St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-07
Brief News Items.


to the Senate, says that inasmuch as
the Senate does not seem disposed to
give him the seat to which he was elect
ed by the South Carolinians, he will re-
tire from the contest, and leave Butler
in peaceful possession.
The house of j. M. Lunsford of
Jacksonville, o., was burned Friday
morning and MI. Lunsford and six of
his children persisted. The mother and
one child escaped.
On Thursday five County Court
Judges in Virginia were indicted by the
United States Circuit Court for the
Western District for Withholding from
negroes the right to serve on juries.
This aroused the ire of the F. F. VS.,
and Friday the Legislature adopted a
resolution declaring it usurpation of
authority, and directing the Attorney
General to investigate the matter.
Fifty men have been arrested in Pc
kin and Peoria, ILL.,, for completely in
whisky frauds. Many of them are prom
inent citizens, and the affair has created
some excitement.
The floods in France have caused
great deal of distress in some localities,
and an appeal for Government aid has
been made.
DR.. Bushman, U. S. Veterinary Sur
hot ha natt1a 1icaocn ic
confined in this country entirely to the
seaboard, and is not found west of the
Alleghenies; hence the prohibition of
importation of American cattle by Eng
land is unnecessary. The disease has
broken out in Hull, England, and the
importation of English cattle is prohib
tied by order of our Government.
Angel, the Pullman car defaulter of
Chicago, has been sentenced to ten
years in the Penitentiary.
The Legislature of Connecticut has
voted in favor of biennial sessions. The
question now goes to the people for
their decision.
A shocking murder was discovered in
Lynn last week Thursday. A trunk
was found on the bank of the Saugus
river containing the mutilated body of
young woman whose death had been
caused by an abortion.
By the explosion of coal oil lamp
in Baltimore Thursday night two per-
sons were killed and two severely
burned.
A recent avalanche at Marburg, Aus
tria, killed twenty-one persons.
A large livery and boarding stable on
East Fifty-third street, New York, was
burned Thursday morning. Over forty |
valuable horses, besides harnesses and |
sleighs were also burned, and female
seminary adjoining was damaged. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
The term of Senator Wadleigh of
New Hampshire has expired, but the
governor of that state will probably ask
him to sit during the extra session.
A daring robbery was committed at
Gambia, N. H., on Monday night. Ed
ward R. Ingalls,, the town treasurer,
was attacked and handcuffed as he en-
tered his barn and bound to an upright
ladder, when the robbers entered his
house, forced open his secretary and
carried off 5000 without leaving a
clew. Ingalls, was not hurt.
The Boston Herald says it is safer for
senators to abuse President Hayes than
ex-President jeff Davis.
The New York Evening Post thinks
it is high time to let jeff Davis alone.
That is the second thought of most of
our respectable but more fiery news
papers.
The eastern newspapers, without dis
tinction of party, applaud the veto
message. The New York Evening Post,
however, makes itself conspicuous by
sharply rebuking President Hayes be-
cause he did not berate Congress for its
part in the business.
The majority of the Potter committee
report, generating Tilden from COM
plicity in the fraud. The minority also
report, bearing down hard on the Dem
ecratic attempts at bribery, expressing
the opinion that Tilden had a hand in
them.