Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-07-10
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
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is how we shall spend our Fourth
Coming on Tuesday, some smart fell
low who certainly deserves a leather
medal, thought it would be a good
idea to stretch the patriotism so as te
include Monday, and it is astonish.
ing how quickly the idea spread
Retail stores, as well as Wholesale.
have stuck up notices all over that
they will be closed from Saturday tc
Wednesday. 1t is capital notion.
and our rural friends will be deliobt-
ed, for New York will simply empty
itself when it get such a glorious
chance.
Our veteran superintendent of DO
lice, Walling, jovial old soul who
can sing rafting good song, accom-
panied by one of his official superb
ors, Commissioner Matthews, sailed
the other day for Europe. The bows
gave him such send-off as Gotham
has not known since the days of
Tweed, when money came lightly and
was lightly spent. 1t was a pure eb-
ullition of good will that chartered
the tug and crowded it with friends.
Thirty-two of the thirty-four police
captains managed somehow to find
time to accompany the party and
there were lots of newspaper men.
They saw him out far beyond the
limits of the harbor and then made a
descent on Coney Island, where prob
ably some may be yet. 1t was a
most successful spree. -
Deacon Richardson, of the Hanson
place, Baptist church, Atlantic rail
road, and any number of other good
things with money in them has been
tried and convicted of "disorderly
walk and immoral conduct for put
ting up a job on the brethren and
laying a new car track on Sunday to
get around an injunction they meant
to have served ON him on Monday.
The old fellow urged in his defense
that the work was one of necessity.
No ones OK or ass had fallen into a
pit, but pits were dug for his railroad
and he thought he was justified in
taking measures to keep out of it.
II he rendered better service for the
money he makes out of the public,
there would be possibly some SYM
pathy for him. As it is, every one
wishes he had been sat upon ten
times as severely.
The strikes are still important sub
jects of conversation. If something
isn't done pretty soon, butter and
fresh supplies of all sorts will be 90.
ing up to famine prices. They're
not far short of them now. So fan
every one sympathizes with the strik.
ers as against the railroad companies
who are held by many to be offend
ing against the law and violating
their contracts with the people as
common carriers. Happily every.
thing so far has been peaceable, but
the police are doing extra duty and
are ready for a riot at the shortest
notice. 1t is generally supposed that
the whole thing was precipated in or
der to keep peoples goods back till
July LIST, when a new and higher
freight rate goes into operation.
Poor De Long Of course his life
and early struggles and heroic end
are familiar to all your readers, and
all, no doubt, feel proud of the gal
liant fellow. He is regarded here
with PECULIAR pride, as a supurb spec
linen of what our public school sys-
tenn will do for one of the poorest of
poor boys, as he was, and what a
spirit the roughing it among us en-
courages. His last service before
the fatal Arctic trip was in command
of the st. Mary's training ship, and
his old scholars have met and sub
scribed for a memorial. 1t is to be
hoped that our wealthiest citizens
may follow the example of these
youngsters and erect a cenotaph to
his memory and that of his devoted
companions.
L see that most wonderful of blath-
erskites, "Richelieu' Robinson. has
been making the halls of congress
resound with his howIs, at very
safe distance, at the British lion.
Wouldn't you like to engage him for
series of lectures up your way?
He can talk as fuently as Beecher or
Bob Ingersoll, and well, too. HIS
notions are quite entertaining, espec-
tally as according to his figuring
about ninty-nine out of hundred of
the inhabitants of this country are
lrish-born or derived from Irish an
cestry. That other crank-Dr. Wild
late of Brooklyn-wanted to make
out that the Anglo-Saxon race were
the last ten tribes of Israel. It's
great fun so hear either of them oc-
casionally, not too often.
Long yarns about the commence
ments fill great sections of the papers
now to the exclusion of news of gen
eral interest. In fact the silly sea-
son with nothing in the papers"
seems to be upon us. AS the schools
close and the youngsters are turned
loose for their vacations, there'll be
a fitting to the forest and beach of
all who can afford it, while for those
who can't, and for country visitors
who make no mistake if they believe