Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-26
LETTER FROM NEW YORK
Especial Correspondence nfthe Monitor.1
Mem York. Mureh. 10

Neo York, Murch, 10.
The event of the week was, in the
absence of anything more exciting,
the disgusting demonstrations at the.
funerals of Elliott, the pngilist, and
McGloin, the s'tough," who was sus
pen COL Both were inferred at CAL
vary Cemetery, the chief Roman Cath
olic Cemetery in these parts, and the
line of march was crowded. Accord
ing to every paper but one, which
says the crowds were mainly compos-
ed of curious but Industrious working
people, the vast assemblages at the
point of departure of each procession
numbered most of the hard characters
in the Metropolis and vicinity, and it
is my firm belief that the accidental
explosion of a sufficient quantity of
dynamite would have removed some
very expensive nuisances, and very
few that any decent person would
feel grieved to lose. The professions
were timed so that after McGloin had
prayers read over HMM the midst
of disgraceful and continued scuf-
fe-his attendants had time to
''plant' him in time to see the final
rites paid to the late Mr.. Elliot.
Among the pallbearers of the latter
an old antagonist in the "a foot
squared circle, was ex-Alderman
James Dunno, of Brooklyn, who
''served time" for ballot-box stuffing
and was indicted for a murderous as
sault on Judge Morris, to say nothing
about minor brawls of considerable
frequency. He has just been ap-
pointed keeper of the City Hall, in
place of gentleman who had too
hazy ideas about the distinctions be-
tween public property and his private
purse. So nauseating a misuse of
privilege by the jobbing scamps who
appointed him, has sickened every
one in the City of Churches, except
chronic "heelers'' of the lowest stripe.
They chuckle.
The Bridge is to be finished, by
the way, so they say, and the old
Ring have managed to get the best of
well-meaning Mayor Low and his few
honest comrades. Part of the inves-
tigating committee he had appointed
after SO much trouble has been dis
charged, and the gang seem disposed
to legislate themselves into perpetual
office.
The following spicy bit from the
Union, which bears all over it the
ear-marks of that brilliant journalist
John Foord, tells quite story in a
nutshell: One committee that was
ordered might as well have been dis
pensed with-that to consider the adj
visibility of placing memorial tablets
upon the towers. The Trustees need
never, we think, go to the expense of
any monument to commemorate their
connection with the enterprise. AS
long as the towers stand, they will
lift their heads to heaven as memoir
ais of the Trustees, and the taxpay-
ers are not likely to forget the gen.
tlemen for many years to come.
Virgins storm proved fizzle but
was an expensive hoax anyhow. The
fools who believed that fool were sc
numerous that money was lost hs
their folly Ocean steamers carried
out fewer passengers, the fishermen
loafed ashore, Holsters have gone uE
in price, and in hundred other ways
Virgins fed his vanity at great cos
to others. In little arrears will
the almanac, but still very welcome,
spring seems to have made up it,
mind to come at last. AT midday
the weather is quite warm in the sun
though there a chill in the air and thu
thermometer average is far below it
normal stand and at this time of tn,
year. However, the city is filling VI
with strangers, and when Lent is owe
there'll be plenty of festivity.
Some factories in Brooklyn hav'
presented as nuisances, sulphur fume
being complained of as objectionabl
features. Now there is deluge 0
more or less trustworthy Evidence t
prove its heaithfulness. Accordin:
to some witnesses, the neighborhooc
is inhabited most exclusively by eX
consumptives, who barely manages
to delay arrangements with under
takers, but are now miracles of 70
business and the favorite customer
of the butchers, Perhaps it is true
If so, little fumigation on domes
tic altar at meal times might say
many doctors bills.
Mighty is milk in this metropolis
; The board of health and the dealer
are always at war on the subject 0
tests and gauges, and the relativ
benefit to infants of SKINNED milk
, croton water, calves brains, etc
Now the dealers and the farmers al
at tooth and nail. There's a differ
ence in the views of buyers and sci
ers amounting to the alarming prit
: of half cent a quart, and the sturd
agriculturists have decided to Boyco
t the wicked denizens of Gotham. w
; are threatened with famine. How
E ever, so far the public has manage
5 to get it's alleged milk in spite of be
+ lowing Bucolics.