The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-09-22
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
From Our Own Correspondent.

Our harvest was to be ruined, and
fruit was to be a forgotten luxury.
We find on the contrary avalanches of
peaches, some of them poor enough,
it is true, and in fact lots of every
thing. There is rage for getting
up Exchanges for all sorts of things
and domestic produce is getting into
the fashion on larger scale than
ever. There has already been es-
tablished dried fruit and nut Ex-
change and now there is an agitation
for fresh fruit and vegetable Ex-
change. Farmers will be required to
grade everything, so that they can be
sold by sample.
The gypsies are upon us. Eight
families have been imported to exhibit
their native dirt and ugliness on the
stage in that spectacular play "The
Romany Rye" They are camped at
the corner of Broadway and Central
Park, and it is expected will reap
harvest from fortune-telling.
Probably the last of the regattas
was sailed in the harbor yesterday.
There were some twenty of the small
er flyers, mostly under thirty feet
long, but they were good ones, and
to the surprise of every one, several
of the little spoons beat the catama-
rams hollow, the latter being at least
one-fourth larger too.
Cricket has always been cultivated
to some extent in this vicinity, but
chiefly by Britishers and their off
spring. In Philadelphia it is more
popular than baseball with everybody.
A Western eleven has descended on
us lately and knocked spots out of
the sons of St. George and every
body else. One clergyman was par
ticularly happy in his judicious play
and rolled up enormous scores.
Another invasion is that of the
Volunteer Sharpshooters of Great
Britain (not including Ireland); they
seem. so far as can be judged, to
shoot great deal better than our
men. l fear we dawdled too long in
getting our team together. They are
individually excellent but don't work
as well together as if they had been
longer associated. There is gener-
al niggardliness, too, about provid-
ing for their expenses which is rather
surprising, especially when everybody
is comparatively flush and ought to
feel good and generous. The wining
and dining of the visitors seems
likely to be reduced to a very small
scale I; it looks mean considering the
royal way in which our men were
treated there. If every paper in the
country were to get up subscription
a noble permanent fund might be
raised, and the benefit to the cause
generally of rifle shooting throughout
the country would be immense.
Rowdy excursions, chiefly com.
posed of low foreigners not yet nat
urlized, with dangerous element of
the Bowery B'hoys, have been giving
considerable annoyance of late in
the neighboring towns. One village
up the Hudson after a few citizens
had been murdered one Sunday,
armed to resist any more such crowds
and the next Sunday drove off all
visitors with an old cannon, among
other weapons. The other day there
was a terrible rumpus at Elizabeth,
when the barkeepers on two barges
waited till the excursionists had land
ed, and then opened fire with revolt
vers. Two harmless men were kill
ed.
A big city is bad place to get in
rows or crushed by accidents. The
other day the popular secretary of
one Of the companies of the 9th reg
iment, very fine young man of ex-
cellent position, disposition and hab-
its, fell in getting off street car. He
was run over, cruelty mutilated, died
in hospital and was buried in the
Potter's Field. A few days after,
police sergeant thought he'd look
over the poor fellows effects which