St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-15
Our New York Letter.

DELICATE CASE OF BROKERAGE
SAD END OF A wELL-sPENT LIFE-AN
IRISH TERROR LOOSE AMONG Us-PI-
RACY QUELLED IN THE NARROws.
NEW YORK, April 8, 1881.
To the Editor of the CdledORian.
Fishermen and other lovers of fish
have been enjoying themselves i'm
mensely this week. There was a grand
exhibition of trout for one thing. lake
trout, brook trout and trout from the
other side of Jordan, over a hundred
varieties, | believe, all turned out in
cool, green moss, pretty as pictures.
Then the pisiculturists had two
dinners. There were two annual SOci-
ETY. meetings, but as the members of
one society mostly belong to the other,
it was simply a case of double tuck-Out
for the carbohydrates. They are a
learned set, and with all a merry one.
Three newspaper men from the Times
are prominent adherents of the good
cause, and the newly elected secretary,
John B. Morgan, for many years secIe-
tary of the Atlantic Yacht Club, is an
old friend of your correspondent, very
bright toplofty Mason and right good
fellow. In connection with this subject
it is officially stated that 81 100000
worth of carp have been naturalized in
Long Island alone this year
Talking of yachting, the amateur
nautical world is all agog about the re-
newed audacity of the bold Canuck
who once tried to wrest away from us
the famous america" cup, and is going
to try again this season. His craft is
understood to be slOOp, and there is
considerable talk about which of our
cracks should be selected as champi-
on to vanquish the stranger. Barry
| Willard, formerly Il prominent official
of the Brooklyn Yacht Club, is, hear,
building new sloop on purpose to
show her the way over the New York
Club course, and some old wave-crush-
ers of renown are furnishing up briskly
as competitors for the honor of bearing
the stars and stripes again to the front
in the most manly of all friendly con-
tests so peculiarly dear to the Saxon
soul that loves the sea, yachting.
The continued cold weather is play
ing the very mischief with dealers in
spring goods. They were congratulate
ing themselves Oh a late Easter and the
assurance of getting rid of an abnormal
quantity of stock ; but, in the article of
spring overcOats alone, the demand
which might reasonably have been eX-
pected has dwindled to simply zero.
| Who wants spring OvercOat with two
snow storms (nOt large, but large
enough to be nOted), in the first week
of April, with promises of mere, and
| hypeTbOTean winds that seem to COM
bine the nastiest peculiarities of Janu-
ary and March weather? Some of the
nObby garments evolved from the cult
waited inner consciousness of our fash
iOnable clothlers are positively touch
ing but heartrending us it may seem,
their tempting offers are most cruelty
sighted. Spring overcOats are a drug
in the market, and economical persons,
with an eye to the fact that a fall comes
after summer, may do worse than in
vest at once at present reduced prices.
Bob Ingersoll has been lecturing in
| Brooklyn at the invitation of the Young
Mems Republican Club, an aristocratic
association OF millionaires, and the
cousins and other poor relations of mil
! liOnaires, of any age under siXty-seven,
to the great Indignation of sundry Or
thodox ministers, and great is the row
| kicked up between the pastors and the
amateur politicians. Beecher has fa
vored his Plymouth congregation and
outside multitude of adorers with an
other thrilling and startling action.
! He had lamb, as he explains it, who
| thought the pastures he offered too dry,
so he gives the sensitive damsel, who
belongs to a staunch Protestant family,
letter to ii Catholic clergyman, with a
request that the latter would turn her
out to grass in the fields which seemed
more attractive to the lamb aforesaid,
and he says he'd do it again. Such toll
Grafton, so actively expressed, makes
the old-fashioned religionists stare and
cape aghast The MethOdists are con-
Quoting their Conferences with usual
vigOr, appOrtiOning fat and lean charges
very much to the dissatisfaction geuer-
ally of the translated shepherds, but
everybody can't he satisfied, and the
fight for the loaves aud fishes is pIOba-
bly, no worse this year than any other,
but there is quite little excitement
about the matter, and no little unscrip
tural heat. However, | fancy ] have
given you enough about religious news
by this time.
A wife broker has been suing a more
or less happy bridegroom for Sl5, al
legged to have been righteously earned,
I h fa g. Loo
cheerful conjunction of the matrimoni
al order with buxOm damsel of Irish
extraction. The groom rather ungal-
lantly stated that the bride wasn't worth
the money, but his opinion is perhaps
to be taken with grain of allowance,
for the good woman, quite overlooking
this unflattering declaration, solemnly
swOIe that the broker "warn't desarv-
ing of clint, so he warn't. Sure, her
man was a good wan, and she didn't
need any shtirrin' up to marry him"
So the broker didn't get his money.
There is one establishment in New
York, where wOmen's work. has long
been appreciated, and to get employ
ment in which is considered very de-
sirable provision for life. That is Har-
per & Brothers, the great publishing
house in Franklin square. The female
employees are all happy looking, high
/ ~ respectable set of women and seem
to enjoy good times generally. But
even with the care that surrounds them,
treacherous death has sought a victim.
An old widow lady who had been in the
bindeIy % years warned the girls to be
careful how they passed a swiftly re-
volving belt, the protecting casing of
which had been taken down to be re-