St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-12

temporarily of one hundred skilled
physicians for night labor among the
poor. They do a wonderful lot of
good and are paid literally, by the
city, besides the fact of their being Sc
lected is a remarkably good card for
them. There is talk of extending
the system and of introducing a day
service as well.
That ineffable ass and aboTtive crimi-
nal, Jerry O'DOnovan "Rossa," as he
calls himself, or Roorbach, as the Her.
aid very aptly styles him, has been
again peacocking in extravagantly gas
bag fashion in company with another
Irish patriot of the same kidney, one
Grove, in connection with the alleged
torpedo warfare against England,
which we mentioned last week. He is
repudiated by even those Fenians who
suffered with him for the attempts
against the constituted authorities in
the could Dart" and will, | appre-
bend, soon find it difficult to extract
much more from the servant girls and
hardwOrking mechanics and laborers
whom he has deluded into subscribing
to his so-called Skirmishing Fund.
Brooklyn is famous, among other
things, for boasting the one public of
fetal in the United States who felt
called upon to issue IL blood curdling
manifesto to the police, the militia and
| w-abiding citizens generally, when
the President was shot, i'll anticipation
of riOting, which his fertile imagina-
ton beguiled him into believing to be
| a necessary consequence of the assas-
sins act. Mayor Howell forbade the
fireworks on the 4th of July, which
the city annually pays for but he has
been itching ever since to have them
| fired off. Two weeks ago he took il
into his head that Gen. Garfield was
sufficiently out of the woods to iusti-
fy celebration, and incontinently
ordered it i'll somewhat "toO previ-
ously and unanimous" way. The bad
news of a relapse caused the rescind-
ing of his orders, but the good news
of manifest Improvement started the
uneasy mayor again, and the city OF
churches had their treat at last.
We have had little bit of nauti-
cal sensation in the almost simulta-
neOus arrival of two tea steamers after
a If 900 miles race with the first ship
ments of the new crop from China
They made the little trip in fraction
over "a days, and old salts are full OF
"reminiscences of the glorious and hall
forgotten days of the feats of the
American clipper ships which once sc
proudly bore our flag all over the
world. The two steamers are British
as indeed are a large majority of YES
sells engaged in our foreign trade. The
prosperity of American shipping inter
ests has long been fading into nothing
ness. Shall we ever see it revived
We had a dog fight the other day tC
celebrate the dog days for stakes OF
81 600. 1t was attended by Il large
and fashionable assemblage of bankers
brokers, etc, with sporting prOclivi-
ties, who had to pay heavily for the
| privilege of being spectators. Another
equally cheerful contest was conducted
in less expensive way i'll Broadway
by stage driver and Il truck driver
They had collision between the vehi-
cles, and the stage Jehu smOte his
brother whip severely with the thong
he welded. The truckman, Il German
took his punishment with calm stOlidi-
/ W DtlU CIllllbttl NloNli,
ed cart rung, then climbed on the
stage and knocked his enemy off with
crashing blow on the head. The
bystanders then fell on him and nearly
murdered him. After considerable
interval il policeman appeared.
! The scalpers and the railroad men
have fallen foul of each other in the
present war of cutting rates, and the
latter are apparently bound on the eX-
| termination of their active opponents
The Herald is out with the admirable
suggestion that the impecunious should
take advantage of the cheap transpOr-
tation now offered and HE themselves
far away to the West, us far as they
can go, so as to grow up with the coun-
try, having already absorbed all the
East can spare for them. There's nc
mistake about it, lots of people get Oh
well in New York, especially if they
have some capital to help them but
lots don't and never will, the com
petition being so sharp and a thinning
out of the crowd will he good alike foI
those who 90 and those who stay. II
would pay the latter to raise fund t.
aid the former to clear out, and per
haps some day somebody or other will
act on this idea i'll practical way, and
start one of the most useful and hui
name institutions of the age, Il society
for passing the badly-off but well-in-
tending to fresh fields and pastures
new. RADIX.