Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-03-27
CrGfsbury, Vt.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence ofthe Monitor.1

Especial Correspondence ofthe Monitor.l
NeW York, March II, 1882.
1t is nice thing to belong to the
stock exchange as long as you can
keep your temper, have plenty of
customers, and keep out of tempta-
ton to dive in the pool on your own
account. The families of dead stock
brokers find prompt payment made
them of a big sum, which few men
could ever manage to pay the premi-
ums for in any ordinary insurance
company. But impecunious stock
brokers are bounced, and failure to
fulfil their contracts causes their priv
ileges to vanish like unto dreams.
Moreover, their peccadilloes are Wis
tied with stern severity. There was
a breeze, for an instance, the other
day, between a Mr.. Breeze and Mr..
Bouvier, wherein noses and eyes were
punched. They have both been sus-
pended for thirty days. And good
deal of money may be missed in thir-
ty days.
Some disagreement about the trans
fer of accounts caused the scrimmage
and after all it was but the physical
manifestation of nervousness and If
ritability which just now affects a
good many people. Wall street is
feverish beyond doubt. The story
went about the other day that Jay
Gould was bursted up, body and
boots. He thereupon waxed wroth,
called in some cronies and the cronies
say q wonder if they told the truth ,
that he showed them S54 900, 900
of unendorsed securities, giving him
control of half dozen railroads, and
was going to show them his United
States bonds, but, as his secretary
said, it would take two trunks to car
ry them, his auditors wouldn't stop
to listen. They say Cyrus w. Field
almost broke his neck trying to jump
out of the window, so eager was he
to spread the news, and make a mil
lion OF two by the sudden rise in ev-
erything.
Talking of cable and pipe laying
Field, he is quite unpopular among
certain classes for the way he has
hunted after the youthful patriot who
| defaced the Andre memorial, and a
society called the Order of the Iron
Hand has, it is said, been organized
to smash up the whole thing. Then,
one evening a crowd assembled in
front of his house, in response to in
vitations, stating that men were
wanted. 1t took energetic action on
the part of quite a squad of police to
clear the way of the deceived multi
tude. 1t almost reconciles one not
to be millionaire, if such annoy
ances are to be expected by the
wealthy.
Talking of millions, a Miss Sarah
Burr died a little while ago, and be-
queathed the cheerful sum of So, 500,-
900 among some 100 different institu-
tons and charities. besides a number
of private legacies. The Protestant
Episcopal Church profited most by
her benefactions, though she did not
forget sundry arrangements of Other
denominations which she considered
deserved encouragement. The ole
lady, perhaps, thought her relations
didn't deserve or need encourage
ment, for she didn't leave them /;
cent. The legatees are very mucl
pleased, the relations are not.
Millionaires are not the only PEG
! pie bothered by sharks. Hazael, thu
! champion pedestrian, actually had I
, warrant out against him, sworn GU
on the ground that he was about t.
: leave the country, in civil suit, b,
, a man who claimed half his winning
t by virtue of some alleged previou
contract. Hazael claimed that tn
G man said what was not consisten