St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-26
Our New York Letter.

Our New York Letter.
MODEL MOVEMENTS OF MILITIA BEFORE
APRoPHET OF TACTICIs-A VETERANS
BIRTHDAY AND A NOTABLE POw-wow
THE BEwILDERMENTs OF BIGAMY-
NITRO GLYCERINE IN THE RELIGIOUS
WORLD-TRowELs AND TRAFFIC
BANKERS, BROKERS, BULLETS AND Ro-
MANCF-A STARTLING STORY OF TWO
CONTINENTS.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 1880.
To the Editor of the CdledOnian:
The National Guard has been coming
in for good deal of attention of late,
and recommendations looking to uni
formity in costume and regulations gen.
orally have been forwarded to the high
est quarters by military bigwigs. Gen.
Upton, the famous tactician, has Just
been paying Brooklyn an informal Wis
it for the express purpose of witnessing
the new street fighting drill, which two
OF the colonies have gotten up with a
view to practical use in possible riots.
They vary considerably in detail, but
are both far in advance of the state of
no drill for such emergencies which pre-
Vlously obtained in all armies. The
general protested himself we'll pleased
with the special maneuvers of the
Twenty third, but of that of the Forty
seventh, declared he had .no criticism
to offer" In fact it is an excellent ar
rangement with the utmost mobility,
alternate small columns guarded by
hankers moving in mutually supporting
order with peculiar system of sudden
wheeling outward at the double Quick
on reaching the intersections of streets,
which is evidently calculated to demol-
ish and break up the most truculent
mob. On the occasion of the parade,
the streets were so crowded with peace
able and interested spectators as to
give quite fair idea of the masses a
regiment might have>to encounter in a
riot, and as the boys swept rapidly
outward with their arms aport, there
was skedaddling born of the simple
moral force of the action that proclaim
ed success for Col. Brownell's excellent
addition to the Infantry Manual.
One of the most ancient veterans of
the militia, as he is of journalism, poll
tics, diplomacy and statecraft in gener-
al is Thurlow Weed, whose SD birth
day was celebrated by a grand recep-
ton by the Press Club, of which he is
cherished member. The room was fill
ed with notabilities, high up in the
councils of the nation and many as well
known abroad as here, and the occasion
was memorable one. General james
Watson Webb, contemporary knight
of the quill, was one of the hOnored
guests, aud men as distinguished in
more modern days in law, politics, mu-
sic, the drama and the press took an ac-
tive part in the speechifying and most
of them took very fair share of the
creature comforts which were bounti-
fully supplied to refresh the inner man
after the talking. The Press Club has
now become q power in the land.
HSIO 10 - luii III oulSIuCS
der, it is not so active, commercially
speaking; but detected bigamy is quite
lively. So are the deceived damsels.
Three cases in one week in Brooklyn is
quite an item for the City of Churches,
and in all of them there were unusual
circumstances. In one, young hus-
band calmly deserted his wife and in
three weeks wooed, won and married
another publicly, with quite good deal
of parade in another ward. His per-
fdy was discovered by his second wife
finding letter from his little son,
stating that his ma would like to see
pop. In another case man married
two girls who were Intimate friends,
both publicly in church, and they visit
ed each other, knowing they were mar
ried, and rather drawn to each other by
the knowledge that by marriage they
had become namesakes as we'll as
friends, and yet neither dreaming for
one moment that the husband of each
was the reputed husband of both. This
little game was carried on undiscovered
for one year and a half. and l must say
the man was wonderfully smart fell
low SO far, though it was silly in him to
do like the other fellow, in leaving his
letters about where his inquisitive little
helpmeets, in their truly feminine pur-
suit of going through hubby's pockets,
could find the compromising evidence
of his tricks. In third case the mar
riage took place three weeks before the
election, bride No. acting as brides
m aid for No. !. Groom got tired of No.
|, who lived with her parents while he
lived with his, and, visiting her one
evening, asked to see the marriage GER
tificate, tore it up and burned it and
remarking that that settled that mar
riage, told her he was going to marry
her bridesmaid and would kill her if
she interfered. He did marry the
bridesmaid as he said, who was foolish
enough to believe in the efficiency of
his rough and ready divorce proceed
ings, and then called with No. 2 on No.
l for congratulations It's a queer
world sometimes. The last situation
would really seem too wildly impossi-
BILE for the most farcial extravaganza
ever put on the stage, but it is a sad
and sober fact. Groom and bride 2 are
both professional pedestrians, the for
mer being, when arrested, in training
for the forthcoming contest for the
O'Leary belt.
Talking of the stage reminds me of a
threatening cause for holy old rumpus
in the advertised representation of
"Passion Play" at Booths Theater
where the life and sufferings of our
Saviour are to be portrayed by second
class actors who cannot succeed in the
legitimate drama, for the usual consid-
GRAFTON paid for tickets at the doors.