The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-21
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
rrom Our own CORRESPONDENT.

THE BAY-SOLID SALvE FOR OLD
sTAGERs--TE LEPHoNETICs EXTRA
ORDINARY AND BEECHER's VIEWS
OTHER BEECHERi shIs-KNIGHrs OF
THE THIMBLE TRIMMING DAINTY
pAMEs-A LITTLE LOAN OF DoUB-
LEX AND THE FLUIDITY THAT CAME
OF IT--wEBB'S LUCK AND HOW A
NAME sTUCK-A MILITIA BROADER
THE SIMPLE TRUST OF YOUNG
CITY FATHER.
A fire at sea is supposed to be one
of the most thrilling and majestic of
scenes. We were treated to one in
the harbor the other day, and the
cause of the fire was ascertained to
be arson by mutinous darkeys. The
scamps shipped, got their advance
wages and, when off soundings, COM
PEELED the captain to return on the
ground of the alleged unseaworthi-
ness of the vessel. Knowing that
survey would result in the exposure
of the fallacy of their assumption
they set fire to the craft, and no doubt
expected to get clear off so as to re-
peat their little game. The petroleum
laden bark burned furiously the whole
day and far into the night, having
grounded on Bedloe's Island, the
famous scene Of the execution Of
sundry pirates, to whose number the
authors of the last catastrophe might
reasonably expect to be joined.
Nearly $4,000 was gathered in for
the Actors Fund at the simultaneous
benefits played in New York and
Brooklyn. Large individual donors
were James Gordon Bennett, who
gave $4,000, and Edwin Booth, who
Clipped in his little 81 1000, to help
along the more unfortunate of the
profession of which he is so bright
an ornament.
Telegraph men and electricians
generally are excited over the news
of some new sound magnifying tele.
phone, by which it is alleged CONVEX
sation is possible between Chicago
and New York, and may become so
between places further apart. How
convenient it would be if the anxious
relatives of our returning Attic ex-
plorers could chat with them at
Yakutsck, or wherever they may now
be in Siberia. Some pretty good
ones have been recently connected
with Plymouth Church in Brooklyn,
the wires running to the houses ofgen-
tlemen in New York and Elizabeth,
n. j., by which the preaching and
music are distinctly heard. Mr..
Beecher says he considers the thing
a felonious attempt to do away with
pew rents. For tired business men
the idea would be popular, but for
the ladies. They can't study styles
in back parlors, or exhibit the latest
=. efforts of their own taste and their
husbands pockets.
The Beecher family get plenty OF
free advertising somehow. The old
mans eloquence earns it, for people
like to hear what he says, even ifthey
don't agree with him; but about the
proceedings of some of the others we
don't banker quite SO much to hear
all the details of, especially when
their doings are shady, like those Of
the son who was cashiered during
the war as a lieutenant, for misbe-
havoir in the presence of the enemy,
and was promptly restored to the
service as a colonel, and provided
with a soft place in Washington,
where bullets never whistled. 1t is
a nephew in scrape this time, who
has been arrested on an ugly charge
of trading worthless swamp lands
which had already been sold for taxes.
for valuable mining stock.
Our tony topsawyers are getting
y more English, you know, every day.
Ladies have taken to riding great
deal on horseback. Of course the
habits are made by men, as also the
fashionable Newmarket coats and
listers, and from this has grown the
employment Of men to cut and fl
other garments for the fair ones, ia.
vored with big purses. We can now