St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-28

brought stupendous prices. The occa-
sion of the auction was a treat indeed
to lovers of books. To skim over the
catalogue alone is enough to make
mans mouth water. | am sorry that
Mr.. Hall thought it necessary to scat
ter this splendid lot of books. / sup
pose it must have been a case of pain
in the chest, and should think must
have been like parting with ones eye
tooth or, indeed, a whole jaw full of
| food crushers.
The police of several cities are look
ing for an ancient aud well-cennected,
but fendish old fraud of the most pi-
Gus professions, who has been living on
her cheek for years and beat every body.
Her latest discovered exploit was the
locking up in a fireless room, in a re-
mote village, with one loaf of bread
and yellow dog as a companion,
young girl from whom she had previ-
ously eoaxed deed of gift of consider
able property, and whom she had strip
ped of almost every Article of clothing.
When discovered, after most heart
rending exposure to starvation and bit
ter cold weather, the poor wretch was
almost like a wild beast, filthy, bare
foot, ravenous. Such cases are revolt
ing, but it's our own fault. Hardly
one of us but is too good-natured or
downright lazy to nip such impostuTes
in the bud. We esteem ourselves lucky
if we're not taken in ourselves and
leave the culprits at large to prey on
other people and to develop more cru
city and villainy under the encourage
ment offered by our apathy.
Every now and then some little blow
up occurs to remind us that New York,
which by the way is, what few suspect
ed it to be before the recent reports of
the special census agents appointed to
gather statistics of our manufactures,
the largest manufacturing centre in the
world as well as the second largest COM
mercial entrepOt, is about as dangerous
to live or move about in as a mined
fort. Downtown is literally honey
combed with steam boilers. One of
them blew up last Sunday in Broad
way near Grace Church. No one was
hurt, but the houses opposite looked as
if the Russians had been harding
the TureOmans out of them with grape,
canister and nine-inch shells. They
were riddIed and their contents ruined,
while the plate-glass windows of the
dry goods establishment where the af-
fair occurred were reduced to fine pow
der. The engineer says the fires were
banked and everything in perfect order.
, He has an excellent record in every
way. The men of science have all
come forward in hurry with theories
| have reserved mine for this letter
opine it must have been the cat.
The obelisk will be on its pins, oil
5 rather its four crabs-two antique oil
the days of Rameses and two modern
of the city of Brooklyn Navy Yard
constructiOn-by the time you get this
or at least we all hope so. Lt.-Com-
mander GOrringe has proved himself g
A wonderful master of transportation, {
mathematician, and inventor of i'm
mense capacity. He is a ponderoui
parsonage, but as brisk as a kitten
4 Some years ago, when in command o
t the despatch boat Pinta, sent with {
despatch to our little fleet at Santiago
de Cuba, he gathered the news of tn,
; release of the surviving prisoners, tax
l en- by the Spaniards from the Virgin
4 ians, and was off in ten minutes home
ward. | was there, and was quite i'm
parsonage. De Long, the latest Arctic
explorer, was executive officer of thu
Jnniata. the senior ship of our squad
ron, and great friend of our EgyptO
logical celebrity. Long may our navy
:. boast such nervy and brainy fellows
: The great steamer Faraday, which
barring a few irOnclad men-of-war
ranks next to the Great Eastern 70
Z | i L.
S regular business is laying ocean cables
n but when work is slack in that line sht
+ goes into the cattle trade. The Allan
=. tic companies are all building enOrmOu
. vessels, and it is confidently asserted
that any one of the three or four new
: marine monitors will be able to eros
= the herring-pOnd in less than six days
S and then, suppose, they'll get it dow
: to four, some day. To accommodate
: these salt water Dexters, some of on
= capitalists have started to build a DIR!
dock, capable of hosting up a vesse
J. 600 feet long as easily as carriag
smith jackscrewS farm wagon. Wit
rather a dampening effect on this cost
{ ~ enterprise comes the publication G
n an ingenious plan of the popular mana
d ger of the National Line, Mr.. F. w. .
,r Hurst, who by means of Il caisson, fit
ted in one instance to the bow of
10 damaged vessel, and in another to tn
S, stern of a second ship in like condition
N managed to repair them both with &C
y curacy and despatch at about half tn
- cost of single days use of dry dock
= Mr.. Hurst, who designed, and for a tim
d owned that wonderful flyer, the yact
B. Active, is as modest as he is skilful an
|. energetic, and says there is nothin
new in the idea. Perhaps not, BIT
: then Everybody else happened not
j. think of the practical application of il
:. He is reputed to be smart by thOs
'. who ever had anything to do with hin
and deserves his reputation. A Yer
large proportion of the enormous INN
grafton to this country is due drectl
to his personal efforts and generalshil
u and the way he has stirred up tt
r. railroads to move his freight and pa
=, sengers, has increased the aggrega
W wealth of the country by millions, :
- well as that of the company he repr'
s. sents. He is a Napoleon of Quartz
I'd mastership by sea and land. RADIx.