St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-09-08

4 TRIE LADY, WAS once Walking
Il short distance behind IA very hand
somelN dressed Young gnl. aud a. |
looked at her beautiful clothes, Won
drled if she took half a. much pains
/ with her heart a. she did with her body
/ \ poor old man WAS coming up the
walk with II loaded wheel barrow. aud
! Just hrtnlr h. reached her he made two
attempts to ga into the ward of Il house
! but the gate WAS heavy. and would
>w ing back before he could get in.
''Wait." said the Young Yiil hunNing
forward: IN hold the gate open.
/ And she held the gate till he passed in,
and received his thanks with Il pleasant
smile. and she passed on. ''Shr de
serves To have beautiful Clothes. |
thought, for Il beautiful spirit dwrll>
within her breast
The Bangor Commercial wants pto-
Pile to hrlIrvc that Il eat in that town.
accidentally shut out on the sill of ii
third->torN window, leapcd of, and by
Il peculiar movement. turned Ia one
side and graSpinG with her CLAWS the
granite sill of the neighhoring window.
drew hcI>tlf up. and the window being
open. entered the room to the amaze
mcnt al its occupants. 1t further adds
that 1.-THE windows are tWcnt weight
inches apart. and the animal to accom-
pli>h it. made il leap in the form OF Il
curve. 1t l. all very well to talk of
hnomcIang>. and OF guns that can carry
Il bali round Il corner: but Il II living cat
i another matter. The reporter must
/ have been mistaken. 1t WAS not Il cat J..
but an owl.
z SINtN Years ago. occurred the
NtaI without Il summer" Frost occur
red in every month of the wear lcl6.
: Ice formed half an inch thick in MAY {;
SHOW fell to the depth of ten inches III
Vermont. seven III Maine, three in the
interior oi New York. and also in MaSS;l
chu>cttS in June ice was formed of the
thickness of common window glass.
Throughout New Eng land, New York
and some parts of PennSy lvlnia on the
9TH of July Indian corn was 81 frozen
that the grcatcI part WAS cut doAn and
dried tol fodder in August. and farmers
supplied Themselves from the corn pro-
duced in SD for the seed of the spring
of ISl7.
The death of Joseph Russell, of the
printing houS, of Russell Brothers. OF
New York, occurred in IL singular man
ner in the White Mountains, August
% Having been for some wears at-
tlictcd with Il disease requiring rareticd
air a> IL relief, Mr.. Russell had been in
the habit of spending his summer among
the mountains. As the vehicle con
1 a
crmding Mount Washington. August
Goth, it was "vcrtakrn by a violent
storm of wind and bail. which alarmed
both passengers and horses. During
the confusion Mr.. Russell showed signs
at excitement and of terror, which were
scarcely noticed before he expired.
The Indiana correspondent of the New
York Times writes Il long letter con
iiImutorN of this declaration Il do
know what is the fact in Indiana, and
ii" know that the question which en-
ter> most largely into the canvass here
il whether this nation shall lie remand
ed To the control of its enemies under
: the lead of Tildcn and the rebel Dem
ocracN, or tn lis friends, under the lead
+ of Gov. Hayes"
I a STRIKING FACT.-"I have had
u twenty thousand prisoners pass through
e my hands, said the keeper of Cante-
bury jail. since have been keeper ot
t this jail, but. though have inquired.
:. have not discovered one teetotalel
h among them"
t. Proctor Knott i described hy a Wash
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