St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-05-13
Our New York Letter.

MDNl MENIS-AN lMBls " III !
WEDDING FAVORS-GRACE FALLING
AMONG DOCK RATs-AN ANGEL WHO
GILDs PRISON DOORS WITH LIGHT
FROM PARADIsE-sTERN DISCIPLINE
IN PRIVATE CORPORATION.
New YORK, May &, 1881.
To the Editor Of the CdIedoniGn
The event of the week, of course, has
been the annual recurrence of that mon
umental phantasmagoria of horrors pc
culiar to New York, yclept moving day.
The winds may blow, and stocks may
90 higher and higher, or far, far down,
but worse than fire i'll this sweet
town doth rampage the truckman on
moving day. Landlords who have
tried to squeeze the last drop from
worthy tenants find they have simply
caused them to go. and left for them
selves unknown and possibly risky
successors, or, perhaps, even empty
houses. They get mad and speed the
parting tenant. The tenant gets mad
and Obstructs incomers by way of get
ting square with the landlord, all the
pipes everywhere make IA point of
bursting, all at once, and the wicked
plumber reiOiceth with unholy glec.
Then. how can man he in two places
at once. 1t often happens that bust
ness man has to move his Office III New
York, and mt the same time vacate his
premises in Brooklyn or Harlem. He
spends Il small fortune in hacks and
ear fares and is the double victim of
truckmcn, who grind him for all his
woIt tn in the frequent but limited in
tcrviews which he disiointcdly scatterS
among them. Moving day is day of
desperate distraction, and suicides are
cXcusable ut such times.
Trlki q of Obclisks, there is actually
a ru..or that one of our milliOnaircs,
or rather Billionaires, with Il big, big
B). wants to bluff the Railroad Kings
little extravaganza, and propO cs to bid
for Westminster Abbey, royal tOmbS
and all, the Poets Corner, coronation
chain with the stone that fell from
he ven included, and all its o her fix
ingS. have it taken down in numbered
sections. brought over in special com
partmcnt steel steamships and rc-crcct-
ed on the Battery rs Il gift to Gotham.
1t would cost Il great deal of money,
but moneys no object, and as the Brit
ish. if NapoleOn's view of them is cor
rect, are merely a race of shOpkccpcrS,
the Qualification of this expensive within
is quite feasible. am not vet inform
ed as to whether Commander GOITingc
is To he entrusted With the task of the
removal they talk of him as Il sort of
prevcntcr brace. to speak nauticallN,
for all sorts of schemes nowadays but
perhaps Rufus Ha III can tell all about
it. He seems to he as deep i'll the pie
as anybody.
Some other idiot mean idio-Syn-
chratic individual be wanting to
brin" over the town of London, st. Pc
tcr's at Rome. the Tai-Mahal at Agra.
India. and u few other remarkable cdi-
fees to dot around the country. as fit
comnonions to fine architecture of our
mills. boilcr-shops and Broadway
stores. IFS wonderful what money will
do.
PEOPLE NAV talk with a pig-hcadcd
sticking to old prciudiccs about Dutch
men being slow. but there's nothing
slow about Bismarck, as the Ere ch
found ont some wears a~o. and some
Germans mt any rate are quite as alert
in love as in war. There was nothing
slow. for instance. about il California
Teuton, who. the other day, paying Il
visit to some old friends in Chicago
whom he wanted To 90 with him To the
Pacific coast, was enraptured with their
domestic felicity, and he determined on
Getting married too. His friends frau
declared that the very Girl to suit him
had inst left Them and WIS at the time
i'm New York on her way to Germany
by fine next steamer. I'm half an hour
the Californian. with his friend, fricnd'S
wife, and pocket full of rocks was in
hot pursuit. He caught the unknown
damscl on the steamer. There was no
time for anythin" but the hottest kind
of love. The California Fritz WAS equal
to the occasion. He opened the damp
crs and cave her blast of the seven
fold heated article. She wiItcd-or at
least she wiIled to reward his sudden
suit Away tbcv went to 4 iusticc and
wr,r srIirrJ and tbrn fine entire NOM
I,tion nf Unhol,cr nu Great Tcntnnic
suhmb snliccd fine moinhrocc. If was
, urrot dav for Germany.
N,vor Grace has ouothc,2 moral
mud -uuLdIc to occunv his mind h,.
w,v If ,,,rictv ,s an iItrruntiou to his
crms,Jc ,m,inst thr Strcrt-nrolcctinn
Drnortmrnt This time il is the Dc
nortmrnt of DorIls where fine hook
tneniu~ has heen snmrthin~ rxtr,nrdi-
nary. A few wears ono a inr"c dcfoI-