St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-06-21
News and Other Items.

Portland, Me-, proposes to celebrate.
the "GlOIiOus Fourth in a becomi,,,
manner.
Out of the whole number of President
Grant appointments during the last
Congressional session, only two w.r..
rejected by the Senate.
Fourteen men were buried in the ri.
ins of the new furnace building of I p
MOOrhead & Co. in West Conshork.,,
Pa, Thursday, and six were killed.
A hail storm in Blackstone Vale,
r. L., smashed several thousand lipLt.
of glass and injured vegetation.
Gen. Grant has appointed Gen. Thorn
us b. Van Buren, of New jersey to ZEN
resent this country at the international
exposition i'll Vienna next year.
If the cOpperheads and rebels are 90
ing to vote for Greeley, the Union men
and patriots will vote for somebody els,
Free Press.
Senator Brownlow has not been il,
better health III six years than now. H..
has a good appetite, sleeps we'll and
promises to. live many years yet.
Ten or twelve persons were bitten Il,
IL mad dog while returning from clnmcb
at Louisville, KY, on Sunday.
The Indians have learned the ..cmo
tional insanity dodge. One Jainr-
Lane, living near Trinity Center. Cal.
was shot recently by II trcachcrous SAY
age who had gained his confidence.
and. upon demanding of the Indian the
cause for his act, the latter bounded oil
with the rifle, crying out, Me heap
crazy Me too much crazy Ne, too
much crazy ="
The Toledo Blade SAYS: jeff Dali.
isn't entirely certain as to whether he
will support Greeley or not. This j.
unkind. Davis ought not to hesitate
1t was political death in to to bail Da.
Wis. and it is political death now to sup
port Greeley. Davis should initiate
Greeley's hari-kari.'
The st. Paul Mimi Press SANS Hor.
ace Grecleys first efforts as free trad
rr were eminently successful. He trad
ed his record, his principles. and the
good Opinionsof mankind, for the priv
lage of being laughed at by the world
and of being most numerically beaten
i'll November by Grant.
APPOINTMENTS the recent
by Gen. Wells. in the Gus
toms Department. are those of j. f.
DickeIman, of Derby, as officer at New
port, and Lieut.. Governor Dale ut L.
land Pond. This latter appointment
we suppose, the office of Lieut..
Governor. but probably no election will
he held to fill the vacancy until the
general election in the fall We hear
the name of Col. Roswell Farnham. of
Bradford. spoken of favorably in con
nection with this office II'dtchmdn.
A correspondent at Whitetield. y. H..
gives some facts relative to the great
trcshet on the Johns river, above White
field, which destroyed much property
there on Tuesday last. He saws that
the loss has generally fallen where they
are able to bear it, and ii Is expected
that the dams will he immediately IL
built. repairs made on the mills. and
that very soon all will he in operation
the same as if nothing had happened
The entire loss will probably not exceed
SO 900.
The recent tornado in Ohio was more
destructive than at first reported. In
Quincy fifty or sixty dwellings, two
churches and other buildings were IN
'ooted or otherwise injured. On the
way To Degratf the tornado struck
arge Touring mill. five stories high.
1000 bushels of grain. and
moved the building several inches Oh
Is foundations. About fifty person.
we're injured i'll these villages alone.
train which left Paxton, ILL.,.
his morning June IL, on the LAFAYETTE.
'loomington and Mississippi Railroad.
When about six miles east of Paxton
vas wrecked and seven men killed and
bout twenty-five injured. The disaS-
er was caused by too rapid running.
| he train consisted of two fiat and one
'oX car pushed by locomotive.
he ear i'll front was new and light.
md is supposed to have jumped the
rack.
LITTLEToN.-The Littleton y. H.
AIR Ground Company have made al
for horse trot and balloon
scen>ion. to take place July 18th. The
nm of $50 is offered in premiums. and
'rot. Samuel A. King. of Boston. has
ttl tlSdSt'l to make an ascension III
lis mammoth balloon.
BURNING OF MoRRILL's INK MANI
half past twelve
o'clock Friday morning fire WAS disco>
red Ill the grinding room in the print
ng ink manutactory owned 10y Gemgr
|. Morrill,. near Winslow's Station in
norwood Mass. and so rapidly did til,
lanes spread that in ii short time the
which was two-storv wood
II building. WAS entirely DESTROYED
ngether with Il new and valuable sit
l"narN engine of 100 horse power. and
large lot of machinery employed in
lie manufacture of inks \ portion 81
he boiling house and other adioiniue
buildings were somewhat damaged.
nj the ttremcn prevented Il more sen
MS contiagration. The loss To Nh
lorill will reach about Sl5. 900. which
: nearly covered 10y insuleucc i'll the
>arraganSett insurance Company Of
'rovIdence, the People of Worcester.
nd several New York companies.
he business of Mr.. Morrill, will not Ice
interrupted as the work can
e carried on i'll large building, neal
", until the works are rebuilt. The
rigin of the fire is unknown though II
'as doubtless caused 10y spontaneous
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