St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-08

several nave Idll6n uOWH III d regular
apoplectic way in Broadway every
day.
The pioneer gospellers, Moody and
Sapkey. are again with us, after sea-
son of recuperatiOn, the latter in Eu-
rope, the former at that charming ceun-
try residence at Northfeld, Mass, which
has so mysteriously come into his pos
session, he being one of those good
people who work very hard and get no
pay for their services. They are hold
ing forth at Cooper Institute, Sankey
singing as sweetly and Moody speaking
as Volubly and as ungrammatically as
ever. The burden of his discourses is
as usual to lay all our burdens upon
Jesus. Logically this would seem en-
couragement to laziness and general
shiftlessness, in fact, not differing much
from the fatality doctrines of the Turks.
The terrible heat in the ill-ventilated
hall has not prevented the assembling
of the usual crush to hear the fluent
preacher, and the enthusiasm over the
converts who are excited by the sur
rOundings to stand up in the face of the
multitude and ask for prayers, is very
great. The clergy of various denomi-
nations seem to have lost interest in
the evangelists.
The gyroscopical Talmage, while alb
sent in the flesh still exercises the spirits
of his Brooklyn flock and vast num-
Der of outsiders. His movements have,
with more or less reticence, been tele-
graphed at considerable length by his
shown business managers in Eng
land, and whether true or simply as a
dexterous advertising dodge, it is now
asserted that he has so charmed the
Englishmen with the eloquence of his
convoluting arms, legs, hair, ears and
jaw that his own people will be left to
seek some other attraction. Some who
profess to know all about it even go so
far as to say the thing was cut and dried
long ago, and that Immediately at the
close of the trial on common fame"
Talmage and London theatre manager
made terms by cable for three years.
starring tour.
The current number of Harper's
Weekly contains an article on the re-
cent doings of the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company of New York, which en-
body some remarkable facts and figures.
ing 1873 the company paid out to the
survivors of its policy holders the enor-
nous sum of three and half millions
of dollars, and practically accounts for
this immense business by thus explain
ing the nature of the institution:
"For those who only want insurance
it may be interesting to learn that the
Mutual Life is a compact of individuals
all assuring each other, the new conner
and the old being on one footing. There
is no question of stock or proprietary
interest of the stock holders of COL
poration standing up to absorb OF con-
troll the common interest. The meas
ure of that interest has now attained a
magnitude in millions, some twenty
five per cent. greater than all the capt.
tai of the banks of the metropolis, being
in the aggregate eighty-seven millions
of dollars. 1t is the largest financial
corporation known to exist, its policies
outstanding securing life insurance
equal in amount to the entire issue of
the national bank currency afloat."
The constant increase of this incom-
parable success is still further accounted
for by the reduction of premium rates
which the Mutual put in force some
thing like a year ago, and which en-
ables it to give insurance of the most
unquestioned safety at the lowest
known figures.
Poverty and the willingness to run
heavy risks for light gain have caused
the death, or, at any rate, the asphyza-
ton of a brave man. He was diver
by profession, and was employed for
the munificeDt sum of ten dollars, eut
of which he had to pay bis assistants,
to attach a cable to an anchor which
had been lost in a recent collision in
the haI Dor. A large and powerful man,
his armOr was propOrtionately weighted
to cause him to sink readily. He had
been down two minutes, when the air
pipe, which he knew to be weak, but
was too poor to replace before his last
descent, burst with loud report. His
hauled him up very quickly,
and frantically dashed off the glass
mask under which he was suffocating.
He gasped heavily, and then, as they
thought, expired. According to some
physicians the case was by no means
hopeless, but it was so thought by the
bystanders, and no attempts at re-
suscitation were made. On the con-
trary, the remains were speedily placed
in an ice-box, where all possibilities of
revival were of course at once ex-
tinguished. Since the recent evidence
of Professor Van Der Weyde in Court,
in the Cox-Hull murder case, the I'M
charitable are beginning to say that the
undertakes are killing more people
4 bnn hn
worthy jibe at two deserving classes of
citizens.
The northern portions of Manhattan
Island are being built up with remark
able rapidity, and business people gen.
orally seem encouraged with the con-
victiOn that we have at last seen the
worst of the results of the panic of
1873, and that we have entered on an
era of renewed prosperity. What is
held to be significant feature. one of
the straws which show the way the
wind blows, is the wonderful impetus
lately given to immigration. Culminat-
ing in 1872, it fell off tremendously,
but has started up very briskly now.
MennOnites from Russia, mostly well
supplied with money, and Icelanders,
scarcely less thrifty, have just touched
our shores, and been whirled West by
the earliest trains, while the bone and
sinew and brain of England has for the
first time rivalled the influx of Irish
and Germans.
Charges have been preferred against
a Police Commissioner, the last of the
batch recently removed for the en-
bezzlement of a considerable balance
received from policemen in payment
for uniforms. His friends hold that the
thing is all rubbish, mere connection
for political effect. 1t has, however,
aroused considerable interest, for we
are virtuOus nowadays in New York.