St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-12-08
General News.

There are So 35 male and 567 female
voters in Boston.
Gen. George Thomas died at George
town, d. c., Saturday night.
The Mormon candidate for delegate
for Utah has almost eighteen thousand
plurality.
The grand jury at st. Louis refused
to indict John A. CockercIl for shoot
ing Col. Slayback.
The tariff commission have made
their report and urge general reduc-
ton of twenty per cent.
The Dean of Westminster has given
his consent to the placing of a bust of
Longfellow in the Abbey.
Arkansas has leased its convicts for
ten years at 1919 month for each
man and all incidental expenses.
The greenbackers elected two MEM
bers of state Legislatures, anyhow ;
one in Indiana and one in Missouri.
Kellogg has IA majority in the third
Louisiana district, but the governor
refuses him certificate on the ground
of nOn-residence.
val ldlI tlOStu
Saturday night. Most of the goods
were disposed of. The estimated re-
ceipts reached 800, 900.
The late Thurlow Weed divides his
property, valued at from $500 900 to
800, 900, between his three daughters
and six grandchildren.
Colorado expects to dig up about
S24 420, 600 worth of the precious met
ais this year, an increase of 10 per cent
from the product of 1881.
At last Washington's body servant
is in jail at the national capital, and
the newspaper correspondent Will
know just where to lock for Lin.
Cleveland had majority of 200, 200
or Whereabouts, but he had, after all.
fewer votes than Hancock had in 1880,
yet Hancock did not carry the state.
New Orleans is Mortified to find that
twenty of its eighty-one bakeries make
bread with well water, which is always
unfit for drinking and absolutely poi
sOnOus.
The seat in Congress of w. w.
Phelps of New jersey is to be contest
ed by his opponent in the late election,
John Ryle, Oh the grounds of fraud,
bribery and corruption.
The comptroller of the currency re-
ports Z BOP banks in the country, with
a total capital of 7I2 millions. During
the year III banks have been organ
lied, and 10 discontinued.
Jay Gould has purchased a burial
lot in WOOdlawn cemetery which
takes in about an acre of ground and
covers an entire hill overlooking the
cemetery. The price is about S40,0O0
General J. b. Weaver and Hon. f.
| II. Gillette, well-knOwn greenback pol
iticians, have bought the Iowa State
| Tribune. 1t is understood that the
paper under their control will advocate
the new anti-mOnOpOlist party.
j. r. Chalmers has been counted out
in the second Mississippi district be
cause his name was incorrectly spelled
in the tally sheet of one county. The
governor has granted a certificate t.
his opponent, Van II. Manning.
The Garfield board of audit awards
So, $50, of which DIR. ID. w. Bliss gets
S650O DR.. ID. II. Agnew, 5000 DIR
Frank H. Hamilton, 5000; DIR. Robert
Reyburn, $1,000; DIR. Silas A. BOynton
$4,000 DR.. Susan A. Edison, $1,000.
The repudiating wing of the Arkan-
sas democracy claims to have a MAORI.
| ty in both houses of the next legisla-
ture, and it proposes to resubmit "A con-
stitutional amendment to the people
declaring about SI3,OOO,0O0 of the
state debt fraudulent.
President Arthur will call special
session of the new Senate Immediately
after the 4th of March to elect "A presi-
dent pro TEN, who will he acting Vice
/ President until March 4, 1855, and
wonld become pr esident in case of Mr.
Arthur's death. 1t is believed thai
Senator Anthony of Rhode Island will
/ he chosen.
In North Newport, Maine, Wednes-
day afternoon, Charles CrOwell shot
Miss Nellie Prilay and then shot him.
self. Both died in "A few minutes with
out speaking. CrOwell had been pay
ing attentions to Miss Prilay, and was
carrying her home from st. Albans
where she had been teaching. No mo
tive for the deed is known.