St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-10-01

THE SOLDIERS AND THE LADIES'
FALL PRESENTATIONS FOR FEMININE
FANC1Es-THE WIRES PULLED BY A
WIRED wIRE-woRKER-A CoRONET IN
THE OVERWHELMING BY TORCH
LIGHT-ROOMs BANNERS AND BARBA-
CUES.
NEW YORK, Sept. "a, 1880.
To the Editor of the CaledOnian: p.
Military men have been filling the
public eye considerably of late. The
regulars competed in force for sundry
prizes at Creedmoor and carried off
very large proportion of the honors.
The winning teams, some of which
came from very rem ote parts of the
country, have received very hOspitable
treatment and have further been fur
Laughed for month by the Govern
ment, quite a boon. Our New York
militia have returned from raiding Mas
sachusetts and Rhode Island, where
they charmed and were charmed. 1t is
said some of the boys are black and
blue about the arms from pinches ad-
ministered by admiring bellies at Bos-
ton and Newport. There was another
celebration at Tarrytown when, of
course, our National Guard was fifty
represented on the occasion of erecting
a monument to the captors of the I'M
happy youth Andre, who by their pa
triotism and smartness did as much to
save the country as the three hundred
Spartans of Leonidas did to save
Greece.
Still there is sadness in some military
circles. The only Cavalry Regiment
of New York State, veteran Battery
and battalion, all three composed
mainly of highly respectable Germans
have been disbanded, to their strong
Indignation, in which they have much
sympathy. 1t is charged that inasmuch
as they are nearly all Democrats it was
This hardly seems reasonable. l for
any party to inflict an injurious and
unnecessary annoyance where it could
SO easily be made to recOil with tenfOld
effect. Another explanation sounds
more plausible though it involves some
haukypankyism which politicians are
credited with, though with other than
statesmen such proceedings would sa-
vor of the discreditable, and that is
that Conkling, whose faint praise of
the Republican candidate and actually
insulting references to the Administra-
ton in his recent greatest effort of his
life" were noticed everywhere, had de
termined to please the stalwarts by
selling out the supporters of the present
nominee, and that Governor Cornell,
who is under his thumb, deliberately
oppressed these Germans in order to
drive away all but stalwarts to support
Hancock, on the cut-yOur-nose-Off-to to-
spite your-face principle.
The muddy depths of the Hudson
have at last given up the remains of
one of the poor fellows who met such
an awful fate in the collapsed tunnel
and the others will no doubt be reached
shortly. The company has behaved
unusually well in the matter, and the
relatives of the deceased still receive
the full weekly wages that might have
been earned by their lost ones. This
will probably cease in its entirety after
the funerals which the company will
pay for, but pensions will probably be
awarded on permanent system.
The lovely weather has gladdened
the hearts of the purveyor of vanities
for the outward woman. 1t is the great
season of Openings, when the young,
the fair and beautiful, as well as the old
ladies with long purses and old tads
with long noses and tongues swarm in
to rival exhibitions of millinery and
praise and criticize, and above all buy.
Paterfamilas usually feels pretty jolly
if he's in the swim at all for things
seem good all round and promising bet
ter, but what will be said when pay
day comes around is another question.
The money is flying about though
there's no question about that, and it is
to be hoped that some of it will stick to
all of us. We have evidently entered
in campaign under General Prospect
ty.
j. Lloyd Haigh, the pious millionaire
who tried to smuggle condemned wire
into the strands of the East River
Bridge and did manage to swamp a
bank among other victims by his sys-
tenn of forged bills and highly respecta-
BILE face, got four years at Sing Sing for
his pains. He wanted a soft thing there
and so revolving at the work ne was
put to, stove moulding, wrote to his
wife that he could get a "gentleman's
position" for $500. This was sent him
and when the Warden returned from a
few days absence he found nv Lord
established as sort of confidential sec
rotary to the chaplain whose letters he
addressed and sermons lie cOpied-per-
haps even wrote. The results of an
investigation were the transfer of Mr..
Haigh to the care of soles-bOot and
shoe soles, and the booting out, without
their booty, of the bold bad men who
went for "the Doodle" and put up the
little job. They made hay while the
sun shOne and Haigh made them dis
gorge again, for the matter would new
er have been brought home to them if
the meanspirited sneak hadn't turned
informer. He wanted his $500 back
and to keep his easy berth as well.
Newspapers are apt to slOp over
sometimes and on these occasions be-
tray lamentable tendency to follow
each others lead like flock of STAN
peded sheep. There was a hooray of
the largest kind over the alleged fight
and heavy defalcatiOn of Major Nelson,
the Chief Paymaster in this section.
The poor man who has been lying sick
at Kansas City has been arrested and
brought back by an officer of the regu-
lar army and is to be court-martialed.
He takes the matter very coolly, con-
sidering the circumstances, and saws
that neither the Gnuarn mant nor l.