St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-30

vigorously pushed by the police just
now is that of the POLICEMEN and deal
ers in lottery tickets. The war upon
this class. which is very large, has been
carried on without much result for sew
eraI wears, the lottery men having as a
rule plenty of money to bride and pay
fines. but this year has been so hard on
them that their treasures are scarcely
equal to the demands for hush money,
etc, and so they are really being broken
up to a great extent. 1t will be long
before this variety of gambling can be
permanently eradicated. The systems
of drawings" distributions" ''gift
concerts" and the like are too attractive
to the lazy and avaricOus to be put
down altogether, and the fact that they
are always more or less fraudulent does
not seem to lessen their power over
weak minds in the least. 1t is some
thing, however, for the city authorities
to get the upper hands of these impos-
tiers, even if only for short time.
The dogs of New York, and if we
may believe reports, of various other
parts of the country, regardless of the
great truth that every dog has his day,
and that all these days come good
deal further along in the year, are fore
ing the season to an extent which, if
they keep it up, will, fear, exhaust even
Mr.. Bergh's patience, and cause that
Jealous champion of their rights to wash
his hands of them entirely. Reports of
bites from animals known or feared to
be mad are multiplying at a rate which
has aroused the city. A dozen bills for
the suppression of dogs are at this mo-
ment awaiting the action of the bewil-
dered city fathers, who have great diff
Guilty in deciding among so many blood
thirsty propositions. Against these lat
ter, one and all, Mr.. Henry Bergh lifts
up his gaunt visage and his sepulchral
voice. Better, says he, that few speci-
mems of the genus homo should be lunch
ed on by the noble quadruped than that
the dignity and the skull of the latter
should suffer at the policeman's club,
or that he be lured by the miniOns of
the law to commit involuntary suicide
with ''cold pisen." Especially and bit
terly does this tender-hearted man in
weigh against the treatment of vagrant
CANNES who, being found in the streets
without collar or license, in direct con-
tempt of court, are arrested and despite
a yelping resistance are dragged igno-
minously through the streets to the
common pound. He has been lately
urging upon the Aldermen the duty of
providing covered wagons to patrol the
streets, in charge of humane drivers
with scoop nets with which the vaga-
bonds should be caught and from which
they should be tenderly dumped into
their carriage and driven off in state.
The railroads are having hard lines
these days. An article on the subject
written by a high railroad authority
was recently published here which stat
ed that one half of all the capital in
vested in this vast interest in this coun-
try is now unproductiye and about as
good as lost to its owners. Following
close upon this now comes the an
nOuncement in the Herald that twelve
railroads are to be brought under the
auctiOneer's hammer within the next
two months.
Thursday the 22d was day of festi-
val aud rejoicing to our large German
population, being the S0th birthday of
Kaiser Wilhelm, whose long reign has
been one of the most illustriOus in Ger
man history, and who seems to be more
generally beloved by all who are or
have been his subjects than usually falls
to the lot of sovereigns. RADIx.