St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-19


A boy by the name of Herrick, while
attempting to jump on a freight train
at So. RoyaltOn, was run over by a car
Saturday evening and his foot was bad
ly crushed. Sunday evening he died.
He is the second one killed in the same
way and place, but doubtless other
boys will continue to run the same risks
whenever an opportunity occurs.
Public opinion already has indicted,
tried, convicted and sentenced Barnum
and his associates. Judgment will GER
tainly be executed, although their ex-
traOrdinary thickness of skin may
make them for some time unconscious
of their punishment.-N New York Post.
Gen. Garfeld's special escort on in
auguration day, it is said, will be the
national tow-path club, which will APP
pear in line with genuine canal-boat,
mounted and drawn by mules, with the
crew in appropriate costume.
One great improvement about the
White House is the view from the
south windows. The White lot, as it
is called, has been laid out according to
Downing, and an ellipse of parking
made just beyond the White-House
grounds proper. The drives have been
put in handsome shape, and the mOuu-
ment beyond is slowly mounting to its
terminal point of 500 feet. These chan
ges are the more marked, as the lot of
the past was one of horrible aspects.
Coal ashes, garbage and offal had been
dumped for years directly in front of
The White House windows.
Lucretia Mott, the Quaker philan-
thropist and reformer, died Thursday
evening, the 18th inst, at her home at
Cheltou Hills near Philadelphia. Mrs.
Motifs maiden name was Coffin, and
she was born on Nantucket Island in
Massachusetts, January 3, 1893. Her
family removed to Boston in 1901, and
to Philadelphia in 1909, where she was
married two years later to James Mott.
Soon after marriage she became teacher
and then preacher in the Society of
Friends.
Jesse Pomroy, the boy murderer, has
been frustrated in another scheme to
escape from his strong cell in the Mas
sachusetts state prison by saving
through the thick boiler easing of the
same with saw imprOvised for the oc-
casion out of a knife used in his cell,
and then he succeeded in cutting an
aperture through it which was I8 inch
es long and nine inches wide.
Railroad engineers have been in Coos
county looking over the ground for a
proposed extension of the Boston, Con-
cord and Montreal railroad northward
from Gr0veton junction.
The notorious DR.. John Buchanan
of Philadelphia was arraigned in the
court of quarter cession Friday and
pleaded guilty to two charges of selling
academic degrees. Sentence was de-
ferred.
The New Orleans hotels are substi-
tuting white girls for the colored wait
ers and like the change.
Prof. Hiram Meade of Oberlin college
delivered a long address on "The Ex-
pediency of Formulating a New SYM
Dol of Faith for Congregational Church
es" before the Congregational triennial
council at ST. Louis Friday.
The Michigan Central, Illinois Cen
trail and Chicago, Burlington and Quin-
cy roads have bought three blocks
north of the exposition building at
Chicago, on which to build large lake
front depot.
Rev. Edward Eggleston is resting
near Lake George, and slowly regain |
ing his health. His Lee-avenue church |
in Brooklyn has resolved to go back to |
q qualified COngregationalism, but has |
called Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, Metho-
dist, whose wife, Sarah j. Timumas, is
a well-known Sunday -school writer.
st. Louis, which is now the leadino
interior cotton town of the country
values its cotton business at $50 1000. 900
a year.
Sir Thomas Bouch, the engineer who
built the Tay bridge, died a fortnight
ago, worn down with modification and
chagrin.
A brooklyn woman lost a package
containing about $4,000 while shop
ping IN New York store the other
Iay, and has not recovered it, though
Soo0O reward is offered for its return.
For the double duty of acting as
train dispatcher and operator, and put
ting in IL or Is consecutive hours work
daily, only $50 per month is paid to its
telegraph operator by one of the largest
railroads running out of Boston.
Fred Palmer, son of the manager of
the Western Union telegraph Office of
Elmira, N. Y, has lost an eye from ep-
zootic poisoning, and the other eve is
endangered. After wiping some horse
'pittle from his coat sleeve with a
handkerchief, young Palmer used the
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