St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-05-06
Our New York Letter.

\ CANINE CONVENTION GONE TO MEET
BIG sIX-GREAT GANGS OF GUESTS TO.
GREET STARTLING FACTS OF RECENT
SCIENCE NOTABLE BACHELOR OF
NEWS NOOSED At LAST-HEAVI TRNG-
EDY ON TIE HIGH SEAS.
Men YORK, April %, 1881.
To the Editor Of the CGIedOnidR
The great dog show is perhaps one of
the most thrilling events of the week.
1t is said to he the finest of any held
vet. and certainly some wonderful ami
mails have been exhibited, of every
possible breed apparently. The ami
mails are from every cline, and include
some very remarkable specimens that
have lived in royal and imperial ken
ncls. Among them are expects of
Queen Victoria and the sporting and
hard-riding Empress of Austria, and
their apartments are artistic in the "N-
IRENE. The Judges are also i'll some
cases importations, and it seems to have
been determined to spare no trouble,
time or expense to make il grand sue
cess of this canine exhibition.
EX-Shcrif' Conner, head of the great
type founding concern, whose improved
fonts have furnished more than half the
total number of newspaper offices
throughout the civilized world, is dead.
He was the responsible guardian of old
Bill Tweed when that great unworthy
shook off the shacklcs of the law. and
entered on that remarkable series of
adventures which took him through II
Soiourn in Il thieves den on the Pail
sadcS, an experience as Hmatcur SNUG
gler in Cuba, and dcck-hand on Il regu-
lar brig to final capture on Spanish soil
under the suppositiOn of the DOns, who
were misled by one of Nasts allcgorical
caricaturcS. that he was Il champion
kidnapper and the rut1ian who stole
Charley Ross. Sheriff Conner was Il
fine man of business and an honest Otli-
cial with Il young look about him that
would make Il stranger guess his age
| to he forty rather than sixty, which II
actually was.
Emigration is increasing very rapid
| ", and it would, from present indica-
tionS. he almost safe to predict an influx
of the bone and sincw of foreign lands
to the extent of three-quartcrs of IL
million. There are some pretty rigid
regulations against the admission of the
old, inirni, crippled, insane or grossly
| immoral, so that we certainly don't get
the worst of even the poorest classes
who can command the money to come
over, except. perhaps, in the ease of the
MOrmOns who are being recruited III
| large numbers. some two hundred mis-
Sionaries having been sent out within
| the last week to SOW the seed of THEN
queer religion and accompany the in
gathering to the new paradise of Utah.
| No end of wives and prosperity i'll the
future and free passage i'll the present
form the tempting bait which is grecdi-
| " seized by the combined cntcrprlSing
and impccunious persons who. for the
most part, make up the bulk of this
particular stripe of immigrants.
Scientific persons have been having
several nuts to crack since my last. For
one thing the much deridcd Keely mo-
tor has been again subjected to ii course
of sprouts, and some very distinguish
ed experts. including Nelson c. Tap
pan. Rowland of the Continental Iron
| Works. and ObcliskmOving Command
cr Gorringe. have become converts Ia
the belief that there are grand posi-
bilities before the engine. A new point
has been laid bare, however, which
really gives more plausible notion OF
of its working, and that is that vibra-
ton as force is utilized. We all know
| the mischief vibration can do, the fact
that soldiers are always ordered to
break their steps on crossing bridge
being familiar to every one, the cadenc-
ed stride of even lOOmarching being
enough to SKATER to iTretrievable ruin
the nOblest bridge ever yet built. 50 that
by controlling this force in benefi-
cent direction, it seems feasible to effect
something good by vibration, and per
haps the keely motor is to be the COM
ing agent to this end. Possibly the
moon may have something to do with
it. 1t is certainly true that in tele-
grapy it is found that the electric tides
depend ON the phases of the moon, and
swell and subside in exact correspond
ence with the tides affecting bodies OF
water. The fact can he verified by any
expert and painstaking operator and
observer with an investigating turn OF
mind. The theory, or rather the solid
fact, pray take notice, is here first pro-
mulgated by your RADIX, who comes
across some widely different stories and
bits of art, science and literature in his
housings around for food for this week
ly banquet set before your readers. BY