St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18

of school age. There were % doof
dumb and IL blind children who land ana
ed instruction; 622 Chinese also
tended school. aI'
Inc Toronto papers attribute the do
cline In the Canadian revenue IargaI,
TO the smuggling of American D9oi,
across the line. The business is ver~
active all along the border. wy
Il: M. Chapman, treasurer of tb,
Blddeford, Me-, Savings Bank a"S
managing director of the Nation'i
Bank, committed suicide Sunday niSS,
by shooting. Temporary insanity h.
sulting from ill-health is the alice
cause.
1 Samuel j. Mills, treasurer of Bloom
field, Conn.,, is deeply involved in his
accounts with the town, and an invest
cation indicates deficiency of at least
SOS, 900. The town has attached his
property for $4,000, though it is NOT
probably worth $4,000. Mills is a far.
mer, has always borne good reputo-
ton and has been Town Treasurer fo,
ten years.
The Pennsylvania Greenback- Labor
party held State Convention at Al.
toona Tuesday and nominated Heprv
Carey Baird of Philadelphia for STATE
treasurer. Mr.. Baird declined tho
honor, and Peter Sutton, wealtby
farmer and ex-Judge of Indiana COUNTY
was nominated.
A negro murderer was tried at Rch
mOnd, Va, by colored jury, the fiIst
ever impaneled. He was found guilty
of murder i'll the second degree, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for Is
years.
Twelve million of the new four per
cents were sold in London Tuesday at
about I0I4.
1t is said that Jay GOuld's new tele-
graph line, the Unicn Company. will
commence business on the first W
August, Gould having made the neces-
sary arrangements with railway COM
panies for the use of their wires, so
that the line will be complete from
Boston to San Francisco.
The Dalton, Mass. firm of Crane Il
Co. are busy making preparations for
for the manufacture of the bond paper
to fill the contract recently awarded
them- They will start some time IN
4 "a will be a novelty to quiet
Diltoh W nave oO"'~hment of United
| SOlulcIS 50 near bDt Nrf..1-.
There will be guard of soldiers on
duty night and day outside the mill.
! There will also be employed in the
mill three ladies from the Treasury
Department at Washington, d. C. The
help will be strictly searched each time
they leave the mill to see that none of
the paper is carried away.
The Texas Legislature does not lack
| tor healthy excitement. On the 9Th
inst. fight occurred between two
members of the House, Ashbel Smith
and Bob Taylor. Both are old gentle
men, Smith being nearly so and Il
Democrat, while Mr.. Taylor is the Re
publican leader in the House. DR..
Smith kicked Taylor. There was i
great uprOar, when Smith shouted to
the Speaker, II was only illustrating
the Governors position of pay as you
60" (Laughter.)
Among the orders received by Calais
Me. lumbermen are two from parties in
New York State, for five million feet
of lumber to be used in the construction
of elevators in that section.
1t is said to be quite the custom III
Dublin for pawnbrokers to receive from
washerwOmen on pledge clothes be-
longing to respectable families which
they had received to be washed. The
articles are usually pawned early in
the week and released in time to he
sent home on Saturday.
| gan intoxicated female undertook to
dance IL jig on table in the Athol
depot waiting-rOom, and was waltzed
not until She had nearly '' sh i32ffSnleedR 6hdi
policeman baldheaded, and had kicked
all the buttons off her shoes.
The hardest working man in the state
is said to be an iron molder in Il Nor
walk foundry. He drinks the pail of
soup which constitutes part of his din
ner by taking it in his teeth and throw
ing back his head, his fingers packing
sand in Il mold ut the same time. All
his time is economical in the same WAY
from in the morning till at night,
and he averages 200 molds a dav.
against 100 for other workmen. Be
has no associates, and no one knOG.
why he works so hard.
A singular disease has manifested it.
self in Lorillard's tobacco factory at
Jersey city the past week. The Sun
says that one of the first symptoms is
fainting, frequently followed by con-
vulslons, hysteria and collie. On SatuT-
day 30 girls were taken sick in one de
partment, and there was much excite
ment. The girls have been working on
some tobacco stored in New OIleaus
during the prevalence of yellow fever
last summer. a woman who nursed
the girls attributed the illness to Excess
sive drinking of iced water.
1t is said that the first well defined
case of yellow fever in Memphis this
season was traceable to the most culpa-
BILE neglect of sanitary precautions i'm
aginable. The man and his family bad
been using bedding on which last sum
mer's yellow fever patients had lain
and died, and it is feared that more
deaths will result from similar cause
Instead of destroying the fever infected
clothing, it had been stored in barrels
and atterward brought out for use.
A I2-years-old son of James Lamot,
in Canaan, n. H., fell out of a swing on
Friday breaking his neck.
To make "A picnic lemonade, says the
New Orleans Picayune, take a tub of
water, IL few lemons, more or less sugar,
Il huge lump of ice, large amount OF
imagination, and another tub of water,
to keep the lemonade tub filled up, and
you have it without limit.
Some five carrier pigeons belonging
to Mr.. Walters of Charlestown, Mass,
and brought to Exeter, n. H., on th
train, were let loose at 3 p. NJ, and los
ing made several circuits IN the an