Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-11
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor.l

NEW YORK, April, 4, 1881.
Nearly $4,000 immigrants have been
poured into our growing population dur
ing last three months, the Germans heBd
ing the list, and an unusually large pro-
portion have declined to stay in Gotham,
but have pushed West to grow up with
the country All this is encouraging;
there'l be work for the new railroads and
new telegraph wires, and more business
for merchants and manufacturers and
grain forwarders here. If our shipping
interests could only get stirred up COM
merce in America would take grander
strides than have ever yet been known in
this world among any people. The city
is filled with country buyers, who, in
spite of the horrible weather which de-
lays transportation and has retarded
their sales and collections, are busily
shopping, and everything indicates an
immense trade as soon as the weather
| gets little settled. The Herald comes
out week after week with sextuple sheet
and advertising generally is gladdening
| the hearts of newspaper proprietors.
! The boom, in word, is abroad in the
land Let it boom
The Whitaker trial is going on as
usual, and the experts are getting deli
ciously roasted for their extraordinary
testimony. The chief one on whom the
prosecution have been leaning considera-
bly, has been pretty satisfactorily proven
sistent in his Characterization as he is
opinionated and self-assertive. He has
been caught tripping several times in a
very ridiculous way.
Our lively burglars are still disportine
themselves with consummate contempt
for the police. Two of them marched in
to a crowded tenement the other day, il
broad daylight, and catching hold of ;
beautiful damsel, whose inopportun'
squealing at seeing them in the act o
pillaging her apartments some days ag'
had enraged them, proceeded to tortur
her with view of compelling her to dis
money and other valuables. The brav
girl held out like Trojan, but was fright
fully ill-used by the scoundrels befor
help came. Some other rufians under
j took to rob policeman's wife on tn
: street as she was returning from a drug
n gist's with some medicine for her sic
r husband. When they found out they ha
s been trespassing on the sacred rights
O "copper" they were sufficiently scared
e and returned the plumber with an apolc
}, gy Their politeness was in vain, If
:, they were luckily captured, and will
: placed for while out of reach of tempt
It ton But if it hadn't been "coppers
:" wife?
Is David M. Stone, editor and chief pr
ly prietor of the Journal Of Commerce, rat
b. er fiery old gentleman sometimes; vel
le ''firm, his friends say; very "mulish
IS everybody else says, seems determined
ne run race for distinction as salamand
I'd with Kate Claxton. His editorial roor
an have, for the second time within ft
or years, been prey to encroaching flame
II. and his library has again been swe
nv away Cor at least most grievously da
lis aged). In former fire he lost the I'll
M of the paper, for copy ofwhich he pla
wv down $4,000 cash tomorrow, besid
err his index, which RADIX made up, and
,rt infinite mass of valuable papers, clos,
ed annotated books of reference, valual
nd scrap books, ETC., editorial tools viii
of no money could possibly replace. Rea
vet the catastrophe is Almost d hatlonal 10
nd for as an exponent of commercial Ia
the an authority to whom every one appe
ne ed, and from whom few could diss,
lis with any prospect of finding themsel'
de- correct III tnelf views, he is proDa