St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-07-07

The boys gave him such a send-off as
Gotham has not known since the days
of Tweed, when money came lightly
and was lightly spent. 1t was a pure
ebullition of good will that chartered
the tug and crowded it with friends.
Thirty-two out of the thirty -four po-
lice captains managed somehow to find
time to accompany the party and there
were lots of newspaper men.
They saw him out far beyond the
limits of the harbOr and then made a
descent ON COney Island, where prob
ably some may be yet. 1t was a most
successful spree.
Deacon Richardson, of the Hanson
Place Baptist Church, Atlantic Rail
road, and any number of other good
things with money in them has been
tried and convicted of "disOrderly walk
and immoral conduct" for putting up a
job on the brethren and laying a new
car track on Sunday to get around an
Injunction they meant to have served
on him on Monday. The old fellow
urged in his defense that the work was
one of necessity. No ones OK or ass
had fallen in pit, but pits were dug
for his railroad and he thought he was
justified in taking measures to keep
out of it. If he rendered better service
fol the money he makes out of the
public, there would be possibly some
sympathy for him. AS it is, every one
wishes he had been sat upon ten times
as severely.
The strikes are still important sub
jects of conversation. If something
isn't done pretty soon, butter and fresh
supplies of all sorts will be going up to
famine prices. They're not far short
of them now. So far every one SYM
pathizes with the strikers as against
the railroad companies who are held
by many to be offending against the
law and violating their contracts with
the people as common carriers. Hap
PLY everything so far has been peacea-
BILE, but the police are doing extra du
ty and are ready for a riot at the short
est notice. 1t is generally supposed
that the whole thing was precipitated
in order to keep peoples goods back
till July LIST, when a new and higher
freight rate goes into operation.
Poor De Long. OF course his life
familiar to all your readers, and all, no
doubt, feel proud of the gallant fellow.
He is regarded here with peculiar
pride, as a superb specimen of what
our public school system will do for
one of the poorest of poor boys, as he
was, and what IA spirit the roughing it
among us encourages. His last service
before the fatal arctic trip was in COM
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and his old scholars have met and sub
scribed for a memorial. 1t is to be
hoped that our wealthiest citizens may
follow the example of these youngsters
and erect a cenotaph to his memory
and that of his devoted companions.
see that most wonderful of blather-
sixties, "Richelieu" Robinson, has been
making the halls of Congress resound
with his bowls, at this very safe dis
lance, Mt the British lion. Wouldn't
you like to engage him for a series of
lectures up your way? He can talk as
fluently as Beecher or Bob Ingersoll,
and well, too. His notions are quite
: entertaining, especially us according to
his figuring about ninety-nine out of a
hundred of the inhabitants of this
country are Irish-bOrn or derived from
Irish ancestry. That other crank-Dr.
Wild, late of Brooklyn-wanted to
make out that the AnglO-SaXon race
were the last ten tribes of Israel. It's
great fun to hear either of them Occa-
siOnally, not too often.
Long yarns about the commence
ments fill great sections of the papers
now, to the exclusion of news of gen
eral interest. In fact the silly season
with "nOthing in the papers" seems to
be upon us. AS the schools close and
the youngsters are turned loose fol
their vacations, there'll be fitting to
, forest and beach of all who can afford
it, while for those who can't, and fol
country visitors who will make no mis-
take if they believe the solid fact, that
: New York is the finest watering place
on the planet, will find plenty OF
amusement till school keeps again.
RADIX.