St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-01-18

who, rirl knows that her beau runs
:, dnbt in order to give her slelgh-
ride or present, she can make up neI
mind that she will not get the rlgn1
kind of a husband by marrying NM
Mr. Manton Marble, formerly edltor
of tbe New York World, intImates tnaU
TiIden proposes 10 be the democratic
candidate for the presidency Ill l0oo'
and tbe campaign will be conducted on
The one idea that he was elected III 1870
and cheated out of the office.
The Dartmouth college freshmen nave
been divided into two dIVlslons Win
regard to scholarship, doing away win
the old alphabetical division. 1hey no
longer appear in Oxford caps.
The Mississippi jetties of Captain Eads
are pronounced satisfactory, there beng
a minimum depth of % feet OF water III
the South Pass, and the Captain will re =
ceiye his second half million of dollars.
The effect of the recent revival at
Manchester was shown Sunday III the
addition of 317 members to the various
Protestant churches. The Franklin
street Congregational church received
90. and the Hanover street COngrega-
tionaI II.
A correspondent of the Boston Globe
insists that E. d. WinslOw, the reverend
forger, has actually been in the city re-
Gently, that he spent several days with
him and other old friends, and that he
is at present within 500 miles OF the
CITY. He came there the writer says,
for funds, and got away safely to his
former retreat.
Fred Fasdick, IS years old, stabbed
Eddie Murphy, Ia, in school boy quar-
rel at East Stoughton Tuesday, int1ict-
ing a severe wound in his arm. Both
belong to respectable families, and there
is considerable excitement over the af-
fair.
The cracked mechanicians who think
that a experimentation machine is pos
sible are not all dead yet, and Joe Nun
dry, a Frenchman at Amesville, in
Litchfield county, after eight years of
labor. has perfected Il cOntrivance, he
thinks, which solves the veXed prob
lem.
x-Mayor Prince of Boston was given
an enthusiastic reception at the com
plimentary dinner by prominent demo
Gratis at the Parker house Thursday
cleanse his bosom of the Indignation
which had been gathering under the
severe criticisms of his opponents dur
ing his administration.
There is some hope ut Dartmouth |
that Prof. Young may be induced to re-
turn at the beginning of the next col |
lege year. Certain conditions under
which he went to Princeton, it is said,
have not been fulfilled, and he may
again occupy the chair of astronomy at
Dartmouth, which still remains open.
A meeting of wooden manufacturers
from various parts of New England was
held ut Boston Thursday to take action
in regard to Il modification of the pres
ent tariff on wool and wOOlens. David {
\. Wells and number OF others dis
cusSed the question, all advocating eX-
tremely low rates of duty and absolute
free trade in preference to Il cOntinu-
Ince of the present system. The meet
ing was practically unanimous in sup
port of these views, and a committee
was appointed to draw up memorial OF
Congress.
\ singular death from starvation took
place at Rockville few days since.
About year ago ScOtchman named
overseer in Whites ging-
nam mill, who had been in poor health
ioI some time, applied to the Hartford
hospital for treatment, and it was found
hat the passage leading from the stom
lch to the abdomen was growing up.
A tube was introduced for the purpose
Of opening passage, and the expert
ment was for Il time successful, tut the
effect was not permanent, and for some
months he has taken no food except
liquid through this tube. He has grad
1ally wasted away, though he was at
his place in the mill five days before he
lied.