St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-24

making various hurried promises of bet
ter conduct. If they want to save their
bacon they will have to show them
selves in earnest at once. for when our
Murray Hill is stepped on we are dan
gerOus lot.
Whether the large amount of editorial
attention which has been bestowed on
the excursion of the Coaching Club to
Philadelphia on Saturday is the result
of a genuine and wondering admiration
for this not very startling performance,
or of such scarcity of important news
as causes the unfortunate fraternity
whose endless task it is to fill so many
columns a day to catch wildly at every
straw of interest that floats with the
sluggish current, is an open question.
The simple fact is, that private Club,
in search of amusement, got up sort
of picnic to Philadelphia, and by way
of novelty drove over in a coach, pre-
ferring, for some unknown reason, this
slow and laborious method to the
quicker and easier mode provided by
the railroad. Immediately the metro
politan press breaks out all over with
columns of description, high-soundjng
editorials, and elaborate maps of the
route, and the illustrated papers fiji
themselves with soul-stirring engrav-
ings of the coach ''as it appeared" under
all manner of circumstances.
My own experience in coaching being
mostly confined to travel in Broadway
stage, it may be that do not fully un-
derstand the charm of the thing, as
practiced by Delaney Kane and his fol-
| lowers but things being as they are,
strongly incline to the idea of Pull
man car in preference to the cramped
jolting of an obsolete conveyance hav-
ing for its sole recommendation the
temporary patronage of btdse Don't ton.
How rich mems fortunes shrink and
dwindle when their estates are settled.
Before w. S. O'Brien, of Bonanza fame,
died, rumor made of him sort of Monte
Cristo, and talked freely of twenty OF
twenty-five millions as his money value.
His executors think the property may
realize four or five millions. Then
there was John Morrlssey who was
popularity supposed to roll in ill-gotten
wealth. Those in charge of his affairs
now say they will he lucky if they can
pay his debts and two small bequestS
which he made to his sisters in his
Will.
On the other hand, there is occasion
ally, though very rarely, an instance
wherein current report fails to do JUS
tice to the amount of a mans posses
sions. Mr.. Charles Morgan, who died
here few days ago, was man whose
name rarely got into the papers, and
who was known by name only to COM
paratively few, but who turns out tC
have been perhaps next to Vanderbilt
in the extent of his ownership of rail,
road and steamship property. He leaves
his family some $I3,000,0O0.
1t is probable that opposition to the
Brooklyn bridge, like that which fough
the construction of every foot of the
elevated railways, will cease only will
the completion of the work. Anothe
strong effort has been commenced t.
have the work stopped and the millions
of money already sunk abandoned, OF
the old ground that it will interfere
with the passage of tall-masted vessels
Luckily the great enterprise is too fa
advanced to be more than delayed ant
annoyed by these never ending attacks
''The greatest good of the greatest mum
Der" must positively prevail.
This being the regular season for th'
anniversaries of the various religious
and educational institutions, the Amer
lean Bible Society has just held its sixty
second annual meeting, at which SOM
interesting figures were given regarding
its work. During the past year it ha
distributed nearly 1000 Bibles in thi
and foreign countries, and during it
whole existence, has printed and circu
lated the enormous number of thirty
four million eight hundred thousanC
copies of the sacred volume.
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