St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-01-03

/ long vacation, is rolling up his sleeves
preparatory to going to work.
And speaking of resumption reminds
me to relieve you and your readers from
the anxiety you must have felt as to how
YOU should be able to carry around your
wealth when metallic money is again
current. The government has Just I'm,
ished the plates of the new S5,OOO and
$4,000 notes, which will be at once put
into circulation. Won't it be comfort
to dispense with the otherwise necessa-
nv wheelbarrOw, and be able to carry
all the pocket-mOney we need IN little
roll of these bills, hardly bigger than
your fist
Another preparation for resumption
has Just been discovered in this city by
the police, who traced a young man
named Tyce to tenement house IN
Thirteenth street, and forcing their way
into his room, found him busily en-
ployed in quietly and unOstentatiously
'.making money" He had plaster molds
and a kettle of melted white metal, and
was grinding out quarters, dimes and
half dimes at the rate of about $50 per
day. 1t seemed cruel to interrupt these
vigorous preparations for resumption,
but the officers took him, and Mr.. Tyce
will turn his talents to serving the state
for some years to come.
''There is reaper whose name is
DEATH" according to the old poem, and
for sickle he uses a great variety of in
strumentalities. OF all these weapons,
disease is his favorite; but when this
fails to accomplish his purpose, the fell
destroyer has recourse to firearms, paw
ing-stones, boiler explosions, and even
bakers wagons. 1t was this latter agen-
cy which enabled him of the skull and
crOss-bones to gain the victory, few
days ago, over Eliza Thompson, of this
city, an old cOlOred woman, who for
four years more than century had de-
fed his every effort. Mrs. Thompson
was born on Long Island two years be-
fore the Declaration of Independence.
New York and even Massachusetts
were siave-holding states at that time,
so that she was born slave and remain
ed such until a knight-errant appeared
to burst her bonds in the person of a
young negro who, having fallen in love
with her, labored patiently until he had
saved money enough to purchase her
freedom and his own, when he married
her.
For more than half century Mrs.
Thompson lived in this city, humble,
but worthy member of the community,
and at the time of the accident which
resulted in her death, was possessed of
Il degree of health and strength that en-
titled her to at least il dozen years more
of active life. Curiously enough, on the
day of this centenarian's funeral, the
death was reported of another one, Il
woman just one hundred years old.
Paul Boyton, the adventurous swim
mer, whose exploits are known to the
world, arrived here the other night, af-
ter an absence of three years in Europe.
During that time comparatively little
has been heard from Captain BOyton,
but he has been by no means idle. He
has made many exciting and perilous
voyages, among them being trips down
the Danube, the Pc, the Arno, the Ii
bel, the Rhone, the Loire. the Tagus, the
Garonne, and the Seine. The voyage
down the Tagus extended over eight
hundred miles, through IL wild and prac-
tically uneXplored country. Besides
these feats, he has crossed the Straits of
MesSina, the Straits of Gibraltar and
other comparatively wide arms of the
sea. As might be expected, he has in
these voyages met with some exciting
and thrilling adventures. The narrative
of these, and of the reception given to
the fearless swimmer by various crown
ed heads, forms a highly interesting
story.
The pedestrian mania is our sporting
Just now. 0'Leary and Campana
are taking in an unprecedentedly large
of gate-money ut the Hippo
drome, where they are completing IL six
days march and a MADAME" Ander-
son is doing ii prOporliOnateIy driving
business over in Brooklyn, where she is
to do some unreasonable
of quarter-miles in an equally
absurd number of quarter-hours. The
newspaper offices gravely hang out bull
letlns at various times during the day
to satisfy an impatient public as to the
condition of these human kittens, who,
with equal gravity, continue the long
and profitable chase of their own tails
With the holidays come the oranges,
and us this season has been an excep-
tional one, it is estimated that in the
month ending with New Years, 50. 900
OOO vi s'hSCo III bC Solt III lIlS CllN. Al
ready the fruit departments of Fulton
and Washington markets are glutted,
and by one steamer due in port to-day
300, 900 oranges, by another 5000 bar
rels or 100000 oranges, and by anoth-
er, 100000 in bulk are expected. The
barrel stock, nearly all of which comes
from the West Indies, and the case and
box stock, mainly from Mediterranean
ports, are consigned to shipping and
commission houses, by whom they will
be distributed among the trade. The
stock in bulk, however, partly from the
West Indies and partly from Florida, is
sold in quantities, from one barrel to
1000 barrels at the docks.
The importation of this fruit is a ter
rlbly precarious business. To say that
the fruit is perishable, as the term is
usually understood, is an inadequate
expression of the extent of that risk.
There is no product so perishable. Of
about two hundred million oranges re-
ceived here last season-from Septem-
Der until March-nearly eighty-three
millions persisted. RADIX.