St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-09-17

ATITLED RELIC OF THE REVOLUTION
i BEwILDERMENTs BROUGHT ABOUT BY
A BAR'L OF BILLs-A sACRELIGIoUs
| SWINDLER-LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAF
AS A MOTTO FOR DIVERS
INAUGURATING INNOVATIONS - I'M
PORTED ICE-A GREATFUL GRIMAL-
KIN-THE LATEST FRoLIC OF THE FIRE
FIEND.
New YORK, Sept. 10, 1880.
10 the Editor of the CaledOnian:
L limited in my last that might soon
be in position to give some informa-
ton about the Signal Service and
Weather Bureau which would be of
general interest, and am now prepared
to do so, in advance of the faintest
inkling of the correct state of affairs
among the city papers. Their conduc-
tors have suspected the existence of a
large sized mouse and | learn that ev-
cry one supposed to know any thing in
Washington, New York or elsewhere
has been approached. The reporters
have been very busy, but while shaving
the mash pretty closely sometimes, the
results of their labors as exhibited in
print show that they have been barking
up the wrong tree. am given to I'M
derstand, on the best authority that
Secretary of War, Ramsay is an appli-
cant to succeed General Myers "Old
Probabilities" Rather an undignified
solicitation, one would think, on the
part of a Cabinet minister, but it is a
life position with good salary. Capt.
Howgate, of Arctic Exploration fame
has been circulating a ridiculous petit
ton to recommend his installation, but
the only effect seems to be his being
relieved from the control of the dis
bursting department and relegated to the
command of the Stations. 1t is con-
templated, as one of the last acts of the
retiring administration, to break up the
Corps and while attaching the Signal
Department to the U. s. Engineers,
transferring the Telegraphic and Me-
neurological sections to the wing of the
Treasury. The members are not as
sessed now. AS political machine,
with additional officeholders, quite re-
spectacle tax could be extracted and
provision made for innumerable small
fry heelers of prominent statesmen.
How the mercantile, marine and agri-
cultural interests of the country would
be subserved by the proposed change
is question apparently of secondary
consideration to the powers that be.
This is news, and RADIx is again ahead
of the great dailies.
A collateral descendant of Count
Pulaski, of Revolutionary renown,
Countess Josephine Sufferquski Jaroka,
is a resident of Brooklyn, where she
has resided for some years after an
eventful and somewhat stormy life in
Russia, Paris and other places, in some
what straitened circumstances. Pulas-
XII would take no pay for his great ser
vices which are familiar to every public
schoOlbOy, but a claim on account of
them has been preferred in behalf of
the lady'and it seems to be more than
probable that she will receive a grant
of 800, 900 from Congress.
The respectable Hebrew bankers,
the Seligmans, whose race controversy
with Judge Hilton a year or so ago
was nine days topic of conversation,
the other day paid a cheque to a man
named John C. King, which came
through the mails but happened to be
intended for another person of the same
patrOnymic. The recipient was arrest
ed but explained that he got the cheque
cashed in good faith, thinking it was
the restitution by pentent thief of
part of some money of which he was
robbed some time ago. The case made
considerable noise at the time. King,
who was wealthy, and indeed is now,
kept large sum i'll coin and bills in an
old barrel in lumber room with old
rags, papers, scraps, &C., and some
$780, 900 were calmly annexed by some
thief who considerably left at least as
much more for the old man to get along
with.
Most extraordinary weather we have
had ! Frightfully hot and proportion
ately cold in swift succession. 1t has
been trying time for the children 60
ing back from their vacations to school,
and the theatres, churches and other
serious and secular arrangements have
all been mole or less affected by the
barOmetic and thermometic. However,
people seem to feel cheerful that good
times have come again and we are all
looking forward to a splendid fall trade
all round, even if it is presidential
year. Election matters this year don't
seem to interfere with anybody's pros
perity.
The ingenuity of some swindlers in
getting money is surprising. One of
the boldest tricks played for long
time, with strong flavor of sacrilege
about it, involved the personating of
an Episcopal clergyman, the thief i'm
posing himself on the assistant rector
of Holy Trinity Church as a friend of
DR.. Tying who is in Europe and being
invited to assist in the services. He
performed his part like an adept and
then managed by the assistance of DR..
Tyng's brother in getting a cheque
cashed by the clerk of the Everett
House where he was stopping. He
paved his bill and departed for parts
unknown.
The bathing season is about over
now, but some incidents have occurred
which may serve as warning to swim
mers next year if they don't forget all
about them. A fine performer took a
header at Coney Island one day but
unfortunately the water which looked
so inviting was only about two feet
deep and the poor fellow broke his