St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-02-23
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Boston has built on an average Is
public buildings, yearly, for the last IL
years.
Boston pawnbrokers charge 5 per
cent a week interest.
Joseph Hazleton of Hudson, N. H.,
while helping a friend dress a sore,
last week, absorbed some of the virus
through scratch in his finger. Since
then, his hand and arm have swollen
and turned black, he has become raving
crazy, and the doctors say he will die.
Jemima Eldredge of Effingham, N.
H., 20 years old, lost her way in the
snow, few days ago, and perished.
The Baptist ministers of New York
propose to buy $500 elephant for the
use of Baptist missionaries in India.
The stable-men of that country are
charging too exorbitantly for the use of
their elephant teams.
The grasshoppers have got to China,
where a column eight miles long and
mile wide recently darkened the sky.
These pests and the drouth spoiled
Johns crops, and now he is shivering
with the thermometer below zero.
LOU uld1 bdih dDOuu
but the Manchester butchers. in their
rage against American beef, have
thrown Connecticut hams quite into
the background. They buy up tough
old bulls and starved cows, and exhib-
it the carcasses as American beef at a
low price The customer tries it, and
is properly disgusted, and comes back
calling loudly for the "rOast beef of
hold Hingland." Then the butchers
turn around and give them a cut of
American beef at the old price, calling
it ''HiDglish."
Benjamin Bright of ThOmpsOnville,
Ct, has killed two valuable Spitz dogs
out of Difference to the opinion that this
kind of dog makes a speciality of hydro
phObia. One of these pets he had had
eight years, and had declined an offer
of $50 for.
Mrs. Susanna Rolfe recently died at
Portland, 95 years old. She was the
last surviving child of the late Parker
Jaques of Newbury, whose family was
noted for longevity. Of his 10 children
two lived beyond 80, two died between
80 and 80, and, with the exception of
one who died in youth, the remaining
nine averaged over rs years. Mrs.
ROlfe was the oldest, and she died a
few months older than her father.
"a Christian gentleman, widOwer,
over so, in splendid health, free from
the vices, and rich" advertises in the
Boston Traveller for wife of 40, of
equal ''intelligence, position and good
health"-and the newspaper says he's
all he claims to be. There certainly
will be no difficulty in accommodating
this eccentric gentleman.
The Free Press mentions that the
casualties from coasting, in WinoOski,
for one day, were one boy with leg
badly broken; one with cash cut four
teen inches long on leg; another with
head split open, and a fourth with
mouth increased an inch or two in
width, with two wards yet to hear from.
In Marlboro, VT, IL miles from Brat
tleborO, is living man and wife aged
respectively 65 and 103 years. They
were married when the man was a
youth of 10 and the woman a maiden
of 81. The woman had, when a girl,
been courted by the father of the man
who finally became, and is now, her
husband.
The nearest living relative of the
revolutionary soldier, John Stark, is
handsome and intelligent granddaugh
ter, now living in the old family man
sion at DunbartOn.
A correspondent of a local paper
makes a very pertinent criticism on
recent Alburgh donation party realiz-
ing Esl07 ''fOr the benefit of Rev. N. W.
Wilder" "Mr. Wilder may be benefit
ed by the money" he says, "but the
donation was undoubtedly for the ben
eft of the society, as l understand the
money applies on the salary of Mr..
Wilder. This is the way, think, with
most of the donation parties through
out the state they are announced for
the benefit of the pastor, and many
pay with that understanding, but they
result in gift to the society instead of
the pastor"
Rev. S. P. Cook of Ludlow has been
compelled to resign his pastorate and
leave the ministry. He has gone to
Keene, N. H.
THE DOG LAw.-To save dog own
ers the trouble of wading through the
intricacies of the new dog law, we give
the substance of it {:
Every owner of a dog should go to
the town clerk and get license before
Mar. 3lst, good for one year from April
Ist, for which he will have to pay 50.
There is then no further tax on the dog
us heretofore. The dog must then have
a collar with the proper number and
the owners name on it, after which he
is safe from the avenging officer of the
law. If any dog is found running at
large after April Ist without a proper
collar, its owner is liable to a fine of
SIS, and if the dog continues to run at
large uncollared after May 18th it is
liable to be shot. In case any one re-
ceives injury from dogs, he may collect
damages either of the owner of the
dog or of the town. If the town pay
any dog damages they may oblige the
owner to reimburse them.
l kno ov people so fond ov contra
dikshun that it would not surprize me
at all to hear them disputing with
gide-bOard about the distance to the
next tOwn.-JOsh Billings.
At the opera in Dublin a gentleman
sarcastically asked "a man standing up
in front of him if he was aware he was
opaque. The other denied the allega-
ton, and said he was O'Brien.
Stable-keeper "By-the- way, shall