St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-11-09

New England postmasters appointed !:
Moses D. Carbee at Haverhill, N. H.;
Woodbury. L. Emerson, PiermOnt, N.
H Julius Hill, Granville, VT Post
offices established: Otisfeld, Me-, Rus
sell G.. Scribner, postmaster East
Planted, N. H., Miss Emma F. Cur
rier; North Walpole, N. H., Daniel
Lockwood.
Moody drew tremendous houses at
his first days services in Manchester
Sunday, thousands being unable to get
into Smyth's opera house, the largest
hall in the city. Whittle and McGrana-
han had similar audiences at Ports
mouth, and Needham and Cato almost
as large ones at Concord.
Thomas Burke's house at Montreal
took fire Friday, and the inmates were
rescued with great difficulty. One of
the daughters, Mary, was probably fa-
tally injured by leaping from a window.
Ten citizens of Seville, O., concealed
themselves in and around building
the other night which they had heard
was to be robbed, and they secured
three of the wOuld-be robbers when
they made their appearance, and arrest
ed two Others the next morning. When
the robbers found themselves met by
citizens there was desperate fight and
one of the citizens was shot through the
arm.
The recent row at Rutgers college has
ended in the suspension for one year of
three men, including Snyder, the first
man in college athletics and stroke of
the crew. This dispensation of the
faculty greatly vexes the students, for
they had expected to measure oars with
Princeton in the spring, and had train
ed their crew until it was the best ever
possessed by the college. The crew is
now likely to break up.
Senator MortOn's successor will he a
Democrat. The Legislature is Republic
can but the regular session doesn't come
till 1878; in the meantime the Demo-
cratic governor will fill the vacancy. 1t
is thought Mr.. Hendricks will be offered
the place.
The morning of the day Senator Nor
ton died his wife had private inter
view with him. She asked him if he
was aware of his condition, and he told
her he was. They then talked upon
religious questions for brief time, in
the course of which the senator avOwed
his belief in the tenets of the Christian
faith, and expressed his acceptance of
the idea and fact of RedeemeI.
John d. Stockton, one of the editors
of the New York Herald, died at his
mothers home at Philadelphia Satur-
day night, aged Al. He had been ill
for four years, but continued to work
in the office of the Herald, although
nearly blind, until two weeks ago, when
he went home to die. He was for five
years managing editor of the late Morn
ing Post of Philadelphia, wrote for
many magazines and other periodicals,
and was the author of a successful play.
A single hair nearly caused the death
of Hartford woman, the other day.
Her husband came home cross to dinner
on washing day, growing at his food,
and finally on finding hair in the mus
tard stamped off to his mother where
he ''could get something fit to eat.'
The poor woman Immediately took an
ounce and half of laudanum, and was
found by the servant, writhing on the
floor just in time to save her.
One of the young men at Milford,
Kentucky, sat down the other day and
wrote on the back of couple of pos
tai cards. Then he turned them over
and backed them, but by some mis-
chance placed the address on the wrong
cards. The result was that the shirt
mandatory in New York got very
polite invitation to go carriage riding
somewhere in Milford pike, while the
young mans girl was made frantic by
receiving the following "Please send
me sample of the stuff your shirts are