St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1871-05-12
.NeWS ana Gossip.

in Lowell, Mass, last week.
This is the week Of the May anmiycr
slries in Boston.
Prof. John :. Woodman, OF Dart
mouth college, died at his home at Oar
ham, Tuesday, Of consumption.
The steamer Russia, now due at New
York, has quite notable passenger L-t'
which includes Gems Sheridan and For
svth. and Mrs. Lincoln and SON.
Mount NcsuyiuS has been in a state
of eruption, Of late, and some Americans
who witnessed the grand spectacle wife
glowing accounts OF il.
\ meeting Of the representatives and
officials of various railroads Wa hell III
darlington Wednesday, upon freight and
passenger tariffs, &c. Mr.. y. l.. Lover
ing, Jr, represented the Pa~-umpsic
road.
The Handel and Haydn society OF
Boston hold their annual concerts III
Music Hall, this week. Two celebrated
singers from England take solo parts, and
the chorus Is unusually large.
John Conant of Hanover, recently
rave to the y. II. Agricultural College a
farm Of 100 acres, and now proposes to
1--WE 81 900 for the purpose Of erecting a
hall upon it.
When the strife is over in Paris, the
city will not be recognized 10y those who
knew it few years ago. The riotcr,
have destroyed much of the beauty a>
well as value of this beautiful city.
During the present recess of Congress
the Capitol will undergo some changes,
such as new black-walnut floor and car
pet for Representatives Hall, and It new
vcntIating apparatus. The Rogers bronze
doors are to be changed To the eastern
p"rtico.
IIarrcr's Weekly for May II, has one
of Nasts cartoons illustrating the pro-
.cription Of all the school book printed
by the IIarpers Tweed, Swccny " Co.,
are represented as rampa@in" about =
school room, tearing their school books
away from the scholars, and bringing
into their place the text book IF Tam
many.
A gallery in Sing Sing prison, across
which the men were marching to dinner
Sunday, gave way, precipitating over
eighty convicts, some 10 the next gallery
below, and others to the stone pavement,
forty feet beneath. 1t is feared that two
of the prisoners are fatally injured.
Horace Greeley, in the Tribune, gives
his views of Gen. Grant and the next
Presidency, as follows: at is certainly
true that We are not Seckin" the re-elcc-
ton General Gra8t a. President Should
he be the Republican candidate, we shall,
Of course, support him TO TIE best of our
ability: hnt, pending the nomination,
we may be fairly charged with unlriendll-
ness 10 running him or amy ether man for
President while hc wclls the vast patron
age of that Office
Since the murder of Mr.. Iutnum on :;
horsc-ca in New York, the managers Of
the city railroads have had Il >pasm Of
reform, and resolved TO employ no more
drivers or conductors on political recon-
mendatons. Heretofore the Tammany
ring has nominated these laborcrS, ard
they have usually been rough> and villain,
that the ring has been able to keep out
of prison to do their voting and >houldcr-
hitting. We have little faith that the
reform now inau"urated will be lasting
the roughs hold complete sway in the
city, and the chances are that Foster, the
brutal murderer of Mr. Putnam. will
never lie punished.
Our poor missionaries in China are
now receiving the inevitable consequences
OF the shameful abuse Of the Chinese III
California. The reports of Chinese out
RACES Oh missionaries and teachers, have
been confirmed by dispatches to the GOV
crnment. Minister Lowe protested at
the time against these outra@cs, bat lie
WAS informed by the Chinese government
that the government of the United States
was the the first to disregard the terms
of the Burlingame treaty. His attention
was called to the fact that the nitcd
States had failed TO give Cinnamon the
protection called for by the treaty of the
United States. 1t appears that the out
RACES committed against Cinnamon on
the Pacific coast, have been commune
Gated 10 the Chinese government, and
that failing TO obtain redress, the Chinese
have concluded to disregard their treaty
>tipulations.
Two children Of Mr. McC arthy OF
Auburn, y. Y, and four year old son
OF Mitchell q. Glider, while playing in
an clubhouse On the premises OF the former
Monday afternoon, set fire in some way
TO the contents OF Il barrel of ire work,
and were all fatally burned, two Of them
being probably instantly Killed, Will.
the third fingered for some hour. a
lady named Higgins, who visited the
scene of the disaster, was - shocked by