St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-02-22

One of the candidates fol- a United
States senatorship from Nevada, John
w. Mickey, is credited with being the
richest man in the world.
Prof. Henry E. Parker of Dartmouth.
has gone to the Bermudas, and will
probably bring home his daughter, whe
has been passing the winter there.
Ten tons of wire d day are used on
the Brooklyn bridge, and it is expected
to have the bridge completed in 1880.
Topsham is scandalized over a man
of 43 who has just married his fourth
wife, 13years-old girl, when her pre-
decessor had been buried only about
four weeks.
A big Texan named Thurston, who
is said to be feet inches high, weighs
80 pounds and can lift 1900 pounds,
dead weight, wants to make match
with James Owens, the Fairfield wrest-
Ter.
The residence of MI. George Pease.
in Charlotte, was burned to the ground
Monday morning, between twelve and
one o'clock, Mr.. Pease and his family
barely escaping with few articles of
clothing. There was no time to save
anything. The fire took from an ash
barrel. Loss about 81 200; no insur-
ance.
"Talk is talk, but money buys the
land" Of the 5000 envelopes, asking
subscriptions to the Robert E. Lee mon
ument. sent out some time ago to citi-
zens of Richmond, Va, only 80 have
been returned, containing an aggregate
of S40.32.
No
is the earth, compared with the celes-
tial spaces, that if one should shut his
eyes and fire at random in the air, the
chance of bringing down Il bird would be
better than that of Il comet of any kind
striking the earth.n
Mrs. Ida F. Hunt of North Charles
town, young woman %, shot herself
through the heart early Saturday morn
ing, while in somnambulistie state,
with pistol which her husband had
given her to defend herself with during
his absence. She leaves Il young child.
The election in New Hampshire oc-
ours early in March, but there is very
little beating of gongs yet. The usual
crisis has not put in its appearance, and
there is little probability that it will.
The republicans will probably elect
Ihelr state ticket, tiIuugh the dvuIuurats
profess to be confident of electing
theirs.
Unless Gov. Colquitt interferes, which
NOBODY seems to expect, Georgia is soon
gong to furnish the country spectacle
the like of which it has never seen-tbe
hanging of a white man in a Southern
state for the murder of 'snigger.n
Gus johnson is his name, and the
darkey he wantOnly killed was an in
offensive ferryman. His guilt was so
PLAIN that the jury could not fail to
convict him, and the supreme court
upon appeal affirmed the Justice of his
death sentence, which is to be carried
out on the 18th of March.
Vennor says Il expect to see some
severe weather, and some very heavy
snow-falls, and it is not unlikely that
we snail TINS month record one of the
coIdest dips of the winter. The month
VIII again end stormy and cold. and
March will probably be ushered in bv
ueep SHOWS. l advise railroad men not
10 put oy their snow ploughs, but to
keep them ready for use: for 7 still
maintain that February evil he tba
most wlntry month";" and that we shall
yet nave extensive snow blockades,
A trustworthy Boston physician who
has had many diphtheria patients in WI" h;O
charge, says that he never knew o e h HIS
one case the origin of which was not
directly traced to defective dra;no nU
AN official of the board of health vi"
mas examined nearly 200 houses "I ~
which diphtheria occurred. renorts -, ~
IN every instance he has discovaro oda'
arrangement of the waste pines o;t1,o
anove or below the surface before t thoa
entered the sewers. 'eiore they