St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-04-23
General News.

Montpelier elects Hancock delegates
to the Vermont democratic convention.
Judge Freelen of the superior court
at San Francisco has rendered decision
on kearney's appeal, confirming the
Judgment of the lower court. This
means that Kearney must be punished.
Twenty-seven lives were probably
lost by an explosion at the Giant Pow
der Mills, opposite San Francisco, Cal.
on the 10th.
An Ohio gentleman who wrote recent
ly to one of the hotels in Chicago to Sc
cure "a couple of small rooms, not par
ticular on what floor, but with a COM
municating door if possible" during the
sessions of the Republican national con-
vention, was Informed in reply that the
cost of such accommodations would he
$50 day.
The exodus from Nova Scotia to the
United States continues, 500 having
taken passage for Boston from Var
mouth within few weeks.
The scarcity of hay and fodder for
cattle is causing much distress in Nova
Scotia, particularly in the eastern coun-
ties, and in some places the cattle are
dying of starvation.
Rev. S. T. Aldrich of Hornellsville,
n. Y, has sued the sheriff of that cOun-
ty for Sl2, his fee for preaching a flu
neral sermon over the sheriff7s father.
The lumbermen of the upper tribu-
taries of the Mississippi river have cut
246, O00, 900 feet of logs the past season.
and consider it the best winters work
for many years.
The West Point authorities have
tried to put Cadet Whittiker on trial
for the attack on him, and the institu-
ton is on trial instead.
DR.. Mitchell, the Memphis (Tenn.)
member of the national board of health,
denies that there has been a case of vel
low fever in that city since last fall.
The Connecticut River railroad COM
pany have taken strict measures in re-
gard to the use of liquor by employees,
and will discharge any who are intoxi-
Gated while on duty.
Emigration to North America on an
exceptionally large scale is taking
place from Scandinavia. Two thou
sand Swedes have already left Bremen,
and 1000 left Christiania for New York
on the 4th.
One of Cadet Whittiker's former in
structors in the University of South
Carolina speaks a word in his favor.
He declares that he was a good student,
straightforward and manly, and of a
modest and serious temperament.
Two Boston men put $1,000 apiece
into patent medicine business, and
found, after the flight of the third part
ner with the money, that the stock con-
sisted of neatly papered and labeled
blocks of wood.
The governor and council of New
hampshire has contracted to pay, in
accordance with an act of legislature, a
bounty of one cent a pound on beet
sugar made in that state the coming
year, the premium being limited to
1000 pounds.
A man calling himself George n.
Jones of Boston, was picked up on the
street in New York recently. His leg
was broken and he claimed to have
been robbed. He was taken to the hos
pital where he shot himself through the
heart,
A bill introduced in the House au-
thorizes the sale of all the worthless and
condemned vessels of the navy, some
30 in mber, the proceeds to be ap-
piled to the construction of new vessels
such fund to be increased bv annual
appropriations by Congress. Mr.. Har-
rls OF massachusetts made an interesting
speech III explanation of the bill. He
stated that there were only "a servic-
able ships of war in the navy, and
something must be done to get lid of
the vessels and provide new ones under
the name of repairs.