Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-01-18
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.
NV YORK, JAN Is,

Murder seems the prevailing sens ition of IN e
past we~s. disap reea bic but absorbing topic
Calling the other dty on an old Comrade, who
still wears the blue in the SHAPE OF police uni
f.rm, | found him absent on quest after the
slayers of Chinese Iaunfrvmsu who bid
been ariisiiesy carved into mincemeat with y
Chinese dagger presumably 10 Chinese hands
Celestial claunishnr<s and Cunv-ntent igno.
rsnce ofEng'ish viii probably c 'nserve the Gu.
Ipri'
II is the worst frnture of so many sssassina-
i4ioas reren'lv, The apparent impossihility of
fastening the case on any one definitely. An
other most hlrbsrous crime was the hanmering
Ia death Of an aged farmer aud his literary
WIFI aud daughter of the late Coufei. Gen
Winier. we'll known TO old LIBBY prisoners, al
Oyster BAv. Long Island chtrrning summer
resort, hut uncomfor',hly full 81 savage ,ramps
in winter
Talking Of oysters. poor Couey island, the
hesdquarisr for their wholesale consumption
in these part-. hes hrrn grierously racked and
ruined nv the grea' storm. The beach has bee'
sept awav for miles with doz rs Of hotels
bathing honses, railroads. piers Clam sh'nties,
flower gardens. etc, and the Island Itself has
been split in two
New York aud New, TX ami sundrv other
places are painfully excited sbou, the mistsri
Gus disappear nee of wrll-know man, Charles
Orlmonico His dinners have comtorted the
sun-t cookies OF the hearts Rf all our dlstin-
gui he'd citizens and srvtrsl thousands OF out
.iiers, and that The genial good fellow. who
was as suavr ttill lsielyl as one OF his most
kaprsne east-onomic triumDhs. should have
Ennr of the track into insanity and sudden
oblivion is a fact that is generally dep'ored -
khzss- ia rrs-t.i Of. Sa0a for sny fittings OF
dim. dead alive.
farming from grave to CAV. find M -
mi IN nj ale shs t,ybt schools
alike shows the ben-6, Of these institutions and
/ the inherent hoEishness of human nature undrr
/ cumulative Scholastic influences Two middle
aged T*utons have been diligently making up
for Deficiencies in early education. one less
stupid than IN. other laughed At the latter :
mistakes On school b~iag dismissed. these
zig boys just like the little Eel ows, pitched
into zach other. were captured nv a lady teach
er AMI next dsv psraied for punishment. AT
ter a sound lecture thew were allowed In go
with An -dmonilion not 10 lie nsughty boys
. sny more.
/ One would think won who does not
know her own husband must be rather hard to
and We have such a specimen here. lady
of Milesian extraction with sisht small child
ren. in her widowed i-salaiion wood and
son nv Dane. actually one OF that hated
I race that Brian Boru was accustomed TO exter-
inmate. He deserted her. The other day sh-
seized a milk msn whom she claimed her
husba nd. and 10 Court her opinion Was rein
forrsd in the stronges, manner hv . number OF
wi,nessrs. The asrounied dispenser of milk
proved As concusrelv that he ~as somebod y
/ else. IL turned out that he and the won
h ushand had both boarded al the same time al
! the Sailors Home. and their resemblance was
I so great that the woman's mistake WAS nstu-
raj. She sill believes the milk man a gay de.
ee,yer.
The daily press wound up last year aith
groans at bad times and prophecies Of worse 10
rome. Thev have suddenly shifted their wea-
| iher cocks and Z 'orifving The improv -me nj
| in business. 1t is pity thesr scribes will not
write about something they know something
about. for more people than ih-v would be viii.
/ ling 10 confess il are Influenced bv this trash.
and there Is an unsettled psnckv feelng more
| or less all The time, which, as rule, there i.
! 10 sort of Justification Tor One fact. however.
~hich serves 10 point y moral for engineers OF
corners in perishab'e goods is the TACT that no,
and wecvil have tde away with several lar e
lots OF grain held for larger prices by spec ala.
/ tors. The general verdict is that il serves them
right. No! Trad NAV not be as brisk as we
should like to soc IL and as it wonla he if We
took $, me rr ub'e 10 find proper outlets for
our ''ov-r-prod uciion" abroad so as to keep
things moving all The time, but tn, Sc United
S'.'es are > long way from. rnin as yet.
| There is an old friend Of mine, m ex-jndge
and editor Of leading paper in Mississippi,
| who tells with a good deal Of humor how he
was forced TO bounce BARLEY Campbell from,
| his pamr, heranse, with the hest intentions
the Young frIlow couldn't make his salt by
writing. Campbell is wealthy now The
| judge isn't. But then The Judge hasn't writ
ten PLAYS. Bart. has, and, better still, had
them PLACED, that is, some Of them. He is now
trying to make money out Of An old effort that
never WAS PLAYED, because the title Peril" ha 5
been applied to ii totally d ffrrent atf.ir by the
famous teiut,, Lily Lrngtry. The fight will
serve as AN admirable advertisement: tor both
the Beauty and the other B.
! But big gest Of all BIS aud busy as bees on
his behalf, are Barthold and the engineers of
the boom which is to be coined into masonry
and mortar TO support that grand Colossal Lib
erty which France gives us in so friendly a
fashion. The New York Committee, after the
usual absu ID Interruptions by the strict Sab
ba,arian element realizad quite a handsome
contribution by their art exhibition, and Brook
lyn has followed suit with II rival of costly pic.
lures
There is one serious objection to living 10
Brooklyn, especially in the outskirts where
rents are cheap. The postal deliveries are few,
far between and in some places the earliest de-
livery is as late as 10 A. NJ. Talking over this
matter with the postmaster, the g ,llan, com
mander of the Fighting Fourteenth 'Redleg-
ged D--ls," Col. McLeers SAYS he has too
few men to send round that his force is regu-
lated by the number of stamps he sells. and MS
all, Brooklynit who do business in New York,
commonly post their letters here, their early
mails have to suffer. Surely some more ration.
al rule could be devised for the proper appor-
ionmeut OF lie ter carriers to any town than
this rougb and ready calculation on a basis of
stamps, which by the way some years ago led
TO Sunday unpleasant complications in the
case of postmasters who forced the sale Of
stamps for purposes they were never intended
for in order to enhance their salaries
RADlx.
lawyers will gladly earn that Brough-