St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-04-27

question, and that the policy-hold
are amply secured in their investment"
but also that its unparalleled growth
reflects the highest credit on its officers,
and places the Equitable" in the front
rank CT institutions of its kind.
This effectually disposes of all de-
fractions of this company, for the mem
bers of this committee are so far above
suspicion of partiality or favoritism that
their dictum is accepted here and every
where as absolutely correct.
new enemy to man, and in this
longitude at least, deadly one, is being
developed i'll the shape of the ordinary
cat, at whose door must be laid num-
Der of recent deaths, and for whose sup
preston stringent measures are now
proposed. So great is the alarm in the
region of Fulton Ferry among the res
taurant keepers and market people that
an association has been formed which
has offered a reward of ''Fifty cents,
dead or alive" for every cat brought
in. The fish market has long been
famous for its cats, each stallkeeper
having number of feline pensioners
which answered to their names and re-
celved regular ratiOns. But they have
increased and multiplied till they have
become Il terrible nuisance. Thieving
NANCY, quarrelsOme and noisy, the at
mOsphere is redolent of the pungent
odOr of cats, the roofs, cellars, corridors
and fences are pervaded with cats, the
tempest tossed mariners temporarily so
journing in the adjacent boarding houses
cannot sleep for the pests, and fill the
air with flying boots and portable fur
niture. The residents are in sore trou-
BILE. They say the cats are worse than
the rats, with whom they have appar-
emily formed an unnatural alliance for
offensive assaults on anything and ev-
erything eatable they can lay their paws
on. Worse than all, the New York cat,
in addition to all his other vices, is be-
coming addicted to hydrophobia of an
aggravated character. This puts the
cap sheaf on his accumulated offences,
and long suffering public having risen
against him, he has suddenly become
an equal sharer with the Spitz dog in
the general enmity and fear.
L think | am safe in asserting that it
has come within the experience of all
OF us to see men run away from the Ten
Commandments, avoid them, and leave
them severely alone but that any one
should be moved by his affection to run
away Nth them must be acknowledged
to be genuine novelty. This, how
ever, Is what some unconSciOnable speci-
men of humanity has done with the
deliberately engrossed parchment which
formed the central ornament of one of
our New York synagogues. In spite of
the cOmmOtion which this outrage has
created, its perpetrator is still unknown;
but his GOODNESS, whoever he is, in car
ryIng off bodily the I'M junction against
stealing, is worthy of mention.
The smooth current of the amusement
season has been slightly rutfled this
week; largely, ne one will be surprised
to hear, by Anna Dickinson who sud
denly, Oh Monday night, gave notice to
the proprietor of the theatre at which
she has been acting, that she should not
put i'll an appearance. A newspaper
quarrel followed, and the Grown of
Thorns" is killed dead
On the same evening certain Miss
LenOX was to have made her debut at
the Lyceum in the pant of Camille"
At the appointed hour crowd of ticket
holders surrounded the entrance of the
W uiCH iutN were SOillcNIl
dumbfounded to find closed and dark.
After some waiting Il tumult arose which
finally penetrated the green room of the
theatre, where the fair debutante was
eagerly completing her toilet, uncon-
scious of anything amiss. When it be-
came evident that the manager of the
evening had failed to come to time, and
that no performance was to be had,
there followed rather more of ii scene
than though the regular programme had
been followed Out-a scene in which
distracted supernumcrarieS, Il hysterical
actress and disguised public sustain
ed the principal parts.
Not less interesting was Il little cpl
sOde at GilmOre's Garden, in which
Barnum's big elephant ''Borsen" who
has only been in America few days,
filled the chief role. Borsen has the
reputation Of being the biggest elephant
Ill captivity, and he feels his dignity
accordingly. When, therefore, he was
brought into this ''blarsted country
and actually shut up in the same cage
with three plebian elephants of smaller
size, his feelings were SO outraged that
he found 1t necessary to pick up bis
keeper with his trunk and chuck him Il
couple of blocks in order to show IL
proper resentment. Further reflection
convinced him that this WAS not il sutfi-
cient Vindication of his honor, so he
knocked down the wooden walls of his
domicile and the cage of lions, and then
galloped around the establishment for
an hour or 50, when he was finally cap
tured RANK