Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-15
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
New YORK, March s, 1880.

dents, nave been giving themselves up
in very heathenish manner to the wor-
ship of the Goddess of Love and the
God of War. They loved each other,
and then, their sympathetic natures led
them both to love the same girl more
than each other. Then they loved each
other no more and decided upon the
polite method for settling such cases in
the shape of pistols for two and coffee
for one. They wanted no seconds. One
must die. In order to prevent the sur
vivor being hauled to prison and hanged
as murderer, each prepared a letter
addressed to the coroner misinforming |
that official that he had committed sui
eide. The star of their destiny was to
be extinguished In Blood-with big,
B. at Bethlehem, Pa. 1t so happened |
that it was extinguished in more pro-
sale manner. One of the blood-curdling |
letters fell into the hands of the young
gentlemen's guardian, and he forthwith |
informed the police. They promptly |
captured one fiery youth in the act of
packing a valise. The other had already
departed. The day afterward telegram
was intercepted from the impatient
young man at Bethlehem stirring up the
laggard in New York in bitter and re-
proachful words. The detectives said
nothing to the latter, but returned a
message to say he was sick. This
brought forth another furious dispatch
stigmatizing the captive as coward.
The detectives sent on another stating
he was very sick and another time and
place must be appointed. The arrival
in state of frenzy of the challenger
was the result of this move, and the de-
tectives calmly gobbled their prey. They
both got good talking to by the Po-
lice Justice, shook hands and went off
under the wing of the Brazilian Consul
to hunt up different girls next time, for,
sad to say, the adored object cruelty
went back on both of them.
Two gallant policemen have had an
opportunity to show the really good stuff
there is in the force, although it is so
maladministered and cursed with num-
Der of ignorant rufians. One, a mount
ed officer, tried to stop runaway team,
but was dashed from his saddle and run
over. This hardly stopped him mo-
ment. He remounted and spurred after
the flying vehicle and was just in time,
after hard chase, to save two ladies
who were thrown out. from having their
brains knocked out by the wilderness of
hoofs which kicked the carriage into
spliters. They escaped with merely a
few bones broken by the shock. Anoth-
er officer, in Brooklyn, had terrible
tussle with one of the gangs" of young
Hoodlums. which owing to the Trades
Unions and the almost impossibility of
getting a chance to learn trade, are
colleges of crime. His skull was frac-
tured with paving stone and the fine
fellow, who has the best kind of record,
will probably die before your readers
see this.
Our suburban statesmen are apt tC
produce good deal of fun for others as
well as to enjoy it themselves. | lately
recorded the mutual arrests of ten Staten
Island Dogberries. Two other dignlta
ries of that gem of our harbor, an ex
Police Commissioner and an ex-Assem.
blyman, have again distinguished them
selves. Dog6ghting has been theil
peculiar weakness, and both prideG
themselves on the tenaclty of jaw o
their canine favorites. A dispute abou
a little encounter where their RESPECTIVE,
: dogs were left in condition something
like the famous Kilkenny cats led to al
8 airing in Court. Hardly had the pro
ceedlngs opened. however. when tn
5 remains of what were once dogs brok
e away from their keepers and went at
/, tooth and nail. There was no possibilit
of separating them and the Staten ISLAM
t spectators. jury, lawyers and all jumps
q on benches and desks to "shoo" ther
) on. Vainly did the Judge rap for OF
t der; no one paid the smallest attentio
e to him. and he then adjourned the Coul
t with dignity, and unoficially participa'
e ed in the amusement with as much gle
e as anybody else.
Another animal of the monkey PEI
suasion has developed cannibal proper
;, stiles. The missing link had escape
e from Museum on the Bowery, bein
r tired probably of the society of tt
IS dwarfs and giants. or perhaps, tantalize
e. by the tempting proportions of the. f;
- woman, of whom the keepers would n,
D. let him have even a little bite. I'll
Of wise creature-the ancient Egyptian
ID used to worship monkeys. as do the Hi
T. docs to-day-wandered and became hui
30 CRY. He entered an open third-stol
* window and attacked woman who VI
or sewing by it. Perhaps he found her t
as tough for he left her after tasting b
nc more or less delicate cheeks, and ne
IN selected for his dinner a tender chill