St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-22

that planted in 1880. The average
condition of the crop is not so high as
| the last two years, and is 80 against
| 100 last year. In all the North Allan
| tic states the crop is backward, owing
to cold, wet spring, but in the states
south of the Delaware river and on the
Gulf of Mexico it is reported as fair
! Texas, however, reports serious injury
from drouth. In the great corn pro-
ducing region bordering on the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers the average is
below last year. particularly in the
state of Iowa, which only reports a
condition of u, caused by cold
spring and too much rain in June. In
Illinois and Missouri the condition is
reported very favorable
In General.
A Swiss emigrant in Eagle Creek
| Valley, Mimi, became insane through
poor crops and inconsistencies, and kill
ed his wife, six children and himself
a two years fire in coal mine at
! Wilkesbarre, Pa, has been extinguish-
ed, and soon 800 people will be ut
work in the pit.
| a young woman of about ~ years
was found lying on the railroad track
near Hoosick, n. Y, where she meant
to destroy herself.
/ Prof. Bell, inventor of the Bell tele-
phone, is experimenting with electrici-
| ty to determine if possible the location
of the ball.
a fire in Paris on Sunday destroyed
over one million francs worth of prop
erty.
a bald-eagle was recently caught at
w llmlngton, Del, while trying to carry
of large Newfoundland dog.
North Carolina is agitating herself
over the temperance question in w;iy
to obllterate party and race lines to IA
remarkable extent. The result of an
appeal to the Legislature by over 25O,-
OoO petitioners for prohibitory law
was the passage of an act submitting
the question to the people mt special
August election only II of the 40
members were for unqualified prohibi-
ton a hot canvass is in progress.
The Ohio Democrats have nominated
j. w. Bookwalter for the governorship.
A brewers clerk was robbed of SO
900 ut New York the other afternoon.
in broad daylight.
Lightning cut off half u mans ear at
Railway, \. j., last week, but did not
hurt him aside from that.
Two boys at Rockport, Me, drowned
a companion the other day while at
tempting to rob him. They were i'm
mcdiately arrested.
An outlaw and counterfeiter who had
been arrested in Tennessee, and had
escaped to the woods, was afterwards
found dead beneath tree, having been
struck by lightning.
Rochester has had three deaths from
the toy pistol, Lewiston, Me-, Ports
mouth, n. H., and Richmond, Ind.
each one, Reading, Pa, three, all from
locklaw Lawrence, a girl whose eye
was put out, and Baltimore, as already
noticed, l3 deaths and 10 serious
wounds from the same cause. Phila-
delphia had IL deaths Il wear ago from
the toy pistol, and none this wear when
it was suppressed.
There has been 81. 900 fire at Red
Bank, n. J. Brooklyn had IA SI55. 900
blaze.
Miss Lillian Norton, who has been
singing with 40 much success in Rus
1 STA, and who has now been engaged at
the Paris Grand Opera for three years,
has returned, accompanied by her
mother, to the French capital, where
they propose to take up their abode.
Miss Norton will probably make her
debut ut the French Academy of Music
during the coming season.