The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-01-20
OUR WEW YORK-LET7EP.
From Our Own CORE spondent.

OUR NEW YORK-LET7ER.
From Our Own Correspondent.
New YORK, JAN.I6, 1881.
For some reason or another that
section of New York known as
Brooklyn, sometimes furnishes more
news OF the readable variety than old
Gotham itself Brooklynites affect
to be annoyed when people talk Of
their occupying-in sailor talk-a
standing bedpiace for the big city
where they make their money. but il
is bound TO be corporatelv annexed
some day as it is already in every
other respect. The only reason APP
parently for keeping them apart now
is to give employment to an unnec-
essary duplicate set Of servants Of
the people--twO mayors, TWO bosses,
double supply Of assistant bosses,
etc, etc. One, Of course, in such
conditions rides behind the other,
and Brooklyn usually forms the tail
of the kite. New York has a model
mayor, Brooklyn must have one too
"a very good, not to say goody,
Sunday school young man, with the
beautfullest second hand ideas. For
mingled hard work and downright
laziness favored with the readiest
eloquence New York can't beat
Beecher, and now it seems she can't
beat her in the matter of Aldermen
either The venerable mantle of
Tweed has been divided among the
Brooklynites, and seventeen Of the
newly made ex city fathers have been
hauled up for sanctloning big ele-
waited railroad steal in contempt of
an injunction. 1t is to be sincerely
hoped the rasca!s will be roundly
fined and imprisoned, and I'm sorry
we can't have them soundly whipped
too.
Brooklyn is worth few millions as
manufacturing city, though people
hardly think Of it in that connection.
Among other gigantic enterprises 1t
finds room for the largest sugar re-
fnery in the world, that of the Have
meyers. Their principle building,
fireproof Of course, was burnt last
Sunday, and 5000 workmen in mid
winter have been thrown out. The
propretors are insured, as all pru
dent business men are, but what IN
surance company ever insured the
wages of employees? Once upon a
time, "before de wah" it was the
proud boast of our people that every
honest man willing to work could
find his daily bread, and something
over, in this promised land. There
were not many rich people in those
days, and there were no poor ones
who didn't deserve their poverty
Some statesman might get his name
up by enabling Uncle Sam to resume
such insurance business.
More OF the militia have been dis
banded, and the way in which they
behaved was the best possible exemp-
iiication Of the reason for the meas
ure. The disgraceful fellows insulcd
the mastering officers and acted in a
WY that in war time would have
brought down upon them dose or
two of grape and canister. One
ludicrous Dutch battery, which has
made every one laugh, for years, al
It's street parades, was especially and
obnoxiously demonstrative. Figur,
- yourself, as the French would say,
a slouchy gang OF very fat, beer
soaked Teutons in dirty uniforms,
with rusty swords and harness, mount.
ed on brewery horses and dragging
around d-fashioned cannon. Their
ex captain sought and obtained the
unanimous opinion OF these numer.
Gus Falstaffs that the Inspector Gen
eral didn't know how to inspect a
battery. He happened to be Wes'
Pointer, a Lieutenant Colonel in the
regulars with as clear record for
ability and gallantry as any officer
we can boast Of.
Another Dutch command is in
trouble because their chaplain can't
find any minist'r willing to lend a
church to preach an annual serm on
to the ludicrous crowd. They are
| reported to be chiefly composed OF
Socialists and Freethinkers, but are
at present in highly edifying con-
dtion as seekers after public de.
votional appearance.
They hanged a murderer over in
| Jersey the other day--at least the
jury found him to be one and dare
say he was--and he was duly buried,
but the remains were speedily dug
up again and sent to Potter's Field.
1t appears the lot owners ofthe Gem
etery objected to the supposed desc
Grafton Of the soil which encased
their aristocralic deceased relatives.
Some folks don't seem, in this nine
teenth Christian century, to be very
far ahead Of the pious courtiers who
booted or boosted Cromwell's bones
from Westminster Abbey. -
A rare tale has been un!oldetl
about Mrs. Heddy, also somewhere
in our Jersey suburbs. Queer peo-
pie some Of our Jersey friendsl The
old lady is helpless and destitute.
Her children are comfortably off.
Each is willing TO chip in to support
her, but they cant agree on terms,
and in consequence of the quarrel a
new industry has been developed.
One son pays a couple Of men S. a
piece TO carry the old lady in a chair