The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-30
OUR VIEW YORK LETTER.
From Oar Own Correspondent.
NEw YORK, JUNE 26, 1882.


South Carolina, whose arrest for
swindiing | mentioned some time ago,
has been packed off to the Peniten-
tiary. He used to be great boy, up
to every racket, and probably got
through more money belonging to
other people, in a shorter space OF
time than any other young man in
America. | couldn't say whether he
was a member of the Racquet Club
or not.
A humber, but still more ingen-
ieus delinquent has come to grief i'll
the person of one w. ]. Sipple, an
ex-telegraph operator, who, by means
of bogus telegraph dispatches, at
tempted to get hold of somewhere
about $50, 900 from the paymaster's
office of the Erie railroad. He got a
wire, pretending to be high official,
ordered all the operators to cut off
their wires, and then telegraphed a
cock -and-bull yarn as from the treas
urer to the superintendent of division,
in whose custody the cash was, about
some alleged conspiracy to get it,
and ordering him to chang on" to it
till he sent a detective with an order
for it, That little bit of slang was the
slip that slung Sipple. The treasurer,
it seems, abhors even the mildest
forms of slang, and the result was Sip
pie was arrested.
Window dressing has become fine
art, and among those who have mas
tered it are some tasty gentlemen en-
ployed by Messrs. Lord & Taylor,
the great dry goods firm, who scat
tered the successors of Stewart, and
gave the old man himself such shake
that it is thought by many disappoint-
ment at seeing his business slipping
away was what really killed him.
When Garfield died, there was but
one general expression that of all the
exponents of graceful grief, the drap-
ing of Lord & Taylor's was by far the
most striking, and, mind you, they
had for rivals all the taste and talent
of the city. On any day the display
in their windows is beautiful, but they
will have something very attractive on
exhibition shortly, new dress for
Mrs. Garfield, of brocade silk, made
by (naturalized) American silkworms
in ID States, which were fed on
American mulberry leaves, and were
raised by American girls in a6 differ
ent families, containing $4,000 dis
tinct threads, and requiring no less
than 1900 needles in the Jacquard
loom to form the exquisitely compli.
Gated pattern. Some of the cocoons
or balls of raw silk spun by the
worms as protection to the chrysalis
they turn into before becoming moths
were produced under the care of Re-
becca Taylor, mother of Bayard Tay-
lor, the poet, who died while Minister
to Germany recently. The work was
all done under the direction of the
Woman's Silk Culture Association of
Philadelphia and the silk was reeled
by them, this being the most delicate
operation of all.
Garibaldi's old house on Staten
Island has been presented to the Ital-
ians of New York. They turned out
in force to receive the noble gift, and
| the procession was a notable one,
numbers of his old comrades being
present in the old uniforms they had
fought in under his eye. The great
copper cauldron where he boiled the
materials for the candles, by the sale
of which he supported so many of his
poor countrymen, was secured till it
shone like gold, and was kept filled
by hose pipe from neighboring
brewery, while the thirsty crowd were
given every chance to empty it.
Starin, the millionaire tugboat and
excursion man, and State Senator
whose daughter was recently married
to Howard Carroll, of the Times, the
accomplished son of the gallant Briga
dier who was killed at Antietam, with
in a few feet of Meagher's Irish
Brigade, whom he had just relieved