St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-14
Our New York Letter.

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MARTIAL FELICITY AND INFELICITY-
THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OF DALY's
TRoUPE-THE LATEST EXPLOIT OF
THE PERyADING PLUMBER - MORE
GREEDINEss PUNISHED - HIS LAST
A LANDMARK REMovED-THEP PRESS
CLUB BANQUET.
NEW YORK, Jan. Z, 1881.
To the Editor of the CdIedOnian:
Nearly two years ago the youthful
heir of the Shaff'er of Fulton market, of
the world-renowned oyster house of
Dorian & Shaffer, became enamored of
a pretty little flirting schoolgirl yclept
Jessie Duxbury, the joy and pride of
wealthy Plymouth Church family.
Aware that anything serious would
seem too ridiculous to their seniors and
any hint of it might be rewarded by a
parental spanking, the amOrOus infants
got married on the sly, after some diff
ticulty, as elergymen fought shy of
uniting a couple of such very tender
years. The deed done they avOwed it
promptly, and were promptly forgiven,
the young man being set up in business
at cost of just 100000. In due time
n beauteous babe was born. A pretty
nurse was engaged to care for the pref
ty infant. The young husband proved
tickle, and transferred his affections
unlawfulIy to another. A divorce has
just been granted. The litigants, as
minors, were represented by their guar
dams. The lad goes West, to try his
fate anew. The girl may marry again
tomorrow, if any one will have her
and her baby.
Another youthful mother is one of
the Nautch girls whom DAILY and his
trumpeters insist on styling HindOOs,
which they emphatically are not. She
is twelve. and by too affectionately
hugging her thriving little three-pound
offspring, managed to squeeze its life
out. She was quite sad, they say, for
two or three hours, and then got some
other toy to amuse her.
Ten human beings wiped out of ex-
iStence in five minutes by Il tenement
house fire is one of our latest horrors.
1t is wonder such accidents, as they
are enormously called, are not of much
more frequent occurrence. Even when
erected according to the pulblind rules
of the Building Department there are
/ nf construction and
rangement in most of such rookeries,
and the ignorance of the majority of
the residents is so dense that it is n
wonder they so seldom come to grief in
this way. Fancy twenty families, each
with a swarm Of children and at least
one stove. and the wonder is there is
not fatal fire every day. In this case
some plumbers tried to fill newfangled
| thawing machine with gasoline, by the
| light of a naked candle. One poor and
/ industrious workman lost his wife and
/ four children, and everything else he
! bad in the world. The whole thing
was distressing in the extreme, and
there were plenty of wounds among
those not burned, and plenty of narrow
| escapes. One man was hooked by his
undershirt and dragged through win
dow by an eX-assemblyman who had
apartments in these aristocratic regions,
and who described the operation as re-
sembling the skinning of Il cat. The
man was saved but the shirt was tlut-
tering wreck.
SupeIimpOsiDg pig upon pork is held
to be anything but sound commercial
practice. 1t is tempting, however, and
very smart men are apt to dabble in
this risky pastime. The latest result
has been the colossal failure of the JO-
seph Dixon Crucible Company, which
had largely INDUCED in the habit, and
their cOnfederates in kite flying, an i'm
porting firm, originally importers of
drugs, but such ambitious merchants
that like the coffee kings who collapsed
a little while ago, they couldn't see
any one else making money, but they'd
step in and spoil the market. They
interfered in the matter of plumbago
gave six months credit, and all that
sort of thing, and for time, while
much hurting old traders, seemed to be
doing swimmingly. They got out oil
their depth, however. and they're no.
where now. Black lead is very cheap
now, and yacht owners can lubricate
their keels for next to nothing next sea-
son if they lay in stock right away
The senior partner of the smashed up
firm, very naughty and pretentiou:
person, and an ex-pillar of prominent
Brooklyn church, from trusteeship in
which he got bounced by losing his
temper in an annual meeting while q
candidate for reelection, was out call
ing on New Years day in great state
People say he had "nerve."
Some rich Brooklynites were very
much annoyed the other evening by
finding that while they were at dinner
some burglar had calmly appropriated
some 5000 worth of iewelry and other
valuables. The police were IN intense
excitement for hours, and a reward OF
50, 900 was offered for the return of the
property. The workmen who were en-
gagged to do some plastering in the un-
occupied house next the scene of burg
larry found the culprit. He had met
his fate five minutes after his successful
evasion with his plumber. H. trying te
return the way he went to work, he
missed his footing and fell from the
scuttle in the roof through a well stair
case to the basement of a four story
house. Strange to say he lived, though
smashed almost into little pieces. He
had been only two weeks out of State
| Prison.
National Guardsmen are disguised
and alarmed at rumors that their num-
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