St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-05
Our New York Letter.

INTERNAL MACHINES As
sAssINATION OF COWS. CORNELL AND
PILLsBURY- RAILROAD RATES
AND THE REBATE SYSTEM sCRIB-
NER's-THE CLUB As AN EDUCATOR
\ FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR
FLOWER GARDEN.
New YORK, July %, 1881.
TO the Editor Of the CGIedOnidR
The discovery of several internal
machines packed in barrels of cement
shipped from New York to Liverpool
has created il great deal of excitement.
Note-paper, marked with the name and
business address of O'DOnOvan Rosa,
the well-knOwn Irish agitatOr of this
city, made many suspect that he had Il
good deal to do with the shipment
What they were for, and when intend
ed to he used, is only Il matter of sur
mise. 1t is my belief that they were to
he exploded ut some time i'll the House
of Commons when the Irish members
might find it convenient to absent
themselves. Threats of such outragcs
have appeared in Fcnian papers for
months past. and subscriptions have
been collected for that purpose. Ac-
tive steps are being taken to discover
the guilty ones.
Following up the example of Guitcau
hear of an attempt made to shoot
Governor Cornell by crazy black
smith. He appeared ut the capitol at
Albany with an old shot gun in his
hand and was about to enter the build
ing when he WAS stopped 10y the super
intcndcnt, to whom he said he was the
Adjutant-G cncral of the state and WAS
commissioned by the highest power on
earth to shoot the Governor. A strug-
gle ensued for possession of the gun.
which would not have been of much
use to the wOuld-bc assassin. for it was
found to he mloadcd and generally
out of order And this is not all, for
this morning news comes of an attempt
at the life of Governor Pillsbury, of
Minnesota. by Il wealthy contractor
lllsltlt iiSslllt llblll NhulN'dN - iNl. w ltli
is this sort of business to cease
The railroads are still cutting rates
and now adopt the rebate system,
under which YOU buy Il ticket giving
the regular, full fare and at the point
of destination the company repay the
difference between the full and the re
duced rate of fare. This is done to
prevent people from buying ticket
to Chicago, for instance when they are
going only to Buffalo, to which latter
place the regular fare is more than the
reduced rate to the former place. \
gentleman bought one of these reduced
rate tickets the other day, before the
rebate system was adopted, for Cincin-
matt and was going only to Rochester,
y. \. He sent his baggage to the de
pot and had it checked rs he supposed
for Rochester, and arriving there. he
discovered that it had gone to Cincin-
natl. The cheap ticket in this case
was not so cheap after all, since he had
Ia pay the eXpressage on the baggage
for its return.
At ii well-known depot for books and
papers, noticed the other morning Il
pile of Scribner's mid-sum-
lINl hlllbtl III Nllt tN tillile. llit Illlt
had disappeared. The next day it was
the same and the next. And no won
der. The magazine has surpassed it
self Nothing more beautiful was ever
printed. The reading matter, as usual
under the fastidiOus eye of DIR. Hol-
land, Is brilliant, crisp. refined, while
the illustrations are simply exquisite.
The topics treated are all interesting
and the artists with pen and pencil
have certainly put forth their best eff
forts. 1t is liberal education to study
Scribner's. No home should be with
out the fresh numbers and no library is
complete without the bound volumes
The society for the prevention of
cruelty to children have an important
prosecution on hand, and one that de
serves more than ordinary notice. A
brutal waiter at DelmOnicO's, named
Eissner, has an eleven year old son.
whom the father thinks he can bring
up better with the use of Il club than
by any other and more human methods
The boys screams the other day when
his father was fiogging him attracted
the attention of the neighbors, one or
two of whom rushed to the rescue of
the boy and begged the father to stop
his brutal work, but it was no use, and
being women they were pOwerless to
compel him. Finally the police
were called in, the boy released from
the ropes by which he had been tied,
50 that the punishment might be more
severe, and the brutal father borne Off
to police court where, i'll default of
bail, he was locked up. He will be in