The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1858-04-24

SETTLED AT LAsr.-The long standing
aud troublesome question OF the New York
Street Commissioner is finally settled The
Board Of Aldermen have sustained the May
or ia the removal of Mr., Dcylin, and also sus-
tanned the nomination OF Edward Cooper as
his successor,
TuG LAST Confidence GAME.-Wc are
uulore, shocked, collapsed our feelings VIZ
ul1tcd our confidence DESTROYED Jessie
Fremont, our Jessie is n humbug, myth,
a canatd, an clectionecring card. There is
no such womnu--there never was. Her name
is Anni--Ann Benton Fremont-plnin Ann
aud nothing more. Jessie was family nick.
name, pcrpetuatcd through 1906 20 catch vo-
trrs aud make poetry with. The discovery
Is iatalio Col. Fremont in 1860. The repub-
leans can never survive the loss of our
Jessie What becomes of that army Of two
years old babies named Jessie Fremont p
We move they have an indignation meeting.
-Spr'H2dei Republican.
I77- Justice is stcruly administered in IN.
TTJEETJTyTFTTiHt ttty, ff5ftiin6rc. winter KenEe-
dy, boy L. years old, has been caught ped
ding oranges without license, fined 81 and
IN default Of payment committed to prison.
When he comes out, grows big enough to
join Plug Ugly club, and shoots three or
four citizens, he will perhaps be elected may
or.-BoStoR Post.
~ Crinolne has got into court, in De-
tro:t-suit is now pending before a magis-
trate's court in that city, by the husband Of a
lady who was refused admission to public
lecture. the price of which was twenty-five
cents, which being duly rendered by her, was
refused, ard fifty cents demanded, upon the
ground that she would occupy two seats
~ a legal question of a delicate nature
Is now exciting extraordinary interest in
Nestphalla, viz, whether n husband has
right TO open wiies letters The question
arose out of a suit for divorce, instituted by
the husband, in which he obtained decree;
but the conclusive piece of evidence was
letter from the Lothario, addressed to the
VIE, and the contents of which would never
have been known had not the husband been
so ungallant as to break the seal The di-
vorced wife at once prosecuted him for OPEN
ing the letter, and the tribunal of Unne has
utclded mat he was wrong, and has senten-
eed him to fine of ten thalers. An appeal
is pending, the result of which is anxiouslv
watched by the public.
~ A trial at Chicago, last week, dis
closed where the uncurrent money goes
The young man Norris on trial. had in his
possession uncurrent bank notes, represent
ing over 100000, which he had purchased
of Boston broker at ten cents on the dollar,
WI" NHc UoWcu purpose OF selling II at q
large advance TO Santa Fc traders, who
in turn realize still further by selling it to the
"Greasers' in New Mexico So here is an
explanation of those heretofore incomprehen-
siole window signs,-"Uncuren money
bought and sold"
TV~ Il have lost my appetite,p said
gigantic gentleman and an eminent performer
ON the trencher ts-Natk Supple al hope"
sand supple mo poor man has found it, for
it would ruin him in week.
CS~ The Retired Physician" whose "sands
IF life have nearly run out" we perceive has
been down to Sandy Hook and rcplenshed
his stock
SALE OF EX-PREsIDENT PIERcE's HoRsEs.
The horses which were presented by the
merchants of Boston to General Pierce
previous to his Inauguration as President of
the United States, were sold nj austion in
New York on Friday They brought HS44j;
the merchants paid $1,000 for them.
PoIsoNlNG.--Wm. +. Cummings and fam
ly, of Cornish, were recently poisoned by
eating garget root, which nearly proved fatal.
a, daughter of Mr.. Cummings went to the
garden and dug what she supposed to be
horse-radiSh, and of which the family partook
freely at dinner. Immediately after, several
members of the family became i'll, with all the
symptoms of having been poisoned. Doct.
Stles OF Windsor, who was sent for, soon
nsccrmined the cause, and succeeded in re-
licving them.