St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-05-20

The Commissioner of Agriculture has
been having tea-party, with n lot of
experts, at the offices of A. A. Low &
Co. A large cOnclave of gentlemen
prominent in the markets of China and
Japan assembled to pronounce iudg-
ment on the samples he produced
grown in Georgia, round vast circular
revolving tables, garnished with kissing
urns and multitude of tea-cups. The
tea shown seems to have been more
adapted for the English than the Amer
lean taste, and the objection is urged
that though by growing tea here we may
save freight and duties and get it fresh
er, labor is so much higher than in the
present seats of its production, where
a man will feed and clOthe himself and
his family on about dollar and half
a month, that we cannot compete in
price. Commissioner lie Due, howev-
er, thinks we could use machinery, vet
to he invented, which would make up
for all deficiencies and give us an en-
during bulge on the tea business to pay
off John Chinaman for his audacity in
swarming over here to live cheap and
save money which he earns by build
ing railroads, washing clothes, and do
| ing general homework. Possibly, if we
can grow a few thousand chests of tea
we shall have the blessings of prOtec-
ton applied to the leaf that cheers,
&c, and have to pay half dollar or so
for a cup of the beverage. don't think
we can stand that very long, though l,
for one, wouldn't mind it for a little
while, as what's sauce for the goose is
sauce for the gander, and if people
do, to Il
diculOus protection is. and how it does
nothing but build up individuals at the
general expense, not forgetting very
unnecessary host of extra custOm-hOuse
myrmidOns, protection would he sent
kiting in hurry where the wOOdbine
twineth. An old former partner of the
firm of Archer & Bull, from which he
retired with great fortune, Mr.. Geo.
b. Archer, is just dead, an old and most
gracious gentleman.
Homemade bread is one of those al
most forgotten arts worthy to he com
memorated by Wendell Phillips, in
that famous, brilliant, but incorrect
Grafton which he has delivered so often
for many years, but we are likely to
have it again. The boss bakers, who
encouraged the laziness of housewives,
have succumbed to the strike inaugu-
rated by their journeymen, who object
ed to work eighteen hours day for
about seven dollars IL week, Sundays
thrown in, and by way of getting square
with somebody, they have resolved to
tax the public and put up the price of
the loaf. The public won't stand ev-
erything, and so homemade bread is
again coming to the front. OF course
down will go the bakers price, but
they probably won't get back their Gus
tom for while. Serve 'em right
! The old army veterans are lively
this year, and the residue don't seem to
he dropping off as fast as for some
years back. Rough and tough are the
timbers who remain, and Il rugged
line will he formed on the next rccur-
ring Decoration Day, that beautiful
| holiday which has now become nation
i'll with us, and which buries bitter
memories in fragrant wreaths of flow
crs, symbolical of good feeling and II
fratcrnal remembrance of the brave
who fell on both sides. The prepare
tiOns for the great procession i'll New
York and Brooklyn are grand, and the
pageant will far SurpaSS that exhibited
on any previous occasion. Decoration
Day is good day for visitors to see
New York ut its best, and tn have a
good view of our crack military organ
izatiOns who turn ont sOlidly on the
occasion.
A young Chinaman has been stoned
and dubbed to death in our streets by
Il gang of boys; the murdcrers scat
tered after the manner of their kind,
| mn lol Il of
even get so much as sound whipping
The poor young fellow, who was II
student and Il gentleman of most in
offensive character, was buried with
imposing ceremonies from Chancellor
| Crosby's church and the funeral was
attended by many prominent people.
At the grave, after the usual Christian
rites were performed, the cOmpatriots
of the deceased had IL little Confucian-
ism and burnt paper full of printed
prayers, joss-sticks and iire-cracllers
in profusion to frightcn off the devils
and help his soul on the road to heav-
en-, and then made offerings of Chinese
delicacies, which after their departure
were no doubt devOured with gustO
by small boys, possibly some of the
slaughtcrers of this young convert. 1t
is a reproach to some parts of England
that the laboring men think the best
they can do for stranger is to "'eave
'arf a brick at i'm" 1t is too bad that
such barbarity should he cOmtenanced
III the land of the free, the promised
land of the free, the promised land and
refuge for the oppressed of the other
nations, as we are so fond of declaring
in multitudinous public speeches on
millions of stumps and platforms.
RADIX.