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

prompt eXertlon of nelghborS. The loss
is heavy and the insurance small
Barton Monitor.
Towns near Concord, N. H., had
white frosts Sunday night.
A terrific gale swept over a portion
of New Brunswick Wednesday night,
destroying large amount of property
and killing several people.
Commissioner Fink advises the west
ern railroads that the managers of the
trunk lines adopted resolution at their
recent meeting that after August | | no
round-trip tickets or reduced rate tick
cts, issued by western lines, will be
honOred by eastern trunk lines.
Mrs. William Ward of Newark, N. j.
has received a legacy of $4,000, left her
by the mother of clerk in her hus-
bands hotel whom she nursed during a
fatal illness nine years ago.
Mrs. A. G. Lewis, but 10 years of age,
has sued two Greenpoint H. ~ liquor
dealers for S25, 900 damages for making
a drunkard of her husband, who was
formerly sober, industrious man.
We are soIemnly assured by a prom
inent mint official that, when last
month it was found that the amount OF
bullion coined at that institution did
not tally with the amount received,
the ladies in the adjusting department
were required to clean their nails and
turn in the debris to be assayed. The
cleanup from this source amounted to
over S27 900, and there are four pairs
of hands to hear from yet.-San Fran
cisco Post.
A very violent storm passed over
Madison, Wis, and vicinity Sunday
night, disabling two pleasure steamers
on Lake MenOna so that they drifted
about with their loads of passengers at
the mercy of the waves nearly an hour.
At Marshall the rain and hail fell in
torrents for 20 minutes, large amount
of window glass was broken, trees and
shrubbery lost their foliage, the tObac-
co crop was destroyed, and serious
damage done to corn. The hail varied
in size from Il small bullet to hens
egg.
A female btso ball oIuU, FROM PhiIa-
delphia, which has been giving exhibit
ton games about the country, and was
to give one i'm Pittsfield one day last
week, brought up short at Springfield
on the night before. The male man
ager of the club jumped off the train at
Worcester with 5000 of the girls money
IN his pocket, leaving them without
tickets, and they were put off the train
at Springfield, where they had to get
along as best they could.
''ls this the place p she asked, as
she wandered down on the barren
sands, "where a young lady-a beauti-
full young lady-fell in the water last
season and was rescued by a gallant
young man who she afterward mar
RED 7" He looked at her carefully, es-
tlmated her at a square forty-seven,
with fasle teeth, and said Eyes.
madam, but | don't know how to
swim"
Heaven is not populated with singing
thieves, or palm-b bearing bankruptS.
who settle with their creditors at 25
cents on the dollar Wednesday and ride
to church next Sabbath in Il thousand
dollar coach, with a man in livery on
the bOx.-W. II. II. Murray.
Our democratic brethren do not ap-
pear to be overwhelmed with regret at
the summary way their confreres in
Mississippi have of reducing the OppO
sition strength, but they would be per-
tictly Mortified if the federal govern
ment should step to the front and pro-
pose to see fair Cincinnati Com
merciGl.
Children must not eat peach kernels.
They contain a deadly poison called
hydrocyanic acid, of which two-tbirds
OF grain has often been fatal. Sbould
any sickness occur from eating peach |
or other kernels, says the Christian
Union, 1t is well to remember that am
monla is one of the best antidotes. The
patient should be made to inhale all he
can, and few drops, diluted with four
times Its bulk in water, should be given
internally.
The shipment of gold from the bank
or England to the United States is as
distressing to the greenbackers as the
return OF Germany to bimetalism is to
the gold-bugs.-Cincinnati Commercial.
Mrs. Gilbert Fuller of Woodsvilla
N. H., was brutally assaulted and f.,
tally injured Tuesday night by two
women, who knocked her down with
a CHAIR and then jumped on her and
kicked her.
The largest furnace of the Reading
IRON works at Reading, Pa, which went
out OF blast four years ago, was blown
IN yesterday. This company is now
building a new tube mill which, will
give employment to 200 additional
hands.
The prospect is unfavorable for the j
early repeal of the order fOrbidding the
Importation of American cattle into !
Canada, for if the Dominion govern
ment should remove its restrictions the !
home government would forbid the i'm
portatiOn of Canadian cattle.
Capt. John Secrest, mail contractor
who recently left Vinita, Indian terri
tory, with considerable money to pay off
mail carriers, has been found murdered
$50 miles west of there, and it is feared
hat this is the beginning of a reign of
awlessness in the territory, as the ii
United States district court having ju- \
there is now pOwerless, owing
20 the failure of Congress to provide
or the expenses of marshals.
Northern New Jersey reports the
same decided revival in the iron trade a
which is reported from other sections. .
Work is being pushed at mines and for ,