Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-01
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.


ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoN1roRl
New YORK, Feb. %, 1880.
Raids among the petty gambling
houses have been started again and some
lively scenes are enacted where the Phi
listines swoop on the unlucky frequen-
tiers. Pious young clerks and steady
and esteemed mechanics have somehow
or other managed with exceeding fire.
quency to have been unfortunate enough
to drop into these dens during their half
hour for dinner, just to ask the way to
the next block, or some other equally
important errand, and have been cap
tured with the wicked ones, who take
no shame at fighting the tiger. They
are sad when caught, and no doubt
many of them will be shaken up" out
of good situations on account of the ac-
cident of their presence where it is not
generally considered good for pious
young men to be. Perhaps the most
persistent and most unlucky gamblers
are our respected colored brethren, and
that their rather noisy Christianity has
a pretty solid foundation of superstition
and heathenism, has just come to light
by the arrest in policy shop, and ex-
animation in Court of full fedged
Voodou Doctor, rejoicing in the sugges
tive and awe-inspiring name "Snake
George" who appears to have made
quite comfortable thing of it by fur
nishing lucky numbers of his numerous
clients, besides foretelling events, pro-
viding love charms, etc.
Two deaths of persons living wide as
poles asunder, so far as their social sur
soundings were concerned. bring up re-
Elections about the mutability of human
} affairs, and all that sort of thing. In
the noisome precincts of low tenement
house, in condition the wife of poor
, Irish laboror, died Jennie Collins, q
t granddaughter of President Tyler, once
s the petted child of a proud, wealthy and
q influential Southern family, and the
t brightest belle of her time in Washing.
e ton society, a cultivated beauty. What
b imprudence on her own part. or injudi
: cious harshness on the part of others
f led to this sad ending need not now b.
n examined. She is at last at peace
e In magnificent mansion in Fiftl
n avenue, died James Lenox, the founde
IS of the Lenox Library. that superb ston
It casket of choicest treasures of literatur
d and art. which overlooks Central Park
i and the Presbyterian hospital. His gen
ir erous hand was ever open with princel
It liberality tempered by the soundest judg
ment. His family has always. on thi
j. side of the water, held a foremost posi-
e tion among the most prominent citizens
e. and is by blood related to several of th
ID noble houses of Scotland, but the found
< er of the immense fortunes which in SUE
is eessive hands have been so wisely &C
e. ministered, was by no means wealth
n enough to lead any one to suppose h
be descendants would be millionaires. A
an upright, shrewd and industrious me
he chant, his best investment was a piet
be of unproductive farming land, which la
Q, far out of the city, and chiefly produce
nd thistles from soil which mainly col
sisted of rocks. and which he bought /;
to considerably above its then value in o
ce der to accommodate friend. In his wi
ce he desired it might be kept in the fam
al ly, as he thought it might possibly son
ue day, be the site of hourishing villag
for That land is now worth about a din
ra- for square inch. Central Park is bui
of upon it, and the surrounding resid emit
lat palaces for many blocks. Large pa
of GELS were sold at enormous prices fro
in time to time, as New York expanded
est self, and still large portion of the orr
ut, inal property remains in the Lenox fal
he lily. The late head of it lead a life
lty learned leisure, and was rarely seen b
nd by few intimate friends. He W
the eighty years of age.
hat The Rev. Shepherd Cowley. our re
out resentative Squeers, has been convict
ed. of the offense of starving the miserat
,ss- children of the "Ford" which he ran
lis. a living, the contributions he begg
ind for which, chiefly going to nourish
own unctuous frame. He will probat
get the extreme though wretchedly
adequate penalty provided for su
,er. cases, namely, one years imprisonme
and $3.50 fine, to stand committed |
paid. Nobody pities the wolf in shee
ent clothing, though many people seem
r of think he was no worse than many oil
the bosses of so-called charitable enterI
, in ses, though he was unlucky enough to
caught, and they have SO far escap
Iext The Herald some years ago gathel
some interesting facts about, and sht