Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-25

LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor1

lral at Garden City, not in the superb
at first intended in the crypt
but inclosed between massive slabs of
granite, bolted with iron and the Joints
loaded, beneath the pavement of the
superb mausoleum, on which hundreds of |
of dollars have been expended
in order to render it beautiful. Ofcourse
skeptics say that the yarns about mystic
rious midnight trains, reticent workmen,
electric alarm wires connecting with the |
to the impression that Judge Hilton has |
or come to terms with the |
abductors of the famous corpse in order |
to console Mrs. Stewart, and that in
point Of fact he has completely failed in
his designs.
The chief mover in this cathedral af-
fair, Bishop Littlejohn, has just returned
from busy trip to Europe, where he ded-
icated the new American Church at Paris,
confirmed number of young Protestants
in Rome, preached before Queen Victoria,
the University of Cambridge, and other
big-bugs of various degrees of toplofti-
ness and splendor. His arrival was in
keeping with his hurried journey. The
White Star steamship, Britannia, which
brought him over encountered very heavy
weather and was trife behind her usual
time.
But the White Star Line, with its homo
geneOus fleet, is not only celebrated for
the speed of its ships, but for their clock
work and uniform punctuality. They
take nine days, on an average, to make
the passage; that is to say, they get in
between eight days and a half, and nine
days and a quarter, as the case may be,
but they are sure to turn up sometime or
other ON the ninth day.
The Bishop was due in Brooklyn in or
der to confirm large class ofyoung COM
municants on Palm Sunday. He was
naturally discomposed at the thought of
being too late, but the Captain, who
knew his boat, cheered him up, remark
ing that at the very latest he would be off
Quarantine not later than nine O'Clock,
and he would telegraph to the Bishops
| friends and for tug. 1t so turned out,
| and the Bishop dressed on the tug as he
came along, and got into church in the
very nick of time.
l heard good story about another
minister, of a very different denomination
the other day, and his wife told the story.
| The Rev. DR.. is great gun of the tenn
| perance persuasion. The wife is even
more aggressively earnest. The dominic
had rheumatism. Applejack was recon-
mended. The good wife applied it out
wardly, of course; but, 'My DEAR" she
remarked, ''you smell like gin mill
the congregation will think you've beer
| tipping. We must remove this horrible
odor." She did, too. Carbolic soap was
the removing agent, and the odor Of
sanctity was thus conserved to the lady's
perfect satisfaction.
Great has been the wrath of our usually
supine people at the way legislators III
at Albany have undertaken to sit upoI
the bill lately introduced for cleaning The
streets of New York, and incidently play
ing the very dickens with the Police Com
missioners and their faulty subordinates
The assemblage of grave and reverend
seigniors, men of renown withal, yea, an(
of many shekels, at Steinway Hall tn,
other evening was something to be re
membered, and so was the mass of wit
sarcasm and eloquence generally which
was poured out fuently for hours from
the lips of some of our most practicet
orators. 1t may seem cynical to say it
but sadly fear that in spite of the de
gree of indignation which our people ma,
have been reused to exhibit, the who'll
thing will blow over and we shall go o.
more or less pleasantly in the old rut
We may, and no doubt will, grumble con
sumedly, but grumbling won't clean on
streets, which really are quite too awful
awful with fostering filth.
Some distinguished U. S. Enginee
officers, drawing large salaries, have bee
employed for years with expensive estal
lishments deepening the waters roun
the city and removing ancient obstrut
lions to navigation. Among other dar
E gerous impediments to commerce was th
famous Diamond reef, which was fnall
! blown up year or so ago after years {
| tunneling and charging drills with dyn;
) mite, with a great flourish of trumpet
A new shoal has now been discovere
close to it's site formed within two veal
, by broken glass, bricks and other rubbis
dumped into the East river by the conn
1 vance, if not by actual order of the P,
t | lice Commissioners. That's one of ii
1 ways the money goes. No wonder pc,
: pie are angry.
t The Park Commissioners are also Sc
e ting out. Their opponents are not lor
suffering taxpayers but those who ma
h become so. They have outraged the te
: der feeling of thousands of gay and fe
e tive youths of both grades. Rollin
e skates have been multiplied like the fro:
u in Egypt and old folks with~corns loo
a on them with horror, but the physician
!. say they are conducive to health, profe
0 sors of department say they make CHI
dren graceful and the children say TIT
are jolly good fun. The COMMISSIONS
Ii have forbidden the use of them in Il
Y parks. Hence there is war, and betwe,
/ the girls and the boys and their oy
IS wrangles about who is to be Preside
: (the President of the Board gets salar
: the other planks don'D, which til
!" haven't settled yet after a contest
IL months, these more or less respectful
old func tionaries are having time Ii
!. the monkey and the parrot. RADIX.
d 'sCraftsbury, VT, Sept. II, 1880. II.
IS Blake, Agent. Dear Sir-I have used I