St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-02
News of the Week.

the whole good night. Pulse now 100.
News of the Week.
A mild form of epizootic is attacking
the street car horses of Chicago. About
IS are disabled, but no deaths have oc-
Cured.
Mrs. Hannah Cox of Holderness, n.
H., the oldest person in New England,
is dead, aged over los years.
The National Board of Health warns
all health officials at Atlantic ports to
closely watch vessels from Cuba for
yellow fever and small pox.
The steamer State of New York,
plying between Hartford and New
York city, ran upon rock Sunday
night and was sunk. One life was
lost.
A heavy rain-storm in England last
week seriously damaged the grain crop.
Now that the Irish Land law has
been reformed the London News says
that English tenants intend to look to
an amehoratiOn of their condition.
Rosa Blake of Piermont, n. H., a
married lady about 30 years old, hung
herself to the garnet Monday morning.
Insanity is thought to have been the
cause.
A seventy nine pound bass was
caught off Portsmouth recently, the
largest ever taken in that vicinity 1t
took two hours to get him into the
boat. .... .. ,.. .
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prOrogued.
Lieut.. B. L. Edes of Washington
and Lieut.. Lyman G. Spaulding of
Portsmouth, n. H., were blown to
pieces on Monday in Newport harbor
while planting mines for harbOr de-
fence.
A hurricane did a great deal of dam
age to property in Port Royal and
Beaufort, S. c., Saturday night. At
the former place several persons were
drowned. Savannah also suffered Sc
verely about 50 dwelling houses were
damaged, while many public buildings
were injured. The pecuniary loss will
be very large, and number of cOlOred
people were drowned in the vicinity of
Savannah. ...
Thirty freight cars, partially loaded,
on the Cleveland and Columbus rail
road, were burned Sunday night at
| Cleveland o.
There are said to be 900 liquor sell
ers at Manchester, over 700 of whom
have United States licenses.
The persecution of the Jews in Ger
many is believed to have terminated,
at least for the present, owing to the
Emperor's declaration of his great dis
approval. .....
The people of Alaska have held a
convention and memorialized Congress
to give them government of some sort
Miss Kate Griggs died at Long
Branch, as is alleged, from blood-pois-
oning, caused by using an anti-fat mix
ture.
| Chicago cotton merchants estimate Z
falling off of a million and a half OF
bales i'll this years cotton crop.
The epizootic appeared among Chi
cagO horses.
1t is reported that Indians have mas
sacred seventy people in Eureka, New
Mexico.
On Saturday morning, as Western
bound passenger train on the New
York Central railroad was approaching
Amsterdam, n. Y, something project
ing from passing freight train enter
ed window of one of the Wagner cars
striking John F. Hobbs of North
Hampton, \. H., upon the left arm
The bones were shattered and amputa,
ton was necessary, but Hobbs died
from the effects of it. .
The editor of the Daily Herald O
Quincy, H., was burned in effigy OIL
Saturday night by an indignant public
because of outrageous statements pub
lished in regard to President Garfield
Seven Wholesale houses at Evans
vile, Ind, were burned, with theil
contents, the other day, causing "a Loss
of S200,000 The insurance is $40,
600. One fireman was killed.
The amalgamation of the Canadian
telegraph companies with the Western
! Union system was successfully accom-
plished on Saturday.
The Kentucky whiskey product this
year will, it is said, be not more thar
half that of last year. Lack of water
has dwarfed the corn. ... Y....
One of Chicago's big pork establish
ments was burned on Friday morning
Twenty tons of bacon were destroyed
and several lives lost.