Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-12-06
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL ooRREsPoEDENoE OF THE MONITOR
Nuxu Vopv Nov 90 1900


New YORK. Nov. 20, 1880.
-4s, Snow has come with frost, Thanks
giving. turkeys and tramps. The birds,
owing to the cold which would preserve
them at little cost for ice, were held at
unusually high figures, but goodly
quantities were disposed of for all that
with the Evolutionary fxings. One very
pleasant feature of the annual obser
vance was the distribution of good
things by the Ladies' Union Relief So
ciety to MANNED veterans of the civil
war, their widows and orphans. A
committee of the leading feminine swells
of the metropolis sat all day on We'd
nesday at the receipt of practical graft
tude, as they gracefully dispensed their
,bOunties. The tramps were Hospitality
entertained at the station houses, and
charitable folks generally had good
time in providing at least one good meal
to many who had almost forgotten what
good meal meant. The ragamuf6ns
-(amateurs), of course, had grand time
with targets shoots, and the customary
number of small boys in following these
attractive professions of the grotesque
and ,harmlessly disorderly lads were
lost for while to their great grief and
dread of losing their share of the do
nestle feast, One young and close rel
ative of your RADIx was beguiled into
a cheerful journey of ten miles in this
way and turned up just in time for din
ner, very forlorn little object. A lit
tie warning with a slipper suggested it
self as an appropriate remedy for the
threatened evils of such an uuwonted
pilgrimage. but the genial influences of
the day prevailed and the wanderer was
warmed as to his toes with comforting
socks, and as to his little gizzard with
the great American fowl, etc. Some
tramps in New Jersey besieged a farm
house in force, cleaned out the barn
yard and held high carnival on the con-
tents, for all the world like crowd of
Sherman bummers marching through
Georgia. av
Did you happen to see the Sun of
last Tuesday? 1t was a double number,
quite dose of literature for two cents,
and I'll venture to say that every man
Jack who bought copy eagerly turned
the paper inside out to see what under
the sun was important enough to de-
mand double edition. The result
was the discovery of the most stipend.
ons advertisement ever put in daily
paper. Four solid pages were filled to
the muzzle with the closely printed an.
nouncement of their virtues by George
7. Rowell & Co., the newspaper adver
Using agents. don't know what they
had to pay, but should judge the bill
could not have been dollar less thar
$4,000, which beats Bonner & Barnuu
hollow in their own favorite advertising
methods. eE@
o General Grant seems to have acquir
cd considerable access of sociabilit,
by his travels abroad. and hobnobbline
with emperors, kings, mandarins, ant
other exalted personages. He has bios
somed out into quite an extensive diner
out, has broken through his old habit o
silence III the most unexpected way
He made a capital speech at privat
affair in Brooklyn, the other day. give
: by one of the state electors for the pres
2 idency, and another of a. cheerful, no
: to say ocular, strain at a grand ban
quet and. reception rendered him by th
e Lotus Club. The president of this lii
: erary association, Mr.. Whitelaw Reid,
: long-haired and somewhat elderly youth
y nurtured by Horace Greeley. and hi
o successor in the chief tripod of th
Tribune, mOoted the question as to tn
i desirability of making the ex-President
i, er-ofScto Senators-at-Large for lif;
It The subject has been warmly taken vi
7. and the pros and cons have been e.
D changed with promptness and severit
% in most of the daily papers. dj
d Talking of Barnum. the genial oil
d fellow had his first illness the 9th.
t. day, and indeed is still sufferer.
to is very busy with his projects for eclip
ing all his famous efforts IN the sho
! line, and is building mammoth museu
for live animals near his home. nu
= sery or storehouse for the widest
beasts, and slipping down to New Yol
: without the knowledge of his famil
! plunged deeply into business, and aft
3 life of perfect health got a rap ov
= the .knuckles to admcnish him that
. is mortal like other men. Let us no
! the prince showmen may long live
/" delight future generations of your
~ Americans as he amused US in our da
!, of infancy.
- !, Everybody is laughing at Archiba
: Forbes, the famous British War Ct
=, respondent and ex-priyate dragon, W
: is over here delivering lectures abo
90 his adventures with monarchs and gre
:, generals in all the recent great ru
~ puses in Europe. One would think