Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-16


to cinder, the old man and girl lying
close together in the northwest corner of
the house. The old mans skull was
broken, evidently with a fire shovel,
which was lying under him.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIToRl
NEW YORK, Feb 9, 1880.
One hundred thousand dollars in one
donation for sweet charity is a present
that princes are not in the habit of max
ing. This is the gift of James Gordon
Bennett, Of the New York Herald, to
the furnishing peasantry of Ireland, to
say nothing of the surrender for weeks
of columns upon columns of the most val
liable space in his two papers to adver-
tise in the most effective manner every
effort in the cause. 1t is not the first
time Mr.. Bennett has put his hand un-
ostentatiously in his pocket in way to
eclipse the deeds of men widely famed
as philanthropists. When the panic
broke out in 1878, he promptly met the
situation, headed subscription list
with $4,000, and started his reporters
all over the city to report on restitution
generally. and particularly with the de-
sired effect of stirring up the benevolent
to practical methods of relief. He is
thought of by great many people as a
careless man of the world, given to
yachting, polo and fashionable festivities
of all kinds, to perhaps an undue de-
gree, but the man who found the man
to find Livingstone, who organized the
Arctic expedition, who explored Cuba
by proxy during the bitterest times Of
the raging rebellion there has as much
brains as modesty. Perhaps he could
not have founded the Herald, but it is
a question whether even his father could
have conducted it better along the pecu
liar course it has followed since it foun
dalton.
Charles G. Waite, founder of the
Brevoort House, hotel much patroni
zed by aristocratic visiting Englishmen
) who also held large interest in thu
magnificent Windsor Hotel, is dead
He was, although by no means a politi
clan, prominent member of the Uniol
League Club and of several very "toney'
and scientific societies and will be miss
ed. Another celebrity of a retiring dis
position has passed away at the ripe ag
of 80 years, namely, the genial William
Cooper, brother to good old DR.. Pete
Cooper, and scarcely second to him i
. the performance of goods deeds. H
{ was very wealthy man and connecte
y with many of our most influential inan
J cial institutions, besides developing
taste for gentlemanly sports which b
kept up to the last. He was a goo
Judge of fine horse, and Commodore {
( the Atlantic Yatch Club for anotht
t. thing. where 1 was introduced to hi
ID three years ago, and got warmly trounce
er at billiards by the veteran. The men
We bers turned out in strong force, in mar
We cases, at considerable personal inco
e. venience, to attend his funeral. I
e. was born in farmhouse which sto(
10 within few feet of the office | am wri
n ing this letter in.
ad An agitation is going on among t
Is Irish Societies which will probably /
le. suit in the omission this year of the !
be nous St. Patrick's Day parade and sen
ad ing the money which it would have &C
er to aid the suffering poor of Ireland.
Ter is thought better not to 'drown t
nix shamrock" in the customary way, wi
Ter whiskey, while it is now drowned in
I'D native land with tears. With all tn
led faults, the Irish are warm-hearted a
ere charity is passion with them. If t
ad. parade were only omitted henceforwa
nd and forever, and the Orange celebrate
he on July 18th as we'll, people genera
vas would be better pleased. We shall m
at but not regret the wondrous hats of |
md processionists.
a read the other day in the Amerit
ed. Exporter letter from Australia repo
led ing the remarkable success attending
hat exhibition of Waltham watches at
full Sydney Exposition, recalling the sen
en- ton among foreigners about them at
ins own Centennial Their popularity h
of seems to be daily on the increase W
ing nine out of ten intelligent people.
Money and melody, stocks and sill
VIC jostle each other in friendly and ia
the ionable manner at ladies' stock
the change up town, where the fair dabb
at in the wares of Wall street are aided
ing young and lovely guide, philosop
as and friend to make their investmer
not While they watch the tapes they