Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-29
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence ofthe Monitor.l
NeaU York. Mdg %. 1882.

Cor not searching) incoming steam
ships for the assassins of Lord Cav
endish and Mr.. Burke in Ireland. A
swarm of marshals, detectives and
useful friends started in revenue cut
ters for the mouth of the harbor and
cruised them there till the Scythia, a
Cunard steamer, arrived, and the
Cunarders, which do not brag much
of speed, have never been known to
appear before they are due. From
all accounts the officers had a Jolly
time, perhaps just little too jolly,
and when they met the Scythia board
ed her and held no less than three
examinations of man, woman and
child, in order to detect the red-hand-
ed Fenians and share in the enormous
rewards offered. Meantime, the
Guion steamer Wisconsin came along,
and when. she got to her pier, a mys-
terious passenger, who came aboard
at Queenstown without a cent or a
shirt collar, jumped ashore and disap-
peared. Now there is a crazy hunt
after him, while it is clumsily given
out that owing to the unlikelihood
of the assassins trying to escape in
steamers to America, no further
searches of them will be made. The
futile officials are much chagrined.
French police have a reputation for
superior smartness. They are shrewd
enough to keep their stupidity out of
the papers.
When Uncle Rufus Hatch gets his
rapid transit Atlantic steamers under
weigh he'll probably have to improve
on steam as a motor. Just in the
nick of time, as it were, comes a
sample of those wonderful Faure
Electric Accumulators we have heard
so much about, which would appear
to make it possible to collect force of
Niagara for twenty-four hours and
stow it away in satchel, the very
thing to send ship humming across
the billows, as well as lighting it on
it's way. Also, of course, an Ameri-
can inventor, OF company of invent
ors, controlling the Brush light, sud-
denly put a spoke in the Frenchman' s
wheel by declaring that they have a
claim for a patent now pending and
will fight it to the last spark. Hurrah
for pork and beans Down with the
Kickshaws By the way, l happen
to know of something destined to
effect a complete revolution in naval
architecture, of more moment than
even the substitution of electric fol
steam power in the propulsion OF
great vessels. It is not patented yet
so | can't say anything further about
it for a while.
Talking of Frenchmen, the heirs OF
DR.. Caro-, a late distinguished physi
clan, who was well known in his de
clining years for the bitter war ht
waged against the elevated railroad
which calmly ran its tracks in from
of his handsome residence, have sue
ceeded in getting an injunction, which
unless there is some honeyfugling
which so far doesn't appear, will cause
a cessation of traffic on the west-sid'
branch on the Harlem line, possibl,
for ever, probably till the line talk
turkey 1t has been hard fight, ant
bravely fought by an individual ant
his representatives against colossa
money power. So far there seem
no reason that the court of appeals
to which the matter now goes, will d'
anything to mar the victory.
Talking of railroads, a new tracl
has been laid in the City of Churche
which has raised a grand rumpus. l
is only horse-car affair, but the res
idents or majority of them didn'
want it. While they were muddlin!
away in the mazes of the law, th
chief cook and bottlewasher of th
concern, deacon and eX-alderman an
board of education member Williar
Richardson, Brooklyn's pet specime
of truly good man, Baptist of re
nown and great gun in the Sunday
schools, who differs from his Cincir
natl brother in not having any wicke
partners, but instead of them occas
ional visits from the-well, neve
mind-put up job on the patier
taxpayers, hired lot of pagans c
various sorts, and when the congrt
cations were at church started
chorus of cheerful hammers. Whe
the people came out of church, th
tracks were laid, and the deacon sli
smiling home. Now the pious al
going for his scalp.
There promises to be feast fC
the tribe, though, in the likely figl
over the property of the late Mis-
Sarah Burr. This eccentric old lad
left about SO, 100000, some fiftee
very distant relatives, and wi
ignoring the latter and distributin
the former in large donations anon
a number of religious and charitabl
institutions. The gallant fftee
"kicked' and if they establish the
view of the case, the r. and c. |. al
likely to come out of the little end {
horn in an exasperating manne
Better never TO have been left an
money than for some one else to wal
in and walk off with it. The old lad