St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-13

A Brooklyn dealer advertises two
and half miles of books for sale.
The European steamers on Saturday
took out 5000 quarters of fresh beef,
700 sheep and 1900 boxes of cheese.
President Hayes, his cabinet and
Vice President Wheeler have formally
accepted invitations to attend the Yer
mont Centennial.
That watch-chain swindler took
them i'll at Vergeunes to the tune of
800. He is bound to succeed where
lington.
President Hayes will spend a week
in New Hampshire and Vermont in
September.
Willis L. B. Mead of East Concord,
n. H., and Willard Eastman of Little
ton, were capsized on Clongh's pond,
ut Loudon, Friday, and both were
drowned. They we're unmarried and
about 30 years old.
During Il recent storm, John Foster,
of Merrimac, n. H., was milking in his
barn when lightning struck the build
ing, killed the second COW from where
he sat, and tea sheep near by.
The N. H. House has appropriated
$500, 900 for IA new state prison, and
has ordered a bounty on the heads of
foxes. hawks, and crows.
A terrible gale struck the town of
Pensaukee, Wis, on Sunday night and
left only three houses standing. Six
persons were killed aud twenty wound
ed, while six are missing.
About $40, 900 have been contributed
by BOstOnians thus far toward the st.
Johns fund, and nearly $4,000 toward
the Marblehead fund.
The trial of James Dunlap and Robert
Scott, the suspected Northampton bank
robbers, was commenced at Northamp-
ton Tuesday.
Montpelier is very slow place. Some
one recently shot a dog there simply
because, according to one of the news
papers, he was supposed to be rapid"
The Montreal Orangemen, who have
been loud III their boosted determine
ton to parade on the 18th inst, re-
CARELESS of the threats of the Papists,
have succumbed to the entreaties of
Christian organizations, and abandoned
the display so obnoxious to R0manists.
John Mcdonald of Boston, tried to
drive off lot Of boys playing on his
fence, by firing at them with a gun
loaded with IL copper rivet, the missile
passed through boys foot, making it
necessary to amputate it. Mcdonald
was re-loading with screws for sec
ond volley when he was arrested.
While A. w. Goodrich, an under
taker of Lawrence, Mass, was gather
ing cherries from tree in his yard, on
Friday, some of the fruit fell into the
street, and party of little children
scrambled for it. Goodrich, in a rage,
fired shot gun at them and four were
considerably wounded. He was ar
rested and came near being lynched by
an excited and indignant crowd.
The big national temperance camp
meeting at birmingham, Mass, is to
begin next Friday and continue till the
Wednesday following. The reform
club movement will occupy promi-
nent place, and all the noted temper
ance workers and takers, including
Rev. w. II. II. Murray, DR.. Cuyler,
John B. Cough, Rev. b. K. Pierce.
Neal Dow and others, are to be present
and speak.
The depreciation in the valuation of
real estate in Boston this year is about
forty millions of dollars, and in per-
sOnal estate about twenty millions,
thus reducing the whole valuation to
about $3.50, 100000, exclusive of the
bank tax.
A Pittsfield gentleman and an
habitue of Saratoga, from which he re-
Gently returned, gives as the true rea-
son of HiltOn's edict against the Jews,
that not having ruined their stemachs
with pork, they are enormous eaters
and have a special fondness for chick
ems, the precise number of that fowl
consumed by them at the Grand Union
in the season Of 1876, being 22,5l9.
The Democrats have fought four
presidential contests on a platform of
discomfort, and they have been four
times beaten. If the republicans want
to get beaten, they can adopt the same
policy.-Montpelier { Vt.) Freeman.