St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-08-01
News in Brief.

noon of July 22d, in Dover. y. II W.,
broke his hip bone. His ,mr..",
deemed it advisable not to atr,r-,., Wis
set his hip and it is doubtful if h. p,
covers.
The weather throughout the c,.,o,
states has been the hottest of the, 80.
son, during the past week In ii,
cities there have been every day IN.
merOus cases of prostration by heat ,,,
a number of deaths.
Mrs. Henry F. NorcrOss. aged 81. a..
burned to death at Birmingham. G.,
recently. her clothes catching from
match which she rocked upon alil,
holding her baby.
If Won don't want to put gaule OK.
the gilt frames of your pictures tb.
summer. and don't want the tile, +,
speck them. boil three or four onion, =,
a pint of water, then, with a clean pai.
brush, wash over your frames, and III.
flies will not light OH them.
The new publisher of the Hou,,m
(Texas) Union is to change its uam,. TO-
the Mercury, because the former nam,
has become so obnoxious to Il large p,n.
portion of the people that the palrI j,
not permitted to enter their houses o.,
places of business.
Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of Win
chester, WAS thrown over the head 90
his horse so hard us to break his nr,s
not long since. He was Is years odd
and son of the great philanthIor.>
and foe of slavery, William Willie.
force He was Il graduate of ONfuul u
1916 and bishop of Winchester i'll -.
Two spans of Il bridge on the Emu
pean and North American railroad. D.
Maine. between Oldtown and Millfu,t
300 feet long. were blown complete
away by a tornado, Saturday, WhIJ
swept over that section of the state. \.
engine and tender, with five men whic.
was crossing, was plunged into Ii.
river. Engineer George A. McCIclar
was killed, the others escaping.
The new through route between Ne
York and Washington was successful,
inauguratcd Thursday. All trains pa,,
| through the Union tunnel in Baltimur.
saving nearly an hour i'll the inul,.
and reducing the time between thrra,
cities to seven hours and forty minute,
| The Canton land company which own,
/ the tunnel receives fifteen cents toll tn
each passenger and twenty cents fu,
each ton of freight passing through it.
/ At Sing Sing. Tuesday, while dla.
OF prisoners was being made tul III.
| Auburn prison. the notorious w, A.
! len, armed with a large knife. rutel,r
] l.
him. When an attempt was ahouf o.
he made to capture him, Allen ponie.
to can containing about pound o..
nitro lycerine and threatened to blow
up the prison should any on, mole,
! him. The warden, dcemiug discretion
/ the better part of valor. LETT Allen Doe.
hind the bars in possession of his dead
/ " Instruments.
Josh Billings is doing the Win,
Mountains. Al the Summit house. Ia,
week. he came into the dining ro.
with Il heavy ovcrcoat and large tcIr d.
III his hand. He put them both IN b..
/ chair. and sat on them. The laudor.
| who is very polite. said to him. 'AlIo.
me to take them p He replied. g."
guess we'll let them stay. | know vhr,,
! they are now" He said ia the wait
/ girl. to her establishment. Pass H. SON,
napkins: will he through with them J..
Il few minutes. If an Ordinary m-
had got off that nonsense he VOL.
have been charged with fool-iu-tu'
head.
Early on the morning of Jul, 81.
Engineer Conway of the BaltiuIor
and Ohio Railroad. lost control nt g.
engine on the down grade. tvn mid.
east of Altamont and forty-fivc r'.
west of Cumberland. Md. when the.
CINE ran away. and while running a,.
rate of over forty miles an hom, >j,,,
the rear of Il freight train, dcmoi>u,.
,'''o'', anu WIN VIM Il ."