St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-12-12


old Commodore lends color to this
view. 1t may look odd enough for any
one to give up eight per cent interest
upon such an investment as he held,
and to purchase stock of far less value,
but Vanderbilt is a far-sighted man,
and it is probable will make a great
deal more money eventually by the
operation than if he had held on to his
own stock, and found a new trunk line
carrying off all his western feeders into
another channel.
Two new morning penny papers have
just made their appearances. Starting
daily paper is quite an undertaking
in these days, and even with large
capital behind them disaster has over
taken more than one venture of the
kind since the panic of 1873, notably in
the case of the ambitious and really ex-
cellently conducted Republic. The
Postal Card is the title of one of the new
candidates for the favor of people who
like cheap reading. The other, Truth,
is conducted by the bright, aggressive
free lance, G. A. Byrne, who graduated
as a reporter on the New York Herald,
and special sensational Saturday con-
tributor for the Sunday Mercury, and
subsequently, and recently edited the
Dramatic News. He is one of those
men who is perpetually in hot water,
but comes out of the trouble all the
fresher for it, and he makes interesting
reading. He knows just where to get
his raw material and how to serve it up
in the spiciest manner.
Buying pig in poke is generally
considered unbusiness-like and rather
rash and imprudent. 1t sometimes
turns out well. Purchasers of sundries
left unclaimed at our express compa-
MES offices have occasionally an OPP
pOrtunity of trying their luck. At sale
recently held, where no one was allow
ed to examine the goods, offered and
bid in the cOmpletest ignorance of any
thing beyond the outside appearance of
the packages, some excellent bargains
were made. A bid of $40 for plain
pine box secured cutlery worth $50 for
the happy buyer, and so it went on, all
prizes and no blanks. Few who bought
anything had reason to feel they had
lost the very small sums they put up.
Some unfOrtunates, however, looked
pretty blue, and were well jibed when
they opened neat little boxes for which
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the contents to be sawdust.
There seems to be some danger that
we may have a renewal of rampant
Fenianism here. Several prominent
Irish agitatOrs are on the way, and no
doubt will strive, like their predeces-
sOrs to raise no little stir in the shape
of public meetings and professions, and
as much spare cash as the Bridgets and
males of their social status and species
can conveniently or incOnveniently dis
burse. The Irish peasant is warm
hearted creature, with short memory
for injuries, and the disgraceful misuse
of the money formerly so freely sub
scribed has by this time been utterly
forgotten. Some of the more influential
and wealthy hackers of the invaders in
Canada and emissaries to the old cOun-
try are not, on the other hand, very
likely to beagain victimized. l have
seen two who were few years back
among the most active and generous
partisans OF the cause, who now declare
they will set their faces against any
present attempt of a like nature. Feni-
anism is played out with them.
Our Sandy Hook fishermen have had
good view of what they unanimously
declare to be a real sea serpent, which
was calmly coasting along shore. 1t is
described as at least 300 feet long, with
head as large as hOgshead, brilliant
eyes as large as soup plates, and tail
like that of a big eel. At last accounts
fleet of Jerseyman had put out in
vigorous pursuit of the unusual guest.
They did not catch 1t.
Of
spectacle family, with enticing oppor-
tunItles for stealing, which he promptly
availed himself of, has just been par
doned out of state prison. 1t is VIM. c..
Gilman, a nephew of Henry Ward
Beecher, and brother-in-law to Rev.
DR.. HOughtOn, the actors chaplain in
ordinary of the Little Church Around
the Corner, very pious and generous
pillar of that church, who got ''sent
up" year or so ago amid the tears of a
weeping court room. The Judge, dis
trict-attOrney, jurors, everybody delug-
ed their pocket handkerchiefs with
briny evidences of their sorrow for the
necessity of Furnishing so very estima-
BILE and heightened a person. His
daughter died three weeks ago, and his
heart broken wife, failing in her ago
nized appeals for mercy to Gov. Robin
son. died a few days ago. Then the
obduracy of the Executive melted, and
the convict, who had 'soft thingr in
a clerical capacity during the portion
which he served of the term to which
he had been sentenced, was released in
order to attend his wife's funeral.
The Seventh Regiment Fair proved
such q grand success that the gallant
militiamen determined to keep it open
a week longer. The treasury has been
filled to an extent far beyond anything
supposed to be at all probable. Prob
ably there never was a fair SO thorough
ly thronged by the best people, quite
solvent and warmed into liberality,
partly from the necessity, or at least
tendency, of well-to-do people being in
the fashion, and partly because the ac-
tual services of the regiment have been
very generally thought to deserve such
practical recognition. RADIX.
Caledonia Co. Court.--Dec. Term, 1879.
Hon. IONA. Ross, Presiding Judge.
Hon. JOEL TRULL, ,-,.I,
Hon. E. w. CHURCH, ASST Judges
A. E. Rankin, Clerk.
E. d. Brown, Deputy Clerk.
Lorenzo Sulloway Jr., Sheriff
ii. E. Carter, States Attorney.
Elisha May, Court Auditor.
No. 46. JudeUine Us. Smith. Report