St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-10-01

lowing: g. your
-- you.don't look, - my eyes
and - limbs, like a
- beat who'd tIy to beat the collec-
ton box, hut you're-the last man in
there's nickel short, and by if
you don't pay one in p. D. Q. you'll be
bounced. So, young fellow, step up to
the Captains office and SETTLE" He hit
the box with emphasis. Down fell the
nickel and down fell his cheeky counte-
nance when he learned whom he had
been abusing.
The summer resorts will soon be de-
serted and this week will be the final
one of the season for many of them.
Long Branch, the last beautiful Palace
by the Sea has been shut up and the
imported German band and army of
white clothed walters have been dis
persed. The latter wound up their fes-
tive career by royal old drunk, finish
ing up with fight in which the bottles
they had emptied took prominent
part with the result of many wounded
and one at the point of death. Winter
delights are on US and soon theatre, and
opera, Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton lectures, concerts and all sorts of
entertainments for gay and grave, the
serious and the giddiest slaves of fash
ion and frivolity will claim the atten-
ton of returned wanderers from ocean
beach and breezy mountain, the classic
haunts of the continent of Europe, the
hallowed evil of Syria or the mystic
banks of old Nile.
Among the choicest amusements Of
fered is the annual exhibition of prod
ucts of American art, industry and in
genuity at the American Institute Fair.
1t has just opened and shows great i'm
provement. Forty-One acres closely
covered under roof now enclose the eX-
hibits. There are $500 exhibitors and
there are some marvellous and novel
things to be seen by the curious in en-
gineering, while the good housewife is
gratitied by other objects which appeal
strongly to her affections and her hus-
bands pocket. In fact every taste is
consulted and the fair is certainly one
of the things necessary to be taken in
by the visitor to New York. l hope to
be able to devote some time to a close
examination of the novelties and may
probably lay some of them before your
readers at an early date.
The National Steamship Company
and the Commercial Marine of the
World has just lost one of the nOblest
ornaments to the profession, Captain
Thompson of England. | knew him
well and more gallant officer or ac-
cOmplished commander never walked
plank. He had been in the employ of
the company many years, with brief
intervals during which, under an un-
derstanding with them, he accepted
special invitations to perform impOr
tant specific duties for others. For in
stance he was the second in command
of the last expedition for the laying of
the Atlantic cable. During the Aby
sinian and Ashantee wars he carried
thousands of British troops under q haI-
ter from the Government. Thousands
of passengers, steerage and saloon, will
be panied to hear of his sudden death.
He had saved dozens by the most hero
ic gallantry from disabled vessels met
in mid-ocean by one or other of the
great steamers he commanded, and
once he saved great derelict in the
vi tue SLcdulSilp
ique which had been abandoned several
days under the impression that she was
going to the bottom. Thompson made
some money by that operation and in
fact had thriftily accumulated 10 little
wealth by judiciously looking out for
chances. He lost great deal of mon
ey by the Boston fire, being largely in
| terested in the Guardian Assurance Co.,
of which his father, whose last surviv-
ing son he was, is president. ThOmp-
son is supposed to have fallen over
board in the early morning. No one
saw the accident and by the time he
was missed the ship must have been
miles away.
Our Hebrew friends had a jolly old
time last week and have now made up
for as devoutly observing the YOm Kip
pur, or day of atonement which comes
on the head of their New Years like a
headache after late lobster salad with
the usual fixings. Itwas observed very
rigidly and in some quarters of the city,
one would be obliged to walk several
blocks to get a cigar, while Chatham
street could actually be traversed from
end to end without risk of having ones
clothes torn off by eager statesmen, their