Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-09
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence Of the Monstor.1

LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor.]
NEW YORK, May 2, 1881.
Ex-sheriff Conner, head of the great
type-foundlng concern, whose improved
fonts have furnished more than half the
total number of newspaper offices in the
whole civilized world. is dead. He was
the responsible guardian of old Bill
Tweed when that great unworthy shook
off the shakes of the law, and entered on
that remarkable series of adventures
which took him through sojourn in a
thieves den on the Palisades, an expert
ence as amateur smuggler IN Cuba, and
deck-hand on regular brig to final cap
ture on Spanish soil under the SUPPOSE
ton of the Dons, who were misled by
one of Nast's allegorical caricatures that
he was champion kidnapper and the
rufian who stole Charley Ross. Sheriff
Conner was fine man of business and
an honest official with young look
about him that would make a stranger
guess his age to be forty rather than six
ty which it really was.
Emigration is increasing very rapidly,
and it would, from present indications,
be almost safe to predict an influx of the
bone and sinew of foreign lands to the
extent of three quarters of million.
There are some pretty rigid regulations
against the admission of the old, in6rm,
crippled, insane or grossly immoral, so
that we certainly don't get the worst of
even the poorest classes who can COM
mand the money to come over, except,
perhaps, in the case of the Mormons who
are being recruited IN large numbers,
some two hundred missionaries having
been sent out within the last week to SOW
the seed of their queer religion and &C
company the ingathering to the new par
adlse of Utah. No end of wives and
prosperity in the future and free passage
in the present, form the tempting bait
which is greedily seized by the combined
enterprislng and impecunious persons
who, for the most part, make up the bulk
of this particular stripe of immigrant.
Scientific persons have been having
several nuts to crack since my last.
For one thing, the much derided Kelly
motor has been again subjected to a
course of sprouts, and some very distin-
guished experts, including Nelson G.
Tappan, Rowland of the Continental Iron
Works, and obelisk-moving Commander
Gorringe, have become converts to the
belief that there are grand possibilities
before the engine. A new point has been
laid bare, however, which really gives a
more plausible notion of its working,
and that is that vibration as force is
utilized. We all know the mischief vi
bration can do, the fact that soldiers are
always ordered to break step on crossing
bridge being familiar to every one, the
cadenced stride of even 100 marching
men being enough to shatter to irretriev'
able ruin the noblest bridge ever yet
built. so that by controlling this force III
e benefcient direction. it seems feasible
to effect something good by vibration
y and perhaps the Keely motor is to bt
! the coming agent to this end. Possibly
the moon may have something to do with
it. 1t is certainly true that in telegra
ply, it is found that the electric tides
:. depend on the phases of the moon, anc
swell and subside in exact correspond
ence with the tides affecting bodies O
water. The fact can be verified BIZ al
expert and painstaking operator and OBJ
server with an investigating turn o
mind. The theory, or rather the sole
fact, pray take notice, is here first pro
n mulgated by your RADIx, who come
across some widely different stories an(
bits of art, science and literature in hi
l. housings for food for this weekly ban
st quet set before your readers. By tn
If way, reverting to the Keely motor, on
k of the hardest things | heard said of i
n lately was that the experiments wer
st now carried on at Newark N. J., land,
'e said my interlocutor, Newark is tn
he home of humbugs" He instanced tn
ID once famous steam man, who moved hi
y legs by double piston and crank al
ID rangement set in motion from a boile
IS and furnace borne on his back like
ID knapsack. The trunk. e., the hea
h and shoulders-of this remarkable mon
g, ster are now lying exposed to the vile
he of anybody who would care to put ther
g. in his pocket-they only weigh abou
Or two toas-on the sidewalk in that ono
ID fashionable thoroughfare, East Broad
le way.
er Whitelaw Reid, that lucky yout
&c whose career since he first attracte
as Grants disguised attention by blatan
ne criticisms of the battle of Shiloh as b
IN waved his long locks and gesticulate
y, with enormous shirt-cuffs has led hir
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