St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-10

constitution. of law and order" To any
one expressing doubt Of this statement,
says the Charlestown Advertiser, we
have only to refer them to the New York
riots in 1864, when the party arose In lis
might to save the Constitution and the
Union, and inaugurated Il new err OF
claw and order"
At the last elections, Cincinnati cast
%, 900 votes, Chicago $4,000, and 81.
Louis ii, 900, on which ground Clncln-
natl claims the largest population.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton OF Springfield have begun a series OF
meetings in such of the saloons Of that
city as will grant permission Similar
meetings in Providence have been very
successful.
The shares in the New York Tribune
Company, originally $1,000 each, are
now worth five or.six times that sum-
"Old Ben Wade" president Of the
United States senate, at one time work
ed OH the Erie canal with spade and
wheelbarrow.
The Boston Transcript says: Some
of our old fashioned christians are oi
opinion that eighty dollars 4 Sunday Is
rather 4 high price TO pay for music that
is not especially sacred.
In the American department 1T the
Paris exposition is wagon that follow
ed Gen. Sherman's army through ali
their marches and campaigns, and was
in the service four years and nine months,
having Travelled in that time ilG9 miles.
Most business men are familiar with
the printed Endorsement Oh the envelopes
of majority of business letters now-a-
days: 'If not called for within ten
days the postmaster will send this letter
back" to the writer. dc. \ Schenectady
man has got up new endorsement on
envelopes, which * an Improvement 1t
runs thus: IF Mr.. Blank don't pay the
bill in this dunning letter within ten
days the postmaster may open this and
send us the money himself
The Dry Tortugas now has fifty prls-
oners, of whom nine are citizens and the
rest soldiers. Among those serving life
sentences are, the con>pirators Mudd,
Arnold and O'Laughlin, and Col. II.
Leger Grenfel, con$piring TO release prs
oncrs of war.
The company of colored soldiers that
left Philadelphia in December, for Ii
IBERIA, send word home that they are Dc
lighted with the country and the people.
and another company is preparing TO
follow them. this month.
An extraordinary sight was witnessed
in the principal London streets recently.
Rather more than 4 thousand OF the mu-;
miserable wrctchcS that ever wore the
garh of humanity, formed 4 procession
and marched in silence from the nei.h-
borhood Of Wrapping and Whitechapcl To
the ari>tocratic quarters of 81. Jane
and Belgravia. Every man was in rag>
and every face bore the ummi,takab!e
marks OF privation and distress. \ ban
ncr or two told their character and wants.
There are forty thousand of these starry
ing people in London.
George Gilman. of Buffalo. on Thurs
day, while at work in knife factory,
slipped upon the damp clayey groumd.
and slid into one of the trough> in which
the huge Grind stone rcvolveS. The stone
was raised as speedily a possible, 10y 4
pulley from above. when his mangled,
lacerated body WAS exposed 10 view The
back was mass Of gritty pulp: one
arm was torn Il Shrrl>, the muscles le-
ing literally pulled out 10y the zoos.
Every time the fearful stone revoked up
on the writhing flesh. it filled il with grir
and dirt, while the greater part OF ia,
clothing was stripped of. There l. IL,
hope of saving his life.
Prot S. G.. Brown has Just entered
upon his duties IL president of Hamilton
college, Clinton. y. Y. His family r.
main in Hanover during the summer.
The falling off of the income taxes.
through the adjustment of the len PEI
cent. rate on heavy incomes. and addi
tional exemption OF 800 from taxation
is about % per cent.
Thomas Mast, who draws those re,
markable allegorical and illustrative de-
signs which appear in IIarper's Weekly
is only twenty-seyen years of age. lie
is 4 native of Bavaria, but came TO ihi.
country when he was sin years OF age.
\ child named McManuS. four year:
of age, died at Taunton on Sunday Th,
day previous he was playing with anoth,
er boy of larger size. and had a whale
bone in his hand, and being pushed, fell
forcing the stick into his palate. In.
fammalion set in and he died of lock Jaw
Nasty avows that Mr. Seward nero-
tiated the purchase Of the Russian terri