St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-08-11
Our New York Letter.
NEW YORK, August 4, 1882.

durable weather. And it shows what
we must have suffered when people
felt cheerful and braced up with the
thermometer at Sc on an average.
The fact is the big cities get so baked
up by the sun in the day that unless
there's rattling breeze there's no let
up at night, and the want of sleep is
what kills. To add to the discOmfOrts
of business men in New York the
streets all over down town are torn up
by an invasion of steam-heating COM
panies, electric light companies, and
what not, so that the tOrrid air is
charged in dry weather with solid
fog of fine dust, and in damp weather
is like mush with mud as slippery as
ice. In Brooklyn the death rate last
week beat New York, and was $40
per 900, an appalling figure, worthy
of Bagdad, when the plague RACES.
One hundred doctors have been COM
missiOned by the board of health, for
gratuitOus attendance of the very poor,
and to perform house to house vista
lions among the ignorant, armed with
tracts giving brief but valuable rules
for the management of the health of
children and adults, and it is a splen-
did service splendidly performed.
The stock exchange governing COM
mittee have been seized with fit of
economy, and resolved on reducing
the expenses of that institution to the
extent of the price of half a dozen
lunches week, or say, $50. They
have discharged all their messenger
boys, replacing them by force sup
piled on contract by the district tele-
graph company, which, to put it mild
ly, is not popular concern. They cut
the little fellows heads off with pre-
cious little notice, too. One poor
child, who had supported his mother
and himself out of a pittance of 81
per week, was called away to her
death bed, and on his return to make
arrangements for her funeral, was met
with his walking papers. The case ex-
cited sympathy, and he not only had a
handsome sum raised on the spot
given him, but the indignant members
called a special meeting to see if they
couldn't go back to the old plan, which
worked well. The old boys knew the
members, and had become as smart as
steel traps. The new boys were all at
sea. The other day IA member sent for
sandwich to Delmonico's, who has
several restaurants, one of them close
by. The messenger returned in an
hour and half with the sandwich and
bill for car-fare. He had previously
worked up town and only knew one
DelmOnicO's.
One of the police was badly sold the
other day. He dubbed his way through
an immense crowd till he reached an
apparent corpse, neatly dressed in a
shrOud, leaning up against an ice wag-
on. He sent out an alarm for an am
bulance, and was fumbling for some
spare change to help pay for IL funeral
some wag having started subscrip-
ton, when he saw the corpse. Hall
scared and half angry, he gave the
creature ii prog just as a very young
kitten will do with a lively mouse, and
leaped six feet in the air ut the yell
that followed, and then dubbed a few
of the bystanders who were shrieking
with laughter. The prisoner proved
to be il small boy of eleven who was
very, very drunk, and had been fixed
up by some other urchins little more
sober but otherwise worse than him
self.
Athletic sports of the coarser kinds
have been enjoying a regular boom
since the recent disgraceful "glOve
fight" under the protection of the pO-
lice, in Madison-s square garden, rented
for the purpose by Millionaire Wander
bilt, and which will not be repeated,
having, after much delay, been de-
clared illegal and prize fighting, il
fact, by the corporation counsel. The
latest "knOcking out" arrangement
was of dry goods salesman, who fol-
bet undertook to swallow three
rounds of Jersey lightning. He swal-
lowed them, pretty large doses, too
but was dead before the last glass left
his mouth. A pretty good temperance
| lecture.
Bergh has been comparatively quiet
of late, but has boiled over at last. He
caught policeman battering the nose
of baulky horse the other day, and
to use his own language, cOllared hin
and threw him around. He is tall and
why, but the policeman could have
eaten him for breakfast and felt hun
CRY by noon. Still, the force all know
the great lover of particular beasts
and the victim submitted like a lamt
to the throwing around, and returned
to his usual pursuits with unruffieC
composure, as Bergh walked away
reeking with red hot face and temper
in search of home and dry undergar.
ments. 1t was quite a funny incident
and the two athletes were cheered by
the delighted spectators. The horse
was scared by the row, and retired
from the scene without further re
marks.
The runaway at Alexandria of a cor
porars squad of the famous British
regiment, Goth rifles, has greatly re
iOiced the Fenian heart, and the an
nOuncement of the raising of a legiOI
of Italians by Garibaldi's son to hell
the Egyptians who are fighting thu
English has also greatly cheered them
There are mysterious and active move
ments going on in dynamite and phys
zeal force circles, and while l dom
mean to predict any more raids OIL
Canada, shall be much surprised i
there are not some formidable
manifestations of Irish hostility to Eng
land before long. New York is TIN
real center of all their operations, ano
unless the government authorities ar
vigilant, it strikes me as not impossible
that we may have an Alabama bust
ness of our own to settle when tn
eastern question next subsidies.
RADIX.
The New York republican cOnven
ton will be held Sept. 20. The late