St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-16

IL was sunday train WHICH wen
down into the Firth of Tay.
Tilden and Garcelon-what splen-
did ''fraud" ticket that would be.-IrO1
Times.
The Western Vermont Masonic union
holds its fifth annual banquet Feb. 4
at Middlebury.
Rev. VIM. Tilley, pastor of the Meth
odist church at Brandon, has changed
his creed and Joined the Episcopal
church.
An ounce of -yOur-mOuth-shut is
better than a pound of explanation af-
ter you have said it.-DetrOit Free
Press.
Set it down as a fixed fact that the
votes of independent Republicans are
needed to elect Republican president
in 1880.
There are 40 students from Vermont
in Dartmouth college, 43 in the CLASH
cal department and 6 in the Chandler
scientific school.
Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, pardoned 24O
convicts and let them loose upon socie-
ty again. The abuse of the pardoning
power is one of the crying evils of the
times.
A young man at Bora, Conn.,, owed
his death, last week, to the wOuld-be
pleasantly of companion, who pulled
away chair that he was about to sit
upon.
The Vermont dairymen's association
holds its 18th annual winter meeting at
Brandon on the 2lst, to continue three
days.
The marriage engagement between
Lord Wentworth and Miss Julia
Fletcher, author of ''Klsmet," is said to
oe broken off, according to Forbes
Tourists Directory of Rome.
The Burlington lumber mills are
driving business. About $4,000, 900 feet
of lumber was brought to Burlington
from Canada during the past year; an
increase of l 100000 feet over 1878.
Gen. Garfield was formally elected
United States senator to succeed Thur
man, in the Ohio legislature Tuesday
over Thurman, who received the dem
cratic vote, by 66 to "A in the Assembly
and 90 to 10 in the Senate.
The paper mills all over the country
are having a great run of business,
which taxes their facilities to the ut
most. There has been large advance
in the prices of all kinds of paper with
in two months, and the paper-make rs
say the advance has come to stay. We
fear that it has.-NOrthampton Gazette.
Rev. Jacob Ide, who died at West
Midway Monday morning at the age of
"a years and 9 months, was the oldest
Congregational minister in the state
both in years and pastoral service. He
was settled in West Midway in 1914
and held his passionate there until last
March.
Parties who are gullible enough to
send their money to New York
stock swindlers, who promise in their
advertisements large returns for small
investments, will be interested to learn
that letters sent to those fellows will no
longer be delivered. Postmaster James
has placed their names on the black
list.
An exchange says that the vote of
10000 Independent republicans in Ohio
cast against a republican candidate
would make that state hopeless to the
republicans and 5000 independents in
New York would carry that state the
same way, and asks how that would
effect the Grant boom
Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are evening
stars. Venus is morning star, and will
be beautiful to look upon this month.
Mercury and Uranus are also morning
stars, though not favorahly situated for
observation. The January moon fulls
on the 9th. The month is marked by
the grandest of all phenomena, total
eclipse of the sun on the lIth, invisible
to us, but visible in the western part
of the United States and the Northern
Pacific Ocean.
SALE OF A RALROAD.-The Vermont
and Massachusetts branch of 81 miles of
railroad between Brattleboro and Mil
ler's Falls has been purchased by the
New London Northern Co. The nego-
tlatlons are all completed, and the trade
only needs the ratification of the stock
holders. No one knows the price to be
paid, but is supposed to exceed $780,
900, as the Vermont Valley offered that
sum for the road.-St. Adams Mcssen-
ger.
Five Montgomery school boys loaded
some fire. wood with gunpowder the
other day to spite their teacher. The
stove subsequently blew up and tore
out one desk, but injured no one. The
boys were fined $40 and costs each, and
were ''blown up" at home besides.
Twenty Vermont newspapers
favor an appropriation by Congress for
the Yorktown monument and celebra-
ton, and nine petitions to Congress,
signed DV judpes of the state Sunreme
court and other eminent men have
been sent forward. They were headed
respectively by President Buckham of
the university of Vermont, President
E. p. Walton of the Vermont historical
society, Luke P. Poland, and ex-Gov's
HOlbrOok, Smith, Dillingham;, Page,
Hendee, and Fairbanks.
The LOST CHILD.-The lost Ploof
child at West Jay has not been found,
and the affair remains deep mystery.
Not one trace has ever been discovered
of the child, and now she could have
been taken away without faint trace
OF her Is an enigma. The excitement
long since died away. 1t is said that
her mother appears quite Indifferent
about it and does not allude to her
child. Many believe that she knows
where the child is and may have given
1t back to its true father.
THE Boston MYsTERY.-Miss Helen
Ward, the young lady of Hamilton
Place, Boston, who shot her mother
while asleep, has been discharged from
custod y-there being no evidence to
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