St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-17

was also weighed and found to cores
pond with the other within halfa grain.
They are both mimic pattern and ev-
identity came from the same pistol.
These facts seem to establish beyond Il
doubt that A. c. Soteldo shot his broth
ct when firing at Barton. The Tribune
says that young SOteldo has served one
year in the penitentiary for assaulting
and robbing a man i'll New York in rs.
In General.
Six dangerous forgers from New
York We're captured in Chicago the
other day.
Special Agent n. NJ. Curtis of the
New York Custom House is to he re-
moved for making political assess
ments during the last campaign.
The Boston Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Children is making
war on liquor dealers who sell to mi
nors.
The German ship Lizette. from New
York for st. Johns, \. F.. foundered
lately and all hands were probably lost.
Ten men We're drowned off Hatteras
recently by the wreck of the barque F.
| l.. Carney.
The length of the proposed tunnel
under the st. Lawrence is 1880 feet,
nearly three miles. 1t will be lined
with brick masonry.
William Miller, the oldest Mason i'll
the United States, died recently, mt
Caldwell. O. He had been Mason 81
years.
Five persons were burned to death
at ModOc. Ontario, last Thursday
night, and two others were fatally in
Ijured.
The initial rehearsal of the Brooklyn
and New York Philharmonic choruses,
preparatory to the grand May musical
festival, took place last Thursday night
under Theodore Thomas. 1t was COM
pletely successful. The chorus will be
increased to 1900 voices, and will in
clude the Worcester musical society
and the Handel and Haydn of Boston.
There is a great temperance move
ment in Arkansas, thousands have tax
en- the pledge and many liquor saloons
are closed. Women are credited with
having done most of this work.
The crowd of spectators at the open
ing of parliament ut Ottawa was so
great that several ladies tainted.
A gang of tramps boarded a train
near Tcrre Haute, Ind, and tried to
take possession of the baggage car.
They were elected and three were cap
tured and found to he men released
from jail in the morning. The bag
gage-master was badly bruised.
The Kansas supreme court has de
cided unconstitutional at Topeka so
much of the prohibitory law as pre-
scribes il punishment for drunkenness,
on the ground that that provision was
not expressed in the title of the bill.
Berthold Auerbach, the celebrated
German novelist, died at Cannes, the
Sth, aged 20.
Rhode Island pays its Legislators one
dollar a day and throws in newspa-
per.
1t is alleged and contradicted that
the Mayor of Adrian, Mich, illegally
issued Sl5O,OOO i'll bonds, negotiated
them in New York and other eastern
cities, and fled.
Philadelphia has Il mining swindle
An over-issue of IlS.OOO shares in the
Grand Union Mining Company has
been discovered.
At saloon fight in Milwaukee the
other evening three eX-district attor-
neys and an alderman participated, he
sides some ''prOminent citizens" and
several were 50 badly bruised that they
avoided the public view for some days
after.
Small poX is on the decrease at Chi
cago.
Montreal is excited over the discov-
cry of Wholesale grave robberies. Six
bodies have been stolen during the past
week and it is charged sent to dis
secting rooms in New York, Boston
and other cities.