St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-07-09
General N ews.

Judge Ewing OF HlLtSOurg mas 0ecld-
ed that Allegheny county is not liable
for the losses by the riots in 1877.
1t is said that Fair and Mackey, Cal
ifOrnia's bonanza kings, have offered to
build Japan the iron-clad navy she
wants and take the loan of $4,000, 600,
the Sunrise kingdom proposes to issue
for getting it afiOat.
A mining town in Colorado has been
named Garfield. The vote stood
eighteen to eleven as between Garfield
and junction City.
George Ripley, Ii. D., literary ed
itor of the New York Tribune, and well
known to the literati of Boston as
preacher and one of the founders of the
Brook Farm Community, died in New
York on Sunday, in his 18th year.
The census reports from Pennsylva-
MIA indicate a very large increase of
population, not only in the cities but
in the rural regions. The probabilities
are that the whole number OF lnhabi-
tapts in the state will considerably eX-
coed four millions.
Howard Lockwood, editor of the Pa
Der Trade Journal. New York, was ar
rested OH libel suit on arrival of the
5.2S O'Clock train Saturday, on COM
plaint of Joseph Parker, Son & Co. OF
Boston. manufacturers of blottlng pa
per. for four articles published IN 1876,
accusing them of giving false weights
and counts in packages of paper. The
suit is for 100000, and he is held in
S25. 900 bonds, which he cannot now
furnish.
June was the driest month on Mt.
/ ITaSt 1870
snow fell on 10 days. The 22d was
the coolest day, the thermometer drop
ping to - above zero, the 18th vas the
warmest, the temperature standing GO.
Frost work and ice formed on the list,
I'd, 3D., 4th. and 22d. As usual, there
is snow in Tuckerman's ravine.
The United States now have ten
times more acres in wheat than the
United Kingdom; they have twice the
number of horses of both England and
France, One-third more cattle and four
times more hogs than both.
During the past year thirty divers in
the pearl fishery of the Persian Gulf |
lost their lives. most of them by sharks. |
The value of the pearls taken in the |
Persian Gulf il 1879 is estimated at
81 ,500,0 900.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin |
has decided that dealing in grain ION a |
margin" is gambling, and that contracts /
of this kind will not be enforced by the |
courts.
The Prince of Wales. at a public |
dinner i'll London recently, got yigor-
Ously cheeIed by speaking of himself as |
IA citizen" of Great Britain. "FOr sew
enteen years" he added Il have held |
the high honor and proud position of |
being one of yourselves"
The summer campaign against dogs |
has been begun in New DIRK. and since /
Monday last So CANNES have been cap
tured and drowned.
There have been twenty-four cases of |
suicide in Philadelphia since April >. |
Eight persons have resOTted to hanging, /
i've shooting, three have drowned /
themselves, three have cut their Threats /
and five have taken poison. laudanum, |
carbOlc acid or chlOToform. Only |
three women have taken their own |
lives.
When it comes to placing a drunken /
man before the eyes of an expert as |
lunatic and having him labeled as such .
time to fix some limit to the use, of ex-
pert evidence. 1t is rapidly becoming
more and more of a nuisance. and is .
daily leading to greater judicial absur- /
dItieS. If il is good law that a man
who is drunk NAV shoot people with /
IMMUNITY. it ought to be better law |
that sober people may shoot every /
drunken man they happen to meet. and |
thus we shall be exported into a cOndi-
ton of barbarism at once st. Louis |
GlObe-DemOcrat on the Currie case.
Either we must make the ocean wider
or the steamships narrower. Some
thing must be done to enable two
ships to pass without going through
each other. Society kind of demands
it, and the comfort of the passengers
seconds the demand Burlington
Hawkeye.
John L. King, '49cr, who made a
fortune in the California gold mines,
and afterward lost it in Pennsylvania
oil-wells. has become an inmate of the
Pittsburg (Pa.) poor-house.
1t is hard to determine whether the
army worm or the yarns coming from
Massachusetts concerning them are the
toughest. In Lynn they went through
fire unframed and swan floods of ker-
Osene, appearing rather to like it. The
Marblehead worms-Or stories are
tougher still. Paris green had no more
effect on them than ordinary dust, and
some which were soaked in strong I've
for five hours came out alive.
A soldiers monument was unveiled
Monday at Lake Village, n. H.
Sunday evening a man and his five
children were drowned near Bryant.
Iowa.
The Fourth was celebrated at Rich
mond, Va, for the first time since 1860.
There was a $4,000 fire at Pense-
cola, Fla, early Monday morning.
General Grant visited Emporia, Kan
sas Monday, and was warmly welcomed
by fifteen thousand people.
The wife of Dixon, who was murder
ed at YazOO by the regular Democracy
for the crime of running as an indepen-
dent candidate and soliciting colored
votes, is lying at the point of death.
The army worm has appeared in
large numbers in Eliot, n. H.
Charles Bradlaugh was served at the il
entrance of the house of commons Mon
day with another writ for voting on the
Irish distress bill on Saturday
LONDON, July 6.-Serious explosions
IN the gas main supplying Tottenham-
court road, London, last night, caused
large assures in several parts of various
streets, wrecking fronts of houses and
causing great damage. Two persons
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