St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1868-01-10

The British government is in receipt
of information relative to the movements
of the Fcnians. Public excitement has
by no means abated. Saturdays di =
patches from Cork state that body OF
Fenians on Friday night surreptitiously
entered the magazine in that city and I'M
challenged. carried away more than half
ton of blasting powder. There is no
clue TO the perpetrators of this bold act.
The people stand aghast at the daring of
the Fenians. The clergy of the city of
Limerick have affixed their signatures to
a document declaring that there can be
no permanent peace in Ireland unless 1t
is treated like Hungary.
\ diabolical plot to blow up colored
school and the church containing 1t with
Il crowded audience of its friends, in
Breckenridge county, Ky, came very
near success on Christmas eve. The
school had given an exhibition in one of
The colored churches, and within a few
minutes after the exercises had closed
and the audience dispersed, the church
was blown to pieces and entirely demol-
ished by key Of powder placed under
the platform on which the children had
been seated. No injury was done 10 life
or limb, but had the explosion occurred a
few minutes sooner the whole audience
would probably have been destroyed.
The Home Journal says that the diff
ferences between Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Sumner, which have caused SO much I'M
pleasant gossi and scandal, have been
finally settled by permanent separation,
with the mutual consent and desire of
both parties and their best friends and
that the direct cause of this separation is
simply the certainty-discovered only too
late-thlt there exists between the par
ties an incompatibility of temperament
and opinioa upon certain social questions
which precludcs the possibility of their
living happily together AS man and wife.
The Atlantic cable says CDR. Liv-
ingston, the African traveller, is alive
and well positive advices just received
from Africa leave no longer any doubt
Of his safety" After the long and tedi-
Gus suspense, the happy disappointment
is doubly welcome, and the details Of the
mystery and the adventures of the lost
traveller will be awaited with the keenest
interest. Its safe predicting that DIR.
Livingstones next book of African trav-
els will be the most widely read of all
his works
How NOT TO LIVE ALWAYS. - Was
there not a sort of grim and terrible APP
propriatencss in the hymn sang at Butia
10 at the funeral services of the twenty
one charre1 corpses unrcco"nizel out of
the victims of the late railroad disaster
Il would not live always was the selec-
ton. The response is nevitable-if YOU
wouldn't, take the Lake Shore Rail
road.-Erchange.
Twenty-seven years ago Edward Ok
ford, silly pot-boy, fred pistol at
Queen Victoria. was tried. acquitted on
the ground of insanity and confined in
criminal lunatic asylum. The penalty
was at that time hanging, drawing, and
quartering. In the asylum Oxford was
quiet and well behaved but evidently
not mad. His own statement was that
the pis:ol contained no ball, and that lie
only sought notorciy. The foolish fell
low, after passing the best years of his
life in confinement, is now released and
sent ont of England.
In the debate in the senate on Mon
day. ON the case of Mr. Thomas, scua-
tor elect from Maryland, Senator T. l.
mund> read from the testimony, showing
that Mr. Thomas gave his son 500 a>
an outfit 10 join the rebel army. Other
testimony showed that the father at
tempted to dissuade the son from going.
but, finding that he would 20. gave him
the money. Mr.. Edmunds thinks ii was
''ail and comfort to the rebels.
The express business of the country
has again become 4 vast monopoly. The
four companies, the United States.
Adams, American and Merchants L Mon.
have come to a sort of agreement, bv
which they will cease to run in COMPETE
ton on the same routes. They propose
to reduce the.r expenses, establish a uni
form tariff of rates, AMI try 10 do bust
ness at profit. Whether the uniform
rates will be higher or lower the public
will soon have an opportunity Of demon
strating practically.
Gen. Butler is reported as being of
the opinion that ''the general relaxation
in business in the north is owing to the
better inducements offered by the GOV
crnment for the Investment OF loose cap
i,al; that no one, in the present state Of
money matters, is willing TO put capital
in any enterprise unless it will bring
more than ten per cent, for the reason
that the government, being large bor-
rover and giving the equivalent of that
amount, holds forth more desirable
chances of investment"
New Years Day. Col Merrill. Super
intendent OF the Rutland II Burlington
railroad, presented to each of the five
passenger conductors on his road, Messrs
Downer, RuggcS, Parkhurst, Starkey
and Marston, handsome regulation
cap, similar to that prescribed by law to
he worn by conductors on railroads char
,ered by the State of New York.
The public debt statement for the last
month is moro favorable than that of the
previous one, except in the item of the
gold balance, which will be lower, on
account Of the payment of $50, 900, 900
coin interest, due i'll January. The Sec