St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-30
News of the Week.
Rev. DIR. Leonard Bacon, the emf
nent divine, of New Haven, is dead.

Rev. DIR. Leonard Bacon, the emf
nent divine, of New Haven, is dead.
A large steamship was seen to sink
in the Atlantic during Il great gale on
the Goth inst, and it is feared that all
her company were lost.
Another six days pedestrianic con-
test was entered upon in New York on
Monday.
The rapid spread of scarlet fever in
New York Is causing good deal of
alarm 244 cases were reported during
the week ending Dec. IL. There were
81 deaths from that cause last week.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that the
advance i'll prices compared with last
year makes up for the short crops. and
that the Western farmers are doing
well.
New York had two million dollar
fire on Saturday night.
A body of temperance" people of
Cedarville, O., broke into all the drink
ing saloons in that town at 3 o'clock
Saturday morning, and besides de
stroying all the liquors, nearly demol-
ished some of the buildings.
The emigration from Germany in
1882 promises to exceed that Of any
previous year fourteen thousand tick
cts have already been engaged from
Bremen to America.
The British barque Helenslee was
run into off Queenstown and sunk.
Nine men drowned.
Hon. A. H. Stephens observed his
25th Christmas day at Washington on
Sunday.
There are only two unadulterated
free traders on the Ways and Means
Committee.
Heavy rains at the West and South
have raised the streams considerably.
High water in the Licking River in
Kentucky has done considerable dam
age.
An earnest effort is being made to
Danish Intoxicating beverages from the
New Year Day tables. They have not
been served at the White House since
the days of Jackson.
A team containing five persons was
thrown from bridge near Elmira, n.
y, Thursday night, during a severe
storm, and all were seriously injured.
Montreal financial circles have been
thrown into state of excitement on
receipt of Il communication from the
| Finance Minister calling for informa-
| ton concerning the foreign loans and
securities of the banks.
Fifteen hundred Mormon converts
have been made in England since last
August.
The Pennsylvania anthracite coal
mines will produce this year p, 800, 000
tons 81, 1000, 900 will probably he pro
duced next year.
The total subscriptions to the Gar
field Monument Fund amount to SSl, ;
600, of which Cleveland contributes
SOL, 900.
A jew pickpocket was captured i'm a
! Warsaw church on Sunday while ply
ing his trade, and to escape shouted
fire. This created a panic, resulting in
the death of forty persons and serious
injury to many others. An Infatuated
mob then attacked the jew quarters
wrecking several shops.
But little hope is entertained for the
safety of the steamers City of London
which sailed from London November
;'d for New York the Henry Edge
from Antwerp November 81 for Bos-
ton, and the Lord Byron, from Ham
burg November - for New York.
| Another plot to assassinate the Czal
has been discovered i'll season to defeat
the plans of the conspiIators.
Deficient and wrongfully credited
clerks are being weeded out from the
several departments at Washington
Guiteau has finally been removed to
the prisoners dock, and will not cause
so much disturbance.