St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-01-17

Y neglected cases pneumonia results and
if the air or methods of living are bad
! diphthera or scarlet fever ensue with
children.
r The library of the Birmingham and
Midland Institute at Birmingham
2 England, was burned on Saturday. II
contained eighty thousand volumes. in
{ Guiding the most complete Shaksperi,p
, collection in the world, uumberiro
, eight thousand volumes. Only few
books are said to have been saved.
The law forbids any issue of nationoI
bank notes under S. after the resump-
ton of specie payments. The smaller
bills are accordingly retired, as fast us
they are worn out, and this makes
room for the silver dollar All of
which is an egregiOus mistake. The
people want the one and two dollar
bills.
Florida has had another cold snap.
IT, as Is stated, it was the severest
weather for thirty Years, we NAV eX-
pect to hear of the destruction of MANY,
orange trees.
The Boston board of health forbiJ
the scattering of salt on the street, and
sidewalks of the city.
The Vicksburg Herald has mep,reJ
a list of persons who died IN that civ
and vicinity last fall of yellow tcyty.
1t was published Sunday, twelve COL
umus being filled with names.
The doubling up of Mr.. ). j. THdeu-s
fortune by OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES III the
New York elevated railroad-will III
terest many enterprising politicians in
] him candidate. for. rho ,,raSiIatr,-
He might afford to roll out two barrels
of money next Cincinnati COM
mercidI.
Butler is the only person in the
House who can point TO Il record of
] 900 votes scored since last session.
But even this proud distinction does
not smoother his wrinked front. So
long as ones nose is under water ir
matters little whether it is near the
surface or 40 fathoms down. WashiRq-
ton Post.
This Is pretty war we are having
with the Cheyennes. Gen. Crook Is
authority for the statement that their
attempt to escape from Fort Robinson
was made because, they having refused
to be removed to their reservation,
where their principal men were to I've
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starve and freeze them into submission.
The starving, freezing and cheating
system has not been couspicuousiy sue
cessful in the history of our dealings
with the red men, and it isn't surprising
that they made their desperate strike
Tor freedom at Il cost of forty or fifty
lives We are apparently III for quite
Il conflict with them, for Il number es-
capped, and there is danger that the
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail bands will
become iuvolved.-SprinlfeId Repub-
HcaR.
The Troy On. " clergymen have
adopted resolutions recommending that
ut funerals all unnecessary expense
such as an exhibition of flowers and Il
distribution OF Grape and gloves. be
avoided, and that there be brief and
simple burial service.
Clarence Cannon, youth of four
teen, died the death of Il hero at Ian
slngburg, \. Y, Tuesday evening.
he was skating with host of young
companions on the river, having in his
especial company Il girl of twelve
years, named Cora Geer, when both
skated into an air hole. Clarence
caught his young mate and held her M
until he was quite exhausted with call
ing for help, when with the words.
Hold on to the ice, Cora, I'm going.
good-by," he sank and was drowned.
The little girl did hold fast to the ice
until the cries OF the other BOYS and
girls brought assistance. and size WAS
rescued, The brave boy might have
| saved himself. but with heroic self
sacrifice preferred to save his play
mate.
There is the amplest evidence to
snow that combination between the
Pacific railroads and the Panama
steamships, tor eXhOrhitant treights and
tares, Is doing more to iniure the peo-
pie OF the Pacific coast, than the
chinese and all other causes combJued.
We do not remember at this moment
any public act of Gen. Grant rejecting
on the Irish race and religion, and we
are forced to believe that the COrkOu-
lans nave been misiutormed about the
distinguished American by some disap-.
pointed office -seeker.-Heyald.
The Connecticut Valley Railroad.
which cost over four millions to build
and equip, will this month pass into
the hands of the first mortgage bond
holders, who alone will get the benefit
OF their entire Investment. leaving the
original holders of stock and the second
mortgage bondholders without cent
for their investment. 1t is the first
mortgage that counts in the end.
The New York Sun considers Elihu
b. Washburne by far the strongest man
that the republican party could uomi-
nate for president in 1880.
The funeral OF Mrs. John Swift III
Buffalo, n. Y, was seriously inteItercd
with by the recent snow blockade III
that section, two attempts to get the
body to cemetery several miles out OF
the city proving failures. The first
time, the hearSe was overturned and
left III the snow, the remains being res
cued and brought back TO the city, and
eight men who went out to get the We
hlcle, in a sleigh drawn by four horses
had to put up the horses after they had
gone two miles, and cut their way on
| FOOT through mountains of snow for the
remaining mile and half. 1t took two
hours to make that distance, and if Il
family living near the buried hearsc
had not supplied the party with hot
coffee and refreshments, they are Ger
tain that some of them would have
frozen to death as it was, one had
both cheeks frozen, another both feet
and their fingers before they got the
hearse back to Buffalo.