St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
Brief News Items.

0r16I NEWS 4I0luS.
A benevolent woman has left $25, 900
to Bergh's society for the prevention of
cruelty to animals.
The Mayor of New Orleans has issued
an order closing all cOlOred churches at
10 o'clock at night. They are not al
lowed to hold any services or meetings
after that hour.
T. A. Havemeyer has sued Lawson
w. Fuller for 100000 damages for
saying at public meeting that he adul-
terated sugar.
$50 West, young man, go West ="
John Barkey, 80 years of age, formerly
of Windsor, Pa, left several days ago
for Kansas, where he expects to grow
up with the country"
A joint republican caucus of the ILL
nois Legislature adopted resolutions in
dorsing the presidents veto and ap-
proving Senator Logan's course i'll his
controversy with Representative Lowe.
The democrats in the Ohio House of
Representatives tried to denounce the
presidents veto the other day, but
failed by few votes of securing the
two-thirds majority necessary to intro
duce a resolution to that effect.
If you want to read the stalwartest
staIvvart document that any st.lwart
has ever produced read the message of
President Hayes accompanying his veto
of the army bill. 1t hit the boys right
in the vitals.-Cledpeldnd CO., Herald.
On Easter Sunday the sound of an
organ in public worship in Glasgow
(Scotland) Cathedral was heard for the
first time in three hundred years.
The assistant Democrats are saying
that David Davis is not of the kind of
Democrats that the country are Iun-
ming away from just now" Didn't he
vote for the vetoed Army bill and add
'vocate it Didn't he vote with those
in the Senate who made the extra SEES
sion necessary The country isn't run
ming to any extent after the mermaid"
politician. David Davis is as much Il
Democrat as Mr.. Beck, only he isn't
courageous enough to declare it except
by votes.
fire at the state prison on Saturday
noon destroyed large part of one of
the new workshops, causing Il loss to
the Warning Hat Manufacturing Com
pany of New York of about S45, 200,
and to the State of about $1,000. 1t is
believed that the fire was caused by a
chemical torpedo placed in cotton waste
by one of the convicts.
Advices from Peru represent a war
like state of affairs. The CHILEAN min
lister has demanded his passports from
the Peruvian government, and gone on
board the United States steamer Lack
awanna. Military movements are ac-
tive. So popular is the war that all in
ternal political differences are said to
have been healed.
By terrible explosion at Stratford,
Ont, of nitro-gly cerine the Grand
Trunks freight shops are blown up and
fifty cars were destroyed.
At the Reform Club meeting at Con-
cord, N. H., Sunday evening, ex-presi
dent l.. ID. Sanborn rose to speak, when
the president L. d. Walker requested
him not to, and called for singing. The
former then seized Walker and threw
him off the stage. Walker was some-
what bruised, and made complaint for
Sanborn's arrest.
Theodore B. Webber, who was shot
in lawyers Office at Chicago, Thurs
day, by the woman Roberts during the
trial of her suit against him for seduc-
ton, died Friday, and his murderer has
been held for trial
Rev. Mr.. Morrison, an itinerant min
lister, eloped with a young girl from
Wentworth, N. H., few days since.
Great Indignation is felt, as Morrison.
who had been staying with the farmer
having charge of the girl, is thorough
scamp, and the girl is an orphan.
A dispatch from Hampstead, Texas,
says: AS the congregation was leaving
the Methodist church yesterday, Col.
Jared E. Kirby shot and killed John
Steele, who, in a quarrel IA years ago,
killed Kirby's father.
At New Preston Hill, mile north OF
New Preston, Ct, Egbert Cogswell.
aged so, shot with gun and instantly
killed his wife. aged 45, and then cut
his own throat, expiring at once. Cogs-
well was an habitual drunkard.
A dispatch from Overton, Texas
says: j. T. Young and John Riley, in
Jail for drunkenness, attempted to es.
cape by setting fire to the building
The flames spread, and being unable tx
extinguish them the men were boil
burned to death.
There is halt foot of snow on Mt
Washington's summit.
The inventory law raked up over 81
100000 of untaxed property at Concord
N. H.
! A telegram from st. Petersburg say