The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-02-05

ST. Johnsbury Plain, Feb. 1889
The Legislature of Missouri have reported in
favor of Railway from st Louis 10 the Iron
Mountain the State to take third of the
Stock The distance is S5 miles-the estimated
cost of the road $S00,00o.
The Rhode Island Wing Convention has nomi-
mated William Sprague for Governor and Joseph
ChIds for Lit Governor.
1t is rumored that Col. r. NJ johnson is content
with the glory he has already won in public life,
and will therefore not be candidate for reelection
as Vice President.
1t is estimated that tho ntry will lose tpenty
millions of dollars by exploded pet banks and run
away ub.treasurers, since the illegal removal of
the depositcs. Who is responsible Tor snch mis-
management, if not those who introduced and who
havo persevercd IN this ruinous policy ?
Fyorida-It ia thought that Gen Taylor with his
army, will let the weather come upon him
without having done any thing-not even captur
ing a single Indian squa,o
Nearby Fire Hundred Mechanics have been
thrown out of employment by the late fire in Bos-
ton. Some have lost all their property, others
nearly all,
The Hermu.-The Alexandria Gazette mentions
report that 'letters have been received from Nash
Vile which state that Gen Jackson has been turn.
cd out Of tho church for hard Ssocaring.
The Female CoHcge at Macon, Georgia, was o.
pened on the 10Th inst. for the reception ofstudenis
when ninety entered the fresh,oomdn class.
Il Farmer in Noan Jersey has been fined $3.50 for
selling the meat Of COW which he killed while
she ehoaking
The Albany correspondent of the Rochester
Democrat says Young lady, attending boarding
school in the first named city, suddenly expired a
few days since, while sitting at her piano. The
last note of the melody she was playing had scarce
y ceased vibrating when her gentle spirit took its
eternal flight How fleeing and uncertain is life
JEALOUSY AND POISONING. We have scarce
" ever heard or read OF an instance which az
toulcd lis strange an illustration of the power OF
jealousy over the female mind, and OF how dew
lish in the extreme that dreadful passion can
render the heart of man or woman, ms does one
which occurred in this city on Sunday evening.
1t appears that ut the corner of Nassau and
Beckmnn streets resides Il family OF females,
eight in number, the head ct Which is
n landady of the house, and the reminder are
bnhrders. Ii also appears that this interesting
family are in the habit of receiving gentlemen
visilerS, and that, in short, it is establish
nent than which some purer exist in Tie
city.
II we are correctly Informed young gentle
man who frequented the house, is or rather
was avorite with one ofthe misses, but, wheth-
er with or without cause we cannot presume TO
say, the jealousy of the young woman was IL
reused in regard TO some real or imaginary
cause which she supposed TO exist between her
favorte vsiter and TWO of her fellow board' RS.
The young man visited the house on Sunday
evening and while he was there, the jealous girl
attempted to revenge herself upon him and the
two others of whom she entertained her mad
,deEed suspicion in n manner which makes the
abe blood run cold to narrate. 1t seems size pro-
cured q quantity OF arsenic, which she put into
pint of brandy, and gave tie fatally drugged
liunor to each of the three. The two girls
drank their draughts off without detecting the
presence of anything unusual in the liquor, and
they had no sooner done so, than she swallowed
portion herself larger than she had given either
of the Others The young man however, detec
tee, the presence of the poison Immediately up
on tasting the brandy, and he sat down his
glass without swallowing any of the deadly
draught, and escaped from the house as quick
possible.
The two unfortunate girls who had drank off
the deadly portions given them by the murder.
;Ously minded wretch, did not begin to nistrust
amy Thing wrong for ten or fifteen minutes af-
ter swallowing them, but by that time they, as
well as the other guilty thing who administer
ed the poison to chem, began to feel in their
stomachs sensations which they could not &C.
count for AS soon as the two former spoke of
those feelings. the latter admitted that she expe
rienced the same, ard calmly told them that OF
the three neither OF them would live to see anoh-
:er morning.
Alarmed by the solemn manner i'm which she
spoke, the girls insisted upon her reasons for her
frightfu prediction; and she told them what she
had been doing.-The terrified creatures inme-
dately alarmed the other members Of the fam
ly with the horrd intelligence, and physician
was called in with the least possible delay.
ty the use OF the stomach pump, and proper an
,tidotes, the physician succeeded in so far remov-
ing from the stomach OF the intended victims Eof
the jealousy and maddened girl, as they We're
able yesterday to he up aud about the house
with every prospect of fully recovering from the
effect Of their murderous dose. The author of
the fiend like affair, who was very properly the
last of the three upon whom the physics ope
rated does NOT fare so we'll .The noison had