St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-15

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Port Dram new mines are opening, and
of the old iron towns BoontOn is the on
ly one that seems permanently crippled.
the millions invested in its furnaces,
FORCES and rolling mills seeming likely
to remain idle for several years yet.
''Pink-eye" is the name given to
disease which has broken out among
the horses at Hartford, Conn. 1t usu-
ally follows excessive warm weather.
with sudden changes, and is very much
like a cold. 1t settles on the lungs
and produces congestion of the bow
els, and if the horse is kept at work the
complaint soon kills him, for he loses
his appetite and the joints of the legs
become very much swollen.
Elder Moses Horn of Portsmouth.
aged 80, is the Oldest acting minister in
New England, and he has preached 65
wears. This term of service is only
beaten by Rev Jasper Hazen of Yer
mont, who has sci we'd one year longer.
Mr.. Horn breaches regularly and with
remarkable vigOr
At sale of stock at Hartwell, Ca,
recently, cows were sold for 81 apiece,
and oxen for 81 to SO, and ON credit at
that.
The Buffalo Express says the people
in Spain are in great doubt as to wheth-
er their King will die natural death,
be assassinated or get married.
A Harrisburg soldier lost his hearing
during one of the engagements of the
civil war. A few evenings ago he went
into the river to battle, and while
thrusting his head under the surface of
the water thought he heard a loud re-
port. Instantly raising his head, he
was astOnished to find that his hearing
had been restored.
The drouth in southern and western
Texas is very severe.
The Democratic editors in Maine, in
their zeal to defend the Greenback can
didate for Governor, seem to have en-
t1rely forgotten that there is candi-
date by the name of. GarcelOn. They
understand that he is only decoy.
The London Lancet remarks that
1.-THE causes of life and of death are, to
some extent, identical. Influences
which kill the weak strengthen the
strong, and in the mutual reaction of
perfect constitution and a mode of life
free from those lethal influences which
no strength of constitution can resist
lOgevity."
An advertisement in a Vermont pa
per of last week reads: "Whereas, my
wife name given has separated heI-
self from me, and refuses to assist in
my support, l hereby warn all persons
from harbOring OF trusting her on my
account, as l shall pay no debts of her
contracting after this date"
the question of introducing singing into
their religious exercises. Some express
need for it, while others say that it
would uprOot Quakerism.
Efforts to cultivate the almond in
California have failed, as the tree is
very unreliable. The blossom sue
cumbs to the least touch of frost, and
some seasons the trees will not bloom
at all.
The farmers of Frederick, Nd, are
alarmed by the burning of their thresh-
ing machines and barns, and the Iecep-
ton of letters threatening further de-
structiOn if they do not give up the use
of machinery in farm operations. One
of these letters, signed working Men"
says: Z" We intend to stop steam
threshing. We do not get work enough
to keep us through the summer and
winter we have to go in debt. We
will give you two days to pull up in
The farmers propose to organize tor
mutual protection.
William F. BabcOck, editor of the
"HoOsick Centennial at Hoosick Cor
ners, n. Y, has been arrested for pub
fishing obscene literature taken to
Troy, examined and held in $1,000
bonds. Anthony Comstock, the detect
i've who traced the gilt to BabcOck, no.
ticed an advertisement in a Canadian
paper signed NJ. B. Williams which
aroused his suspicious: about the same
time he found out that certain Amherst
college freshmen had procured ques-
tlonable publications from a man of
that name in HoOsick Corners, so he
sent decOy letter containing money
to that address, and received in return
copy of BabcOck's, alias Williams.
''hashyn pamphlet. A visit to HOOsick
Corners post office brought out the fact
that BabcOck took the mail addressed
to NJ. B. Williams and his arrest follow
ed. Babcock has confessed.
THE DALRYMPLE FAkMs.-The Chi
cago Times correspondent has just been
through the wheat fields of the Dial
Iymple farms. They aggregate an area
of 1000 acres of solid wheat, and ale
estimated to yield an average of 30
bushels to the acre. A procession of
35 reapers and elf-binders is tirelessly
passing around the outskirts of the last
field we visited. A small army of har-
vesters is setting the wheat in shocks.
Another detachment of labOrers is run
ming a steam threshing machine, and
the engine is run entirely by straw fuel,
the straw being fed into the fire by an
automatic stOker. The whole yield of
wheat will be between 100000 and
300, 900 bushels. Already a large force
OF men and teams are delivering wheat
from the fields into the cars of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, and when
under full Roadway, young Darymple
says, as to threshing,, that all these
farms will send away 25 loaded cars
each day until the entire yield is dis
posed of by shipment to the Chicago
market.
BoY's VACATION LETTER.-A small
boy was sent to the country to board
short time ago. He promised his moth
81 that he would write good long let
ter, describing his trip, boarding place,
etc. A week went by and his poor
mother was nearly distracted when she
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