ssister lieutenants," clad in blue uni
, form, turned up with red, and armed
with hymn-books, medodious voices, al
absence of bashfulness, and much perse
verance. The storm that awaited then
has not been favorable to their open-ai
, exhortations but, as the early Sprin!
clother our trees with futtering leaves
we may expect to find our highways ant
byways occupied by the out-pickets o
, these soldiers of the Lord.
: The man to cure the pestilential al
5 of the Tombs Jour famous City Prison
: has been found, and his remedy is yer,
: simple and cheap. Built on the loves