Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-03-06
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence ofthe Monitor

oIllef gay. lie was ponce reporter, |
and a murder case or something of |
the kind so absorbed him that the
court closed, the court officials retir-
ed, and he was locked up. When he
had finished his work he sought to
get out. A well-meaning janitress
objected-she supposed he was a
prisoner-and when he stuck his head
out of window she met it with
mop, and she howled. Assistance
came to her. A janitor who had lost
his keys heaved bricks at the poor
reporter. 1t was Sunday morning.
The keys were miles away. After
some hours an Eruption was made on
the scene of the supposed culprit'
exploits. He had escaped. A hole
in a snowheap revealed his likeness
after fashion. The reporter had
got clear, like all his tribe, but what
an experience
As usual, the industrious laborer
has kept keen eye open as to when
he could squeeze his employer, and we
have had another strike. This time
it was the STRENGTHENING cartmen.
Street-cleaning carts are a peculiar
institution. They are not inviting in
appearance, and there is no great sur
plus on hand, so when the cartmen
demanded more money for their use
they practically had the contractors
at their mercy. These poor men had
to clean the city or lose their con-
tracts. They have begun as if they
meant to keep it up, to give us a
cleaner New York than the oldest in
habitants can remember, but it didn't
seem as if they'd make cent them
selves for their trouble. In some
countries laborers cannot play these
pranks. They are hired at fixed
prices for fixed terms, and cannot
change under penalty of fine and i'm
prisonment. [ don't believe in
strikes.
I told you how some detectives had
run down the murderers of a French
restaurant keeper and given the re-
ward they received to the widow.
The affair occurred in the precinct
commanded by the redoutable Capt.
Williams, and some of the residents,
Selling the opportunity, have present
ed him with diamond badge and a
felsome address in honor of the cap
ture, with which he had personally
nothing whatever to do.
The emigration commission is Oh
its last legs. Their tax on the steam
ship people, or head money, has beer
declared unconstitutional, and they
can't collect it. They are mortgag.
ed up to the eyes as to their real es
tate. 1t does seem unfair that The
general government will not provide
for the care of the immigrants whose
advent enriches the. whole country
New York has hitherto paid all thu
expenses attending their arrival, an(
now seems to be tired of it. Our fu
ture guests will, as of old, becom
the prey of the landsharks, and EN-
, FILTERED against the country befor
: they've been in it two days. Tn
! emigration commission has been
great institution. Willy Wallach
. one of its pillars, was bnrnt out a
the World fire, and died from a col
. contracted while looking at it.
- Artists, whether of music or paint
f ing, or boxing, are VIGOROUSLY sensi
f tive people; when they agree to d
anything, they always disagree befor
o they get through. Just now the wa
o ter color people are at it, hamme
and tongs. At the last exhibition,
great many pictures were rejected
The irate daubers got mad, hired
o hall, and opened an opposition dis
+ play. | don't pretend to say whethe
II the soreheads were justified in the
4 wrath. 1t certainly is converter
9 when soreheads can practically pair
= out their Affections. But the waite
% color society, quite a promising inst
o tuition, is rent in twain, and as eve
i the soreheads rejected some of the
q own pictures, the secessionists seel
# to have begun minor splits already
By and by, each will be on his oW
hook.
We don't seem to be a clubbab
< people, in point of fact, unless there
TT money to be made by judicious cor
he bination and no other way to get
i it. The Herald is out with terrib
n exposure of the way defunct Life |
ut surance Companies have been robbie
p by the system of receivers. Judg
er and lawyers are all tarred with t
eft same stick and seem to have glu
of themselves to their plumber till th
an had absorbed almost every dollar.
It's is a loathsome exhibit of the meane
Sc depravity. It has long been noto
X Gus that our organized charities ma
by age to spend about 500 in salari
lis and incidental expenses for every
ge cents they give the poor but it W
on not generally suspected how corfu
th the bench and bar were and are.
of Shakespeare, | believe, remarks IL
of a private is sometimes hanged
lis what in a captain is considered gu
of the propah capah. The Herald |
to another revelation. 1t is of the co
nd blooded murderous cruelty at t
INT State prisons, where prisoners ;
IN ground to death to earn money