Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-12
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
spondence ofthe Monitor.l
NeaU York, March, B.

NeaU York, March, 3.
Some day, perhaps, we shall have
bank directors who direct, who know
enough and are diligent enough to
ferret out error so quickly after it is
committed as to discourage any will
full attempts on its funds. Another
clerk has been discovered to have
robbed that unhappy Jersey City
Bank, and is on his way to join the
late president, treasurer, and cashier
in State Prison. His simple plan
was to cash cheques ostensibly drawn
by persons who had ceased to have
accounts with the bank, but from
whose names having been on the
books and thus familiar to his supe-
rior whose duty it was to check his
work, would pass without comment.
By this pleasing device in the course
of seven years he managed to get
away with $4,000. Seven years
labor ought to have Melted him more
than that with such ohauUcs, aud any
brainy fellow could have got more
honestly, but perhaps the terrible
dread of being found out, which
would worry most men into their
collins, acts as pleasing excitement
to certain class of thieves, some
thing like hunting grizzly bear with
a lame mustang and damp cartrid-
ges.
Lily Langtry has dropped among
us suddenly after a 1900 mile ride
from Keokuk, in order ''to get a
rest The fact seems to be that
the lady, who travels on her face and
shape Cher reputation fled long ago. ,
finds that the 'sdaises' of Hoosier-
dom and other wild Western regions
are generally preferred. The novelty
has worn off and people don't care
to see good plays murdered by bad
acting, and the lacdaisical airs of a
fat Princes ex-pet, and Gebby,
though an assidious monkey, is Sc
stupid and quarrelsome that he has
been an additional milestone to the
fast fading beauty.
Stokes, by the way, is now in ne
gotiation for the Madison Square
Garden property, and will probably
get it. He is heavily backed by mer
with much money and faith in his
enterprise and honesty. Vanderbilt
ought to be glad to sell it, for its
possession has entailed plenty Of
(mostly well-merited) abuse that cal
not have been pleasant even to the
thickest hided of fools. Circuse'
and shows innumerable, holy ant
unholy, REVEALS, walking matches
prize fights, etc., including Offenbacl
the high priest of too suggestive
melody, have all been exploited ther
and sundry persons have been pre-
cipitated out of existence by its fall
ing walls, the parsimony of the pro
prietor and the inefficiencY of tn
Building Department. Stokes ma
} not improve its morals, but his build
ings will undoubtedly be ornamental
He has introduced a new method c
utilizing reformed prizefighters a
guardians of the peace in his elegar
| gin-mill, where too exuberant in
l biber might by firing glass at som
of the pictures of nude nymphs {
} superb fixtures of other kinds destro
: thousands of dollars worth of a
t triumphs.
: Congress- is about to adjourn
: the midst of tremendous difficult
f sRichelieu,' Robinson, the Brookly
: Anglo maniac, has been pulling Il
S British lions tail till he is black
S the face, and really some of the la
S proceedings of the beast have MAJ
e sensible people angry. A steam
IS foundered in mid-ocean the 9th
i day, and among the passengers re
a cued most gallantly by the crew
n the Republic, very monarchial sc
|. of vessel by the way, was an ri
If laborer whom the officers straightw
1t put IN irons and solitary confineme
y on suspicion of Feniaism, and
fe they kept him for two days VIII
st actually tied up to a New York p
to till the British Consul's Deputy c
amined him and let him 60. Th
ne there is an attempt of no insignifics