St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-06-10

through. These bags must also be in
closed in boxes or tubes made of hard
wood or metal with sliding or clasp or
screw lids.
Crooked transactions have been dis
covered in the sixth auditors office.
There is a deficit of half a million
dollars in the census bureau, and the
next Congress will be asked to make it
good.
The Albany Contest.
In Wednesdays vote on the New
York Scholarships Conkling had "a
votes, Platt 20, Wheeler 81, Cornell 81,
and Depew 81. The Democratic can
didates, Herman and Jacobs. had re-
spectively 81 and 30. Depew is gain
ing, while Conkling is evidently losing
ground. COnkling, however, feels well
and means to see the issue to the bit
ter end, even if it takes all summer.
In General.
Montreal is to institute proceedings
to recover claim of S63l 800 against
the Grand Trunk railway.
An intermarriage between a China
man named Lee Chin, and a white
woman, Mrs. Eva H. Lee, is attracting
much attention at Cheyenne, Wy. The
statutes of Wyoming forbid such in
termarriage.
The steamship Glen Logan, from
New York May 5 for several South
American ports, has been burned at
sea off Ceara, Brazil. The passengers
and crew escaped in boats.
Over one thousand employees of the
New York breweries are on strike.
A robbery of between S90,0O0 and
! 100000 i'll bonds from the Erie cOun-
ty savings bank at Buffalo, n. Y, has
Just come to light. The bonds were
carelessly laid on the treasurer's desk
after number of coupons had been
cut from them, and were taken from
the desk. A number of them have
been traced to Baltimore.
Bangor, Me-, has just had an $S0,OOC
fire, which throws 100 men out of en-
ployment.
Lowell (Mass.) officers have seized
$4,000 worth of liquor from Il dealer
who had no license.
A fOrgctful operator at Cedar Rapids
Ia, caused collision between two
heavily loaded freight trains day Oh
two ago, which resulted fatally to two
men.
Despcradoes are causing a reign Oi
terror i'll Colorado, and the Governor
has called out the troops.
Frank Hart, the American pedes-
trian, has been held in 800 in tn,
MiddleseX court of sessions ut London
Eng, for assaulting and robbing ;
woman.
The Panama railroad has been SOLD
to the DcLesseps Canal Company
g.. The capital stock of the Panama rail
road company is 81 ,0O0,0O0. Tn,
terms of the transaction for the transfe
OF control provide for the payment %
81 200, 900 i'll cash on July |, and tn,
remainder to he paid in installments o
Onc-fifth every year.
Elijah Sterling, of Crisfcld, Md, ha
) killed his wife i'll Il religious quarrel.
: MaXimilian Paul Emile LittrG, tn,
eminent French publicist and philOl
ogist, is dead ut the age of 50 years.
Doyle, the noted comterfeiter, in
dicted in Chicago for having in hi
possession S20O,O00 in counterfeit gov
eminent bonds, was convicted oil
Saturday.
The losses to Iowa farmers this yea
from poor seed will amount to 81,
0O0,0 900.
A IO-years- old son of Michael He'll
bargcr of Lancaster, O., killed anOthe
boy, the son of Henry Stracke, tn,
other night by stabbing him to tn,
heart with Il pOcket-knife.
Evictions at the point of the bayone
are going on III Ireland, and rioting il
the order of the day. There are no
less than 10000 soldiers on the island
There was "A severe frost at Comic
cook, n. H., Saturday night. The
ground was frozen half an inch. Their,
was heavy frost at WATERFOWL, n
Y, and did much damage to crops.
Griscom, the Chicago faster, ha,
stood it ten days up to the 9th, ano
was in pretty good condition, and haC
begun to gain little in weight.
A Vienna dispatch says the town o
Siniawa, in Galicia, has been destroye,
by a contlagration. Three thousano
persons are homeless.
The army of the Potomac has jus
held its reunion ut Hartford, Conn.