St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-07
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cock, and the proverbial stupidity of
the police, were the joint causes of
misadventure to young
and prominent lawyer and wellknown
of the Press. Once in charge
of the Brooklyn bureau of the Tribune,
he had been admitted to practice at the
bar and among his first legal jobs was
the being requested by the senior part
ner of the firm to which he had attach
ed himself, to get check certified.
Unfortunately, the check was a forged
one, and poor Sackett was arrested, and
had the usual annoying but delightful
experience of police hospitality before
his friends could secure his release on
bail. The bogus paper was traced TO
woman, who tells long story about
getting it i'll part payment for her farm
from a stranger who had bargained
with her for it. The man cannot be
found and it is limited was myth.
Meantime, the woman is held as prin-
cipal in trying to shove the queer, and
it is rather against her that she sailed
under various names and was once
rather prominent for having furnished
bail for one of the members of the
skilled gang of burglars who burgled
the Blocker Street Savings Bank, among
other exploits.
Those restless tobacco and cigar fac
tory hands are about getting up anoth-
Ell strike. 1t seems a queer time of
year to get up anything of the kind,
but people in tantrums are only too
prone to cut off their noses to spite their
own faces. Perhaps the state of the as
Economical bodies has something to do
with the unsettled notions of the arti-
sans in question. An eclipse of the
sun and a fresh comet discovered al
most every alternate day would, in the
medieval days, have been considered
excuse enough for anything.
Talking of temper, a jolly, good,
rousing fit of passion is not always an
unmixed evil. The way chOleric old
gentleman laid out a conductor on the
Elevated Railroad, the other day, was
joyful to the beholder. The conduct
ors are not the most civil among human
beings, and would meet with more
sympathy for their undoubtedly I'M
happy financial condition were their
manners trifie less brusque. Many of
them act as if they owned the road,
and were inclined to be hoggish about
it at that. On the occasion in question
the old gentleman, who had CALAMITY
given up his seat to a lady, was gradu-
ally forced to the middle of the very
crowded car. When he wanted to get
off it took little time. just as he had
succeeded in working his way through
the throng, the conductor started the
car. The old boy grabbed the bell
rope and stopped it again. The con-
ductor declared he shouldn't stop. The
old boy said he should, and throwing
open the platform gate in spite of the
official, who violently resisted, he grab
bed the latter by the throat and took
him along too. Everybody eheered,
and cards of possibly useful future wit
nesses were showeIed on the grim old
victor, who marched off unmolested
through the startled people of the road,
while the crestfallen victim of his ire
had to board the next train, in pursuit
of his own so unexpectedly and unwil-
lingly abandoned.
A remarkable auction of a church has
just taken place in Brooklyn, which,
in some of its features, seems to suggest
that some church people are as mean us
sinners can he. The church, like many
others, has been mOrtSaged for about
its full value to life insurance compa-
ny, the officials of which, tired of not
getting the business settled, or even
the interest on the mortgage regularly
paid, foreclosed, and ordered an auction
sale. The delinquent stockholders in
the church enterprise, who were so aw-
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not meet even a fraction of their Just
debts, managed to gather up $4,000,
and intended aud expected to buy the
property ont and out for less than that
figure. The insurance people were up
to the game, however, and got their
backs up. They rolled up the bids to
the limit of the congregation, and then
bid the property in ut small advance.
One of the deacons and prime movers
in this smart lodging is an old public
functionary, with multitude of sons,
whom he has provided for in cOmfOrta-
BILE berths, Immediately about himself,
at the public expense, and who has had
a multitude of wives-I am told his
present helpmeet, a young and quite
attractive woman, is the thirteenth.
The old Bluebeard was once a great
gun in Beechers church, but took sides
against the Plymouth pastor at the time
of the great scandal and seeded. He
must be considerably over three score
and ten, and is queer-looking object
as he salutes every one he meets-for
every body knows him-on his daily
return from market with a monstrOus
hamper full of groceries and other pur-
chases.
The brewers, and others interested in
malt, have been gathering in solemn
powwows to agitate for an enhancement
of the duties on imported malt gener-
ally, and Canadian malt in particular.
Some other advocates of protection to
native industries, to wit, the numskull
aldermen of Brooklyn have passed an
ordinance providing, among other
things for license taxes on laundries,
and further enacted that no one not a
citizen shall be allowed to open or con-
duct laundry. OF course, this is aim
ed at the Chinese, who have achieved
no little success in "washee- washee for
Mclean man." and is as absurd as I'M
Just and unconstitutional.
Two singular accidents, one on the
top of the other, threaten to deprive us
of one of the most charming features of
Christmas celebrations. At one merry
party, Christmas tree caught fire and
a pretty little girl was burned to death,
or at least so burned that she died
shortly afterward. At another party, a
well-known restaurateur mot DelmOn
leo, but close rival), who represented
Santa Claus, in full costume, found his
beard of fluffy cotton wool decidedly
inconvenient when it caught fire and
blazed up, peeling his face like one OF
the onions in his most appetizing stews.
Carpets, furniture, &C., were ruined,