St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19
Our New York Letter.
NEW YORK, May IL, 1882.

tested by hundreds of icebergs, the
new comet is soon to be visible to the
unassisted eye, and New York is desc
lated by storms. Smiling May smiles
on the wrong side of her mouth. The
balmy breath of the sOutherly and
easterly breezes, usually around about
this time, has been chilled by the foes
of Arctic ice over which it has passed
and exasperated into fury. SO far the
month has been more like democrat
lied March than anything else, no
doubt strictly according to the princi-
piles of evolution.
But gaiety continues. There has
been marrying, lots of it. The thea
tres are full every evening and at all
the matinees. The Music Festival
closed triumphantly, with profit
which had hardly been expected, after
most generous expenditure of over
Sl20,000. Yachtsmen are Overhauling
their craft with keen sense of some
thing in the wind this season about
the famous Queens cup won by the
America, and possibly decisive de-
termination of the respective merits of
keels and centre boards, slOops, cut
tiers, yawlS or schOOners, disputes as to
which have been raging in the sport
ing press for months. The hOrSemen
are all agog for summer work and
nightly rejoice over the renewed vic
tories of the LOrillard stable in Eng
land. Mining companies are spring
ing up like mushrooms, and office
rents are going up and up ana up from
the influx of strangers. SO too is beef.
In fact everybody who has anything to
sell seems to be coming money, and
even the bar-rOoms are blOssOming out
with gOrgeousness previously I'm
known. The most fashionable room is
run by Mr.. Stokes, who belongs to II
very evangelical family, and may be
remembered from IL little difference,
which attracted some notice at the
time, with Mr.. James Fisk. He
gave grand ladies' reception the 9th
Cl ua,N W iltl W as IuilltlphNlN
ed by tie most stylish of the demi-
and semi demi-monde, yelled and dis
Greet. One of the latest decorations is
a very Frenchy picture by Il famous
French artist for which he paid over
100000 ut auction.
We can't "git" over that nasty Cult
eau case it seems. 1t will keep crop
ping up, as if every member of the as
sassin's family and every one connect
ed with him were bitten by the same
Insane idea of getting free advertising
for their ludicrous Incompetence, ma
levolence and lack of breeding. SEQ
vile, for whom people once felt sorry,
and who was much applauded for his
supposed disinterestednesS i'll defend
ing his brOther-in-law "without fee or
hope of reward" appears to have ac-
cepted Il slice of the money raised by
peddling autographs and photographs
of the murderer, and paradeS his trou-
bles with the offensive persistence of il
beggar showing his sores. He has
been lecturing, so has his wife. Now
she has run away from him and he has
instituted proceedings in this city
against John Guiteau for her recovery.
ANdustOuS lily nol ItlllbNC ltlllbN z
is the favorite word-the whole tribe
to Alaska and turn 'em loose there to
execute Kilkenny Cat hdrikari on them
selves.
Another biped of noXious qualities is
Mr.. Jerry Donovan, who calls himself
O'DonOvan Rosa, II timid Irishman,
who was possibly, but probably not,
worse used than he deserved by the
British for Fenianism, and was cowed
out of the little courage he ever pos
sessed. He talks little, for even the
widest of his former followers has
been tired of his rant, but he writes
down doctrines of dynamite warfare
which must annoy Satan by their su-
perior atrOcity. | should recommend
him, too, as fit candidate for a so
iourn in Alaska i'll the society of Cult
eaus, GuillemOts and polar bears.
The collapse of the Emigration Com
mission is terrible thing for the un
fortunate thousands of strangers who
daily land on our shores and has al
ready caused grave Inconvenience.
Some of the newcomers have queer
and somewhat too tlattering ideas as
to American hospitality. Numbers of
Jewish refugees have lately arrived
from Russia, many of them bearing on
their persons obvious marks of the hor-
rible brutalities they have been sub
jected to. They have somehow got it
in their heads that Uncle Sam is going
to fork out considerable hard cash to
start them in business, and party of
them fell on the Superintendent of the
Hebrews Aid Society, who had re-
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plOyment for them, and nearly muir
dered him because he was too slow,
they thought, with the money they
supposed they were TO get.
Decoration Day the turn out this
year in New York will be something
grand, with a gathering of heroes new
er before brought together. In the
early days the line was two-thirds oc-
cupied by trucks with business adver-
tisements, carrying flowers and or
phans. The orphans have grown up,
and we see, instead, baroucheS with
numerous famous generals and similar
big bugs. The militia turn out in
great force, and sometimes fall out
with great feebleness, if the weather is
warm (as did all in Brooklyn last year,
except the veteran Fighting Four
teenth), and the regulars hold up the
tail of the kite with immense good ma
ture. 1t is a great holiday, coming, as
it does, at a pleasant time of the year,
and the mourning i'll multitudes i'll IA
social way seems to have commended
itself to thousands of people who new
er lost any relation i'll or because of
the war. The cemeteries are always
thrOnged, as are all the cOnveyances
plying to them, and there is always a
boom in the flower market in conse-
quence of the demand for plants for
Decoration Day. RADIX.