St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-09-01
Our New York Letter.


This is about the season to see para
graphs about some mythical young
person of the feminine persuasion hav-
ing harvested some enormous crop all
by herself, and sailed down "a nice lit
tie bank balance, besides providing
for all the needs of bed-ridden great
grandmother and seventeen orphan in
fants, left by deceased brothers and
sisters. POstmasters and country edi-
tors, in various parts of the country,
are then overwhelmed with inquiries
for matrimonial candidates. Perhaps
| am laying in trouble for myself of a
similar nature, but can see that fasci-
mating farmeress, and 90 ever so much
better. / have met IA young woman
who doesn't like shopping Think of
it. What economy is suggested by the
very idea She says she buys neces-
saries only, and makes out list of
such, with her limit of prices, before
| she ventures-intO store, and that it is
not possible to tempt her to buy any
thing not previously resolved on, or to
pay ii cent beyond what she deter
mines to invest. Even youth, grace
and beauty are small affairs in face of
such unique virtue. Your Radix is al
ready married, else -!
Malaria has been playing the mis-
chief down town i'll Gotham. Two
steam heating companies have been
Il
all sorts of bottled smells The cOnse-
quence is that bankers and brokers
and merchants of high degree have
been hacked with rheumatism and
shaken with chills with ruthless vehe-
mence. OF course, everybody is sup
posed to be out of town, but as bust
ness has to be carried on, it is surpris
ing how many sweltered people have
to stay part of their time here to do 1t.
When the steam is put through their
I pipes, it is feared the results may be
an epidemic. The whole idea seems
anything but practical, and | wouldn't
he surprised were it not only il failure
financially for both the rival compa
mics, but that evaporation at terrible
sickness, induced in this way, would
cause IA violent stop to be put to their
proceedings.
The president is having Il good, old
fashioned quiet time with his personal
friends here. The politicians can't get
hold of him, and some of them are get
ting mad. A great fuss is being made
over the new flag adopted to show
what ship carries him when he is
ahOat, and where he rests when ashore,
though so far it hasn't been hOisted
over his private residence. 1t is
charged that it is IA tlunkeyish imita
ton of royal and imperial standards
, among the etfete mOnarchies of the Old
World. Perhaps it is. It's really too
hot and too muggy to discuss the ques-
ton. | merely record the facts, and
let others fight over them.
Oscar Wilde is still at Long Bra nch,
lecturing, pOsturing and being petted
by rapturOus maidens. His recent
participation in the sudden midnight
marriage | recently recounted has made
him popular, and, by the way, it is
wonderful how many pretty girls with
goOd-lOOking escorts stay till the last
train, since the establishment of the
precedent that Il miss must mean a
Mrs. No further adventures of the
kind, however, have so far been re-
ported, but there have been some mar
row escapes. The first verse of the
latest new song begins:
For sudden entrance into bliss
Take care the last home train to miss"
The unhappy freight-handlers have
had to give up. The strike is over.
They fought well, and for the most
part kept their temper under Difficult
ties, but the railroads were too strong
: for them. Some have gone back to
work at the pittance they rejected.
Others have secured better employ
ment. Some are still out in the cold,
. and must find other work or starve.
1t would be good idea for business
men to plant these steady workers
where they could earn good livings
and become paying customers ont west
somewhere. Here, in the OvercrOwded
, city, they must work for next to moth
t ing or become Il charge on their heavi-
= ly-taxed fellow citizens.
That all is not gold that glitters has
, been realized, too, by the Russian jew
! immigrants who have been swarming
, here for some time past. They all eX-
pected, not forty acres and Il mule,
t perhaps, but to be set up in business
p as peddlers and small storekeepers,
p and are now clamOring to be sent back
{ to Russia. They have proved so tur-
bulent and disagreeable that there is IA
feeling that some excuses might exist
for part, at any rate, of the i'll treat
4 ment they received in their old homes.
% They are certainly the least eligible OF
% all the specimens of all nations that
; ever tiocked here. RADIX.