St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-15
News and Gleanings.

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appearing scoundrel.
The late Senator Carpenter was
buried on Sunday near Milwaukee.
Moody and Sankey have left San
Francisco for the East. At meeting
on Thursday Ss2 900 was raised to pay
off the debt Oh the Y NJ. c. A. build
ing.
a novel amendment is proposed to
the penal code of California. Life SELL
fences are to be COMMITTED upon life in
suraRce tables, permitting the discharge
of a prisoner at the arrival of the time
when he ought to die according to the
average tables.
Some wealthy dealers have made a
Corner in pork and Lard at Chicago,
aud prices have advanced in conse-
quence.
Tens of thousands of cattle are re-
ported to be dying in Attakapas cOun
~, La. for the want of proper nourish
ment.
A dispatch from Constantinople re-
ports that the shocks of earthquake in
Chic have ceased. 1t is believed that
the number of the victims has been ex-
aggeratcd.
The murderers of the Car of Russia
have been tried and sentenced to be
hanged.
A special to the Chicago Daily News
from Omaha says the river registers 81
feet , inches, and is rising slowly. The
situation is critical. The water has
swept away the Union Pacific track.
Representatives of the Central Yer
mont, South Eastern, Passumpsic and
Boston, Concord and Montreal, at Mon
treal have agreed to a basis for Il pool
ing arrangement.
Dartmouth college has elected Prof.
j. II. Hewitt professor of Greek He il
graduate of Yale.
The Boston Stock Exchange has ad-
mitted to the list the St. Johnsbury
aud Lake Champlain Railroad Com
pany, incorporated January 81, 1881,
under the laws of Vermont.
Three white men in Sacramento,
Cal, are the first persons to he fined
under new California law making
opium -sm oking crime.
The presidents mother. it is reported
finds the excitement of the White
House too trying for her, and will soon
return to Mentor.
Ex-Mayor Doyle seems to he "thc
favorits SON of Providence. After
being mayor Is years that city has just
elected him to the state senate.
The Chicago negroes voted the dem
ocratic ticket and were active i'll its
Chicago Tribune is moved to admit
that the negro sometimes acts from un-
worthy motives in politics.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
issued Il circular announcing his re
funding policy. He calls in all the q
per cents, and proposes to holders in
their option to extend them at 81 per
cent. interest, OF to extinguish the debt
by full payment.
A party of masked men rode into a
Toledo county town, Ark, Monday,
and while one half surrounded the
Court House, the others entered the
Treasury, blew open the safe, stole
from $4,000 to $4,000 and escaped.
Newton Gage has been appointed
post master at AscutDeyville, W. b.
Wescom al Belvidere Corner, James F.
Whalen at Bolton, Carlos A. Parker at
Bloomington, Robert b. Snith at
Greensboro Bend, Allen l.. Pease at
Hartford.
Senator Edmunds has returned to
Washington and appeared in the senate
with improved looks and health, hav
ing gained seven or eight pounds dur
ing his absence. His special trouble,
bronchitis, has entirely disappeared.
A religious lunatic named Hattie
DUEL, refraiped from speaking for three
years, and capped the climax of her in
sanity by refusing to eat any more.
She succeeded III living on water for
forty-seven days, and died Tuesday,
thus beating the celebrated Tanner, by
dying.
Jay Gould succeeds Thomas Scott as
President of the Texas Pacific Railway.
r. Mr.. Moody appeared before
large Chinese audience recently in the
Frat Drashx.sri,,, rhurcb Con Ero-
cisco. He delivered sermon in Eng
lish, which the Mongolians listened to
with much attention. The most of them
did not appear to understand the evan
gelist, but they were very attentive and
greatly interested. A Chinaman pre-
sided at the organ, and led his country
men in several hymns.
~ In Morton, Pa, two young girls