The Owosso times., 1882-02-24
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
New YORK, FEB. Il, 1882.


New YORK, FEB. Is, 1882.
We've been having a little more
snow in these parts. 1t came on
kind of sudden and caught some
folks mapping. For instance, the
wide awake fellows on Austin Cor
bins Long Island Railroad managed
to pooh pooh the drifts till they got
stuck from end to end of their line,
and within five miles of Gotham had
no less than nine trains stalled close
together. Fires went out, and there
were "dead" engines; the stoves in
the cars went out, and it was more by
good luck than good guidance that
there weren't some dead men and
women. Some faced the blizzard
and plunged home with the result of
frost bites and rheumatism. Others
stayed starving in the cars all night,
like wrecked sailors on an inaccessi-
BILE reef, while six horse sleighs gal
lantly appeared at midnight, like life
boats to succor the distressed women.
Yes-we've had snow and also a
thaw. We shan't easily forget either.
When mans dead, suppose it
really doesn't matter what becomes
of the shell the soul use to inhabit.
Still, there are prejudices even among
the Tudest savages as to more or
less decorous disposition of it. A
poor immigrant girl not long ago
lost her only brother, who had gone
to look for work. she haunted the
offices Of those who might possibly
give her news of his fate. Al last, at
the morgue, she recognized his hand
kerchief and claimed the body, only
| to find that it had been buried weeks
before. After great deal of trouble
she was allowed 10 have it disinterred
and there was a funeral. At the
grave side she wanted farewell look
There was difficulty about that, and
an inspection of the corpse showed
why. 1t was not the girls brother
at all, who had been drowned two
months ago, but fresh victim tina
had been dead two days. Our mode
savages had given her body to bury
just to stop her noise, as one nigh
give dog bone or small child ;
doll, and hadn't taken the trouble
even TO look for the right one. 1t j
likely enough the brutes couldn'
nave found it, having dumped it pro
miscuou,ly with others, and being to-
lazy To record exactly where.
The sporting Gothami,e has hat
reason To rejoice in the victory @
Slosson over the French billiar'
champion, and to mourn the defea
in the ring Of Paddy Ryan by
Boston pug. There was interesting
reading in the papers the day ate
the mil, and your RADIx observe,
The instinct with which everybod
turned to the record of the disgrace
full aft :ir. The more respectable
man looked, the more certain was
to find HIM lingering over the shock
ing details. 1t is fashionable, now
adays, to denounce boxing. and II,
doubt the gatherings of the tlans q
thieves and rowdies are as criminal a
| By the l,ws OF several STATES they ar
declared 10 be. sub, there's spic
Of the sport in even the staldest O
dracons and duminlcs, else why dix
the old boys read all about the fight
| Farmers have been having a goot
time with delegations and conven
tons, and SO forth. A lot Of then
went over TO Jersey the other day t
MIR. Theodore Havemeycr's mode
farm. 1t is rs neat as milliner,
store, and the agricu'tursts wer
/ deeply interested III the inspection o
his immense sllos. This ensilage, o
preservation Of compressed greer
crops has proved to be grand sue
cess, and the practice will no doub
rapidly extend now that fact Is estab
lished.
| The detectives who gathered il
the young tough" whose murder q
an inoff-nsive French eating nous
keeper | referred TO in my last, hav
turned over the amount of the rewar,
offered, $500, TO the widow, a yer
graceful act which your RADIx, wht
sometimes feels forced TO say som
deserved hard things of our police,
very glad to be able to recognize
There never was better bit of de
tective work than the tracing of thes
murderers
The New York Yacht Club, VIII
first set the fashion of brass bindin
Tor civilian but quasi. military co,
tunes, have become disguised wi,
their being mistaken for policemen
hotel porters, post office clerks, q
members of smaller yacht clubs, an
have decided to abolish brass button
and gold lace. 1t is quite possibl
they may go further and abolish un
form altogether This is more in az
cordance with Anglo Saxon instinc
than the idea Of being figured out i
bogus war paint on every considerable
opportunity. Russians, Germans an
French, entitled to wear uniform, liv
In 1t all the time, go to sleep in j
even, sometimes, while an Englis
officer casts off the garb of the ba
tlefeld and parade ground, as if
scorched him, and indues himself j
"mufti" or "plains;" 1t is a goo
move, and We hope getting rid Of tn
nonsense will tend to revive the oil
saltwater traditions OF the club, NOR