Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-14
LETTER FROM NEW YORK,
Especial Correspondence Ofthe Monitor.l

NEW YORK. March Z, 1881.
Well all the world and his wife have
hied to Washington to hurrah for the new
president and speed the parting one.
Still there are a few people yet left in
New York, and dull as their doings may
seem to be, as compared with the festiv-
tiles at the National Capitol, your RADIX
will do his little possible to shed some
light on them.
Among other peculiar products we
have lit on a policeman who cures head
aches. The average boy in municipal
blue has been supposed to be perfectly
able to give headaches by liberal exhibit
ton Of the locust on disorderly skulls,
but Cast. Caffrey of the 1st Precinct is a
daisy magnetic physician. He laid his
massive paw on the fevered brow of a re-
porter the other day, and the grateful
scribe records the speedy eXorcion of the
Accusing fiend which tormented him for
indulging in too much chicken salad the
night before, and it seems the Wall street
brokers, after heavy night at the Up
town Exchange, which is fast driving the
quiet families away from the Windsor
Hotel, with the libations accompanying
their frenzied buying and selling of every
conceivable kinds of security or insecure
ty, go to Capt. Cafrey regularly to be
cured. 1t is strange story, but it may
be true.
As the country is daily manifesting
signs of prosperity, certain constituent
members of it are beginning to grudge a
| living to some deserving fellow-citizens,
and are organizing cooperative stores
where everybody is to get everything at
half price, get reading rooms and restaur-
| ants thrown in as inducements to chip in
and divide anything short of 500 per cent.
profit ON the venture. If the treasurers
don't skip with the funds, it is possible
one may save few cents on the week s
| groceries by travelling few miles and
taking two or three lines of cars to get to
the general store. Meantime the great
retailers will check the tendency to CO.
operation by lowering their prices and
offering further attractions, and between
| the upper and neither milestone the small
traffickers will come to grief. l may be
old-fashioned, but I think the laborer is
worthy of his hire, and in the long run !
think 1 get my moneys worth with less
trouble in the old way of doing business.
These cooperative clothing and provision
stores, under the fostering care of Ouch
esses, and other feminine bigwigs. with
whom it has been recent hobby, have
been boosted up to short-lived means il
England lately; but continued means here
for such schemes cannot be expected
They are impractical, finical, fussy, and
they'll fail.
Cremation is again getting good dea
talked about, and several officers at the
Navy Yard have been quoted as taking
active part in revival of the agitation
man apparently so thoroughly approved
of their ideas that he declined to wait til
nature should have prepared him as fl
subject, aud proceeded to cremate him
self alive. His uncle, florist, had SOM
extensive greenhouses in Flatbush, no
far from the Kings County Insane Asylum
and the young fellow, who ought, on
would think, to have been placed in thi
latter place, crawled into the furnac
which heated their houses, and shut himsel
in to be reduced to ashes after leaving
written statement of his intentions. TIL
: pieces were buried, so that the unfortu
nate eXperimenter didn't get his own way
after all.
1t is nearly six weeks since the terribl
sleet storm broke down our telegrap
system, and to this day the telephon
E They promptly sent in their bills, how
a ever, for services which they could nc
possibly render, and in the majority {
cases have simply been laughed at. The
have been paid, however, by some, an
e consider all gained in this way as pc
= fectly fair! They have not resented til
q refusal to pay on the part of their lessee
f whom they didn't fulfil their contract
a with, and quietly accepted the loss, bl
they'll probably make it up again b
charging more in future, and so wedde
{ to the use of the telephone does ever
d one become who has once used it for al
II time that if the rival companies can on
IS lay aside their differences and combir
! against their customers they could chars
almost anything they liked, and get
Meanwhile the public has got so disguise
Z J with the unsightly and, as it has prove