St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-06-01

the various mineral waters, and large
majority of him deal out Centennial
mead. | take him to represent the pur-
veyOrs of any iced beverage that stings
when it goes down, and Immediately
comes tingling back into the nose, max
ing that organ feel and look like pin
cushion, causing the eyes to weep and
the whole being to wish for the moment
that it had never been born.
EmbOldened by so illustriOus an ex-
ample other regular summer institutions
are making their appearance. The mag
niticent excursion steamers in which
New York is rich have thrown off tar
paulin coverings and musty loneliness,
and commenced to blow hot breaths
from their big black nostrils, as they
rush to and from half a score of subur-
ban resorts. The parks fill and the
Battery is crowded. The yacht clubs
and racing associations show signs of
active life. Gilmore's Garden, after
passing through six months of vicissi-
tude as rink, race course, circus, dog
show and ball room, has thrown off all
concentrating associations, disinfected
itself from dogs and carnival, and lifted
itself back into its normal position as
the promenade concert garden of the
country. The managers have put in
$500, 900 worth of turf, gravel, fountain
and flowers, and Gilmore himself, hav-
ing drilled his band within an inch of
its life mounted the stand for the first
time this year on the evening of the
gath.
The stringent law against gambling,
passed at Albany just before the open
ing of the sporting season, throw the
New York pool sellers and their numer-
Gus patrons into sort of indignant de-
SPAR. Elections, ball matches, races,
etc, without betting, seem to them like
the play of Hamlet with the melancholy
prince omitted. After considerable cog
itation the difficulty was partly got over
by the removal of the popular pool
rooms to the more hOspitable shores of
New Jersey, where sports of high and
low degree can wager their spare cash
on the success of their favorites. The
principal ones are now located in hulks
and barges fitted up for use i'm this
emergency. and moored around aban-
doned wharfs in HObOken. Such is the
strength of the ruling passion.
The steamer Wisconsin of the same
line as the Inflated Dakota, which was
wrecked on the Welsh coast short
time ago, has just come in, bringing the
latter's three hundred passengers, who
lost their baggage and almost their
lives in that accident. Among them
were five trained bears who were
being brought over for show pur-
poses, and who literally danced for JOY
at being rescued. Another passenger
was O'Leafy the champion pedestrian,
who has been walking for some months
in England and Ireland, and now comes
back heavily charged with glory and
trophies. He claims to have been lion
lied by the nobility to his hearts con-
tent, and in proof thereof displays IA
diamond ring, Il silver tea service, and
other marks of the traditional British
respect for ply power.
The Charley Ross excitement has been
strongly revived by the recent assum-
ing of the search by P. T. Barnum.
Banum believes the child to he living,
and has made an agreement with the
father of the boy to offer Il reward of
$4,000 to be paid by himself, and no
questions asked, for the return of the
missing youth. Should this final at
tempt prove successful Mr.. Ross is to
have the option of repaying the SlO,-
600 to Barnum or allowing the latter to
exhibit the bOy-who would certainly
he one of the most drawing attractions
the great Snowman ever took out-until
he pays himself out of the profits of the
strange speculation. 1t is Il business
arrangement on Balnum's part, but still
it is IL piece of Kindness, for Mr.. Ross
has spent his entire fortune in the search,
and has no more means to prosecute it.
Here is another of those queer freaks
of fortune which occasionally make for
themselves Il ripple even on this restless
sea of New York life. News came to a
number of residents of Brooklyn and
vicinity il short time since, that they
were heirs to fund which has been ac-
cumulating in the Bank of England for
nearly seventy Years, and now amounts
to nearly twelve millions of dollars in
hard cash. As the recipients of this
| intelligence are all III very moderate
circumstances the sensation produced
among them by this Arabian Nights sort
Conformation may heimagined. ltseems
that one Robert Sheppard in 1910 placed
the fund which was the nucleus of this
mammoth fortune in the Bank of Eng
land to the credit of sister. Her elope-
ment caused an estEangement between
them which lasted some years, and all
his subsequent efforts to find her were
unsuccessful. At his death, heirs to
| himself or sister were advertised for,
but none appeared, and the money has
remained untouched till now. What
lucky accident threw the clue to these
Brooklynites it the way of the public
administrator in England is not known.
AS it is every person of the name of
Sheppard for IA hundred miles around is
picking up his ears and licking his lips
in hopes of getting Il slice of this fat in
heritance. 1t is very much to he feared
that had this taken place in this coun-
try some one would have managed to
get his hands on treasure of this size
which had been begging for such Il
length of time. RADIX.
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