Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-11-22
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIToR.I
NEW YORK, Nov. S, 1880.

The influence of the numerous comets
which astronomers are now so diligent-
ly discovering, or something else, is
causing the very mischief in the way of
minor maladies. Even your friend
RADIx has had the snuffies quite nu-
merously. and the majority of the peo-
pie be meets seem afflicted with infu-
enza, diphtheria, rheumatism or some
thing. Well-drained and wealthy dis
tricts seem infected as seriously as the
most malarious tenement house quarters
supposed to DO reeking with sewer gas,
and the health authorities and medical
profession seem thoroughly puzzled.
What causes the trouble ? l give it up.
Of course you will have read of all
the latest phrases of the famous Chinese
letter forgery and of the arrest of sun
dry of the conspiraters. Perusal of the
evidence has driven one estimable wom-
an to insanity; she imagines herself
the author of the fabrication and wor-
ried herself almost into the grave about
it. Insanity generally has been rife of
late, and as usual has been working in
grooves. One man shot Protestant
Episcopal Sister of Charity on the
ground that he believed her to be a
witch, and another has been restrained
from similar tragedy under precisely
the same allucination-while cases of
murder and suicide have ragged.
Now Sara Bernhardt has at last APP
peared there is quite controversy as
to her being success, after all the
trumpeting she received beforehand.
She has found financial success un-
doubtedly, but seems to have disap-
pointed the more exacting among the
critics, and nearly the whole fraternity
coincide in denouncing her support as a
well-trained and thoroughly mechanical
array of sticks. For myself, though |
understand French reasonable we'll, |
find at strain to follow the lady's very
rapid utterance. and cannot for the life
of me see where the fun comes in fol-
those do not understand the language Of
Gaul. She has had grand audiences,
brilliant of name, fame, wealth and
jewelry as the electric lights which now
adays seem to have become indispensa
BILE adjuncts to the theater.
Railway collisions, some perhaps ow
ing to the fog, but more caused by sheel
carelessness, or, as in one case, by thu
parsimony of directors employing a lac
of seventeen as a switchman for four
teen hours day, till the growing lat
was worn out by fatigue and want o
sleep, have been quite numerous, and ;
large fire has cleaned out a great East
side manufacturing caravansary. one
I famous as the scene of some of tn
toughest fighting in the great draft
riots of July. 1868.
The Warren Court Martial still drag
its slow length along. while interest i
it is undated, and the Army and Nav
Club have been stirred up to try an
greatly enlarge their circle by the ad
mission of volunteer officers in a ia
larger proportion than at present.
q is remembered that during the wa
r Hancock, though a veteran regular off
s Ger, was, as a general officer, an Office
e of volunteers. There is militar
+ boom all round. which, among othe
= things, has suggested the publication G
: some war "reminiscences by gre;
?. friend of mine in the Boston Cemme
it cial Bulletin, which are among the be
written things of the kind have ev'
read. The author, Captain w. L. ]
O'Grady, a well-knowu Itterateur, ser
ed in that famous organization, Meag
- er's Irish Brigade, in the First Divisie
. of the Second Corps, with which Ha
cocks name is identified more by Fl
than any of its several temporary lea
= ers Warren being one of them); ar
with such favor have his spright
sketches-instinct with truth as tn,
evidently are, most faithfully recallil
the jolly times and hard times of o
army days, the lights and shadows
life in camp and in the feld-been I
> ceived. that I understand it is contel
: plated bringing them out as soon
: completed in the excellent hebdomad
!. they are now appearing in, in book,
!. rather pamphlet form. Personally,
can conscientiously recommend "R
:: Trefoip' highly. RADIx.
S
r. WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 19-.T
rs Democratic Congressman now here ;
lis all opposed to an extra session of Ct
m. gress. and they profess not to und
Id stand why the Republicans talk abt
he having one Immediately after Gene
,st Garfield enters the White House. Tn
re- are over hundred Democrat holdi
In positions in the House who want
nd draw their pay nine months longer, q
int they oppose any extra session a
While the majority of Democratic G
us. gressmen concede that the majority h
i'm the next House there are few '
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