Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-11-08
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
SPECIAL coRREsPoNDENoE OF THE MoNIToR.I
Nr1.r Voru Ook 90 1900

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNrroR.I
New YORK, Oct 20, 1880.
Sarah Bernhardt is here at last in all
her ethereal thinuess, and has already
assimilated large quantities of cocktails
and Bourbon sours, those supposed-to-be
indigenous American drinks. fancy
it will scarcely be worth my while to
tell you much about her. since all the
papers have been, and will be, full of
her, her sayings and dolngs. To tell
the truth, can't say much now, for l
haven't seen her yet, and shocking as it
may sound, were it not for the interest
of your readers, | personally wouldn't
care to cross the street to see the poly
androus but well-preserved invader.
But she has set Gotham in blaze.
Talking of blazes, Kate Claxton was
on the stage with another fire the other
night, little one this time, which was
put out with great presence of mind by
the trombone, or rather the agile though
ponderous performer on that instrument.
Not with his breath, though Herr
Pfeiffenschneider can puff away with
the best of them, but in real work.
manlike manner, and the audience at
the Bijou Opera Heuse had good reason
to applaud his bravery and GOODNESS in
the emergency. The good fellow GER
tainly saved panic which would inevi-
tably have caused great loss of life, and
he ought to get a silver trombone at
least as a memento of his gallantry.
A reverend philanthropist has seen
the gratuitous lce-water distribution Of
the past summer and gone heap better
by chartering wagon, where from he
dispenses hot coffee and loaves of sound
white bread to all applicants. He says
the poor need food and stimulants, and
he thinks coffee and bread better than
whiskey and free lunches, and cheap
er as we'll as better investment for the
charitable carriers of full purses than
taxes for the maintenance of criminals
in demoralizing jails. 1t is singular
} enterprise, and all good citizens can but
hope it will succeed. 1t is more pleas
/ ing to the recipient than the bread and
/ water suggested as better than nothing
, by Mr.. Beecher year or so ago, for
which he was SO soundly rated.
1t is sad enough that the general
| business prosperity which is SO observa-
: bic on every hand is not without serious
e exceptions. Talking about coffee re-
s minded me that the whole coffee inter
: est has for more than year been very
e much depressed, and there has just oc'
n CURED the heavy failure of a house
=; which enjoyed the highest reputation
e and still enjoys the esteem and sympa
e thy of the whole business community
l. The house of Risley & Co. has beer
/; foremost among our first class merchants
K for thirty years. They have now failet
y for not far short of million dollars
N And there are sundry other failures O
k some moment.
IS Lieutenant Schwatka, the gallan
Z. Arctic explorer is here now and gettin,
he considerably lionized, while the Episco
II pal bishops, who have just finished VI
ie with their convention, have also bee
at taken care of by the fashionable circle:
is They seem to have decided on consider
y able notifications of the order of praye
in at the discretion of officiating rectors
b. had good deal to say about marriag
he and divorce, but appear to have left til
en- question just where they found it fe
to another year, at any rate, and woun
he up by comforting episcopacy on tt
re brother of the Bishop of Massachusett
"a Rev. DR.. John A. Paddock, for man
les years identified with one of the mo
an important parishes of Brooklyn, and
ed most estimable man. They wanted 4
,al make him Bishop Of Colorado, | thin
it was, some years ago, but his frienC
exclaimed at the barbarity of such ;
la exile and it was thought he would,
ew waiting just little. succeed to tt
ice bishopric of New Jersey. But he didn
Ca and now he is to go to the distant will
yl- of Washington Territory.
ey. Patience and perseverance have sto
lb- the secret service people in good stea
de- They have just made most importa
be haul of the principal members of t
ans most formidable gang of counterfcite
the who ever infested this country. 1t to-
lst- them just one year to fasten the cril
ion on the perpetrators. who were as ca
the tious in covering their tracks as skill
Ire, in the execution of their illegitim;
ub- business. The bank notes and bon
ub- they turned out were indistinguishal
even by trained experts, except by ca