St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-02-28

| nv Mr.. Tibbetts, OF Boston, an Oid gen
tiemap of seventy. In accordance with
tradition, his magnificent white locks
were combed up and tied into queue
behind, to resemble powdered wig.
He wore a brown coat, rutf1ed shlrt
and silver shoe buckles, and presented
very imposing figure. He stood at
the left of a table on the balcony on
the other side was Robert K. Living
sion. great grand son of Chancellor Llv-
ingston. who administered the oath.
Rehipd the table stood a descendant OF
Samuel A. Otis, then Secretary OF the
Senate. who held the crimson cushion
on which rested the original Bible that
Washington kissed. CrOwding close
about the two central figures were John
Adams, Vice-President, and Samuel A.
Otis, Secretary of the Senate. Count de
Moustier, the French Ambassador; Don
Diego Gardoqui, the Spanish Ambassa-
dor; Col. Richard Henry Lee, Oliver
Ellsworth, Baron Steuben, Gen. Hayes,
Alexander Hamilton, Gen. Knox, Ed
mond Randolph and Ebenezer Hazard,
members of the first Cabinet; while
ranged about the stage and forming
suita BILE frame for the impressive pic
ture, were lines of soldiers in the vari-
ous uniforms which were worn by the
crack troops of that day.
After this interesting spectacle, near
ly the whole night was devoted to dane
ing and to the customary promenading
for the display of those elegant toilets
which are described at length in the
next mornings papers.
With all the special attractions in the
shape of the numerous annual balls and
other periodical festivities which are
packed into this month, the regular
amusements do not seem to suffer for
patronage, but seem rather to be over
crowded, and the main reason of 1t Is
.'H. NJ. S. Pinafore." Nobody thinks of
asking his neighbor nowadays II he
has been to see PinafOre. The only pos
sible question is as to how many times,
or at how many different theatres one
has seen and heard its burlesque beau
ties. New York has been absolutely
and utterly captured by this capital
compound of clever nonsense and de-
lightful music, and it seems to be so
firmly established that | greatly doubt
whether anything but hot weather will
he able to drive it from the boards. |
did at one time know how many thea
tres were running it here and in Brook
Ilyn, but as the fever spread | lost my
count and have no longer the enterprise
to look up the latest statistics. The
standard performance of it is that at the
s'Standardn theatre, and from that level
down to the ellis Mud Scow PinafOre"
at the San Francisco Ministries, there
are dozen different grades of rendition
of those clever gags and excrutlatlng
Jokes which have so universally crept
into current conversation and Journal
ism, that we are all thoroughly leav-
ened with them.
Every one huns and quotes PinafOre,
"and so do his sisters and his cousins
and his aunts." The musical young man
and even the street Arab, have scOrn-
fully discarded "Grandfathers Clock"
and now favor us with the rhythmical
Iecitatious of Sir Joseph Porter, X. c.
b., or the melodious numbers of Little
Buttercup. The hand-organ makers al e
working for dear life to get it ready for
the deadly summer campaign of those
Italian bandits. Church, courtroom
and Fifth Avenue mansion are alike in
fected.
"WhO ever saw Il whole metropolis
wriggling on II pin afore 1 never did.
II What Never?
No. Never.
What Nerer!
Well, hardly ever"
1t is not long since | made some re-
, marks on the growth of New York rs
compared with that of other American
cities, in which the few figures quoted
went to show that Gotham was in no
immediate danger of being Overtaken
in the lace fnr. nomination. I-'i - as
WAS the rate of increase previously, the
extension of elevated railroad facilities
to the upper part of the island has
brought it up much higher. So rapidly
Is The upper end of the city filling up,
that the post office cannot keep pace
with the growth in the matter of fur
nishing mail delivery facilities, and has
applied to Washington for authority to
largely Increase the force of letter car
lierS in that region.
Long Island and New Jersey. too, are
greatly exercised over this tendency of
New Workers to live in New York. An
astonishingly large proportion of the
taxes in the suburb ban towns are paid
by city business men living and owning
property there, aud the prospect of
losing this element of wealth naturally
alarms the natives. In Newark mass
meeting has already been called TO dis
cuss plans for reducing expenses and
taxes, and otherwise to give the town
more attractions as Il residence, in the
hope of retaining the thousands of tami-
lies who, it is feared, will otherwise for
sake it for the now convenient neigh
bOrhood of Central Park.
A sly fox is Jay Could, and some
times given to playing 'possum. 1t Is
not many weeks since he was reported
as running heavy and losing game in
some stock or other, aud it was even
rumOfed that Master Reynard, for so
many years the terror of the whole Wall
street chicken coop, had received a
mortal hurt and could not last long.
But alas for the hopes and the predic-
tons of the small fry. On Monday last
the old ''critter" came out from his lair
and quietly gobbled up Il lot of them
1t is said that on that day his sales of
Union Pacific, which bought at 30 and
sold at 70, netted him between four and
five millions of dolars-enough to pay
his board for several weeks, and leave
him something to put in the savings
bank. The next rumor of Mr.. Gould's
downfall will be regarded with consid-
cradle suspicion. RADIX.
i Public Opinion.
The Springfield Republican truly