St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-09-03
Our New York Letter.

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HIGHHANDED ROBBERY ON SEA AND
LAND-KIDNAPPING AS A SCIENCE
THE WEATHER AND WHAT 1T HAS
COST Us-A MARsHAL's DILEMMA
LADYEs FAYER AND GENTLEs GAY, ALL
IN THE LINCOLN GREEN-DOMEsTIC
CREMATION = HIGH LIFE BELOW
sTAIRs-AN ExAsPERATED HOUSE
HOLDER.
NEW YORK, August 30, 1880.
To the Editor of the -CaledOnian
Among the odds and ends of newspa-
per controversy which turns up in the
silly season has been revival of the
old discussion about whether it is good
to be married or the other thing The
Herald has>.opened its columns to dis
consulate and defiant spinsters of all
ages, widowers, grass widowers and
others, and there has been quite an in
teresting correspondence. Whether it
will tend toward the increase of the
next census remains to be seen.
The lawless classes have been dis
porting themselves with unwonted rest
lessness of late. Banditti have appear
ed on our streets and pirates on our
waters. A party of highwaymen
jumped horse car the other morning
and cleaned it out, hammering the pas
sengers, driver and conductor with i'm
partial severity and easing them of any
valuable portable property they might
possess. A policeman who carelessly
lounged up at the height OF the disturb
ance was hailed by name and politely
requested to sheer off which he as po-
litely did without any further empha-
sizing of the hint. A sailboat was
boarded in the Sound the other day and
by couple of ruffians. He luckily was
good swimmer and was afforded am
pie opportunity TO show it, He had
invOluntarily to make close approach
to the records of the champions of the
natatorial art, who, by the way have
Just met in a nine hours contest, Won
Schoening the gigantic Prussian life
guardsman coming in winner after a
tough contest.
One of our greatest mines of wealth
is the immigration that flows into our
shores. Each ablebodied immigrant
is potential producer and consumer of
our goods, and helps to build up the
country. But the breaking off all ties
with the mother country is always a
strain and any Encouragement to those
who are looking to this county for
their future home and yet in the agony
of proposed parting from all they hold
dear where they are, is most detrimen-
tai TO our interests. A very annoying
system of wickedpess has just been
brought to Light at Castle Garden, the
great emigrant depot. 1t is to be hoped
that its ramiicaiions are not extensive
and that the eyes of the authorities
having been opened it will effectually
be crushed out. A young Irish girl ar
| rived last Saturday without money but
expected to he welcomed by friends in
Brooklyn. They did not come but two
young men of insinuating manners did,
saying they had been deputed to escort
her. Her shrewdness and suspicion de-
veloped the fact that they were i'm
posters presumably engaged in the bas-
est of schemes. Ii turned out that her
message was not delivered till Monday
to proper destination, but had been
suffered to leak out where it was
promptly put TO bad use. A fellow
passenger, German girl was actually
abducted by specious stranger to the
despair of her father who came to fetch
her half an hour after she had disap-
peared. Lynching would be almost too
good for the culprits.
The weather has been hot as | sup
pose it has with yOu, and was broken
by one of the severest squalls
of the season which played havoc with
Il yacht off Rockaway, five or six of the
crew being drowned. Political and
other clambakes have been the feature
of the Beach resorts aud tended to cool
off the perspiring citizens but the heat
was not healthy nor is the sudden and
great lowering of temperature which
has succeeded it, and the scythe of the
destroyer has been busy. Downing
the famous bandmaster is dead, and so
is the Great Panjandrum of Shoddy So
ciety, Brown, the Grace Church sexton,
the discriminating authority from whom
no one dared to appeal, who was indis-
pensable at all such events as stylish
weddings, funerals, garden parties and
other festivities. Considerable pomp
attended their obseguies. And we have
lost another New Yorker whom we are
proud of. Gen. Albert Myer, "Old
Probabilities" whose system of army
telegraphing was of immense service in
the war, and to which indeed may be
attributed the avoidance of the great
Union disaster at Gettysburgh where
but for the warning of some of his men
the enemy would have broken the lines
between Round Top and Little Round
Top. His Vaccinations in the succeed
ing days of peace have, since they be-
came generally appreciated, saved hun
dreds of millions of dollars in one way
or another to our agricultural and ma
rine interests.
Mrs. Glane used to recommend the
catching of the hare before you cooked
him. A marshal has just found out
that even after putting the salt on the
tail of an intended prize, it is not al
ways possible to secure it. We have
among us a gentleman who contracts
to carry the Z. S. mails, and he neces-
sarily keeps Il large number of horses.
These he stables in q six-story struct-
ure, and runs them up in an immense
elevator. Some spies who were cour-
teouSly shown over the establishment
discovered a horse which had been
stolen from friend two years ago, and
the consequence was visit from a
court officer with 4 warrant of replevin.
Mr.. Otis foreman let the horse go east
| " enough, but declined to accommO-
date man or horse with a passage on
the elevator, so that at last accounts
the bone of contention was still en-
scOnced I'D alOft in calm cOntentment.