St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-13

hope for something livelier: "Would
that sea would sweep the bridge
away" he said. '"WOuld | had him
dashed on the weatherbow for an hour
or So" growled the unsympathizing
captain. The hardy mariner appar-
emily objected to swells, whether of old
Ocean or as a development of British
snobdOm in its most lackadaisical
phases.
Now is the time when business men
are up to their eyes taking stock and
figuring in profits. The old year seems
to have passed out pretty we'll, but the
croakers are abroad and prophecies of
approaching hard times are in the
mouths of good many staid old tel
lows, and have found expression in
sundry journals. The Journal of Com
merce, which is certainly anything but
optimistic, as a rule, takes a brighter
view of things, and in SO many words
says that the apprehension is ill-found-
ed, and that the abundant prosperity
of the past few years has so brought
general stability to our concerns that
a panic like that of 1873 is well-nigh
impossible. Still, it's well to be eau
tiOus, and not fool away ones savings
in stupid but specious schemes. The
Wall street brokers divided S30, 000, 200
i'll commissions last year, and that
means the shearing of a multitude of
lambs.
Our old public favOrite, Lester Wal
lack, has opened his new theatre. 1t
is a gem, and the premiums paid for
seats on the first night were enormous.
Taking it all around, it is, perhaps, the
best theatre, with the best company
in the English speaking world, even if
it doesn't discount the carefully man
aged affairs of France For certain
kinds of plays it is still excelled by the
famous double stage of the Madison
Square Theatre, and old playgOers are
beginning to look forward to the Thes-
plan temple projected by the designer
of the latter, Steele Mackaye, the au-
thor of "Hazel Kirke," who promises
to provide one combining the virtues
of both.
To Judge from the boom in real es-
tate and building generally, here and
in Brooklyn, there must be lots OF
money to invest. Ten story business
palaces and apartment houses, as SUI
perior to the original French flats OF
Paris as they are to tenement houses
are springing up numerOusly. Archi-
tects are driven i'll an uneXampled way
and there is corner in draughtsmen
while artisans of all kinds are fully
employed, with wages rising, and
threatening to rise still higher.
Beecher has been getting into hot
water again. Abiding to various re-
forms to be inaugurated in the City OF
Churches, he instanced the alleged fact
that positions III the public schools
were obtained in the most disgracefuI
way, IL statement which no one be
lieves. The Brooklyn Eagle, which
fought manfully for him during his
long trial, very bluntly remarked thai
the subject, true or untrue, was unfit
to be discussed before men, women an(
children from the pulpit, and that the
best thing he could do would be t.
avoid tluttering around sexual topics
like a moth around candida pretty
rough slap. BY an unfortunate cOinci
dence, young Mayor Low, the rich tea
mans son, had Just declined to reap
point thirteen time-eXpired member,
of the Board of Education, some OF
them decidedly eminent men, and wei
known by long lives of unseltish use
fulness to deserve the title of excellent
citizens. The slur seemed so manifest
that committee was appointed t.
wait on the dominic, with request tC
prove his words or take them back
They couldn't find him. He had re-
tired to the country. The young May
or, by the way, seems to be marking
out for himself hard road to travel
He means we'll, no doubt, but he has {
singular knack of treading on every
bOdy's corns, and he is as naughty anC
inaccessible as a tifth-class German
grand duke-unpardOnable failings il
an official in this country.
Grant isn't much given to Hopping
over or stopping over. The singular
story has now been started that he ha,
finally convinced himself of the entire
innocence of Fitz John Porter, who
was court martialed and dismissed from
the army for alleged misconduct at the
second battle of Bull Run, and who
ought to have been shot if he meriteC
any punishment at all. Grant, they
say, is now hot to reverse the injustice
and urge the reinstatement of the un
fortunate officer. Some folks are ma
licious enough to say Grant wants
help from the camp of the enc
my to supplement the efforts of gOO(
Republicans to get him restored to hi.
old army grade with full pay on re
tirement, and is still possibly squirting
towards the amicable arrangement fOl
Il third term by consent of all parties
Dear ! Dear If all this should b,
true RADIX.