St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-17


young and quite attractive, has been in
the habit of going out to service as a
domestic, representing herself as a be-
reaved but industrious widow who had
seen better days, and fascinating the
most eligible baker, or grocer, or butch
er, or other convenient purveyor OF the
family, straightway marrying them.
Then, after a brief honeymoon, she
would gracefully retire with as much of
the astonished husbands worldly prop
erty as she could lay her hands on to
parts unknown where she resumed her
pastime of angling for another husband.
The last venture of Mrs. Reimenschnei-
der, by which name she is arraigned,
was a frescO painter, one Bevensee, who
could see neither rhyme nor reason in
her fandangoes, and on being left de
voted his energies to hunting her up.
He found her with her last husband but
one, Mr.. R., &c.-it is too prepOsterOus
a patrOnymic to repeat-whom she had
informed that she had been delayed in
Jersey attending Il sick aunt, who had
died and who had left her the property
she had brought with her-"Yaw," :"
rOared Bevensee, "und Pm dot tet aunt,
py -" She wept, B. was relentless
and with Roman devotion insisted on
the law taking its course, but he had to
weep, too, and SO did r., and so did the
police-at least they laughed till the
tears flowed, as they logged her memo
ry about one and another Of her forgot
ten spOuses.
Brockway, the famous couuterfciter,
has been released, surely q diSgra ceful
miscarriage of Justice. He has given
for printing bogus bills and bonds, and
some information about his cOufcder-
ates, but he is free to rob the communi-
ty once again, and he will know how to
put his freedom to account. He spent
his Thanksgiving trOtting detectives
around to out of the way corners Of
meadows and woods where they un-
earthed some of the proceeds of his in
genuity carefully soldered up in lead
pipe to await resurrection and distribu-
ton. No one believes that he has Civ
EN- up all his tools, OF that it would
much matter to him if he had, for he
could easily enough supply himself
afresh. SO it is supposed the officials
have had strong inducements to let him
go.
Snow and slush are upon us and the
streets are worse than ever. The great
er pant of the city gets little enough
sweeping at the best of times, but for
two weeks there hasn't been an attempt
to use a broom on them. 1t seems the
appropriation has run out, and sweep
ers and mud cart drivers have been
laid eff. The money probably went
toward election expenses, /. G., chiefly
into the pockets of the ''wOrkcrs." The
mud is ankle deep and horrid. The
weather has played the mischief with
many caterers for the holiday demand.
Importers especially, have had cause to
grieve at the unprecedented detention
of the ocean steamers, all of which
have been many days overdue, and
some of which were actually compelled
to put back disabled, to ports in En-
gland, after completing IA third of their
journey. The losses of expected profits
before Nmas will mount up into the
millions. and the men who had planned
such attractive assaults on the suscep-
tiblc hearts and purses Of people this
winter, have been raviug with disap-
pointment.
Judge Black has just favored the
world with his plliIiOu that railroads