St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-05-28
General News.

General NEWS.
son each of Abraham Lincoln and
Stephen A. Douglass are among the
Grant leaders in Illinois.
Bartlett's rake mill at So. TamwOrth,
N. H., with all its contents, including
5000 dozen rakes nearly ready for mar
ket, was burned last week. 1t was one
of the most complete establishments oil
the kind in the world.
1t is said that the writing on the pa
} per of the Declaration of Independ-
r ence is gradually fading out, so that its
, contents will soon become undeciphera-
BILE. Steps were taken four years age
to restore the writing, but the matter
: has been neglected.
Joel Eastman, delegate to Chicago
t from New Hampshire, is 83. A man
who was born before Washington died
ought not to go for Blaine for Wash
| ington's successor.
Dartmouth college gets another wind
} fall-a check of 500, 900 for the perma-
: nent fund from Henry Winkley of Phil
} adelphia, who but short time since
gave $4,000 for the Daniel Webster pro-
fessorship.
The first Chinaman to vote in Indi-
ana was conducted to the polls by a
colOred man, at the recent municipal
election at indianapolis, and voted the
straight republican ticket.
Henry Clay, 90 years old, a grandson
of the famous senator, and now prose-
cutting attorney at Louisville, KY, will
accompany the Howgate Arctic eXpe-
ditiOn as an aid to Lieut.. HOwgate.
Miss Bella Cook, the famous rider OF
California, will have 2O-mile race for
$500 a side, with Emma Jewett of
Litchfield, Mimi, at the state fair in
Minneapolis in September.
A Russian woman, whose name of the
pen is so. H." exclaims in her book
entitled Russia and England" ''The
Germans have reached their day, the
English their midday, the French their
afternoon, the Italians their evening,
the Spaniards their night the slaves
stand on the threshold of the morn
ing"
The Chicago Inter-Ocean has been
thoroughly investigating the different
varieties of candy fed to children, and
finds glucose, sulphuric acid, sulphate
of lime, arsenic and terra alba among
the principal Ingredients. The cOnclu-
sion is also arrived at that "the poison
Gus coloring matter increases all kidney
complaints"
The annual report of the B. C. g. NJ.
railroad shows gross earning of $780,
$50, an increase of SS7, 572, while the
net earnings have decreased S746, on
account of increased proportions amount
| inn n SH- O-n noi1 lie, nd
bills to the amount of SO, 554, accruing
prior to the last report, but paid this
year.
Potato bugs are running Boston's
suburban gardens.
A fire at Edinburgh, Pa, Saturday
night, destroyed S150,0OO worth OF
property, and left over 100 families
homeless.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale has with
drawn his name from the list of men,
bers of the st. Botolph club, giving as
the reason that he cannot approve OF
the liquor features of its program.
The editor of the Galena Qll.) Ga
zette, a personal friend of Grant, says
that the General will not withdraw
from the canvass. He did not seek a
anu llC uOCS llOL pIODOSt
to retreat.
The B. c. g. NJ. railroad is building a
new side track at Weirs Landing, and
: several large buildings are going up, in
anticipation of an unusual rush of sum
mer visitors.
| Daniel Emmons, who disappeared
| from Everett, Mass, in January, leav-
a shortage of $25, 900 in his account as
town treasurer, is discovered to be liv-
ing near San Francisco with Mrs
French, the adventures on whom he is
said to have spent the stolen money.
The Montreal Witness saws that the
f exodus of laborers has had tendency
, to raise wages in thatcity that .laborers
are now getting 81 per day, as against
15 cents, and even less, in the cores.
ponding period last year.
Nearly 10 inches of rain fell in Co.
: lumbus, Ca, in about "a hours, ending
+. Saturday morning. The railways were
badly washed, and several accidents
S occurred Ill consequence of the track
giving suddenly away, resulting in the
death of four men.
:. The House has passed the resolution
for the final adjournment of Congress
on the 3lSt.
1t is believed that the late VIM. B
Eaton of the Highland District, whose
remains were found at Fall River OIL
Saturday, committed suicide.
At the Baptist Bible convention al
Saratoga, Monday, Capt. Ebenezel
Morgan of Connecticut offered S25, OOC
: for the Bible translation work. DIR. T
> j. Conant is engaged to complete his
;, translation under the auspices of the
American and Foreign Bible Society.
The anniversary meeting of the N. E
e Woman Suffrage Association at Yves
leyan Hall, called together large at
tendance of those interested in the
/, cause, including many of its prominent
7 advocates. Mrs. Lucy Stone presided.
A prize was offered at an Odd Eel
: lows picnic in San Francisco, of chail
!, for the fattest baby, and when the
{ award was made it was discovered that
: the winner could not sit in it. The
; proud but exasperated mother declared
L that the blunder was ''just like these
men,