The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-03-16

c. John Wicsner was blown up in
powder mill which he had charge of in New
York state, and killed. The owner of the
mill has recovered ST ,OSS out of the deceas-
eds estate. on the ground of inattention to
duty, so this may be understood as the es-
,abIished price for blowing yourself up III you
desire to.
r. The will Of the late John G. Boxer of
New iork,whose daushte r eloped with Dean,
the coachman, gives all his property to his
wife, and after her death to four of his chill
dren. excluding Mrs. Dean.
O. Another monstrous product of Free
Love has just been developed at Syracuse
man named Tinker, whose wife had allow
I'd her atfectional attnities to fasten upon one
DIR. Searles, poisoned his two children, ard
having laid cut their bodies, with the same
agency DESTROYED his own life Much feeling
was displa! ed among the people, and to pro-
,ect the person Of Searles, it was thought
necessary to lock him up in prison.
4 BULL TAKEN BY THE HoRNs.-The- Re-
Republicans in Congress are making an at
tempt to take by the horns that particularly
offensive wrong-unequal mileage-and cor
rect what would have been set right many
Years ago but for the desire of venal Con-
gressmen to feather their own nests John
Sherman has the subject in hard, and he will
give both parties in the Senate and House
III opportunity to show their constituents
low they stand upon the subject. 1t is high
tine reformatory and equalizing Law was
passed upon the question. Some Congress-
men obtain such enormous mileage that they
would be compensated if they had no salary
whatever
~ In Baltimore, on Sunday, young
rowdy deliberately murdered a colored wo-
man by shooting her while she stood in her
own doorway.
u The opposition convention in New
Jersey met last week and adopted resolu-
hons IN favor Of high tariff, homestead
bill, condemnng the administration and
save code. Assurances Of opposition to the
Massachusetts two years amendment were
given to the New York Germans. James T.
Sherman, John J. Blair, Theodore Little,
Ephraim Marsh, F. T.. Frelnghuysen and
and Edward Y. Rogers were elected delegates
a: large to the Chicago convention.
Petitions have been addressed to the
Legislature Of OHIO, asking them to appoint
day of fasting and PRAYER to atone for the
sla they committed by appropriating FIVE
thousand dollars for drunkenness and de-
oauchery, in that treat given to the Legisla-
lures OF kentucky and Tennessee short
time since.
e. The last number of the spiritual
Telegraph" was issued on Saturday last. Mr.
Partridge, the editor, devotes three pages to
an announcement Of the fact and to review
OF the career Of his paper. He says it was
rot started for pecuniary gain, and has not
produced any.
T. Cornelius G. FELTON,, just elected Pres
'lent Of Harvard College, is the twentieth
gentleman who has filed the office during
me TWO hundred and twenty years that have
e-4psed since the University was founded
Four Of the ExPresidents survive, namely,
josiah Quincy, Edward Everett, J. Sparks
and James Walker.
IT |! has been stated that the Democrat
( National Convention was to meet on the
o.'ih days Of Buchanan and Douglas, the
Mon Convention on the anniversary of Hen
y Clays birth, and the Republican (as orig
''a!ly ca!led) on General SCOTS birth day
We have not seen the fact noticed that the
last call of the Republican Convention comes
On Stewards birth day, he being born May
Il, 1901.
" John Parker, Philadelphia cartman
Was set upon and brutally murdered by three
''"d'es, last Saturday morning, the attack
'''Hs $50 far as known entirely unprovok-
e. The murderers have not vet been ar
rested.
" A Wesleyan missionary at Fraser
river states that the Chinese there are likely
% get the principal benefit of the mines
acre. They are arriving in large numbers,
Gnu While others are grumbling and hesitat-
Is and IN too many cases drinking and gam
"s the Chinese 50 at once to the mines
~" hard' spend but little, and laying by
'4''st all their earnings. lie represents
| 1s remarkably temperate, and also as
.!sioG.