Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-28
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
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Mar Vo1.I. 1TO, 81

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Neao York, Nag, 81.
The men of science and learning feel
exceedingly sad at the defeat of Mitchell,
for he was their representative. He was
''science" personitied, and science has
been beaten out of it's boots by the heavy
blows of Sullivan. Thus once more it is
proven that the fortunes Of war rest with
the heaviest artillery. You will please
bear in mind that at the great contest in
Madison Square the other evening, be-
thousand persons were not all shoulder
hitters, bummers and thieves. There |
were men of standing headed by Roscoe |
Conkling, men of money headed by Bel |
mont, and l am told that the church was
even represented by no less an individual |
than brother B9echer. All the latter sid |
ed with Mitchell, who is said to be an
M. D., who has given up his practice in
order to handle the healthy, and when
Mr.. Sullivan made mince-meat of him the
roof was almost taken off the building by
the cheers, not of the learned men, but of
roughs, who, of course, now look with
disdain upon the class represented by
Conkling and Co.
There is very little romance about the
circumstances surrounding the attempted
suicide Of Lieutenant Bettini. The fellow
was kepted to his ears in debt, and when
he saw that the young lady who was well
| fixed pecuniarily could not be ensnared
into his willy ways, he thought he might
as well create some sympathy by shoot
ing himself, which he has gained only
from his own cratic countrymen, but
not from any sensible business men, all
of whom applaud Miss Ayers determine
ton to have nothing to do with the fell
low. Even should he recover, the world
at large will not gain much thereby.
Speaking of Mayor Low, reminds me
that the firm, of which he is member and
which his father established, A. A. Low
& Bro, would find it quite difficult to
amass fortune as easily nowadays as in
the past. They are the great China tea
house, and it is only lately, that the gov
ment has established strict rules in pre-
venting the importation of bad teas, and
now makes a stringent inspection of all
such cargoes that arrive here. No less
than $50 chests of tea were CONDEMNED
last week alone. 1t appears, however,
that in the past we all must have been in
the habit of drinking very unwholesome
tea.
The newspapers are so hard up for a
sensation that they are overhauling vari-
Gus State stories printed in the past, and
repeat them with great eXaggerations
To read some of the papers one would
imagine that all of our working girls visit
opium dens the same as men visit bar
rooms. 1t is an unmitigated falsehood
There are no more hard-workifg persons
in the world than the factory and shol
{, girls of New York, and if these dens ar
Il visited at all, it is by abandoned women
: There is far more poison sold in singh
+ toilet shop of New York than in all tn
& opium dens put together
o You have heard of the New York ''bun
o co steerers." They are peculiar set G
/ knaves, but with all their bad habits Their
- is a good deal of quiet fun in all their dc
W ings. One of their latest exploits
: their squeezing $75 from Boston clergy
> man, whom they allured in 18th stree
g,
6 of it was that the down-east parson wa
10 not in the least disguised Every bod
n could tell by looking at him that he We
II 'sservant Of the Lord and so when tt
H. old fellow was in about $500, the bystan'
70 ers advised the clerical ingenuity in han
al ling the cards. Toward the end, hoy
g ever, he had to 'pay up" all he had, 81
or and then he was foolish enough to go to
% Police Court and make a complaint.
90 The New York Cremation Society h
in just held its annual meeting with a lar.
IT. increase in membership. Singular to S;
ito the society is in fair way of becoming
tlv wealthy corporation, as many beques
~ and donations have of late increased
no assets considerably. But very few chur
,o members have as yet joined its ranks, a
- the candidates for the great furnace a
his iiioo'iS hn0h VI "0i in''hi vi III anu p"i0'
,as age.
ar Speaking of cremation reminds me
~ the fact that if New York goes on bui
40 ing skyward as we have been doing
1o4 Al
,,1o ings cremated than there are members
IN the Society just named. The latest ;
- dition to our enormous high buildings
tho an apartment house having no less til
oss fifteen stories. Just think of it that y
ON, and your wife and chicks should be &C
oo PEELED to live on the fifteenth story OF
nc fiat house, and yet that is what n
Vim York is coming to. The island is Il
10, row, small, limited, and if we have
-, room on the land we can at least buil(
=, the sky, until, like that nation of old,
a., build Tower of Babel. Thus hist
Of always repeats ITSELF
The two German Jews, known as ]
ia itZer Bros, are endeavoring to create
ond excitement in the newspaper world
+, New York, but outside of Printing Ho
No, Square the attempt falls fiat, stale
81 Improbable. New York cares very Ii
tho who edits paper or who owns it.
fact with all of our humorous publicati
hi, there is really no place in the world wi
o+od less time is devoted to newspaper r.
- ing than in this vast and busy
4ho These PulitZers are ''smart," especi
I'D Joseph, who has bought the World,
o,,s- makes the people believe that it was
ond his own money, but neither Albert
.;a+, Joseph has any education. They are
o,,i starts without scholastic training
;ras both of them will readily ascertain
4;r,o it is much easier to become a first-o
r1o1 man in a small town than even sec
oor1- rate man in a metropolis like New Y
,+;f,1 OF course the story that Gould is ent
out of ssthe World" is a mere blind.
and still owns fifty per cent. of the stock.
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