St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-11-02


one with a bradawl, aud goes home un-
de. the impression that he has worked
ont his road tax in full.
Eighteen savings banks have failed
in New York in the last six years. Five
of them have paid nothing yet to their
depositors, two paid Is cents ON the
dollar, one 33ss, one 35, one 80, one so,
one 57s, three 65, one 80, and one 95
and one 100. With some of them some
thing more is expected. This is not a
cheerful record for the great business
centre of the country.
The Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern railroad has settled with the rela
tives and heirs of 65 out of 81 persons
who lost their lives in the Ashtabula
disaster. The largest amount paid to
any one party was $4,000, and the
claims have generally fallen under
$4,000. Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers, a newly
married couple on their wedding tour,
were killed and their bodies burned be-
yond recognition yet their lives have
been settled for $4,000.
We are amazed at the wide spread
interest manifested i'm foreign missions.
We every day receive calls from every
part of the country for scores of the
Journal containing the reports of the
proceedings of the American Board.
The edition is exhausted, and orders
for thousands of copies remain unsatis-
| fed.-PrOUidence Journal.
A singular and dastardly trick was
recently play at Atterclife, England,
where some unknown rascals amused
themselves by thrusting lighted paper
into the aperture of street letter box,
thus destroying between 80 and 40 let
tiers, some of which are known to have
been valuable.
A laughable accident happened at
the New York aquarium Monday night,
when great splash was heard from the
seal tank, followed by prOtracted f1oun-
dering and thrashing about. Examin-
alton disclosed the fact that man who
had been sitting on the railing around
the tank had had his dangling coat
tails seized by sportive seal and been
dragged in to keep the animals COM
pany.
Supt. Hobart of the Central Vermont
railroad has issued a circular calling the
attention of shippers of live stock to
the fact that "loadiug sheep and small
cattle in cars with larger ones so that
they are trOdden upon will not be al
lowed" A good order and one in which
Mr.. Hobart will certainly receive the
hearty support of every good citizen.
Diphtheria has become; next to con-
sumption, the most fatal disease in
New England. The vital statistics OF
Massachusetts, just published, for the
year 1876, show that it now occupies
the second place in the list of fatality
whereas no longer ago than 1872 its
place was the nineteenth. Last year
two thousand six hundred and ten per-
sons died of it in Massachusetts, and
five thousand three hundred and TWEEN
ty-seven of consumption.
S. j. Dana, constable of Fayston, who
committed Charles C. Ingalls, to Jail at
Montpelier, last week, for not paying
his taxes, was sued on Saturday by Mr..
Ingalls,, in an action for false imprison-
ment, for five hundred dollars damages.
Mr.. Ingalls, says he was living in More
town the first of last April and has paid
his taxes there, and has the collectors
receipt.
| VIM. Burpee, of Derby, was badly
injured on Tuesday, by the bursting OF
al WuCCs Hc WAS uSlUS Tile
Robbins & DALEY mill. He was dis
covered lying on the floor of the mill
insensible and bleeding. The flying
pieces of the broken wheel struck him
in the face, broke his cheek bone, in
jured his eye and badly confused and
cut the flesh on the side of his face
Though suffering much from the wounds
he is expected to recover.
Parties near Boston have sued the
estate of Horace A. Clark of Amherst
for $4,000 on account of the bad dis
figurement of boys face five years
ago by COW which Mr.. Clark had sold
and shipped. The boys father was set
tied with, but he; like Mr.. Clark, is
dead, and the mother will not acknowl-
edge that the settlement was made in
full. 1t is said that the receipt cannot
be found among Mr.. Clark's papers.
The other night Il party of Piutes al
Bridgeport, Cal, took out and shot q
medicine woman with revolvers, the
cause being her failure to cure a sick
child. One such failure would not have
endangered her life, but this happened
to be the third case of the sort, and she
was adjudged by council of Indians to
be an unsafe practitioner.
A young man named Samuel Lindsey
of Poughkeepsie has been sent to the
insane asylum in consequence of blow
received on the forehead by ball
which was "fOuledn by batsman, and
struck him while he was officiating as
catcher. He was insensible for some
time after receiving the blow, and upon
his recovery was raving maniac.
Senator Morton is again reported as
in very critical condition. He has
lost flesh and strength recently, and his
inability to digest any food, and the
failure of his system to respond to the
efforts made to stimulate it, render his
case very grave one, and Gov. Bur-
bank, the senator's brother-in-law, tel
egraphs that his condition is less favor
able than it was few days ago.
Thomas Mast has recovered from his
rheumatism, OF whatever was the mat
ter with him, and is Enthusiastically
illustrating Harper's Weekly again. On
the first page of this weeks issue he
shows the lion and the lamb lying down
together, but the lamb is inside the lion
which is licking his chops. The picture
admirably illustrates peace and recon
Citation under the present conditions.
An investigation by experts into the
affairs of the North Bridgewater savings
bank shows that the loss to depositors
by the irregularities of the late Treas
urer SouthwOrth, which were not dis,
covered till after his death, will be $780,
900. 1t appears that Southworth, as
member of brokers' firm, had beer
giving bank books for deposits, specu.