Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-06
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor. ]


NEW YORK, May 80, 1881.
The event of this week, of course, has
been the rush for the Revised New Tes-
lament. 1t seems to be everywhere the
day of its issuing, 10 the cars, stages,
ferry-boats, and business houses sold by
newsboys, hawked by peddlers, and to
be had at every alternate store. 1t was
actually sold by some enterprising bar
teuders in sample rooms, who took ad-
vantage of the boom to turn an honest
penny out of their patrons. who forth
with began to criticise texts instead of
tods. The pirates bounced down on
some of the first copies, which in an in
credibly short space time were cut up
and delivered to an army of ready print
ers, and by the evening of the first day
one firm had out an edition with the au-
thorized and revised versions in parallel
columns, and the papers next morning
were full of the views of prominent cler-
gymen and others, who worked into
print some of them in galloping hurry,
chiefly to say that they wanted time to
think the whole thing over before CON-
hitting themselves. l suppose twill
be war between the versions for some
time, premonitory rumblings having al
ready been heard. Why there should
be, if the New is but a more perfect
translation of the same Old Story which
has been told to comfor the human race,
is more than your RADIx can understand.
Electricians are agog over the an
nouncement that electricity has been
bottled up in condensed form and ship
ped just like a case of boots or canned
turkey, and can be manufactured in one
place and shipped by the gallon or hogs
head in quantities to suit. If this is
thus it will knock spots out of the Penn
splvania and other railroads, for we
need not transport the coal they bring
and can get all the energy we want tc
warm US, cook our food, light our streets
houses, churches and theaters-and mi
litia armories, to keep all our engines
going, run all our steamships, etc., by
the crate or bucketful.
Talking about electricity reminds one
that Cyrus W. Field, the father of At
lantic cables. has just returned from ;
J tour around the world, where, as usual
, he kept his eye open. A compressed
narrative, brimfull of meat, was publish
} ed in the Herald in the shape of an in
terview with him, and it's mighty goo,
, reading, I can assure you.
7 Everybody is talking about the i'm
3 mense wealth of Jay Gould. He was u
i, for examination ia court the other da
j about Western Union affairs and coul
: not recollect whether certain check b
: had drawn was for 100000 or $40
r 100000. And he was undoubtedl
J, honest in his hesitation. He lives han(
s somely though unostentatiously and
d fact with great personal simplicity an
e handles vast sums in his enterpris,
n with as little unconcern as Russia
d gambling prince. Making money ju
Is for the fun of the thing is passion vii
% him. If he stopped now and began
Or spend now what be has to spend
IS would take him all the remaining yea
le of his life to do so in any sensible so
IS Of way. He has been too busy makil
E. it to be able to learn how to spend
y, judiciously and perhaps is now too o
,g to be taught. So suppose he'll go
of making more and more till some day t
m wheel will turn and he'll lose every d.
er lar and flop away out of sight like Q
ut Dan'l Drew and other Wall street poll
e, wogs.