St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18

cry railroad, but every household.
The New York Public advises jay
Gould to strangle all opposition by an
nouncing uniform rate of % cents a
dispatch for all distances.
G. Washington tried to keep a diary
of military proceedings during the Rev
olution and failed. This will he some
comfort to the young people who are
picking up their 1881 diaries just now
and wondering if they ever can catch
up.
The rum traffic has received its death
blow in South Carolina, Charleston
correspondent says, and Frances E.
Willard is about to begin a stumping
tour through the state to urge on the
cOnquering host. The cold-w water army
has already added hundreds to its
ranks in the principal towns.
Miss Frances Z. Willard, president
of the Mrs. Hayes testimonial commits
sion, who is now in Washington, as
suIes the public ''upon absolute aud
immediate authority" that no ''rum
punch" either liquid or frozen, and no
Intoxicating liquors of any kind are fur
nished at the White House, nor does
the president take wine at home or
abroad.
The will of the late John NJ. Pinker-
ton bequeaths $200,0O0 to Pinkerton
Academy, Derry, n. II.
DR.. Augustine Thompson of Lowell,
homeopathic, charges that the vac
cinatiOn of the French quarter of the
city in 1880 was done with poisonous
virus, and that many were thereby
MANNED for life and others killed out
right, and demands Il hearing in the
matter, which has been granted.
Frederick c. Dickinson of Newport
reports that he has been denied admis-
sion to the Eastman commercial col
lege at Poughkeepsie, n. Y, on account
of his color.
ga blizzard" says a Dakota man, sis
the Northwestern name for a gale of
wind filled with snow and icy particles,
as fine as rice powder, with a tempera-
ture 10 or 20 degrees below zero"
The vinegar factories are to pay
stamp tax of 80 cents per barrel, instead
OF being treated like dstillers and bur
dened with a special agent, provided,
at this late date in the session, the COM
mittee on ways and means can pass a
bill to this effect.
Jay Gould owns two of the New York
city dailies, and has just puTch ased Il
large interest in another.
EulOgies upon the late major E. w.
Farr were delivered in congress last
Tuesday, Ossian Ray making his maiden
speech.
Ex-Gov. Washburne was stricken
down with vertigo recently, at Lacrosse
Wisconsin, and much apprehension is
felt about his health.
Judge Hovey of the Connecticut su-
perior court has just decided IA novel
point i'll the law relating to appeals. In
the will case of Brown VS.. Smith, tried
at Norwich in 1879, an appeal was tax
en- on the ground that one of the Jurors
had talked about the case with interest
ed parties. Upon demurrer Judge II.
rules that the appeal, which was not
taken till some time after the verdict,
should have been made within u hours,
and refuses to set aside the verdict.
The Washington Republican natural
ly wants big show at the Inauguration
and sees no reason why levy should
not be made on the department clerks
for funds ; and so it abuses Sec'y Schurz
because he will not allow the clerks in
his department to be assessed for that
purpose. Mr.. Schurz is right; the in
auguration display will benefit the no.
tel keepers more than any other class,
and they should provide for the greater
share of the expense.
The Boston city government paid
Sl3 BOO for refreshments and cigars for
its committees while ut work last year,
not including the amounts paid for the
entertainment of guests of the city.
The meetings of the Central Vermont,
Northern, Concord, Lowell and Nashua.
and Boston and Lowell Railroads in
Boston, are reported to have agreed
that operations shall be resumed as be
fore, beginning with yesterday. This
is the route by which the Central Yer
mont sent its through freight before
quarreliug with the Northern railroad.
Richard Taft, a wel-known landlord
of White mountain hotels, died at Lit
Teton yesterday in his Goth year. He
was the first proprietor of the FlHme
house, FrancOnia notch, was part pro-
prietor of the Profile house, one of the
prOprietOTs of the Profile & Franconia
Notch railroad, and had always been
prominently identified with bringing
the beauties of the White mountains be-
fore the public.
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