Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-08-07
LETTER FROM NEW YORK
Neutrality-suspicious. ofthe Monitor.]
Neau York. .IatZn 81. 1880

neutrality-suspicious. ofthe Monitor.1
Neao York, July 81, 1882.
Outheroding Herod, the sun has
been slaughtering our children dur
ing the last few days, and still each
dawn breaks with fiery fervor. The
centennial year had some pretty hot
weather, which lasted a good while,
but it was not of such killing quail
ity. The air in our streets, baked as
to sidewalks and walls, is like the
blast from a furnace. Two hundred
deaths day from the heat alone is a
pretty heavy average. 1t is weather
for cautious feeding, working, and,
above all, drinking.
Hotter than the weather, if posi-
BILE, are the feeling of the several
hundreds of members of the so-called
Turf clubs, where the imitation fee is
81 and there is an ironclad oath
which discounts the obligations of
the Carbonari. These cheerful es-
adjustments have been raided by
Comstock, the famous man with a
nose for nastiness, and the club
members are disconsolate. Some
lucky hits are made sometimes, of
course, or they would not be patron
lied, but there's plenty of cheating
The latest development has been the
accusation by a prominent bookmak-
er of Walton, the ''plunger," whose
systematic method of making enor-
nous presents to jockeys nearly
earned him a public horsewhipping
in England. His practice hitherto
have been supposed to be within the
law, however exceptionable, but the
charge now is that he has deliberate
ly had horses "pulled." If so, I
hope he'll land in State Prison.
We have a rich jackass who gets
together lot of judges and other
eminent swells of literary renown
and they transmogrify themselves
with gorgeous costumes and earn a
magnificent banquet by aiding in
some absurd mummeries. The latest
exploit was the marriage of the At
lantic and Pacific oceans, all in the
most classical style. The costumes
worn by the select performers were
worth fortune, and the time wasted
by really eminent men in preparing
for this solemn childishness would
have sufficed to earn another.
Barrios, the President of Guatema-
la, is here. What his particular ca
per is, | can't say. The dailies have
found dozen motives, of which sell
ing his country is about the least,
provided he could deliver it after the
sale. If half that is said about him
is true he must be a queer genius.
AS to shooting and otherwise muir
dering people who disagree with him,
that's nothing, for it is only natural
for the vivacious Central Americans
to indulge themselves in this way,
but he is accused of whipping ladies
publicly, and similar atrocities. An
Austrian general was once handled
severely in historical fashion by the
draymen of Barclay, Perkins & Co.,
the great London brewers. 1t would
be odd if Barrios experienced similar
rude justice here.
Hole and corner societies are al
ways in danger of burst up, and
that is one check on monopoly. The
railroads are eternally cutting rates
on the sly, then openly, and so on.
1t is the same with the steamship
companies. They solemnly get to-
gether, and every now and then
break out into fight. Then when
the fight worries them, they get rec
onciled only to come together again.
The brewers are the last in this bus
mess, the Moderation Society has
been analysing their beer, and the
brewers are trembling in their boots,
or at least some of them, lest their
analysis should be published. One
of the honest ones is anxious to give
his receipts and get the benefit of the
enormous free advertising. This
will possibly break up the association
which is a powerful one, with feat
ures of mutual help, etc., which are
admirable in many respects but de-
fcient in the one circumstance that
it used to cover the misdeeds of a
minority of brewers who adulterate
their liquor. RADIx.
The svoters of Caledonia county
should remember the county conven-
ton to be held in this place Aug. 10,
and also JeNnember that the best men