St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-11-04

proven in many ways on the old style
oyster stand keeper. A good citizen,
he was a consistent member of one of
our two great parties, without indulg-
ing beyond perhaps an occasional
scratch, as man is justified in doing
with fieas, disagreeable politicians or
other vermin) in factions, factional
fights, and while liberal as the summer
sun, lived mOdestly and happily for
years in an transformations twO-stOry
cottage in the outskirts of Brooklyn,
which, however, was as to the interior
a revelation of artistic taste developed
by domestic needs. He was one of the
men we read about; and his memory
will long live among us. DOrlOn and
DelmOnico-bothg gone!
Good drinking water is being sold in
some sections of the city. The water
famine has become serious. The au-
thOrities have now taken to shutting
off the supply for so many hours day,
and the consequences have been very
disagreeable, the most scientifically
plumbed houses on the Fifth avenue,
Murray hill and other aristocratic To-
calities suffering more than the regions
further down. There are fears of "A
pestilence, and there's a nervous dread
of fires, for not only is there too little
water to get up "a good head to eXtin-
guish fire when it starts, but every
drop so used is a serious loss. With
an extra reservoir Brooklyn is better
off, but even there the people are be-
ginning to be seriously alarmed, and
two big fires in one day gave fearful
warning of danger. The Pioneer Iron
Works in South Brooklyn We're utterly
destroyed after twenty engines had
been pumping continuously for three
hours on the blazing premises and adj
jacent property, and then popular
dry goods store in the heart of the
fashionable business quarter was as
sailed by the fire, tiend. The Artesian
well business is looking up these times.
The establishment of commercial
exchanges for various branches of
business, for all of which the chamber
of commerce once sufficed, is feature
of these times, and they are multiply
ing, the oil, paint and drug trade being
the last, so far as heard from, to in
dulge in one of these trade clubs,
while seats in the old boards are rising
to fabulous values. The members of
the produce exchange, who contemplate
erecting "A new and magnificent build
ing, are having grand powwow just
now on the question as to limiting the
membership to 5000, and charging
$4,000 for seat. Whew Think of
it The mere intangible possession
of IA seat i'll this mart worth in the ag-
gregate S30,00O,00O!i What a lot of
groceries and farms could be run on
such an amount, and what IA number
of farms and groceries are taxed in
order to give these 5000 and odd gen
tlemen "a living with few mansions,
carriages, yachts, trips to Europe, etc,
thrown in) as distributors of the part
of the produce of the country which
seeks New York as an outlet. Verify,
this is great country.
A wealthy Liverpool merchant has
just had a narrow escape of incarcera-
ton for life under peculiarly distress
ing circumstances. He is one of the
largest grain operators i'll the world,
with houses in London, Liverpool and
San Francisco. He came here on bust
ness, and became mysterious disap-
pearance. His family came on here to
look for him, and after tremendous
search found him in lunatic asylum,
under Il false name. His wanderings
and decisions must have been a eau
ton. He had left his clothes, watch,
cane, etc, scattered around among
some of the lowest haunts on the
water-frOnts, and had been arrested
for disorderly conduct, when he gave
false name, and being found mani
testify insane, was treatedly according
ly. The New York police get plenty
of abuse, and often richly deserve it.
In this case, | must say that think
they did magniticently, for a binder
clue to follow up was never presented
for detective skill.
The Michigan relief fund is progress
ing slowly-very slowly. One would
think we had forgotten all about it.
How would we like it if we had suf-
fered that way? Come, brother Editor,
stir your folks up, and see if we can't
get up n boom of benevOlence. Our
people are not stingy, but it takes a
sensation to arouse them, and this
Michigan affair came at an incOnven-
lent season, while we were thinking of
something else, and now it's an old
story.
Those delicate British fish, sole and
turbot, are among our latest immi
grants. Nine have just been brought
over in the Bothnia, to the delight of
epicures and pisciculturists, and it is
hoped that Immediate portents will
run up into the thousands. They're
better than shad and have an absence
of bones, which is consideration not
to be despised. RADIX.