St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-03-29

An uptown family i'll New York ad-
vertises for an experienced cook, swim
can dress little boy five Years old"
1t is said that one of Barnum's canI.
balls boards there.
Look to the sewers or drains ahou,
your premises, and see that they arr
open and ready to receive the volume
of water to he set free by the approach
ing spring thaws.
We take great pleasure in announc-
ing that DR.. McCOsh, president Of
Princeton College will address the So
ciety of Religious Inquiry at the Com
mencement.-Bu Darlington Free Press.
The town of Blidgewater, Vt. owes
SS3,OOO. and at Il late meeting refused
to raise Il sufficient sum the present
year to even pay the interest. The
grand list of the town is about 5000
\ New York paper says there are
more bookkcepcrS than books there.
offering 800 per annnm for bOokkcep
Ell received six hundred answers.
\ drunken man jumped from ii train
of ears on the Boston and Albany Rail
road on Saturday. while it was running
at Il rate of thirty miles an hour. and
people on the train thought he must Ice
killed. but he was aftcrward picked up.
but very little injured, bottle of rum
III his pocket even being unbroken.
The Indianapolis Journal says that 4
secret organization has been formed i'll
Montgomery county. who bind them
selves with an oath to vote for no man
Il !.
drinks Intoxicating liquors. There are
said to he three hundred members of
the organization in Charlottesville.
Mrs. Silas Feall of Burlington. Kan.
formerly IL resident of Monsoon, Mass.
was killed on the It'll inst. 10y her littlt.
son. six OF seven Years old, who snap
ped ii pistol he was playing with, the
ball striking his mother i'll the side and
causing her death in few minutes.
There is remarkable revival of re
ligion i'll Topeka. Kan, where the revi
valiSt Hammond is preaching. Pro
tracted meetings are held. All the
liquor saloons have been visited by
clergymen and children. and prayers
have been offered in them. On the af
termoon of the 10th ult. the office OF the
was made the scene Of
a PRAYER meeting. at which all the
printers and editors were present, and
prayer and singing lasted for an hour.
The heathens are not all confined To
the unrivilized countries. Yesterday i'll
one of the churches in this city IL man
was observed to sit i'll one of the galler-
les with both feet poised on the railing
i'll front of him. the soles plainly visible
To the congregation below, engaged III
reading a book which looked like a
dime novel. throughout the entire SCI
vice. Free Press.
Those who wish to give money to
western colleges should satisfy them
selves respecting the wOrthiness of the
to which they contribute.
as two Iowa colleges. which have been
soliciting aid i'll the East. now offer their
to the Legislature for normal
Ole Bull had narrow escape for
himself and for his other self, his fiddle.
at the burning of the hotel III Iowa City,
on the night of the 18th. The great
musician was reused from sleep by the
cracking of the flames. and rushed into
the street i'll his night gown, with his
fiddle under his arm.
The wholesale slaughter of deer and
the tur-btaring animals in Minnesota
has reused the people to realize that
heir total destruction is only question
IF few years. st. Paul dealers have
shipped 10000 deer skins within two
Years. settlers killing them for their
skins when they have nothing else to
10.
When Maj. Moderwell of Geneseo.
ILL.,. was shot through the stomach at
battle i'll Tennessee. the ball carried
with il Il gold pen and part of a silver
penCaSe from his vest pocket. He has
recently been troubled with what he
was boil on his neck. hut
was relieved 10y having a piece of gold
pen. a quarter of an inch wide. removed
from il.
1t is reported from Cincinnati that
Mr.. Watterson. of the Louisville Cour-
er-,joulnal. has been offered the man
aging editorShip of the New York
W nrld. Mt. WatterSon wears the mam-
lie of George ID. Prentice. and is sup
posed 10 he the only man in America
who would not feel with that mantle
over him very much as if he were sit
ing under Il circus tent.
\ peculiar case of destitution was
hat of john Christ of New York
who was arrested at New
\ orl for stealing Il cloth whcrewith I"
purchase food. On going to his home
he police found eight miserablv clad
children. one only 10 weeks old. five #
whom We're recovering from scarlet t,-
vcr. The case WAS made public. >uh-
We're raised, the children dis
.rihuted t" homes or places of employ
mrnt and Il shop is being fitted up tol
christ.
\ Nebraska correspondent writes /"
The Cincinnati Commercial that the
winter has killed more cattle thruugh
The territories than any two winters
previous. heard of one man who lost
800, another 300. and all have lost more
II less. Great numbers of carcasSc>
AN he seen from the car windows all
dong the road. Particularly is this thr
'a>e upon the Laramie plains. The
weather here was intensely cold. the
thermometer going down IL - and ~
degrees below zero. and remaining there
-or some time. The cattle have sui
fered south of here as well a. north NJ
III the line of the proposed Northern
Pacific road, the location of eternal
summer. according to Jay Cookies adj
! ertiSement, they have persisted in
arge numbers.
a Louisville lady paid $500 for hay
ng her face cnameled so that the ap
plication would last three years. and
shortly afterward disappeared from 81
'letN. There was so much poison N