St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-12-26

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warm sympathy Oh the part of AmerI-
cans not of Irish extraction. The con-
clusion seems to have been very gen
orally arrived at that immigration to
this Promised Land is the only radical
cure for the incessant landlord and ten
ant war in the Gem of the Sea, the
beautiful could Dart" and it is thought
better for the sufferers under existing
conditions to come over here and sub
due the teeming soil than to keep pull
ling the Old Gentleman by the tail in
Green Island. A considerable sum of
money would be kept in this country
by this plan. Many millions have been
sent over from here by our Irish guests
to help their poor relatives at home.
Good dollars, earned by faithful and
hard service, have gone to swell the
Golfers of the absentee landlords of Ire
land. 1t would be cheaper and pleas
anter all round, except for that class,
to spend portion of these yearly re-
mittances in passage tickets and organ
ize regular Hibernian exodus.
At last we have new broom that,
| Judging from previous experience of his
Astounding energy, we may reasonably
expect to sweep the streets of New York
clean, and keep them clean. The great
Police Captain Williams has been made
chief of the street cleaning department !;
his club has been laid away in lavender,
and it is proposed by some of his fell
low citizens, who begin to feel there is
now some chance for their heads being
allowed to stay Oh their shoulders, to
present him with a highly-decorated
Bosom us il badge of his new Office. His
successor in the famous precinct where
congregated all the high-toned gam
bling houses and other Objectionable
dens, is gOOd-natured German, who,
as Sergeant Berghold, got smashed on
the head with a hammer by a crazy
Communist in the Tompkins Square
riot. | saw him just after the scrim-
mage talking in the most friendly way
with the man who assaulted him. Off
Ger GenOre of his precinct has just dis
tinguished himself by allaying panic
occasiOned by fire at the Park theatre.
The police are now obliged to carry
their clubs in their belts instead of in
their hands, and this order has already
caused Il noticeable diminutiOn in re-
ported cases of clubbing by the officers.
Long suffering Dominic Talmage has
been again under fire. The Long Is
land Synod of his church Investigated
a complaint against the Brooklyn Pres
bytery which recently acquitted him,
and the pious brethren poured forth the
gospel of eush in wonderful way. One
brother said another was the sort of
man who made his heart hot with love-
Another loves Talmage as the apple of
his eye, but thinks him immoral.
Prayers and comfortable lunches were
sandwiched in between the most full
some eulogies and most rancOrous evil
speaking. Meantime the Tabernacle
people were quite FESTIVE, and if Tai
mage had been sat upon by the present
tribunal would have seeded in a
body from the denomination, and set
up standard of their own with Tai
mage us the prophet of the new dispen
satiOn. As it was, their beloved pastor
was again acquitted.
Cremation is slowly gaining ground
it appears. First, we hear of mystic
riOus corpse burning in the late Dr..
LemOyne's furnace at Washington, Pa,
where Baron de Palm was burnt amid
much excitement few years ago, the
subject turning out to be Il son of Il
Broadway dry goods merchant, and
now we find one of our late prominent
capitalists insisting in his will on being
disposed of. Mr.. Funch,
a Dane 10y birth, has left instuc-
tons with chosen committee of
his closest friends to have him comfort
ably reduced to ashes in Milan, Italy,
where he believes the little affair will
attract less notice than anywhere else.
What is left by the fire he wanted to be
bottled up and inferred at
where he was accustomed
To spend IL large part of his time and
had superb mansion. He was Il very
wealthy man, and has left pIincely for
tunes to all his near relatives.
The Odd Fellows of New Jersey, and !
the members of Eagle Lodge at New |
ark, in particular, are greatly exercised |
10y the recent action of the Grand Mas |
ter, who marched into their Lodge one |
evening lately, and in deep wrath cap
tured and walked off with their Char
ter. The affair was the upshot of
domestic squabble between Eagle Lodge
and the Grand Lodge, not in itself very
interesting to outside parties; but the
question of prerogative now involved is
calculated to rouse Odd Fellows all over
The country, and probably abroad as
well.
The telegraph companies are to have
another formidable rival to cut into the
profits, which, in spite of theil own
with each other, have been
so cheering to stockholders. A tele-
phone company, to operate through
most of the Eastern and Middle states,
has been organized, with capital of
) ,OOO,OOO, and is to start business at
once.
HGrper's Newspaper for young people,
OF which spoke recently, has met with
such unexpected popular approval that
they have determined to enlarge it to
double its original size with the Christ
mas number, issued Dec. %, 1879.
RAINY