The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1857-03-28
VARIOUS ITEMS.

VARIOUS ITEMS.
The Sandwich Islands treaty was killed
for the present by Senator Benjamin, on &C.
count Of it. anticipated effect upon the sugar
Interests of the country. The Treaty s,ip-
ulated. we believe. for the admission of
Sandwich Island sugar free of duty.
Advertising is the oil which the wise
tradesmen put into their lamps, and the fool
ish ones neglect to use.
Mrs Adams, wife of jay L. Adams of
New York, died in that city on Wednes-
DIV evening of disease contracted at the
National Hotel at Washington where she
stopped on her way from Savannah to her
home.
Governor Fletcher has appointed Profes-
sor Hitchcock, of Massachusetts,, State &C.
olosis; of Vermont
RETURN OF Mr. PIERCE TO New
HAMrsHIRE-The Manchester American
learns. from source which they have no
reason to doubt, that Mr.. Pierce will return
to New Hampshire about the middle of May
next.
DIED AT THE Posi- OF DUTY. is
said that the engineer in charge of the train
which was precipitated into the Desjardins
Canal, near Hamilton, c. W., whistled ION
brakes" and while endeavoring to aver. the
catastrophe, went down with the engine
Instead Of attempting to escape at the first
warning, he remained at the post of duty,
and sacrificed his life in a noble effort to
save others.
In pool across road,in the county of
Tipperary, is stuck up pole, having affixed
to it board, with this inscription: "Take
notice that when the water is over this board
the road is impossible"
Frederick Fincher killed . negro man
belonging to a Mr.. De.s, near Mobile, one
day last week. Fincher says he stopped the
negro a. a supposed runaway, when the man
offered resistance. At this, Fincher threw
him down and choked him to death.
An editor. whose subscribers complained
that he he did not give them news enough,
told them to read the Bible, which would,
doubtless be new to most of them.
The following is specimen of excellent
fonografi :-"Olgrimes ces dsd, that cudol
sole. weners shalsey i'm ore; f uzd ware
anole era cote, oil but nd doun T."
1T may not be generally known thata.
collision between this globe that We inhabit
and comet is set down for the 18th Of June
next. Babiret, the French astronomer,
does not apprehend much of collision. be-
lieving that the comet is 90 light that it can
not strike hard enough to hurt. But there is
a German savan who maintains that the cen
ter Of the comet is a solid fiery matter. which
will reduce the surface of the globe to lava.
If it could but have come along last winter
Mrs Sylvester suffered camphene martyr
dom at Cohoes, n. Y, Wednesday, having
survived ten or twelve hours after the catas-
trophe. She used the dangerous article very
having poured some oft into .
saucer while she filled the lamp, and anex-
plosion should have been anticipated. 1t"
understood that oil will not explode under
similar circumstances.
THE WASHINGTON SICKNEss. - The
Board of Health at Washington report Is the
result of the examination at the National
Hotel, that the distemper was caused o!
poisonous miasma, generated in the sewers
cess pools and sinks. The National In'eN-
iaencer thinks that the evil is mot yet ersdl-
Gated from the establishment" and ''mav ex-
tend itself and involve consequences far more
serious than any that have yet occurred.
The rea! estate of Mir. Zimmerman, just
killed in the Canada railroad accident, is es|
timated to be worth seven millions Of dollars.
Lately he had established bank, and Alto
gether was = man of mark, though be wa
but about 40 years old.