St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-22

WHITENING OF SEPULCHRE WITH
MODERN IMPROVEMENTS, OR THE CAR
BoLIZATIoN OF A sAINT-DOOM OF
SOME DISTINGUISHED DENIZENs-GO-
ING FOR THE MAGNATES OF MUD-RE-
CLAMATION BEGUN OF THE BED OF
THE EAST RIvER-sMALL BOYS AND
GIRLS ON THE WAR PATH, LIKE THEIR
ELDERS.
New YORK, April Is, 1881.
To the Editor of the CdledOniaR.
There has just been a most interesting
burglary in Brooklyn. The victim was
jeweler, who adopted the plan of
keeping his store front unconcealed by
curtains and brilliantly lighted at night.
Situated on the main thOroughfare it
was supposed, in common with its
neighbOrs, to be guarded by a regular
policeman, another on straight post"
which means so many blocks up Fnlton
street, the ordinary posts including by
streets and alleys, sergeant and two
roundsmen had occasion to pass several
times in the night, two watchmen
guarded bank next door, and another
private Waterman was paid to guard
their property by the jeweler and some
of his neighbors. 1t wonld seem impos-
sible that an intruding fly could have
escaped observation. Judging from the
six holes bored in big safe containing
$685. worth of diamonds and other
to be broken into, the visitors must
have spent several hours in their task.
Fooled in their attempt on the big safe,
they wrenched away smaller one
which was fastened to the wall within
six feet of the window, and removing it
to the rear of the store, got away with
some 5000 worth of watches. The af-
fair was desperate venture, and that
such Il measure of success attended it is
little short of a miracle. big Frank"
notorious criminal, over whom a doz-
en- pigeon-hOled indictments have been
hanging for years, was arrested on sus-
picion, but the artists have skilfully
covered up their tracks and the proba-
bility of their being brought to book is
very remote.
They say A. T. Stewards body has at
last been placed in the Memorial Cathe-
dral at Garden City, not i'll the superb
sarcOphagus at first intended i'll the
crypt, but inclosed between massive
slabs of granite, bolted with iron and
the joints loaded, beneath the pave
ment of the superb mausoleum, on
which hundreds of thousands of dollars
have been expended in order to render
it beautiful. Of course sceptics say that
the yarns about mysterious midnight
trains, reticent wOrkmen, electric alarm
wires connecting with the chimes, etc,
are all started to give color to the i'm
preston that Judge Hilton has circum-
vented or come to terms with the alb
ductOrs of the famous corpse in order to
console Mrs. Stewart, and that in point
of fact he has completely failed i'll his
designs.
The chief mover in this cathedral af-
fair, Bishop Littlejohn, has just return
ed from IA busy trip to Europe, where
he dedicated the new American church
at Paris, confirmed number of young
Professionals i'll Rome, preached before
Queen Victoria, the University of Cam
bridge and other bigbugs of various de-
grees of toplOftiness and splendOI. His
arrival was in keeping with his hurried
journey. The White Star steamship,
Britannia, which brought him over, en-
countered very heavy weather and was
tritie behind her usual time.
But the White Star Line, with its
homogeneous fleet, is not only celebrat-
ed for the speed of its ships, but for
their clOekwork and uniform punctuali-
ty. They take nine days, on an aver
age, to make the passage; that is to
say, they get in between eight days and
half and nine days and quarter, as
the case may be, but they are sure to
turn up sometime or other on the ninth
day.
The Bishop was due in Brooklyn in
order to confirm a large class of young
communicates on Palm Sunday. He
was naturally discompOsed at the
thought of being too late, but the Cap
tain, who knew his boat, cheered him
up, remarking that at the very latest he
nine o'clock, and he would telegraph to
the Bishops friends and for a tug. 1t
so turned out, and the Bishop dressed
on the tug as he came along, and got
into church in the very nick of time.
! heard a good story about another
minister, of very different denomina-
ton, the other day, and his wife told
the story. The Rev. DIR. is 4 great gun
of the temperance persuasion. The wife
is even more aggressively earnest. The
dominic had rheumatism. Applejack
was recommended. The good wife ap-
piled it outwardly, of course but "My
DEAR she remarked, ''you smell like a
gin-mill! The congregation will think
you've been tipping. We must remove
this horrible odOr." She did so. Car
bolic soap was the removing agent, and
the OdOr of sanctity was thus conserved
to the lady's perfect satisfaction.
The goats and other residents on the
picturesque mountain Businesses, which,
under the name of The Shanties,n have
long been the romantic resorts of sim
pie race in uptown New York, hard
by the majestic mansions of millionaires
aud noble edifces sacred to the cause
of healing, have been been evicted with
suddenness in a way very distressing to
them. The squatters, whose humble
abOdes have been torn down to allow
the erection of costly dwellings, COM
plain bitterly that they always paid
their rent (about 1915 year perhaps),
and their expulsion is a cruelty. The
lots may be worth unimproved any
where from $1,000 to $4,000, but the
late occupants fail to see what that has
got to do with it, and they are hanging
On tn tho old hon rhS " hich nnno ahoI