St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-03-04
News and Gleanings.

Rev. John Cotton Smith, while re-
turning from a call on parishioner the
other night, was struck on the head
with club on the corner of Twelfth
street and Fifth avenue, n. Y, but
managed to prevent the robber from
clutching his watch and chain.
Alexander P. Phyfe has secured a
$4,000 verdict against the Manhattan
elevated railroad, n. Y, one of whose
brakemen pushed him from a car plat
form.
The city council of Portsmouth, n.
H., have granted exemption from tax
alton for 10 years to the projectors of a
cotton mandatory which it is intend
ed to build there at cost of $500, 900
or more. Frank Jones, the brewer, is
one of the projectors.
"My temperance friends" says Mr..
Garfield in Puck, ''let us compromise
| will never ask any of you to take a
drink" Is that hint of what may
now be expected at the White House?
Whitelaw Reid, it is said, is engaged
to be married to Miss Mills, daughter
of Ogden Mills, formerly president of
the bank of California, and now resid-
egant summer home at San Francisco.
Garfield has received the honorary
degree of Ii. ID from the university of
Pennsylvania.
A religious revival at Mentor, o., the
Mecca of the politicians, is converting
whole families.
The Texas House has passed bill to
mr. no nj. f,f, Il n
urged in eXtenuatiOn of crime.
Vice President Arthur has four Off
ces at his disposal, the chief of which,
the Senate restaurant, has brought him
no end of applications.
Chicago is taking steps to celebrate
the tenth anniversary of her big fire
next fall and talks of surprising any
display ever made in this country.
The center of population, which was
AZ miles north of east from Cincinnati
in 1870, will be within five miles of the
city now, Gen. Walker thinks.
The Vermont papers are printing n
"remedy for colds" and the last line of
it is highly pertinent and proper. Says
| the philosopher who fathers the pre-
scriptiOn: "Wipe your nose whenever
needed" Could anything be more
practical ? Never mind the campfire
or the squills. Vermont's common
sense has triumphed.-[B Boston Herald.
The Legislature would have done well
to have passed an act providing that
each member who voted for the tax
law should be made one of the listers
in his own town.
General Garfield, the report says,
will not take any of his Mentor furn-
iture to the White House. Indeed, we
did not suppose he had any left after
the heavy raids on it.
Northampton, Mass, is lucky place.
Judge Forbes has given them $500, 900
for library, though they are just on
the point of dedicating library build
ing built and presented at a cost of
S2l 900.
Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of Gen.
R. f. Lee, is said to be a beautiful and
queenly woman. She has been in
Washington this winter, and has re-
ceived many attentions.
1t was the intensely funny man of
the Boston Post who ascertained that
in Vermont if a man owes for his week S
washing, he must make oath to the
fact and give the name of the washer
| woman.
One of the latest agonies is the tying
up of the faces of the four-year-olds in
thick wells Sc that the winds shall not
spoil the compilations of the darlings.
Better keep them whitewashed.
Vermont, alone of the New England
states, does not make Washington's
birthday legal holiday.