St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-02-23

shire was opened Tuesday evening by
n Republican rally in Exeter. Hon. ..
C. Moore of Nashua was the speaker.
The elegant residence of Walter All
ken. near Franklin Falls, N. H., which
nine years ago cost S5O,OOO, was burned
Tuesday morning.
The ship load of arms and ammuni-
ton for Turkey, from New Haven, Ct,
valued an 81, 100000, arrived at Con-
stantinople, Tuesday. The vessel had
a rough passage, and it is reported the
cargo is damaged.
A severe gale prevailed on the Eng
lish coast Monday night, and great
damage to the shipping is reported.
The President is quietly packing up
and preparing to retire to private life.
Notice is given that visitors at the
White House will not be received here
after in the afternoon, as the time is
occupied in preparations for removal.
A glass blower has recently died at
the age of ITO years. His great age is
another proof of the truth of the blew
glass theory.
The engagement of Fred May, who
met Mr.. Bennett in a duel, to daugh-
ter of the late Paran Stevens is an
nounced.
Blue glass has risen rapidly in price
within fortnight, and mazarine blue
now sells at so cents per square foot,
wholesale, or from three to four times
the usual figures.
A Connecticut accident insurance
company has declined to compensate
two persons who were badly hurt while
coasting at new London, on the ground
that to entrust ones body to traverse
is a wilful and reckless risking of life
and limb.
A Connecticut youth, who has just
ceased his visits to a young lady, has
been sued by the girls mother for $50
for wood and kerosene oil. It's test
case, and several other young men are
awaiting the issue with considerable
trepidation.
Annie Bragdon of Hyde Park, Mass,
who was bitten by mad dog, last Sep
TENDER, is dying of hydrophobia.
Hayes, crushed to earth, again has risen
The Presidential Chair is hisn,
While Illden, wounded, Wr1ggleS madiy,
And dies because he hain't got Bradley.
Lafayette Courier
The telegraph warfare thickens. The
Atlantic and Pacific announces its ac-
QUESTION of all the telegraph lines along
the Baltimore and Ohio system of rail-
roads, with a multitude of new offices,
new and well equipped lines to the
principal Western points, and heavy
accession tOits general working strength.
1t is the longest single stride Gen. Eek
ert has yet taken, and gives the press
and business public assurance that the
great reductions in rates he has secured
are not to prove spasmOdic.-NeU York
Tribune.
There was great excitement among
the sporting men of New York, over
the arrest of Joe CObuTn, the notorious
prize-fghter, for trying to kill two po-
licemen. 1t seems officer w. E. Tobias
called hackman from COburn's saloon
on Broadway, at l o'clock in the morn
ing to take care of his team, when CO.
burn, who was drunk, bullied the po-
liceman, following him Oh the street
with threats, and finally fred at him
twice, wounding him in the arm and
breast but not dangerously. Officer
John Jetfries ran up, when Coburn shot
him dangerously near the heart, but
was finally secured, and is now in the
TOmbs.
"Will the democrats Submit" Doubt
less the democrats will abide by the de-
cisiOn of the tribunal. They know
that any party which gets lease of
power by means of perjury and forgery
will not be tolerated in this country. |
and if Mr.. Hayes is inaugurated on the |
basis of Kellogg's and Stearn's certifi-
Gates, the brand of Cain will be burned |
upon him and his party in such an eff
fectual way that the decent members
in the organization will run out of it |
faster than Lot and his family got out
of the fire and birthstone of old Sodom.
Courier Journal
Nasty, in his recent epistle on the
Electoral Commission, doubtless ex-
presses the anguish of the class of Dem
ocrats he represents, when he says
II am eqal to IL great deal nv GREET |
hev philosophy enuff for almost any
thing. L hev drOpt bottle afOre | he'd |
my lips at its strength givin
mouth, and hev seen its golden contents
dow sadly away on the sidewalk, lost
forever. | hev bustid jug Saturdy
mite, after all the groseries wuz shut up
and L hev failed to borrow a dollar
wher thOt he'd ded shoor thing
onto it. All these woes hev survived.
but this one | cannot. The agony is
too long drawn out. | will not STAY in
the Corners four years and see Radikel
niger distribbit the papers that comes
here, and stand and read lottrv circlers
to our citizens"
A citizen of Eureka having occasion
to go home rather unexpectedly, a night
1r two since, caught gentleman ac-
luaintance in the act of kissing his
wife. On relating the circumstance to
friend, he was asked if he punished
'he guilty couple, and replied ''No.
1ot exactly; but they must have seen.
rom the way | slammed the door. that
was not satisfied Virginia (Nev.)
Enterprise.
A FIENDIsH JoKE.-Two roughs.
Harrison and Lattnear, brake
men on the Troy and Boston railroad,
saloon in Troy, Thursday.
and after carOusing awhile, Harrison
pulled out what appeared to be a to-
Dacco box, and laying it on the floor
pretended he was endeavoring to fiat
ien 1T. A man named Houghtaling,
who was working in the saloon, became
Interested and was finally induced to
sndeavor to fiatten it with IA hammer.
The box was torpedo, which explod-
I'd when he struck it, aud Houghtaling
'eceived no less than nine CHASTITY
wounds on the face and head. his Left