St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-11

Truman Raymore of Cambridno
his pocket picked in Burlington on 4 n
Fourth, and lost thereby wallet n Ihe
tanning $2O9.75. Rather a dear con oTl'
bration for him. 'o'e'
This is the day of small things. G.
lem, North Carolina, a small town 5a '
shipped during three years over tbro@S
millions of pounds of dried blackheoae
RES Tor which it received S45O,OOO.
1t Is reported that Hon. T. w. Paul
has informed the selectmen of BenninnN
ton that unless their $4,000 suit for fnss
years, neglect of his North Village no
tIOnal bank to return list of IFS stooI
! holders is withdrawn, he will reno,
the bank from town, and will levy eva
cutiOns for $4,000 overdue interas+
Judgments against the town.
7 The Post Office Department has To-
Gently made new regulation, which
will materially reduce the revenue or
that department. Matter which has
hitherto been charged 90 cents Der
pound is about to be sent for 8 cents
A Congregationalist is described bv
DR.. Shaw of Rochester as simply a.
Presbyterian who has left his catechism
at home and forgotten where he laid if
down.
About five hours after large meteor
passed over the farm of DR.. p. o. Cher.
bonier, near Easton, Nd, a few DAYS
ago, substance began to fall on TIN
| farm that looked like snow. The grow
ing corn, grass and shubbery were COZ,
cred with a powder resembling lime o.
magnesia. Some of it has been sent to
Baltimore for analysis.
The California papers say the Chinese
are coming as fast as ever. There is
now a larger number of vessels on their
way to San Francisco than at any pre-
vious time in many years, and every
merchant vessel that will take passen.
gers is crowded with Chinese. This re-
vival of immigration is attributed to
the Presidents veto, and the intimaton
is broadly made that California will
have to act for herself in this matter of
the Chinese.
The heroes are not all rowing boats
or engaged in walking matches, or even
playing base ball as professionals, as
witness the following: A coal shaft is
being sunk near Hollis, ILL.,, and the
T1arIahd lighted slow match LEADING
to blast and Uhen ~ignaled to he drgr3
up. When he had been Ia1soI G.rfr-
feet he struck board partition and Was
thrown to the bottom, Thomas Gran
dali, stepsOn of Harland promptly
slid down the rope, seventy feet, aud
tore the match from the fuse in time to
prevent an explosion. The act was Il
brave one, scarcely to be paralleled.
The boys hands were terribly lacerated
by the rope. The stepfather was res
cued with broken rib and other Sc
we're bruises.
Senator Lamar has returned to
Washington from Mississippi, and re-
ports that he was surprised at the ex-
tent of the exodus fever and at the
prospects for the future in this regard.
He says the colored people are being
excited to the highest pitch by the sto-
ries of the land of milk and honey they
will find in Kansas. Recently a white
man, carrying a red flag marched
through one section of the state, spread
ing the report that the government had
taken up the exodus question, and
would from this time on furnish all
who wished to go to Kansas with frr
transportation and a supplied farmu
their arrival in that promised land
The day and hour when the free train
would pass was announced, and ut that
time hundreds of cOlored people swarm
ed along the line of railroad for miles
only to be informed by the railroad
officials there was no free train.