St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-06-08

April 10, mas Oeen TecONeTeu at oI.
Louis. She was with vagrant woman
named Fannie Brown, who was arrest
ed.
Maria F. Norman of Boston died
Thursday from drinking too much ice
water when over-heated.
A festoon of about hundred bottles
was displayed from Reed hall, Dart
mouth College, the other morning by
some Incorporate seniors. They were
soon cut down by the faculty, and the
rowdies should be.
The Boston market is flooded with
Strawberries, and the receipts last week
were the largest ever kOwn, being be-
tween 100000 and 100000 baskets per
day. The first to appear were from
Virginia, but these have been suppressed
ed by those from Maryland and Della
ware.
The Lawrence Excursion party,
which makes an annual summer pill
grimage to the white mountains, will
be composed of 300 leading citizens of
Lawrence, Haverhill and Andover, with
a sprinkling from Providence, Lowell,
Boston and other places, and will set
out July A.
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Ellet, author of
many books of prose and verse of
which the best known and most valu-
able is "The Women of the American
Revolution" died Sunday in New York
City at the age of SO.
Since P. T. Barnum offered $4,000
for the return of Charlie Ross he has
received great number of letters from
people who know where the boy is,
and want $50 or $50 to send detectives
to get him. Mr.. Barnum has cOnse-
quently issued circular, saying that
he will expend no money to work out
anybOdy's theories.
The New Hampshire Yearly Confer
ence of the Free Baptists is to be held
at Whitefield, June IL, 13, IA. This
conference includes lis churches, I35
ministers and 5000 communicates.
Investigation by physicians reveals
the fact that Rev. j. M. Friday of Har-
per's Ferry, who was found drowned in
a canal there last week, was murdered
and thrown into the water by a gang of
roughs from Virginia. AT first it was
thought that he was accidentally drown
ed. He was called across the river to
marry a couple.
The new $4,000 spindle mill of the
COchecO manufacturing company at
Dover will be five stories high, 400 feet
long and "a feet wide with an ell $50
feet long. 1t will employ 700 hands,
and the machinery will be run by an
800 horse power Corliss engine. The
excavations for the foundations extend
down to the solid rock ledge.
A boy fifteen years cid, son of Sam
uel Ninny, of Greensburg, Pa, to '.get
even with the old man. whose disci-
pline was irksome to the yOungster,
poisoned his father, sister and her child
and visitor named Mrs. Harris. by
putting arsenic in their coffee. The
lives of all but Mrs. Harris are despair
ed Of
The Governor has signed the act to
prevent frequent changes of books
in the public schools, which prohibits a
change within five years after the text
book has been adopted, and this plan
to put an end to a veXatiOus abuse will |
have a trial. To be of any value it will
need to last at least the full term of
years mentioned in the law, and people
with repeal bills in their pockets must
stand aside.-N. Y. Tribune.
There is danger, as well. as possible
benefit, i'll blue glass. A Brooklyn suf-
ferer from weak eyes was recently led
by the advice of well-meaning friends
to use spectacles of blue glass, such as
certain opticians are selling just now.
The result was, that his eyes, already
too weak to be used much, in ordinary
were exposed to a terri
BILE glare and heat, which in less than a |
week entirely destroyed the eyesight |
of the sufferer, and he is now totally |
blind. The New York Post also hears |
of similar instance where young
woman was the victim.
DR.. Charles F. Deems explains how |
he keeps himself able to work hard |
without any results of WEAKNESS or |
i'll health. He says: 81 keep Sab
bath. Few ministers do. Many wears
| did not. On Friday night | 90 to bed |
and say Now / lay me down to sleep,'
and no one must wake me until Sunday |
Morning, even if the Sunday Magazine |
should suspend, or the Church of the
Strangers burn down. | never vet
have slept that long, as generally rise
Oh Saturday afternoon to boil for an
honr in the Russian bath. Generally,
Oh Saturday night | cannot recollect |
what the texts for Sunday are, having
put the preparation all safely away.
Such regimen enables me to begin
fresh on Sunday and work until Friday
night like house on fire and the wind |
blowing"
Peter B. Brigham, who died in Bos-
ton last week, was one of the most
men of his generation.
His character was anomalous. The
OF his fortune was laid, and
and probably the largest amount of it
was accumulated, in the selling
business. For many years he kept the
most noted bar-rOOm in Boston, and
candor compels me to say the worst
one III its effects upon public morals.
Yet he never drank a drop of ardent
spirits himself, and he was man of
ideas and impulses
IemptetOn IN Hartford COurant
AS illustrations of the drought in
Southern California, leaving neither
grass nor water for animals, 10000
sheep were recently offered in that sec
ton at five cents head, and in Kern
County man was offered $4,000 for
pasturage for 1000 cattle for three
months. The San Francisco Bulletin
says: There have been scores of in
stances in this state during the present
year where owners of large herds of
American cattle and f1ocks of sheen