St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-07-11
Notes and Comments.

lust y O'Clock, but the twilight continues
for two or three hours longer, so that
when we retire at 10 o'clock it is still
broad daylight; and if We awake at ,
o'clock it is Just as light as at bed time.
Indeed there is hardly any night at all.
But it is not pleasant to think how this
will he all reversed next December.
when the nights will he as long as the
days now are.
What fine place for residence the
West must he. As late as the second
week in April people were freezing to
death on the Nebraska plains, and
about every week since the reading
public have been treated to tornado.
hurricane, OF something of the sort, in
which there was great destruction of
life and property. The last week has
been particularly prolific of these ca
lamties. The touching little story on
the first page is opportune, although
we did not know how much so when it
was put in type.
The drOuth continues very serious i'll
most parts of Massachusetts, New York
and New jersey, and even i'll "A portion
of Vermont. A gentleman who came
up from Rhode Island one day last
week, says he did not see il good field
of grass until after he left White River
Junction, and that oats were heading
out at less than a foot high. We trust
the delightful showers of the last week
have changed the aspect of affairs i'll
the agricultural world.
The New Hampshire editors and pub
fishers are enjoying their annual trip
the present week. They went first to
Lancaster, from thence to Stew artstown
and Connecticut Lakeland were to go
from there t, Dixvillc Notch, and thence
to the White Mountains oI home, as
they chose With their wives and in
vited guests, they numbered ninety.
One of those blood thirsty affairs
which can occur nowhere but III the far
west, took place at Phoebe, Nevada, -
"A celebrated mining town, Sunday. a
man named Harrington had an altcrca
ton with some men about dog, when
he shot and MORALLY wounded five
men.
Another steamer has gone on the rocks
off the coast of Nova Scotia, but fortu-
nately without the frightful results
which attended the wreck of the Allan
tie there few months ago. This last
vessel is the City of Washington of the
Inman line, and the passengers and
crew were all safely landed, but it is
believed the vessel will hecome Il total
wreck. She struck Saturday afternoon,
in fog. If these things go on in this
way, the English Cunard line will car
ry all the ocean passengers, and it
ought to.
Some of the northern cities are get
ting startled 10y the cholera. There
were two fatal cases reported in Jersey
city Monday. and two cases not fatal in
Brooklyn. Late reports from the south
ern cities of Memphis, Nashville, and
Cincinnati, record three, seven and
seven deaths from cholera, respectively
This shows it on the decrease i'll those
localities.
I, - H.,
been parched with drouth, several
western states have been flooded with
frequent and powerful rains. This has
been true since the first of April. \
tremendous rain-ta occurred in the
vicinity of jacksonville, Missouri, Sun
day night twelve and il quarter inches
of water falling i'll five hours! So the
telegraph reports. but it seems incredi-
BILE. Great damage was done the crops
highways, bridges, etc. Drouth is Il
luxury compared with such weather.
The trial of young Walworth, VIII,
shot his father i'll Il New York hotel {;
few weeks ago. eliminated in Il verdict
of guilty of murder in the second de
gree. This will secure II sentence %
imprisonment for life. but in reality
only incarceration until some tender
hearted OF weak backed Governor shal
pardon him. The letters which tn,
senior Walworth had written to the
young mans mother. had the effect t.
arouse sympathy for the boy, and al
most gratitude that the father wa
where he could neither threaten nor i'll
suit more her whom he had sworn t,
love and cherish.
President Grant is not berated by tn,
political press as much us he was fo
his appointments. For instance, tn
appointment of Gov. Jewell of Con
nccticut, as minister to Russia, is on
which strikes the croakers dumb. Gov
Jewell is man above reproach, AM
will represent the United States well u
St. Petersburg or any where else.
California is much relieved of ii
fears about the wheat crop, and lat
advices put the present yield equal t
that of last year. We trust that it
so. California is in need of man
things. one of which is an average graf
crop; and if this does not come an
come right along. it will be difficult t
induce farmers i'll that direction. espe
cially at the present prices of Ian
there and the currency ,,,lJ ,,,l IL