St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-02-06
sentenced to dismissal, but the serto.
was set aside by the president O'''nc'

Lady Burdett-COutts recent ro,
tea party to over 200 Lon don c IT,
and their wives, to induce the ca IInen
to treat their horses with kindness eu
Gen. Grant is to be furnished the r..
of house in the city of Mexico an %
also a country retreat in the famon.
castle of Chapultepec, situated tv,
miles from the city and overlookiDo
both city and valley.
Gambetta is developing into an eni
cure. He has great fondness for lgr
wings eggs, aud, as these birds are ra r
in France, he has rented large fnr1.'
heath near Osnabruck, Hanover. .aJ
has converted it into preserve, wbe,a
these birds will be raised to supply Il.
table with their eggs.
Archbishop Purcell has been faiIin.
pretty fast of late, and is now an inmas
of convent in Brown county, O.. hay
ing entirely given up administering the
work of the church. He is reporteJ
very weak, and prayers for the restor9.
ton of his health are offered in all Ia
churches of his diocese.
Edgar A. Poe's gold watch is now
owned by r. w. Albright of Fort Mad.
ison, Ia, whose brother, John w. Al.
bright, then a Philadelphia merchant
tailor, received it from the impecunious
poet in 1941 as security for several
notes.
A large elm tree stood on the SPOT
where man at Lewiston, N. Y. decd.
ed to build a residence. He did Do
cut 1t down, but built around it, and
the odd sight is presented of Tree
top growing out of the roof of a hand
some brick house.
Of 4430 miles of new railroad bpH,
last year no less than 3l87 miIes-noro
than the total completed in the wboIo
country in 1878-was west of thu W i,'
sissippi. Only one state (Ohio) eaS.1
the Mississippi built as much as pm
miles of road.
1t may be confidently expected that
the federal census of 1880 will place
Iowa as the sixth state in the Union in
population, the first in the production
of corn and pork, and not lower than
second i'll the growth of wheat.-GOr
Gears inaugural.
The prevalent exodus excitemeDt
among the negroes South is Just the
opportunity tile sharpers want. At
Washington, La, recently white
schemer organized the blacks into q
secret society, requiring each family TO
plank down from $40 to $50, according
to size, to pay the fare to Kansas but
soon their money was missing and the
pretended Moses was found in neigh
boring town spending it on high old
drunk.
The widow of President Tyler, in her
petition to Congress for a pension, saws
that her means of support were swept
away by the late depression of real es.
tate, and she continues, "In fact find
[ have scarcely anything whatever left
to live upon, and it is only in this ez-
tremity that l appear before you"
As last resort, the doctors in Dea-
ware City, O., gave man dying of n.y.
drophObia hypodemic injections of Gu.
rare, deadly poison, which produce,
paralysis of the nerves. As hydrOpho
bia poison is believed to be accompani
ed by OverexcitatiOn of the nerve
centers, it was hoped the two poison,
would counterfeit each other; but the
man died in horrible torture.
An action of ejectment for S23.OM
was entered Monday at Montreal againd
James WOrthingtOn, the lessee of tht
hotel, for rent.
Princess Louise arrived at Halifax.
n. S., Monday from her visit to Eng.
and, and goes to Ottawa to-day. She
suffered much on the voyage from
rough weather.
Hot house Strawberries are so ce.
apiece at Boston.
John d. Gardiner and wife Of Fur
mace Village, near Easton, Mass, weF
burned to death early Sunday morning.,
the woman knocking over a kerosene
lamp while both were drunk from then
nights spree, and too help
less to escape. The house was paltly
destroyed.
Alice Baker of Fall River, six yeas
old, tried to kindle fire with kerosene
oil Monday, and was fatally burned.
freeman, the Pocasset child-mulder-
or and fanatic, was committed to tbe
Danvers asylum Monday. His wife
chung to him all the way with notcel-
BILE affection.
The Boston fire of Sunday night reD.
1ered nine families homeless and drove
eight others temporarily into the cold
gale. Two firemen, Henry c. Whitney
and James II. McAllister, were swept
down ladder with their hose pipe by
4 burst of fame and badly hurt. The
new triple nozzle, by which the streams
from three engines are concentrated in
,ne, was brought into use, and threw
| large volume of water with great
'orce into the burning mass.
Three masked men entered the ticket
office of the Whitefeld railroad Sunday
evening, drugged, gagged and bound
he assistant station agent, W. c.
McCauseland, and robbed him of Sl35
belonging to the Boston, Concord and
Montreal railroad company. McCause-
and oD recovering consciousness de
'cribed the robbers, who prove to be
Frenchmen.
The Boston Herald of Monday, il
an error which appeared 10
4 previous issue, in spirit of canNm
which all writers for the press WoulG
10 well to emulate, says: sit Is Out
lair to add that the error was not due
% the stupidity of the Intelligent com
Dositor,' nor to the laundering OF the
lightning proof-reader, but was solely
attributable to that curse of all COM
posing rooms-'blind copy"
A Boston minister was badly "taken
n" the other day by young couple
who called to get married. The charge
being SIS, the supposed bridegroom
$50 bill and $45 in change
vas handed back. The bill was subSe-,
luently found to be counterfeit, and
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