Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-07-24
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
[specialCorresponde ofthe Monitor.1
NeaU York, JULY II, 1882.

AfOeo AOfU3 cUty IL 1000
Old sailors are usually ingenious
and honest. | am sorry to have to
record unusual dishonesty, combined
with ingenuity of a high order, on
the part of an ancient mariner He
had retired into the easy berth of
janitor to a bank, and employed his
leisure in devising plans to gather in
money. He managed to rig ma
chine through old gas pipes, with
pulleys and fishing lines, and little
lead greenback hook, baited with
cobbler's wax, by which he scooped
in several hundred dollars before he
was caught. Meantime, two paying
tellers, who couldn't balance their
cash, were dismissed, took to drink
and died.
Pool-selling has, so the police say,
been driven out of Gotham. I hap
pen to know it isn't, but it certainly
isn't carried on openly. The main
business has been transferred to
Long Island City just across the
East river, and there has been war
ever since. The last result was the
firing out on the sidewalk of an edi-
tor who wrote against the gamblers,
and little fisticuffs where a Judge
got a black eye, an editor had his
nose smashed, and sundry civil mag
mates got variously damaged. SO
exciting are horse matters.
Mysterious sounds awoke a good
and smart citizen the other night.
Ringing an alarm to the nearest dis
trict telegraph station, he seized a
revolver and awaited events. In two
minutes appeared a force of police,
commanded by the captain of the
precinct in person. Signals were
made by the nightcapped figure at
the window, and the house was sur
rounded, several of s'the finest" tear
ing their clothes as they disturbed
cats in their scrambles over back
yard fences. Finally the bluecoats
moved on the enemy. The burglar
was found. He had evidently been
very hungry for he had eaten mos
quito bar and part of some lace cur
tains, and in trying to worry down
the latter had kicked out pane of
glass in the parlor window. 1t was
a goat.
Talking of burglars, they have
managed to walk into a good many
of the possessions of the Hon. Hugh
Hastings, the veteran editor of the
Commercial Advertiser who, like 9
good many more very smart people
omitted to take the precausions tina
even stupid people find to be nee
essary. His visitors took it easy
made a nice selection of just wha
\ they wanted, drank with discrimiaa
ton his choicest wines, smoked hi
pet cigars and evidently had rea
good time. Another gang robbed :
bank under the very nose of tn,
newspaper office where a watchmal
went round every fifteen minutes
; Electric bells communicating will
neighbors' houses would play tn
mischief with such marauders an,
t even in country places might be re
, lied on, nine times out of ten, t.
bring ample assistance.
r The rumpus in Egypt interests
l good many people who are posted il
5 foreign politics, though so far it ha
: had little effect on the stock or pro
: duce exchanges. Freights have gon
7 up, however, and when it is realize
/ that the probabilities are that anoth
/ er great war, with all the old worl
S folks taking hand in is imminent
4 we shall see some fun here. If otf
b ers people choose to fight instead c
: working, we'll do the work an
f charge them we'll for the produce
i With the big crops expected this hal
vest and big market abroad we ma
e expect boom in everything.
We have a little war ourselves
Vt and, unless carefully managed, ma
IL have serious one in it's way. Tt
/ strikers are getting plenty of symp;
. thy and some money, but the stu;
IS ton is becoming s'strained," to us
IS high diplomatic lingo, and me-
e spark may cause an explosion. I'll
~ Italians who have been gathered
IL to do their work almost the momel
- they land are in mortal dread al
have armed themselves to the teet
y and bloodshed has already been eau
le ed by their fear. They were {
Is frightened at the movement of ha
y a dozen strikers on hydrant ne
" where they were working that, ina
81 lining they were going to be attacke
X they opened fire with revolver
VI Then came rush of the attack
Sc men, and amid shots and stabs t
Us duskey brigands were hustled to t
H. end of the pier and some of the
ne overheard. One was drowned.
O. Unless employment is found f
rs all these idle hands there may
trouble, and the militia who are NJ
II going through course of sprouts
sh the new State camp at Beechervil
nd up the Hudson,- may, perhaps, ha
he to be called on. Luckily some
the men have moved West, and t
movement may spread. If the 1
ia, ton once prevailed that mechan'
oh and skilled IahorerS mjoht better h