Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-04-17
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence ofthe Monitor.]
Neeo York, Aprl 10, 1882.

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 a
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 repeat their little game. The pet
roleum 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 stimulta-
neous benefits played in New York
and Brooklyn. Large individual do
nors were James Gordon Bennett,
who gave $40, 1000, and Edwin Booth,
who clipped in his little 81, 200, 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 Arctic ex-
plorers could chat with them at
Yakutsck, or wherever they may
now be in Siberia. Some pretty
good ones have been recently con-
nected with Plymoth Church in Brook
Ign, the wires running to the houses
of gentlemen in New York and Eliz-
abeth, N. j., by which the preaching
and music are distinctly heard. Mr..
Beecher says he considers the thing
felonious attempt to do away with
pew rents. For tired business men
the idea would be popular, but not
for the ladies'. They can't study
styles in the 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
man eloquent earns it, for people like
to hear what he says, even if they
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 lieutenant, for misbehavior in
the presence of the enemy, and was
promptly restored to the service as a
colonel, and provided with soft
place in Washington, where bullets
never whistled. 1t is a nephew in
scrape this time, who has been arrest
ed on an ugly charge of trading
worthless swamp lands which had al
ready been sold for taxes, for valua-
BILE mining stock.
Our toney topsawyers are getting
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 Ill
sters, and from this has grown the
employment of men to cut and fit
other garments for the fair ones, fav-
ored with big purses. We can now
boast Gothamite Worth. He don't
hapgen to be an Englishman, being
indeed a Bohemian, and he has fiji
teen polyglot male assistants, French,
Prussian and Italian.
The manager of the downtown
Delmonico got fooled out of $40 very
: neatly the other day. A cookbook
ing fellow rushed in and borrowed
the money: s'I'm De Motifs brother,
you know. I'll make it all right in
: the morning. was all he said. Good
! natured Longhi was puzzled but hand
: ed over the money. He sent over
/ to De Motifs in the morning, and in
consequence was kept busy all day
opening wine to entertain several
1 dozens of other brothers. The brok-
ers don't often get the bulge on the
old fellow, and they ran him for all
he was worth this time.
Gen. James Watson Webb, the
elder Benefits boss isn't dead yet,
but rails away heartily in his old
Know Nothing fashion at all foreign
ers, especially Irishmen. And he is
well liked too His fortunate son,
the favorite son-in-law of Vanderbilt,
owed his lucky marriage more to his
fathers intellectual pre-eminence
d than to his own wit, OF money, of
S which he didn't own as many dimes
: as his wife did thousands of dollars,
: and now another singular compli-
: ment has been paid to the old man.
: A Mr.. Smith has long been known
by the nickname of Courier Smith,
e from having been employed on the
f old generals paper, and has now, at
4 his earnest request, had the name le-
It ally attached to him.
n There has been quite a sharp COM
e petition for the coveted position of