St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-03-15

If is rumored that the Metropolitan
hotel at New York is to be converted
into stores. Oh account OF the unfortu-
nate reputation it has acquired through
Tweed and Tammany.
A Paris firm employs 30 workmen IN
manufacturing kindling wood from corn
cobs bv immersing them in melted resin
and tar. The sales of the firm amount
to $4,000 annually.
A pair of horses that has for some
time been the pride of Jackson, Mich,
has been purchased for the Use OF the
emperor of Japan. Horse men cOnsid-
cred them the finest pair of horses i'll the
West.
Theodore Tilton has sued II. c. Bowen
for breach of contract old affair,
probably. when Tilton edited the Indie
pendent and the Brooklyn Union, and
before the epoch of gushing farcwells
and gold watch presentations.
a report is going the rounds of the
press that Sergeant Boston Corbett. the
SLAYER of Wilkes Booth, is dead. If he
is not. he ought to be, for he has been
| in the grave nearly two Years.
| Some of the historians of the weather
have found Il parallel to the recent
dreadful cold snap in March, by gong
back forty years. They say that during
the winter of 1881 81, the weather
was not unusually severe until the
second day of March. when the cold
was so intense that III some portions of
| New England the mercury fell to forty
! below zero.
The New York correspondent of the
! Chicago Tribune SAYS 1.-THE prospect now
is that John Graham will succeed i'll
sending to State prison every member
of that jury who voted for the indict
mrnt of Stokes. As for Stokes, he l. Ia
he at once released. So that he can shoot
JAY Gould and some other Erie officers
who are objectionable to him. Mrs.
| Mansfield is to run for Vice President
on the Woodhull ticket, and, when elect
ed. ill appoint John Graham thief jus
ticc.
\ very common grievance of the jury
system is shown up 10y the Washington
Star. In actions in which damages are
claimed. and the views of the jury are
widely diverse as to the amount to lie
awarded. it often happens that some
friend of the plaintiff proposes that the
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deems proper. and agree to abide 10y the
result. after dividing the sum of these
awards 10y the number nfiurorS, this he
ing. of course. the average. Then.
while most of the jurors mark in accord
Inco with thcir honest opinion at what
the award should I've. the mover marks
an "utragcouSlv high sum that. i'll
cludcd in the total, throws the average
out of all balance with Justice. Tn"
jury should first agree that no one
should be permitted to write down an
amount beyond Il certain sum men-
toned.
Captain Lot Chambrllin. for many
Years Il popular Steamboat commander
on Lake Champlain. died in New York
on Friday last. after II brief illness.
1t seems that the Hon. Horace Gree
ley is hut >iXty-onr Years of age. How
Il man could manage to find out 50 much
about farming III that incredibly brief
space of time is one of the strange>t
things in the history of agriculture.
LoHi~rdc ,JonrndI.
Don Piatt. of The CdpitdI. labor> hard
to show how Hd,pcr's Weekly. and Geo
William Curtis. it, able editor. have
changed their political views since the
John Brown tragedy. Well. what OF
ii Sidney Smith once remarked that
the difference between Il man and II
.jackasS MAS that the former could change
his mind. while the latter could not. In
the ease above referred to. Mr.. Curtis
shows himself IL man. while it is left Ia
Fiatt To represent the other animal
HoSton Hchcctor.
Printers say that the difference be
tween the door of Il barn and IL luafer in
their office is. one is Il barn door and
the other is ii darn bore st. -4Ibdns
Messenger.