St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-14
News of the Week.


The Senate restores the strength O
the army to $4,000 men by the decisive
vote of 80 to 10, and the House will un
dOubtedly have to give way.
Hon. w. H. H. Bingham will prob
ably receive the democratic nomination
for governor again this year.
Additional returns of the Oregon cleo
ton indicate that Whitaker, democrat
is elected congressman by small ma
jority. 1t is conceded that the legisla
ture will have democratic majority OIL
joint ballots, variously estimated from
four to twelve. 1t is generally conced.
ed that but for the efforts to force the
election of Mitchell the Legislature
would have been republican. The re-
publicans undoubtedly elect the secre-
tary of state and treasurer.
The Kentucky republicans think they
will run Bristow for Governor.
The fact that the United States Sen
ate committee on elections has reported
against bill to allow the New Hamp-
shire Legislature to elect a senator to
succeed Mr.. Wadleigh during its pres
ent session puts that election over to
the body chosen in November, when it
is thought senator Wadleigh will sue
coed himself.
1t is something of come down from
running for president of the United
States to being appointed governor of
Arizona, but that is what Fate has done
for John C. Fremont between 1856 and
1878.
A company of young men and women,
several of whom are graduates of the
Boston University, will sail from New
York about the first of July for South
America. They go to Peru and Chill
as teachers and preachers.
Two men started from the port of
Boston last Friday to cross the Atlantic,
in boat only Is feet in length.
The republican State ticket in Oregon
is elected, but the democrats secure the
legislature on joint ballet and have
chosen congressman.
The senate refused recently to take
up senator Edmunds's bill regulating
the counting of the electoral votes, by
a vote of 81 to &c; so this matter of
vital Importance goes by another presi-
Dental election with nothing done.
At meeting of over 1000 persons in
New York, the other night, Judge Hill
ton was denounced ''as the most con-
spicuous fraud in the history of Ameri
can charity" because of his action in
closing Stewards women's hotel.
During a severe hail and wind storm
on Sunday at Belair, Ga, several build
ings were demolished and three chill
dren were killed.
1t is reported that vessel containing
300 refugees fleeing from Para, Brazil,
to avoid starvation, foundered at sea,
and 40 were drowned.
William Cullen Bryant is gradually
failing, and his condition is regarded
with much solicitude.
The bill appropriating five and a half
millions to pay the Halifax Fishery
award was passed by the Senate on
Saturday.
The Examining Committee of Ply
mouth Church held meeting Tuesday
evening, and it is understood they drop
ped the name of Elizabeth Tilton from
the church roll, because of alleged SIAN
der of Mr.. Beecher.
The President has approved the bill
repeating the bankrupt act Sept. LIST.
Mrs. Hayes returned to the White
House, Saturday evening, much de-
lighted with her visit to the Adirondacks
with Vice President Wheeler.
Five negroes were summarily tried
by jury of citizens for firing at DR..
Archer, in Louisiana, last week. They
were found guilty and Immediately
hung.
The platform of the Indiana Repub-
licans indorses President Hayes as fol-
lows: "We recognize in his personal
integrity, as we'll as in the general
course of his Administration, the guar
antee that he will conduct the govern
ment so as to preserve the honor and
promote the happiness of the whole
country" 1t strongly. denounces the
revolutionary spirit of the Democratic
party, and says there can be no appeal
from the Electoral Commissions de-
cisiOn, except by revolution.
Perhaps the present New Hampshire
Legislature will have to elect senator
after all. The upper branch of Congress
took that view Monday, by vote o.
% to "a.
ICE.-The papers say that ice formed
a half inch thick at Bethlehem and
Whitefeld last Friday, and some farm
ers have plowed up their potato fields