St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-03-28

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KILLED BY THE CARs.-Jam4. =.
an Irishman working on the PorI,,ed.
quarries, was killed on the tract
the Hydeville depot by the rxtI., l'
CINE going west during Monday riI.
The body was horribly manglrJ -,
most beyond recognition d.
Even Mr.. Bromley, the Liber.r
writes from Connecticut To the "a,
York Tribune: There is yer, F,,I
doubt now of the election of the ~
publican State ticket, with Il nl.,i,T,
of the Legislature, and two. po,,IT
three, of the four CongresSmen.
An extraordinarily large mas, n..,
ing Of German Catholics VA, h...
Tuesday night at the Philad.yn.
Academy OF Music, to extend g, rlpi-.
to the Catholics of germany
In the United States Senate TU,,.,.
Mr.. Mortom's resolution cunglalu.arr.
the people of Spain on the ambition =
slavery i'll Porto Rico was pissed AIfi
out debate OF division.
There was 5000 fire at Waiver.
y. Y, Tuesday.
The New \ ork papers say that li,,,.
legations nave established the i4rt H..
there WAS no truth i'll the report H..
. Foster attempted suicide,
Had the question OF Cadwell's rAr,.
sion come To Il vote III the StuIIc II ,
thought the result would have ,to,.
about thirty -nlnc yeas to tWeuty-l.,
nays.
The Philadelphia Ledger counts IL.
fires i'll this country between Fchlu...
- and March D., with "a total los. o..
S4,7l3. OO0.
DR.. j. r. Darling, of RyegaJc. ~
has lust completed the contract L. fl.
nish lumber for bridges from W..
River to Groton, having delivered >on-
100. 900 feet in all. Nine bridge, arg-
included in his contract-One in Nea.
bury. seven i'll Ryegate. and one IL
Groton. He has also taken the jop Z
build all the depotS from Wells Rive.
To Groton heights.
According to tine last statistics. lie
aggregate number of failures durl.
Ie72 throughout the United STATE, aa.
4.G69. involving liabilities amounting To-
Sl3l .O56. 900. The failures in I'll. a..
gregated 2.9l5, with liabilities amoali
inc to S-5.252 900. while for l>1u. the
were 3.5Jl. with So. 242 600 OF .iaf
ties.
By Il vote of 10 To 20. the Mass tel
sets House on Saturday. passed To
second reading. Il bill providing that
all buildings and teuements rc>oIIri Z.
fri prostitution. lewdness OF illegal glM-
ug. shall he deemed common nuisance,
aud Furnishing whoever keeps OF um,.-
tains such houses, by Imprisonment d.
the House of Correction or common IU.
for Il term not exceeding one Veal The
bill repeats the law punishilg TIN;
offence 10y fine.
The spencer Gazette, Berlin dish
tercstedly cOunsels Uncle sam To ir'
these carthquakey, negrOizcd IVES,
Indies severely alone, and go tor Tie
Sandwich islands instead. SO doing. II
says. he will benefit himself and tile
whole civilized world, as we'll
The health of Representative Brook,
of New York. is failing rapidly. and
doubts are entertained of his recovery
He remains i'll Washington yet.
Mrs. Bertha Tozier died in Athen,
Ne. on the 18th of February. aged 10
wears and eight months. She WAS bonn
/ in WiScasSet and was the widow Of
/ Benjamin Tozier, formerly of Bangol.
where he was drowned with his two
sons some thirty years since. The las:
twenty years Mrs. TOzier has been liy-
ing with her daughter, who is now LETT
an orphan at the age of so years.
Dispatches from Madrid say that it j.
reported there that Prince Bismarck IT,
fuses to advise the recognition of the
Spanish Republic, declaring that it does
not represent the true will of the A.
sembly. which Welded to the pressure
of the masses in proclaiming it. Its
also rIImored that the Russian and Aus
trian Governments have intimatrt
that they withhold their recog nition ol
similar grounds.
The New York Evening Post learn,
INDIRECTLY" that III the settlement OF
his accounts with the treasury. 'tru.
Hawley simply took what he was ru
titled to under the old law. Thus IT,
the most delicate way possible ],
adds. "with"ut comdemning the course
that others see tit to pursue. he meets
tn" requirements of his OWL ruu>rirngr
and >euSe of justice.
Aprnpu> of the self-resper,lng poo.
ton taken 10y congressman Roberts
Potter. Mcrrick. Monroe ami r-,u.
the Albany journal remarks: q" he
good heaven is working. and. while We
expect that it will lcavcm tho "iD,'r
lump. it is t" Ice hoped that il viii #
feet Il considerable part of the colge--
sinnal dough"
The quarrel between the po>t-oti''c,
and the railroads seems to 1T, auI!
precipitatcd. III" great lines hctnteL
New orll and { hirago and the New OH
and Springfield and Boston and ALBANY
railroads threatening to take Oft thcE
postal ears on the LIST of April and th@>
destroy the facilities for making up he
mails en- route. The railroads claim
that the government pays no adequate
wages for the use and transportation Of
the mail cars. On the other hand, tie
postmaster general claims that the la.
Congress gave him half million
wherewith to raise the compensation to
the railroads, and that with that the
| latter ought to he satisfied.
Geo. Macdonald, the alleged prrpr
traitor of the recent fOrgcries on the
Bank of England. was arrested at New
York on Thursday, on the ARRIVAL of the
Thuringa. Property to the amount Of
between thirty and forty thousand dol
/ lars was found in his baggage.