St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-03-12
Our New York Letter.
West Concord, Vt, Mar. 8,

BATIvE DOGS IN COURT-A CANNIBAL-
IsTIC MONKEY A DEPUTY SWEET
HEART-UNCLE SAM BEATING Willy
! WIDOW.
NEW YORK, March 5, 1880.
To the Editor of the Cdledonian:
Two lively young Brazlians of very
''tOny" order, who are here as students,
have been giving themselves up in a
very heathenish manner to the worship
of the Goddess of Love and the God of
War. They loved each other, and then,
their sympathetic natures led them
both to love the same girl more than
each other. Then they loved each other
no more, and decided upon the polite
method for settling such cases in the
shape of pistols for two and coffee for
one. They wanted no seconds. One
must die. In order to prevent the SUI
vivor being hailed to prison and hanged
as murderer, each prepared Il letter
addressed to the coroner misinforming
that official that he had committed sui
eide. The star of their destiny was to
be extinguished in Blood-with big,
big b, at Bethlehem, Pa. 1t so hap
pened that it was extinguished in a
more prosaic manner. One of the blood
curdIing letters fell into the hands of
the young gentlemen's guardian, and
he forthwith informed the police They
promptly captured one fiery youth in
the act of packing valise. The other
had already departed. The day after
ward telegram was intercepted from
The impatient young man at Bethle-
hem, stirring up the laggard in New
York, in bitter and reproachful words.
The detective said nothing to the lat
ter, but returned message to say he
was sick. This brought forth another
furious dispatch, stigmatizing the cap
tive rs coward. The detectives sent
on another, stating that he was very
sick and another time and place must
be appointed. The arrival in a state
/ Orrfrenzy OF the challenger, was the
result OF this move, and the detectives
calmly gobhled their prey. They both
got good talking to by the Police JUS
tice, shook hands, and went off under
the wing of the Brazilian Consul to
hunt up different girls next time, for,
sad to say, the adored object cruelty
went back on both of them.
Two gallant policemen have had an
opportunity to show the really good
stuff there isdn the force, although it is
so maladministered and cursed with a
number of ignorant rutfians. One, a
mounted officer. tried to stop runaway
team, but was dashed from his saddle
and run over. This hardly stopped him
a moment. He remounted and spurred
after the flying vehicle, and was Just in
time, after hard chase, to save two
ladies, who were thrown out, from hay-
ing their brains knocked out by the
, wilderness of hOOts which kicked the
carriage into splinters. They escaped
with merely few bones broken by the
shock. Another officer, in Brooklyn.
had a terrible tussle with one of the
gangs" of young Hoodlums, which,
owing to the Trades Unions aud the al
most impossibility of getting chance
to learn a trade, are colleges of crime.
His skull was fractured with a paving
stone, and the fine fellow, who has the
best kind of record, will probably die
before your readers see this.
Our suburban statesmen are apt to
produce "a good deal of fun for others,
as well us to enjoy it themselves. /
lately recorded the mutual arrests of
ten Staten Island Dogberries. Two
other dignitaTies of that gem of our
harbor, an ex-Police Commissioner and
an ex-Assemblyman, have again dis
tinguished themselves. Dog fighting
has been their peculiar weakness, and
both prided themselves on the tenacity
of jaw of their canine fav0rites. A dis
pute about a little encounter where
4 dition something like the famous Kill
kenny cats, led to an airing in court.
Hardly had the proceedings opened,
however, when the remains of what
once were dogs broke away from their
keepers and went at it, tooth and nail.
There was no possibility of separating
them, and the Staten Island spectators,
jury, lawyers and all, jumped upon
| uencDeS ana ueSkS TO ''SnOO" them on.
Vainly did the Judge rap for order; no
one paid the smallest attention to him.
and he then adjourned the court with
dignity, and unofficially participated in
the amusement with as much glee as
anybody else.
Another animal of the monkey per-
suasion has developed cannibal propen-
sites. The missing link has escaped
from Museum on the Bowery, being
tired probably of the society of dwarfs
and giants, or, perhaps, tantalized by
the tempting proportions of the fat wo-
man, of whom the keepers would not
let him have even a little bite. The
wise creature-the ancient Egyptians
used to worship monkeys, as do the
HindOos tO-day-wandered and became
hungry. He entered an open third-story
window and attacked a woman who
was sewing by it. Perhaps he found
her too tough, for he left her after tast-
ing her more or less delicate cheeks.
and next selected for his dinner ten
der child. The monkey was killed, but
the child will die.
A novel case has just come up before
one of our minor courts. An assistant
lover" as he calls himself, sues some
what well known sporting character, a
hacker of pedestrians and other ath-
letes, for the amount of $500 and suit
of clothes, in consideration of winning