St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-04-06

who didn't bring enough food to suit
the brute.
Rev. Selah B. Treat, so long known
and so widely respected in his relations
with the American Board of Commis.
sioners of Foreign Missions, died on
Wednesday, at his residence, in Boston
after IL brief illness from pneumonig
He was in his 74th year.
Thomas Welch of Cambridge has
just died of genuine hydrOphobia. He
barked and was so violent that several
men were employed to hold him. He
whipped the dog and got his bite at
Christmas time.
The faculty of Dartmouth COLLEGE
have decided that hereafter no student
shall have the benefit of scholarship
who will not pledge himself to spend
no money for liquors, tobacco, billiards
and dancing.
The tide of ladies' fashion abroad has
turned in favor of excessive plainness
in dress. Materials are still to he rich.
but the make is to be severely simple
All ornament is to be reserved for the
bonnets.
from California to the Centennial Ex.
hibitiOn in refrigerator car, created
much establishment there. The compa-
ny which made this and other ship
ments last year, has now been enlarged
and intends going into the business on
large scale. 1t is called the Califor-
MIA Fruit and Meat Shipping Company,
and has ii capital of S500,000. The
California fl uit made good impression
in the eastern markets last year, and it
is gratifying to learn that generous
shipments of it are to be made the pres
ent season.
DR.. Hammond, the eminent authority
on nervous diseases, having carefully
studied the habits of the Spitz, pro
nOunces him most venOmOus beast
that ought to he exterminated.
The spectacle of president walking
to church-and an questionable chdrch
at that-has created only less cOnster-
nation in Washington than that other
remarkable fact that he didn't wear
gloves at his first White House recep-
ton.
In BeekmantOwn, the other day, a
girl of eleven years died from the effects
of Il pin which she had drawn from her
mouth into one of her lungs, while
coughing.
james Tyler of OrelviIle, Mo-, is dead,
because he would visit Squire Philip
Ayers daughter after the old gentleman
forbade him the house. Shotgun.
Sir Charles Dixie, who cremated his
first wife, is going to marry again And
the st. Louis Republican thinks he will
burn his fingers yet with some of bis
experiments.
Circus agents ale "shammyingn up
their largest glass bosom pins, and the
biggest shows the sun ever shone upon
are getting their old carts and harness
out of winter quarters.
There is Il story of a minister who
threw boot at one of his deacons for
placing chair crooked at the com
munlOn table. That minister must have
been i'll the same state of mind as the
crotchety person who is trying to find
fault with the Presidents grammar.
The Jubilee Singers are now giving
concerts i'll Holland and Belgium. They
are expected to return to England to
sing again there about the 10th Of
April.
The AndOver Church has voted down
proposition to invite Plymouth Church
to unite with it in calling a mutual
council to investigate the charge,
against Mr.. Beecher. The professors
and laymen are wiser now than they
were year ago.
Seven steam street cars were placed
upon the Market Street Railway, Phil
adelphia, on Wednesday. A small
boiler incased in walnut, is placed in
front of the car, and by an ingenious
coUtrivance the whole power of the en-
CINE is concentrated on the brakes
The trial trips were very successful. the
cars being stopped in a few seconds
even when going at high speed.
81 am very glad to get out of it, said
ex-senator Cameron to an interviewer
in Harrisburg, referring to his retilee-
ment from public life. at is a dogs
life to be always hunting Office for I'M
grateful people and answering begging
letters" And then he went into the
Legislature and kept tally of the vote
which elected his son to the same dogs
life.
The Inauguration of President Bart
lett at Dartmouth, will not occur before
commencement, although he may as
sumo the duties of the presidency some
time before that date.
The "Fruits of the Wine Cup re-
Gently played by the Hanover reform
club, pointed a moral, but not so sharp
ly as did the intoxicated student VINO
came in late and took front seat, win
the title of the play in large letters Cd
his back. 1t was a rather cruel joke
Five churches in California have sim
ultaneously paid church debts amount
ing to nearly 100000. One of these
the Rev. DIR. Stones, raised on two
successive Sunday mornings S7S,OOV'
The incubus which no church can pros
per under, is church debt.
Delegations of native Americans, col
ored Americans, German Americans
Irish Americans, and assorted Amer
cans of other varieties, have already
paid their respects to President Hayes
usually with an incidental allusOn 10
some office of trust and emOlumenI'
The aboriginal American has so ii'
only been heard from through us
patches addressed to the War Depart
ment.