The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-01-27
TIE SHAREHOLDERS GOING Lousy Til.

THE SHAREHOLDERS GOING Lousy .-Th
Springfield Republican tells the following
good story:
"lhe ca.l for the Manufacturers Union
Meeting t. be held al Mcrdcn, WIS prr>e,l-
ed to one Of The members OF "a we'll know.
manufacturing firm in Meriden, engaged H.
making ivory COMBS. amt his signature re-
quesled. Tie decllneI upon the ground lha
ne saw 10 nece.sit, for such a meeting. I T.
on being urged With the argument tn h.,
might lose Southern trade. he replied-'WelI.
II Southern f.lks refuse IL buy our Combs,
they m"y go io"xy-,ha,s all
~ The Grand Trunk Railway Of Canada,
which reache. in an unhruken hue from Port
and, Maine, 70 Detroit, is not satisfied with
This. and propose n.~ to buy up either III,
MICHIGAN Central or Southern roads, thus ex-
tending the line to Chicago. from which pl ace
i, is fair to infer the company would. in that
even. he we'll pleased 10 push further west.
This Grand Trunk Railway is the creates,
enterprise Of our times, and perhaps olr Yam
kee selr-laudators may wakr up some morn
liz " discover that the nut h lit cried Ian
nucks' have actually got raii~a. mon"p"l,
on our own soil, pushing ahead Of Us to III.
Pacific Ii the lhion MIST he dissolved, VT
think We can we'll attor: IL give up our un-
easy soatht RI connections tor IL partnership
with such spunky st: OF gO-aheadS as tines.
Canadians are show Ing themselves 10 be.
O. A new style of visiting card is motto
Ell by Paris paper--Ohe lett by gallant
>rired him with respectful admiration. IL
was manufactured b. d celebrated jcwelrl,
an. consisted of Il thin sheet of gold, of the
size of an ordinary card, with his name there
upon in letters formed of the finest diamonds.
D.. the envelope containing this Sardlnap:-
lian masnihcelcr he wrote,-"N"t on az
count Of departure" This artistic was ,ouc::.
ed. and the new sly le ot Care is in favor with
Parisiennes.
" While Heenan and Savers are fight
ing gu, the championship of the world, JOSH
VA Ward, OF New burg, n. u, the Americas
champion Of o"rsm-r, has accepted ct;.l-
lcnge from Robert Chambers, the EnSiI>i,
champion, the race to he rowcd in Newbur&
bay, Hudson river, next May or June.
O. 4 Young school teacher al Columbus.
Miss, IA short time sluce, was seized. tarred
and iea,her~d, bound hand aud foot 70 oy.
and set atl,.at in the Mississippi. since when
hr has no, been head OF. Otlehce-suspec-
ted of abolition tendencies.
lRo>Y.-The English papers have ver!
great deal " bay about Governor Hire ot
Virginia.
o. \ western paper says the smoking
car has tecume an ''i,slllulnn' upon some
Of our railroad lines, and it has been suS-
seS,td b, Aone If the gti,ltr NIX. whose
dres.rx have aut;tl.d d, that II chewing Car be
also attached to the tain.
O. The Boston Erening Transcript says
thai more Than two thirds ii The suicides III
the United States, The last sun.mer. ha, t
been utcs>iuhed b, deliIiCm III n..h>;a large
lru,nllnh have tctturit hong the foreign
liquidation; aid tic han.t Of Germans pr
Il, m!l;,lts.
JOINS THE MURDERER. Jones. the mur'
derr VI prul"r III the western Pant OF
Massachusetts, whose death sentence VA
COMMITTED 10 Imprisonment, for lite. Is 80"
in TIE hospital Il the prison in dying con
di,ion ION, consumption.