St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-17
Our new York .Radix,. Letter.
NEw YoKK, Jan. IL. 1881.


ton the past week, disagreeable but
absorbing topic. Calling the other
day on an old cOmrade, who still wears
the blue in the shape of police uni
form. ] found him absent on quest
after the slayers of Chinese laundry
man who had been artistically carved
into mincemeat with Il Chinese dagger
presumably in Chinese hands. Celes-
tial clannishness and convenient ignor-
ance of English will probably conserve
the culprit.
1t is the worst feature of so many as
sassinations recently, the apparent i'm
possibility of fastening the case on any
one definitely. Another most barbar-
Gus crime was the hammering to death
of an aged farmer and his literary wife.
a daughter of the late Confed Gen.
Winder, well known to old Libby pris-
oners, at Oyster Bay, Long Island, Il
charming summer resort, but uncom-
fortably full of savage tramps in win
ter.
Talking of oysters, poor Coney
Island, the great headquarters for their
wholesale consumption in these parts,
has been grievously racked and ruined
by the great storm. The beach has
been swept away for miles, with dOz-
ems of hotels, bathing houses, railroads,
piers, clam shanties, flower gardens,
etc. aud the island itself has been split
in two.
New York and Newark and sundry
other places are painfully excited
abont the mysterious disappearance of
very well known man, Charles Del
monico. His dinners have cOmfOrted
the inner cookies of the hearts of all
our distinguished citizens and several
thousands of outsiders, and that the
genial good fellow, who was us suave
ttill lately as one of his most supreme
gastronOmic triumphs, should have
gone off the track into insanity and
sudden Oblivion is fact that is gener-
ally deplOred- There is reward OF
$500 for any tidings of him, dead OF
alive
Turning from grave tn gay, we find
an amusing episode about the night
schools, which alike shows the benefit
of these institutions, and the inherent
bOyislness of human nature under
cumulative scholastic influences. Two
middle-aged Teutons have been dill
gently making up for deficiencies il
| early education. One less stupid than
the other laughed ut the latter's mis-
takes. On school being dismissed
these big boys, just like the little fell
lows, pitched into each other, were
captured by a lady teacher and mex
day paraded for punishment. After ;
sound lecture they were allowed to sc
with an admOnition not to be naughty
boys any more.
One would think Il woman who doe
not know her own husband must b'
rather hard to find. We have such ;
specimen here. A lady of MilesiaI
extraction with eight small children
in her widowed desOlati0n was wOoeC
and won by Il Dane, actually one o
that hated race that Brian Boru wa
accustomed to eXterminate. He de
serted her. The other day she seizeC
a millman whom she claimed as he
husband, and in court her opinion wa
reinforced in the strongest manner b!
Il number of witnesses. The astomdet
dispenser of milk proved as conclu
sively that he was somebody else. l
turned out that he and the woman
husband had both boarded at the sam
time ut the Sailors Home, and thei
resemblance was SO great that tn
wOman's mistake was natural. Sh
still believes the milkman gay de
ceiver.
The daily press wound up last yea
with grOans at bad times and prOphe
cies of worse to come. They hav
suddenly shifted their weather cock
and are clarifying the improvement
in business. 1t is pity these scribe
will not write about something the
know something about, for NOR
people than would he willing to comics
it are influenced by this trash, an
there is an uncertain panicky feelin
more or less all the time, which, as
rule, there is no sort of justification fOl
One fact, however, which serves t
in perishable goods is the fact that 70
aud weevil have made away wit
several large lots of grain held TO
higher prices by spectators. Tn
general verdict is that it serves then
right. No Trade may not be a
brisk as we should like to see it and IA
it would be if we took some trouble t.
find proper outlets for our "over-prO
ductiOn" abroad, so as to keep thing
moving all the time, but these Unite,
States are Il long way from ruin as yet
There is an old friend of mine, al
ex-judge and editor of a leading pape
in Missouri, who tells with a good dea
of humor how he was forced to bounc
BARLEY Campbell from his paper, be
cause, with the best intentions, tin
young fellow couldn't make his salt b.
writing. Campbell is wealthy now
The judge isn't. But then the iudg
hasn't written plays. Bart. has, and
better still, had them played, that is
some of them. He is now trying t.