St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-05-27

five Republican members of the legisla-
ture are already pledged not to vote
for the reelection of either COnkling or
Plat.
Conkfng went to Albany to conduct
the campaign in person. His reception
is described as a sorry one only few
people of no prominence met him at
the railway station and escorted him to
his hotel.
IN GENERAL.
Coal oil has been discovered in
Indiana.
By the caving in of a mining shaft
at Deadwood, recently, several men
were covered up, and one of them
killed.
The temperance people of Ohio pro-
pose to nominate an independent
ticket in the next state election if the
two political parties do not put up
temperance men.
The students of Exeter On. H. acad-
envy are in rebellion, and it is expected
that some 40 of them will be expelled.
Jealousy caused the murder of a
thirteen year old boy at Nederland,
Col, by a woman.
Col. Thomas A. Scott, the Pennsyl-
vania railroad magnate, is dead i'll his
5Sth year.
In most of the Protestant churches
in Philadelphia on Sunday the clergy
men referred to the revised New Tes-
lament. Their views were i'll most
cases strongly in favor of it as a valua-
bic work which would throw light
upon many doubtful matters. In one
or two instances the work was con
demned.
President Garfield and Secretaries
Blaine, Window and KirkwOOd will
participate i'll the ceremonies i'll the
National Cemetery ut Gettysburg OF
Decoration Day. Governor HOyt and
staff, with the heads of departments
and both houses of the Legislature
have accepted invitations to he pres
will deliver the address.
Fires started in California grain
fields on Sunday, by lighted cigar
brown from a railroad car, destroyed
everal hundred acres of grain.
A farmer living in Markham Town
ship, 30 miles from Toronto, Canada
has discovered pit on his farm con
tanning 500 skulls and five times "a
many leg and arm bones. DR.. Wilson
of the university believes that it is III
Indian ossuary, and that the remains
have been under ground 200 years.
O'Reilly, who found and returned
Mrs. Vandcrbilt's diamond brooch a
New York some days ago, has beer
rewarded by position in the n. Y
Central depot.
The monument to commemorate thu
work of George b. Armstrong, the or
ganizer of the United States railwa,
postal service, was formally unveiled
ut Chicago on Friday i'll the presence o
5000 people.
The Anglo French Union Bank q
Paris has failed. This bank, the capi
tai of which is largely held in England
has 100 branches throughout France
and had been doing business on a cap
ital of I22 900, 900 francs. 1t was sup
posed to be in perfectly solvent con
dition.
The New York legislature has pass
ed law requiring employers to pro
vide women in their employ with seats
The army worm has made its appear
ance in portions of New Jersey, and i
doing great damage to vegetation.
Reports from various counties il
southwest Missouri are to the effec
that the fly has already ruined thou
sands of acres of wheat, and fears ar
entertained that the crop i'll that sec
ton of the state will be more than hal
destroyed.
Eight hundred thousand copies of TIN
revised New Testament have been or
dered in New York and Philadelphia.
The British government has taken
bold step in arresting Il Catholic prizes
in Ireland. Rev. Father Sheehy wa
taken into custody under the coercion
act, on the charge of exciting sedition.
BY the explosion of Is barrels q
Danforth's fluid in a cellar at ST
Joseph, Mo-, on>MOnday night, a larg
number of people were killed.
At Washington, Pa, the body q
Miss F. NJ. b. Kendall, late principal
of the Madison Und.) seminary, wa
cremated Monday night.
Thursday morning at five o'clock MI
James Revell of the Sunday COurie
started from New York on Il tifty-incl
bicycle with the intention of riding t.
Boston. He expected to reach tina
city, distant $40 miles, by Friday night
This, if accomplished, will be the hes
piece of long distance riding done il
this country.
The total number of letters malice
in the United States for the year end
ing Dec. 81, 1880, was ,053, 252, $40, o
an average of 81 for every man, woman
and child in the country. In addition
there were mailed :f24 $50, l40 pOsta
cards, SI2 OBJ, 900 newspapers and 40,
I4s, 792 magazines and other period
calls.
A fellow named Croft, who has re
Gently been postmaster ut Linton, Ohio
has been arrested for forging pOsta
money orders and postal cards. III
belongs to a gang of swindlers.
David Allen Towner, book -keepe
in Boston, shot himself dead Tuesday
on his mothers grave in MiddletOwn
Conn.
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