St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-10-24
Our New York Letter.

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ING sCENE-OvERsHARP FINANCIER
| -JOCKYING sPORTs-A HONEYMOON
SLUMBER-MILITARY VISITORS.
New YORK, Oct. II, 1879.
To the Editor of the CaIedOnian:
The New Yorker is prOverbally ;
meek creature, and it takes good dea
to rouse him. He has even submitted
to the unconstitutional municipal regu
lation of the pig-headed aldermen
against carrying pistols, chiefly for thu
reason that with few exceptions, tn,
New Yorker was not in the habit o
making a walking gunsmith shop o
himself. But man is only mortal, anG
the average New Yorker may be ex
pected to blossom out with an arsena
of revolvers like prospector in the fal
West with Indians about. The cause
of the trouble is, as might be guessed
that irrepressible clubber, Capt. Will
liams. am really getting as tired o
mentioning, us your readers must be o
hearing about this extraordinary per.
sOnage, but his tricks are too obtrusivt
to be ignored, and he was worse thai
usual this time. While pretending tt
keep the peace at a review of the Ma,
tional Guard in Madison Square before
the Governor of the State, the imported
ruffian (he halls from Nova Scotia) with
another blue-cOated brute, so murder
ously maltreated an inoffensive specta,
tor, that they ran within an ace of be.
ing lynched on the spot. A little bit o
man acted with the spirit of Davit
before Goliath and dared the officer
who threatened him, to lift his club
promising to blow his alleged brains on
| if he did.
Rarely indeed have our peaceful
places of public resort witnessed sucf
an exciting scene; complains have beer
made by very prominent citizens to the
Police Commissioners, and it would
really seem as if at last means would be
effectually adopted to purge the police
| force of the worst brawler in the city
The man is so excellent Il detective and
useful in keeping down the crimina
classes, that much of his eccentricity
has been overlooked, but he has nc
more Judgment with club in his hand
than the Evolutionary Irishman at Don.
nybrOok Fair. Where he sees head
he hits it, if it is within reach, and
would apparently pound the venerable
brainpan of good old Peter Cooper with
as much vigorous prOmptness as the
skull of thief, if it unfortunately was
found within two yards of him.
The mllionaires, and, incidentally
everybody interested in cheap freights
have been paying close attention to .th,
proceedings of the Assembly Railroad
Investigating Committee into the ar
rangements of the Standard Oil Com
pany and the Elevated Railroads. Mr.
J. A. Bostwick of the first-named,
gentleman of enormous wealth, who re
Gently completed palace on Fiftl
Avenue at Il fabulous cost with privat
gasworks by which he got blown up an,
nearly killed week or so after occupy
ing it, declined to testify Oh the groun,
that he might eliminate himself,
declaration which struck his nearer
with horror and surprise. He has al
ways hitherto borne the highest charac
ter. There is no doubt the grindin
monopoly of this company is thin
calculated to exasperate anybody VIII
knows anything at all of their methods
and plain people are at a loss to under
stand how, in the elevated railroads
money can be honestly quadruple
/ in two days, thing which was actual
done by Messrs. Field and Tilder
whose recent falling out is attribute
by one at least of the disputants to
little disagreement over the division {
the spoil.
The disgust which has been CROWN
, at the shameless jockeying so disgrace
fully conspicuous in recent walkin
matches and other exhibitions of sc
called sport, has been intensified to TIL
!, last degree by the story of the sawin
9 of the boats of Courtney, and the re
markable condolences of misfortun
which have attended so many of b
o rowing matches. Whether he or h
n friends, or his opponents or their frient
were concerned in the matter, does n,
. seem to signify Il particle. The who
- crew of professionals are under a clou
e of deep discredit, and they have ev
: IDENTITY wounded almost to death I'll
h goose that laid the greenback eggs f,
them. The public which has lavishe
its dollars for the purpose of witnessil
trials of Strength or skill, or both, al
l. has sometimes foolishly risked consi
J. erably more dollars in betting on VIII
g it is shrewdly suspected are certaintie
I, known only to select rings, are sick
VI the whole thing. The athletes, hone
Of or otherwise, are grouped under Il
( generic title of "skins,' and the avera
4. citizen has evidently made up his mil
to save his money in future and let e
10 skins skin each other.
IN NiblO's Garden was early the 9th
ly morning, about o'clock, a. M, in ia,
es the scene of little dramatic perforI
!, ance which was not down in the bill, b
- was as funny as the funniest farces til
p are heralded in all the glOries of thre
ne sheet poster. The watchmen in patrt
ut ing the auditorium came across a lovi
an couple wrapped in the arms of MOrph
+ us and of each other. They were ava
le ened amid sad blushing and disma
u Poor, happy young creatures! TIL