St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-03
Our New York Letter.

| AND STUPENDOUS ADVERTISEMENT
GRANT AS A GUEsT-THE MALADY OF
THE MONARCH OF MENAGERIEs-A
sCoTCHMAN SCRATCHED WITH THIS
TLE-DowN.
NEW YORK, Nov. 26, 1880.
Snow has come with frost, Thanks
giving, turkeys and tramps. The
birds, owing to the cold which would
preserve them at little cost for ice,
were held at unusually high figures,
but goodly quantities were disposed of
for all that with the Evolutionary fix
ings. One very pleasant feature of the
annual observance was the distribution
of good things by the Ladies' Union
Relief society to MANNED veterans of the
civil war, their widows and orphans.
A committee of the leading feminine
swells of the metropolis sat all day on
Wednesday at the receipt of practical
gratitude, as they gracefully dispensed
their bounties. The tramps were hos
pitably entertained at the station hous-
es, and charitable folks generally had a
good time in providing at least one
good meal to many who had almost for
gotten what good meal meant. The
ragamuffins (amateurs), of course, had a
grand time with target shoots, and the
customary number of small boys in fol-
lowing these attractive professions of
the grotesque and harmlessly disorderly
lads were lost for while to their great
grief and dread of losing their share of
the domestic feast. One young and
close relative of your RADIx was be-
guiled into a cheerful journey of ten
miles in this way and turned up just in
time for dinner; very forlorn little
object. A little warning with a slipper
suggested itself as an appropriate rem
edy for the threatened evils of such an
unwonted pilgrimage, but the genial
influences of the day prevailed and the
wanderer was warmed as to his toes
with comforting socks, and as to his lit
tie gizzard with the great American
fowl, etc. Some tramps in New Jersey
besieged farm house in force, cleaned
out the barnyard and held high carni-
val on the contents, for all the world
like crowd of Sherman bummers
marching through Georgia.
Did you happen to see the Sun of last
Tuesday 1t was double number,
quite a dose of literature for two cents,
and Fll venture to say that every man
Jack who bought copy eagerly turn
ed the paper inside out to see what
under the sun was important enough to
demand double edition. The result
was the discovery of the most stupen-
dous advertisement ever put i'll a daily
paper. Four solid pages were filled to
the muzzle with the closely printed an
nouncement of their virtues by George
p. Rowell & Co., the newspaper adver-
Using agents. l don't know what they
had to pay, but should judge the bill
could not have been a dollar less than
5000, which beats Bonner g. Barnum
hollow in their own favOrite advertising
methods.
General Grant seems to have acquired
a considerable access of sOciability by
his travels abroad, and hObnobbing
with emperors, kings, mandarins, and
other exalted persOnages. He has bios
sOmed out into quite an extensive
diner-out, has broken through his old
habit of silence in the most unexpected
way. He made capital speech at Il
private affair in Brooklyn the other
day, given by one of the state electors
for the presidency, and another of a
cheerful, not to say jOcular, strain at a
grand banquet and reception rendered
him by the Lotus Club. The president
of this literary association, Mr.. White
law Reid, long haired and somewhat
elderly youth, nurtured by Horace
Greeley, and his successor in the chief
tripod of the Tribune, mooted the ques-
ton as to the desirability of making the
ex-President er-o6iciO Senator Large
for life. The subject has been warmly
taken up, and the pros and cons have
been exchanged with promptness and
severity in most of the daily papers.
The general idea, however, seems to
be that no ex-President could be so BIZ
ased in behalf of the Nation at large
(spelt with n big, big NJ, as to forget
his sectional leanings, and that the eff
feet would be simply to add an unwar-
anted reinforcement to the senatorial
strength of the state he halls from. 1t
is pointed out that if the Constitution
were so amended as to allow of the
proposed arrangement, Ohio would,
when Garfield retiIes in due course
; from his present Office, have two ex-
Presidents and life Senators, and thus
get considerable of a 'bulge" over the
states which of late wears have not been
so prolific of statesmen. The proposed
pension for ex-Presidents in general,
and General Grant in particular, seems
to have fallen very fiat on the public
attention. Subscriptions have been
few and comparatively scant. If Grant
has spent all the money he made, saved
and which was bestowed upon him up
to this time since his eliminating stroke
of good fortune at AppomattOx why, it
is simply stated that he has spent a
great deal of money and the more gem
eral disposition seems to be to allow him
to hunt around for himself like other
people, instead of being endowed with
large income for which it is not pro-
posed that he should render any sort of
adequate equivalent. 1t would certain
ly seem rough on the old man <th3ngh
he repudiates the insidious advances of
age and declares that he is only As
and has been so for ten years and means
to continue at that limit for at least
ten years more) after his magnificent
! positions to require him to resume the
peaceful pursuit of tanning in a small
. way whereat the war that made him
. found him.
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