Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-07-29
OUR NEW YORK LETTER
NEW loRK. July, Goth, 1891

NEW YogK. July, Goth. 1881.
Editor the Times:
Dick Deadeye has turned up ia new rol.
and been the occasion of a succession of inter
eSting manifestations of human nature He
was All Englishman by the name OF Fsirweather
W ho fell into very foul weather. an actor aud
church chorister down on It's lack, with excel
lent testimonials, who couldn't get work and
was stranded penniless in Gotham. which is s.
heartless 10 robust people who unfortunately
suffer hunger, perhaps, more severely than the
weakly. Among the poor fellow property
was false beard and wig. He ps; them on
for the double purpose Of eS-iliu. compassion
ard OF disguise, 50 that under happier Circum.
stances no untoward recognition of his former
destitution should afici him His makeup
showed the excellence of his hisirionic training
his rich, cultivated voice attracted the ai,eption
of connoisseurS aud when he ,rilled out a
noble old English haled 10 Madison Square
throngs pressed around him and dropped
uiekels in his ou,streichrd bat, \ kindly po-
liceman informed him that be was violating a
city ordiano and tenderly helped the apparent.
IL feeble old man from the prcCincis OF the
park, bat the wig WAS disarrangei and ca be-
ipg removed as be stood revealed the erewhils
sympathizing crowd turned on the supposed
imposter 10 fury. He Was arrested aud next
day one OF the elected Dogherrirs Who disgrscs
the very name Of justice 10 our police court
sentenced the man TO SIX months IN jail. The
paper took up and the poor stranger ha.
found friends, employ menl sud release, \
capable of good character, he had met
with nothing but rebuff, one OF them from 81
Georges Socieiy, which is supposed. to help
Britious in such a serspc, but spends nearly ali
its money in salaries and most o. tie balance
in grand annual dinner. New Y, * Is called
the City Of Charities and deserves tie name,
for no other city 10 the world has ,pany, OF
on ,he whole so admirably nan get insIi'u-
iions for The relief of the SILK. the poor aud the
distressed but all the same il j. moIe iahospiIs-
bic 10 strong men in search Of FORK and not
charity than, believe, .aay place auder the sGn.
Ii is good place for strangers ~ith empty
pockets 10 steer clear OF. \ terrible sisugS c
for bare existence is before such before they can
even get footing in the competing crowd.
Another more or less theatrical person ha :
come 10 ~ell-meri,ed grief. He Vas ticket
taker, usher, boekkeeper or something OF the
sort AT minor theatre, Harry Miner 5 TO wii,
and was pre-eminenily "masher." His last
exploit Was TO drug and betrAy a eoasting
schooner captain wife Who was foolish enough
to tiirt with him, meaning no harm Then be
lormeuted the very life OF the disgrsUea woman
his reckless action making her the talk OF the
neighborhood, and whea ohallen: ell by her
husband with villany cot common even with
scoundrels Of this class, cody acknowledged
- h. h.,a z II 4,
for divorce, hardly creditiug the possibility o;
the innocence OF the poor woman. She, craEed
by the injustice, and the thought of being de-
prived of her children. called for her seducer
and deliberately shot him, and few will
blame her. The act, desperate as ii was, re-
deemed her misfortune and she has been re.
conciled 10 her husband. The traitorous cause
of the terrible deed is dead
The railroads are cutting rates al a most
ridiculous rate, and il is becoming every day
more and more of a temptation for people de-
batting as 10 where they shall spend their vaca-
ton to follow the Star of Empire and trot on
the track of the Setting Sun The roads ar,
dusty, however, just now, and I'm going to
the Catskills, where the mosquitoes do no, buzz
and the candy and dime novel fend do mo-
make one afriad that they II be egged into com.
hitting homunculicide. Perhaps, however,
when the rates have diminished TO zero, and
the companies furnish free feed cigars, etc, al
an inducement to their patrons, ! may take
another trip under their auspices.
RADIx