St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-23

Sunceok had mad dog scare on
Monday, and man, a child and num-
Der of dogs were bitten by rabid ca
nine.
The town of Lenox, Mass., haIs tyOusshs
a 5000 rOad-scraper, and with six horses
from one to three miles of road day
are repaired.
The lives of 10. persons have been
sacrificed since 1876, in six of the soath-
ern states, in attempts to enforce the
revenue laws, and IS persons were
wounded in the same service.
The st. Louis school board have
abolished the May picnic with which
the public schools have been refreshed.
The board is urged to follow this up
by doing away with the exhibitions"
at the close of the terms, as they chiefly
allow those capable of the most cram
ming to show off.
One of Harry Meigs' railroads in
Peru, which cost the government S23-
OOO, 900 and is marvel of engineering,
runs only one train week, and that
train often carries only one passenger.
Mrs. Hayes has been presented with
marble medallion bust of the Presi-
dent, the work of A. E. Smenner OF
Cumberland, Md.
Bob lngersOll is to lecture in st. Louis
soon, to aid the erection of a colossal
bust of Thomas Paine, by his admirers
in that city.
President White will occupy at BEL
lin the residence in which his two pre-
decessors, Mr.. Bancroft Davis and Mr.
Bayard Taylor, lived.
New Brunswick, N. j., borrowed
money in 1871, to build an opera house
for its $1,000 inha bitants, costing $276,
600, and has just seen it sold for
S46,000.
Cyrus Field of the Atlantic cable,
who has recently been Dragging that he
had made $75O,OOO out of the New York
elevated roads, went before the tax
commissioners the other day and swOre
that his personal property was not
equal to his debts.
The fact is shown, by actual observa-
ton. that before horse falls he may
be expected to travel on granite pave
ment, l32 miles ; on asphalt, l9l miles :
and on wood, 446 miles; and, although
between the last two materials there is
somewhat. of an advantage in cost on
the side of asphalt, that is much more
than counterbalanced in other ways.
DR.. Walter Bailey exhibited yellow
fever germ at the recent homeopathic
convention, at st. Louis. 1t is a fun
gus growth which formed in the object
glass of microscope that had not been
opened since last seasons epidemic.
The doctor thinks that the little dots
in this invisible fungus hold a fine
powder, which is cast upon the air nv
the bursting of the small bag which
contains it. This powder, being in
hailed, causes a fermentation of the
blood, which produces the fever.
Spencer Reeves, one of the colored
emigrants who sailed from Charleston.
S. c., on the Azor some months ago. to
the promised land of Liberia, has lust
got back with two of his sons. He has
lost his wife and a son by death and
left his eldest boy behind him because
he had not money enough to bring him
too. Reeves says that half of those
who went out on the Azor have died.
while there are plenty more almost
perishing and ready to come back if
they had the money. Reeves was rob
bed of almost everything but the money
he took with him, and says that the
land is very good, but the people un-
accommodating and mean.
By terrific thunder storm in Wash
lngton county, Indiana, Thursday night
much property was DESTROYED by IiSbt,
ming and high winds, and five persons
were killed.
A dispatch from India, gives an ac-
count of terrible mortality among the