Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-05
LETTER FROM NEW YORK
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor1
NEW YORK. August 30. 1881.

British rule (Which is alleged never to
have been repealed) by which husband |
tired of his spouse may trot her out into |
the market place, with halter round |
her neck, and sell her on private con-
tract, perhaps even giving boot to get
rid of her, if the better half is too bad.
We have had an illustration of this
method of divorce made easy, in wealthy
if not refined, circles in the upper part
of our city. A buxom matron, whose
husband left her amid any amount of
luxury while he hurried off early and
came home late, delving for dollars dill
gently. found an affinity in carnal car
penter who had been called in to effect
some triAing repairs. After several
months of bliss nnder the rose, the hus-
band finally paid attention to deluge
of anonymous letters that threatened to
overwheIm him, and, calling the erring
pair together. he asked a few questions,
which were frankly answered, and then
philosophically proposed to sell his wife
for 81. The offer was accepted, and
the woman left her brown stone front
and its ct ceteras for the attic of the
plane shower. She regrets lost luxury,
but complains of the groutiness of her
ex-husband and eldest son.
Another cheerful affair was the tele-
scopic prolongation of wedding and 9TH
er festivities in an old Knickerbocker
family. There was one wedding in the
programme, but as the high contracting
parties were little tardy, the mauvais
quart d'hea1are was utilized to christen
three children. Then wedding No. l
came off, which proved so interesting
that no less than three succeeding cou-
Piles owned up that they were engaged,
and were spliced in turn in an unexpect-
ed sort of way that must have been ex-
ceedingly delightful.
A woman has just died at Long
Branch from too much dosing with some
patent medicine mixture that is warrant
ed to reduce obesity. There is a good
deal of humbug about many patent med
icines but they are not all by any means
to be whistled down the wind as of no
account. In the wilds of Central Afri-
ca, the plague-stricken bazars of Bagdad
or the cholera-choked caravansaries oil
upper India, certain American patent
medicines of well-known efficacy are
found and thoroughly appreciated by
the conservative natives who are 10th
indeed to touch any new thing. Then
there is the cry of adulteration and sew.
er gas, and so forth. Some of these
cries are overdone and oftentimes tht
so-called authorizations are wholesom,
enough, and are understood to be pres
ent by even the most ignorant consumer
Still it is, [ fancy. better to avoid al
possibility of mistake, and l am glad t
see that two well-known and very sue
cessful firms have maintained strictly t
this day their principle of selling exact
ly what they purport to sell; thus
when we buy packet of Havemeyer [
Elders pure sugar we can bet agains
all the horse. billiard and faro sharp
on the planet that we get pure suga
and nothing else, and when the THU
bers sell US oleomargarine or pure butte
we know we are paying our money an
taking our choice. and get just which (
these too much wrangled over article
we pay and ask for. So when they Sc
, us the Anglo-Swiss baby-food, and clail
its superiority, we may know that it a
tually is a prime article thorough
adapted to the required purpose. Hol
esty is undoubtedly good policy. s
far, your Radix will indorse the old pr
;. verb, in these days of stock waterir
~ and embezzlIng, whether 1t may
% questioned whether it is pecuniarily Il
% most successful.
Dear mel It's very hard to bun,
up news these piping hot and peacef
5. days. Even the great Herald, with {
~ its widely scattered staff of energet
burrowers for intellectual trufles,
. forced to fall back on prosy articles ru
~ ming into several columns in lengt
- about the most stereotyped of stock ST.
10 jects for character sketches. The ma
~ ners and customs of ragmen, CARGO
70 ductors and the lower strata genera
- of the most disagreeable sections of
Inhabitants of much overcrowded eli
~ are described for the 599th time vi
~ the usual slipshod repertorial inaccura
~ A berry scribe takes lazy "detectiy
VI into some gin-mill and there transfe
q as far as his booty recollection v
al serve. with embellishments arbitrar
aS added like stucco-work on an infer
.'' architectural design, or putty by bo
~ painter, some cock and bull yarn t
W. W. the great detector of crime stuffs
~ with. The worthless laugh in th
sleeves as they put up the job on a C
n0 fding public and call for another bee
1t is amusing when detective
ve- publicly proven to be the egregious
To- that most of the professional thief-hu
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