St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-03-18

extra paid inspectors, and after it was
built it was inspected by the respecta-
BILE gentlemen who awarded the con-
tract. 1t was then discovered that
there was no way of getting into or out
of the new Jail wall other than by
ladder over the top of it. The con-
tractors had adhered rigidly to the
specifications to the very letter, unless,
as is probable, the material is inferior,
and built the wall solid. 1t will cost
over a thousand dollars-at least in the
way taxpayers have to pay bills-tO
rectify this extraordinary omission and
supply gateway.
Ivory Chamberlain is dead. Proba-
bly, not more than one in a thousand of
your readers will have any idea as to
whom refer. Probably not more than
one out of thousand has not been ill
fluenced for good by the writings of
that man. He was the beau ideal of
the impersOnal journalist, very mod
est man, with massive intellect, a
kindly heart, extensive knowledge, aud
an unsurpassed power of expression.
There WAS no pOrtentiOus weightiness
about his compositions, and tlippancy
and sentimentalism were as remote
But in pure, simple, plain English,
without the least affectation of cpl
grammatic tersenesS, he hit the bulls
eye every time. What he wrote told
People remembered it and adopted his
arguments. A most learned man, de-
lighting in the classics as his dearest
relaxation, lie wrote English. He new
er tried to ''show his larnin'," as I've
heard an illiterate and disagreeable but
sometimes cOmmon-sensical editor say
about your RADIX in bis earlier Journal
stic efforts. And he was n good soul
He lived IL very retired life, but was
respected by every one who knew him
ever so slightly, and was very dear to
those who knew him well. For some
years he was an editorial writer on the
Herald, and that paper, with all its re
sources, cannot at this moment lay its
hand on a man who can quite fill Cham
berlain's place.
Mining somehow seems to be looking
up. | am in a position where | can see
a good deal of the workings of outside
finance. and | notice that good many
old gentlemen, retired merchants and
that class, who come pottering around
their friends who are still in business,
are asking their advice as to whether
they shouldn't invest in such and such
mining stock, which generally means
that they intend to do it, whichever
way the advice may be. The fact is,
there is a neat deal of loose money
about, tightly held. perhaps, but still
earning very unsatisfactory dividends
for the possessOrs, who have it so snug
ly sailed down. The fact that the
government authorities thought it pos
sible to float 3 per cent. bonds shows
that they have accurately guaged this
state of things. Well, mining is a lot
terry, they say, but then, again, it is no
more of lottery than any other bust
ness. If man goes into mining with
the same capital and knowledge and
keeps his eyes open as well as in any
other business, importing, exporting,
manufacturing, publishing or what not,
he will probably find mining the best
lottery of them all. Why ? Because
the products of mining are actual ready
money, if gold or silver, or Il precious
sight nearer ready money if of other
ores than the products of almost any
other business you can name. The
cost is no larger and the chances are
| less, and the interest on the disposition
of the invoice is very much in its favor.
The United States are richly gifted
with minerals, and the business of
mining is to get them out. 1t is le-
climate business and should be, and
will be probably henceforward carried
on in n legitimate way. The sharks
have had their innings, and the victims
they have spared complete shearing are
not only wary themselves but serve as
beacons to render others wary also.
Your RADIX predicts much and speedy
increase in the mining interest, with
very satisfactory results to all concern
ed.
The Brooklyners are trying very
hard to get up Il religious revival. |
am sorry to say there don't seem to be
many signs of it. 1t has been APP
preached in such a business-like style
on three different and formally adver-
tised methods that the wicked laugh at
it, and the good are approaching it in
such a gingerly fashion that | fear, |
Ifear-well- Beecher sudden
ly breaks off all his lecture engage
ments and says he'll have quiet .revi-
val in Plymouth and trust to turning
his own limbs into lions to bring the
multitude in. Talmage engages a ia
nous singing evangelist, and proposes
to storm Heaven on the Moody and
/ Sankey plan with the latest improve
ments. A lot of other ministers have
got in pncker, not knowing how to
set about it, and yet feeling that they
must do something. and, after week
! " conference, which some brother sug-
gested might lie just as improving il
held once a month, got together for an
all-day prayer meeting, beginning
somewhere before breakfast-time, and
relieving guard with fresh conductors
of prayer, praise, and pious warbline
| till bedtime. jerry McAuley, the ex-
wickedest maa in New York has plenty
of convicts to take care of. and the
meetings are, | am told, very interest
ing.
The poor laborers in our vineyards
you see / am in quite a Scriptural
mood mean our 'lOngshoremen, who
break out cargoes and store the golden
grain, and other glorious results of Out
agricultural system, into the mammoth
steamers which convey them to less
favored lands. have been in a bad way
it seems, fol club-houses and exchanges
where their employers might engage
their services and they might improve
themselves in their compelled idle mo.
ments by reading amid quiet surround.