St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-11-23

not pay 10 per cent; the Bank of Chi
cOgo, with liabilities about one third of
million, and assets nothing; the State
Street savings bank, with liabilities of
$40, 1000, and assets 5000, and so on
through the list. The insurance COM
panies make no better show, the high
est being l6 per cent and the lowest 0.
Field 81 Letter, the Chicago dry goods
merchants, were again burned out last
week. Owing to misrepresentation on
the part of the fremen, fifteen minutes
were wasted, and the fire had gained
such Roadway when the first water was
thrown that its progress could not soon
be checked. The building and the stock
of goods were nearly all destroyed. One
fireman was killed and four were seri-
ously injured.
The House of Representatives at
Washington concurred in the most i'm
portant Senate amendments to the army
appropriation bill. The amendment to
limit the army to $4,000 instead of 20,-
600, was agreed to, 134 to 100. The
appropriation for the Paris exposition
was afterward reported and discussed.
The heroic attack upon Fort st. Mich
olas in the Shipka Pass, was led by an
Englishman, Major Campbell. At the
head of battalion of 800 men he took
the fort and held it for six hours, and
then had to retreat. Of the 300 men
only five, besides the Major himself, re-
turned to the Turkish lines. 1t is the
pluckiest exploit of the present war.
One year ago Tuesday, there was a
rousing SNOW storm-the first of the sea-
son. In 1875, eight inches of snow fell
November 10th, and there was good
sleighing all over Northern Vermont.
In 1874, the first snow came on the 2lst,
and in 1878, on the 18th of November
four inches.
The present demand for whalebone is
large. The New York and New Lon
don markets have been entirely cleaned
out at 81 per pound, and in New Bed
ford there is less than 10000 pounds on
hand
A little girl at Norristown, Pa, hav-
ing swallowed citron seed it was found
necessary to cut slit in her throat and
extract it from its Judgment there in
was performed within three days of the
IL was tnSlO U1c Sccu
had sprouted.
The Rutland Herald is disguised with
the mildness of modern theology, and
says people are coming to think the
penitentiary and hell are both shadows
without substance. Some VermonteIs
do act as if they thought so, truly
Boston Herald.
One ecclesiastical controversy comes
up after another. Is it right for a mem
Der of church in good standing 10 go
to a circus The minister of celored
Baptist Church in Lexington, Va, says
it is wrong. The names of about fifty
members of the church were dropped
from the roll last Tuesday night for this
offence.
The inquiry has been made, "Why
are the Egyptian obelisks called
needles 2" 1t is stated in explanation
that "meselleh" is the Arabic word for
needle, as we'll as for obelsk, and that
the Arabs have from time immemorial
called the peculiar structures "PharOah's
needles" meaning Pharoah's obelisks.
About year ago lawyer at Read
ing, Pa, successfully defended friend
less German brought up on a charge of
| larceny. Last week he received from
Germany letter from his client, en-
closing fee of twenty gulden (about
Sl20) and extending hearty invitation
to visit Germany.
DR.. Middleton Goldsmith of Rutland
was the physician who predicted thir-
teen years ago Senator Morton's death
exactly as it occurred. He thus de-
scribes the way in which the senator
received the prediction: "Well,n he
said, after being quiet little while, 81
fear, doctor, there is more the matter
with me than | am aware Of Tell me
what you think of my case, of the dan
ger to life, of the possibility of recov-
cry" | did so; told him frankly that
his disease was one from which none, or
almost none, recovered; that it was one
which was almost always, sooner OF
later, fatal. l saw from his face that it
was an awful blow to him. But in a
few moments it was over, and his face
was as placid as any mans.
During service at the church of the
Ascension on Lombard street, Philadel-
phia, yesterday morning, Alexander B.
Sayers walked up an aisle, drew pistol
and shot his wife Elizabeth, who occu-
pied pew several feet in advance of
where he had been sitting. The bullet
entered her back near the shoulder, and
she now lies i'll hospital in a dying
condition. Sayers was promptly arrest
ed. Both parties were regular attend
ants at the church, but had been sep
arated two years. The husband has
already served a term in prison for
breaking her arm.