St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-03-25

well as mercantile ana financial inter-
ests, people here feel most keenly that
the monster of Socialism must be kept
down, for here, if it uprears its hOrrid
head, we are more exposed to immedi-
ate ruin. The Internationalists had
high old time celebrating the event in
one of their odd, noisy, beery and frothy
meetings in the Bowery, attended by
some of the murderers of the good
Archbishop of Paris-why they are
not extradited and guillotined is one of
those things your RADIx don't pretend
to understand-and numerous other
equally repulsive rufians and idiots.
Nobody else sympathized with them,
and it is good sign of the blessings of
freedom that right here in this big city
| filled with foreigners and with an I'M
due proportion of very poor people
such a very small percentage believe
in the murderous, dwelling doctrines of
socialism.
To come from the sublime to the
!
lea to let Russia get ahead of US in SEN
sational explosions. Two small boys,
aged seventeen, went into partnership
for the clandestine manufacture of those
toy torpedoes which annually help
make the Fourth of July hideous with
their bogus limitations of the healthy
old racket kicked up by good, honest,
Old-fashioned gunpOwder. The young
cubs were doing quite tiourishing bus
mess, SO much so that they hired SOW
eral girls to aelp them pack the hOrrid
implements of torture. One of the
girls, adorned possibly with one of
those modified hoOpskirts which, in
spite OF the DEGREES OF fashion, seem
still to survive among the lower classes
of factory hands, in some of her flirta-
tiOns, twists and twirls swept off il
small box of decorating powder from a
low stand, and presto the entire build
ing was resolved into matehwoOd with
a few loose bricks where once had been
a chimney. Strange to say, beyond Il
few bruises and terrible scare to the
children in an adjacent public school no
one WAS injured.
Talk of explosions and public meet
ings, IL grand meeting has been called
by the most influential citizens, repre-
senting millions of capital, who have
determined once fer all to get at the
bottom of the impudent rascality which
draws nearly million dollars a year
out of the city for cleaning it, and posi-
lively for weeks and weeks together
don't make even the smallest pretence
of doing the work. Without any jok-
ing, few more months of such neglect
| would transform our ground floor base
ments into cellars. The filth is appall-
ing, and ! fancy eX-clubber Williams
will get the grand bounce this time.
don't suppose he cares, for nobody evel
, accused him of being fool, whatever
else they alleged against him, and he
has had plenty of very comfortable OPP
, pOrtunities for feathering his nest with
abundance of metaphorical swans
down.
St. Patrick's Day, for a wonder, pass
ed off without rain. The observance
Outwardly and visibly, at least wa:
quiet. The procession was limited fal
below their old proportions, and the
, gallant 69th didn't turn out. Inwardly
the celebration was, am led to believe
very joyous. The wit and whiskey
flowed in parallel and copiOus streams
and the wetting of the Green was OBJ
served most Ieligiously in this sort o
privileged Carnival in the middle o
e Lent allowed to the Hibernian brancl
of the great Celtic race.
Lenten marriages seem to have be
come, by the way, rather more common
than of old. One of the most nOticea
f BILE, though a very quiet affair, was tn,
' wedding of j. S. SimOnton, the Chief o
!. the Associated Press, to the stepdaugh
ter of an Episcopal clergyman. Tn,
> somewhat elderly bridegroom of tn,
t young and charming lady is quit,
& wealthy, being the owner, understand
E of at least two of the most prOminen
papers of the Pacific slope, besides get
ting very handsome salary in the i'm
e portant position he occupies with rela
b., ton to the great dailies who established
, the news agency of which be is the &C
tive head. He is we'll liked, and ha
my congratulations, as well as those O
l several thousand of newspaper mel
s here and elsewhere.
! Our proposed Exhibition does no
seem to go off at half cock, as it were
by any means. and it was said tina
Grant was going to resign the presiden
cy of the Commission in disgust. Blu
he isn't that kind of a man, as som
= people have had previous occasion t,
;. remember, and is going to stick. II
l has expressed himself, however, witt
E considerable freedom about the stingi
!, ness of certain parties who cannot bu
: reap enormous benefits by its beinj
: held at Inwood, the site determined on
] Nannnrl,rlf m in al
d told, less than 100000, and will prob
:, ably make that in a month. Other
S who cannot possibly make anythin
like such a profit on their subscription
naturally hold off till they see whethe
the Railroad King can't be induced t.
Il pony up little more freely. Mean
Il time, time flies, and some of the worl
|, to be done should be started RICH
II away, but no beginning can be mad
Is with any prudence till more of the sin
i ews of exhibitions as well as of wal
o are planked down.
One of GOtham's permanent exhibi
tions is Greenwood cemetery. Th
Is cost of the monuments and floral deco
: rations of that anything but lugubriou
u resting place for our dead runs up ia
81 into the millions. There are 592 vault,
and to date no less than 1928 monu
, ments, most of them elegant. and man
i of great artistic value. The flowers
ID massed in groups by the cemetery au
thorities, OF planted by individual taste
is are mostly of costly and all beautiful
l. while the unequalled site, affords til
q most exquisite views, through umbra
seous vistas of the bay and harbor rem
E der the cemetery one of the favorit
=. .r,nt. fnr Sunday visits