St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-10-24
Postal Changes Etc.

Post Offices established Berlin, Coos
county, N. H., James w. Parker, post
master; North Calais, Washington coun-
ty, Vt, Shubael B. Fair, postmaster
West Holland, Orleans county, VT.
James Lewis, postmaster Massapeag
New London county, Ct, John L. IuI-
ner postmaster. Postmasters appointed
VIM. III. Burnham at East Springfield,
Sullivan county, N. H.; Elisha u
Moon, Holland, Orleans county, vt.
Lewis Roberts, Hoosac Tunnel, Berk-
shire county, Mass. j. II. Hendrlck
Exeter, Washington county, K. L. The
name of the Office at the national mill
tary home in Kennebec county, Me-, is
changed to Togus.
Postmaster-General Key in a recent
letter to Congressman Wait of Connec-
ticut states that no postmaster will be
justified in refusing to forward prepaid
letters addressed to "New York city,"
or in refusing to deliver drop letters adj
dressed Getty"
Mr.. Cheney, superintendent of the
New England division of the railway
mail service, has instructed the postal
clerks under his direction, to forward
known, regardless of the order recently
issued from the department at Wash
ington.
Serious Inconvenience is felt in vari-
Gus parts of the country, owing to the
long continued drouth.
The report of the st. Louis Relief
Committee in regard to the Southern
exodus is, that the exodus is spreading,
and is not confined to louisiana and
Mississippi.
The pawnbroking establishment OF
Friedenberg g. Brother of Philadelphia
was entered by burglars early Sunday
morning and robbed of $4,000 worth
of jewelry and precious stones.
An old man named Gushing o. Elms
was found burned to death in the ruins
of a house at Scituate, Mass, last Fri
DAY evening; An investigation leads to
the belief that he was murdered and
the house set on fire to cover up the
trace of the crime.
An election was held in New Britain,
Ct, Friday, to decide whether to build
new school house, or allow the Cath
Olics to furnish the building and con-
troll the school. Great excitment was
manifested. The result was majority
of $50 against the Catholic plan in a
total vote of 5,285.
A cotton factory which was started at
Atlanta, Ga, less than four months ago
has readily sold every yard of cloth it
could manufacture, and now receives
an order from New York for over $75,
900 worth of goods, giving it three
months of steady employment.
A poor man, few years ago, pur-
chased a piece of ground at South Am
boy, n. j., and commenced selling the
clay that lies under it's surface. He has
dug great shafts and tunnels, and is
said to have earned fortune of $780,
600.
In New York, Thursday, vagabond
peddler of radishes, DrOusky by name
who has been enamOured of the wife OF
BroOme street shoemaker, committed
] suicide in front of her house because
she repulsed him when he attempted tC
embrace her.
| Excessive drouth in Western Texas
has licked up the water in the upper
Rio Grande river, and corn is now
growing in some parts of the empty
bed.
Florida is the most flourishing of al
the Southern States. Her debt amounts
to but one million dollars, and her rev
enues enable her to meet the interes
promptly. Internal improvements o
great Importance to her interests are il
progress, while agriculture is receiving
more attention than ever.
Portland and Ogdensburg railroad
bonds of face value of $4,000 which
are first mortgage on the road from
Bartlett, N. H., to the western bounda
ry of New Hampshire, and a SECOND
m ort9age on the road from Portland t.
Bartlett, have just been sold at Port
land at an average of 20 per cent of the
par.
The identical spirit that plunged this
country into rebellion, the identical ar.
guments that Webster and Hayne ex
changed 40 years ago upon the matter
were displayed at the extra session
They denied absolutely that the na
tIOnal government, to use their owl
expression, has any place to keep in the
states. Now, we say that the natiOna
government, if it be a nation, and W,
think we settled that at Appomattox
has right all over the United States t.
see that every man in it enjoys every
right guaranteed him by the constitu
tion.-J. r. HaUley.
This is the way the New York Graph
ic looked at it: ga lot of boxes fiIlet
with loudly dressed and painted wo
men, throngs of gamblers, saloon keep
ers, dissipated looking youths and pre-
maturely aged men, watching in an at
mosphere rocking with smoke and baC
liquor, procession of dirty, dusty
vagabonds toiling around track o
sawdust and tanbark-this is what is t.
be seen at Madison square garden, leas-
ed by the wealthiest man in America
for hippodrome walk"
A lion tanner, M. Karoly, who has re.
Gently been exhibiting before the pub.
lie of Madrid his powers over the brute
creation, had frequently performed
with Il boa-cOnstrictor, the huge snake
enveloping him in its folds, but never
doing him any injury. On the last oc-
casion he ever appeared the boa had
as usual, wound itself round the per.
formers body, when suddenly it tight
ened its folds. The spectators applaud.
ed, thinking it some new trick. bu
KaIOly simply uttered a groan, and il
one or two seconds was dead man.