St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-04-28

The House committee on commerce
recommends an expenditure of SO,
OOO,OOO for rivers and harbOrs.
Scoville has formally retired from
Guiteau's case.
Congress is asked by the New York
Produce Exchange to put II special tax
of not less than five cents per pound
on glucose OF grape sugar manufactur
ed or imported into this country.
A female crank from Connecticut has
been arrested i'll Washington, who says
she came there for the purpose of mar
rying President Arthur, and then she
intended to plead with him to pardon
Guiteau.
1t is thought that the new anti-Chi-
nese bill will not become law, as the
president cannot consistently sign it.
A verdict of 800, 900 has been rem
dered at Washington III favor of Hal
let ID. kilbOurn, and against eX-Ser-
geant-at-Arms thompson, for impris-
onment i'll 1876.
One Rain, formerly Il Mormon, takes
oath that eXCOngreSSman Cannon, the
Mormon, i'll 1855, endeavored to induce
Rain to murder Babbitt, then Secreta-
ry of the Territory of Utah.
Vests Indian Territory bill, which
will be reported favorably, contains Il
clause that every jury in the ease of an
Indian or negro accused of crime
shall be in part composed of persons
of the race accused.
The President has received Il peti-
ton for Sergeant Mason's pardon, sign
ed by sixty thousand Clevelanders.
A bill has been reported in the Sen
ate, providing a territorial government
for Alaska, and naming Sitka as the
capital.
Nominations by the President: AL
phOnsO Taft of Ohio, envoy eXtraordi-
nary and minister plenipotentiary from
the United States to Austria. VIM. l..
Dayton, of New Jersey, to be minister
of the United States to the Netherlands.
Nicholas Fish of New York, to be min
lister resident to Belgium. John NJ.
Francis, of New York, to he charge
d'affairs to Portugal. j. 2. Wickers-
ham, of Pennsylvania, to be charge
datfairs to Denmark. Adam Badeau,
of New York, to be consul general at
Havana. Harry l.. Slaight, of New
York, to be consul at Prescott, Canada.
In General.
A boiler exploded in the Sugar River
paper mill at ClaremOnt, y. H., last
week, killing one man and badly dam
aging the mill.
1t is reported that two thousand
Jewish families in Balta, Russia, have
been made homeless by recent riots.
The French Government has accept
ed the plans of De Lesseps for flooding
the Sahara Desert, at an estimated
cost of siXty-tive million francs.
Mclean, the fellow who shot at
Queen Victoria, has been found not
guilty on the ground of insanity. but
will be confined at the pleasure of the
Queen.
King Theebaw of Burmah has put to
death an inferior wife, two half-sisters,
the chancellor of the exchequer and 81
of their relatives.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
recently to rob "A passenger train on
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railway.
The British steamer Renpor, from
]
collided with a field of ice on the L 18th
and sank. All hands saved.
Edwin X. Prescott of Somerville
Mass, an insane man, murdered his
mOtherin-law, Mrs. Philemon K. Rus
sell.
In a recent trial of Chicago gambler,
there were p convictions and ac-
quittals.
Latest particulars from Brownsville
t Mo-, state that the damage done by
the recent cyclone will reach $500, 600
Nine persons were killed.
! An i-vaccinationist of Fall River
died from smallpox last week, ont
child died on Sunday and three are
sick with the disease.
Some parts of the West and SOutl
were visited on Saturday by tornado
and very heavy rain fall The los.
by heavy rain i'll st. Louis will foot uI
about S200,0OO.
. There was a SIS, 900 fire in Brooklyn
; on Sunday. One man was killed anC
26 horses were burned to death.
A gang of roughs ran amuck in thu
l town OF Greenfield, Mass, Saturda.