St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-06-10
Our New York Letter.

PROUD PIEEMINENCE OF AN AMERICAN
STABLE TRIEULATIONs OF A TOoTER
WHOSE PRACTICES SAVIOR OF UTAH
FATAL CHOICE OF A FAIR ORPHAN
a COBBLER'S LAsT-SUNDRY AND d.
vERs STRIKES DECORATION DAY
DOINGS-THE HOUR OF PLENTY RUN
MING OVER.
New YORK, June 3, 1881.
TO the Editor Of the CaledOnidR
Large person, purse, perseverance,
pluck and popularity, Pierre Lorillard,
the head OF the most extensive and old
est tobacco manufacturing business in
the world, has Just achieved the crown
ing honor of the British turf, the Blue
Ribbon of all race-cOurscs, by winning
the Derby ut EPSON with an American
horse, Iroquois, born and bred here at
the famous stud farm whereof so much
has been written. 1t is a great tri-
mph for America mt large and Gotham
in particular, for the plucly owner of
Parole and other famous cracks is "A
great gun among the club men of the
metropolis, and such a victory reflects
credit Oh the whole community. We
were all interested when Hcenan went
over to contest the championship of the
81 foot ring, and when our college boys
showed the Britishers the "get there
stroke, bishops, deacons, senators,
thinkers, tailOrs and boOtblacks were i'll
thorough democratic sympathy but
the horses which run for the Derby are
more highly trained than price fighters
or boy athletes, and represent a wealth
of boundleSs capabilities which has
been expended for generations on the
breed whose latest outcome is called to
the post. New York was wild when
the great news came over, and it hasn't
gotten over its excitement yet.
Poor Levy, the blower, is always get
ting into scrapes, or suffering the con
sequences of old ones. 1t will he re-
mcmbered that he married some time
ago the pretty actress, daughter of Il
very popular managing actress, Minnie
Conway, considerably to the disgust of
muititudcS, both among those who
knew and those who didn't personally
know the parties. 1t was said mt the
time that Levy was simply committing
bigamy. So it turns out. He had left
a wife i'll London from whom he had
been legally separated divorced,
by a large majOrity-an rs he failed
to pay her alimony, she turns up now
a mako him, If SIa | K mad
and says that he'll go where the laws
won't interfere with him, and | dare
say he will skip to France or Russia or
somewhere, jumping his bail, and out
wit the troublesome woman. AS he
says, his cornet and fame viii always
give him a good living, provided he
keeps his lungs and embOuchurein good
shape; but what a position for Minnie
Conway Her marriage, which turns
out to be no marriage, was very sud
den affair and proved crusher to Il
faithful adorer whom | knew, who was
supposed to be engaged to her ut the
time. He left the country and now
edits paper in Liverpool.
| took no notice last week of the
latest walking match simply because
the whole thing of pedestrianism has
degenerated Gf it could degenerate)
into a form of coarse hippOdroming
that didn't deserve recognition. The
fact, really, that little Brooklyn
shoemaker, Vint by name, actually
covered 575 miles and beat everybody
else's record, seems however, to he
worthy of mention. From all the ac-
counts the score was fairly kept, and
the fact undOubted. Vint ought now
to stick to his last-his first walking
match ought to he his last, anyway.
The horse-car drivers and conduc-
tors have been threatening a strike,
and as their arrangements were con-
Quoted with a little more sense than
usual, less hotheaded, turbulent pas
sion, and more unanimity and deter
mination, over 5000 of them having
agreed to ''tie up together, the COons
represented by the managers of the
respective cOmpanies) came down and
broke the back of the strike before it
was in existence CHATS a bull, but
can't help it-Fm in a hurry and its
expensive any way) by an advance of
wages all round. The bOOtblacks
were talking of a strike too, with a
view of resumption of the old ten
cent-a-shine tariff, but some mischiev-