St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-03-08

Marshall H. Twitchell of Louisiana,
who was wounded in an affair at COu-
shatta and lost both arms, will be ap-
pointed consul to Kingston, Canada.
Eight hundred and eleven thousand
trade dollars were shipped east from
San Francisco during February, OF
which 1864, 900 went during the last
half of the month.
A huge gray wolf, which has destroy
ed over $1,000 worth of sheep near
South Bend, Ind, during the past three
years, was killed recently, after six
days pursuit with dogs.
A. j. Baldwin of Berlin, Ct, was
bitten five weeks ago by dog, from
the effects of which he died Thursday
night in great agony. The doctors
pronounced it a case eff hydrOphObIa.
Seven other persons were bitten by the
same dog.
John H. Wright of the class of '73 at
Dartmouth, has been appointed assOei-
ate professor of Greek. He was profess
sor of Latin and Greek in the Ohio ag-
ricultural college for three years, and
is now pursuing pathological studies in
Germany.
A young and prepOssessing woman of
about 81, whose father, a prominent
Vermonter, died some years since, and
whose mother afterward remarked and
moved to Waltham, applied to a Bos-
ton lying-in-hOspital recently, and died
soon after from an abortion which she
claimed to have performed with her
own hands. The matter is being inves-
tigated.
Mrs. j. H. A. Bone, As years old, wife
of the editor of the Cleveland Herald,
has drowned herself, doubtless during
one of the fits of melancholy to which
she has been subject for years. She
was one of the writers for the Atlantic
Monthly.
A German miner was buried in min
eral shaft near Plattsville, Wis, Satur-
day noon, while engaged in removing
the debris which had fallen from a drift
about 80 feet above the bottom of the
shaft, where he was working. The
cribbing about the upper drift gave
way, precipitating a mass of timbers
and rocks, which, however, fortunately
lodged about 10 feet above the bottom
of the shaft. Experienced miners at
once set to work to recover the unfOrtu-
nate man, and on Sunday afternoon at
o'clock they succeeded in reaching him
after digging through 20 feet of earth
and rock. When found he was alive,
but stark mad, in which condition he
remained at last accounts.
Daniel Mcfarland, the murderer of
Albert ID. Richardson, has been en-
ployed under the name of Mcdonald in
the wagon-wOrks at South Bend, Ind,
the past winter, but was discharged the
other day, and is now wandering around
a drunken wreck.
brought to notice in the petition to
Congress of eight Laurel IN. c. widows
for pensions. Their husbands were
organized with others in 1861 into a
company to assist escaped Union pris-
oners, and for federates to crush them
out. At last large force was sent,
who captured the brave men, bar
barOusly murdered them and five of
their young Sous before the eyes of the
wives and mothers, savagely scourged
the women and burned their houses,
leaving the survivors to seek charity
inside the federal lines. The petition
has already been before Congress Il
number of times, but has never yet re-
ceived action.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
made arrangements for the immediate
execution of the silver coinage law, so
that there will be no delay. He has
prepared form of silver certificate
and approved the device for the new
silver dollar.
The jury in the case of the Greenfields'
candy factory and other property in
Barclay street destroyed 10y an explo-
sion and fire early in the winter, with
loss of life, set down the cause of the
explosion as unknown" Prof Doremus,
who was examined as an expert, stated
that no evidence was offered which
would finish chemical explanation of
it.