St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-12-15

The act of the Maryland legislature
in reviving the whipping-post is to be
contested As unconstitutional.
A man l0l years old has, at Louis
vile, KY, asked for a license to marry
a young girl of nineteen years.
The official canvass of Massachusetts
gives Butler 1889 and Bishop 49,
$50; Ames I34, 1873 and Bowerman TO-
67S.
There are in the Methodist Episcopal
church 20, 463 Sunday schools, 1000
officers and teachers and l,5S6, 900
scholars.
The post-Office department wants
persons who send newspapers by mail
to write their names and addresses on
the wrappers.
1t is estimated that the liquor saloons
of Chicago sell SI0,OOO,O0O worth of
liquors per year. OF this amount So
600, 900 is net profit.
StilsOn Hutchins retires from his con-
nectiOn with the Manchester Union,
transferring his interest to his associ-
ate, Joseph C. Moore.
Alexander Gardner, who achieved
national reputation during the war by
his Photographic work with the army
of the Potomac, is dead.
In New York but few arrests were
made Sunday, for violation of the pen
? al code. A number of Hebrew mer-
chants kept their stores open.
Governor Long has appointed Oliver
| Wendell Holmes, Jr., to be justice of
the supreme court of Massachusetts in
place of Judge Lord, resigned.
Congress is to be asked by the I'M
| terrified holders of the centennial eX-
position stock to make up their losses,
amounting to nearly S2,000,000.
! Postmaster General Howe refuses to
eXpend any of the 5000, 900 fund in his
possession to hire special mail train
between Boston and New York.
Cincinnati has direct telephone con-
nectiOn with one hundred towns in
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, and its
system has 10000 messages a day.
Cyrus Barber of Westerly, Il. l., suf-
fering from religious insanity, jumped
from Il window Sunday night, ran to a
wood pile and chopped his leg nearly
off.
Minnesota is the banner republican
state this year of general disaster. On
the congressional vote in the late cleo
ton the republican majority was 33,
S7S.
Leo. Kill will celebrate the fiftieth
anniversary of his ordination as "A
priest on Dec. %. A mass for his holi-
ness will be said throughout Europe on
that day.
Official returns for governor of New
Hampshire make Samuel w. Hale's
majority 542. The total vote is Hale
rep, Is, Az; Edgerly, (dem.), 3G,9I9;
scattering, $50.
1t is stated by members of the house
committee that Il river and harbor bill
of moderate proportions will be pre-
pared this session, and efforts made ia
secure its passage.
1t is said that if ex-senator Dorsey
does not resign the secretaryship of the
republican state committee when il
meets in January, he will he removed
by the committee.
The funeral of the Archbishop of
Canterbury was attended by large
assemhlage, including many prominent
clergymen. A deputatiOn of non con
formers were present.
Senator Hawley introduced bill to
punish an employee of the government
who sOlicits or receives political ASSESS
ments by a fine of $1,000 or three years
imprisonment, or both.
Senator Jones, of Florida, is believed
to be the youngest man who has ever
served seven consecutive years in the
senate. He is only AZ. His second
term will not expire until 1887.
Experiments recently made in Ger
many promise to overcome the diff
Guilty heretofore experienced in the
use of the telephone for long distances
where the wires are laid underground.
A chest containing S27 900 in old
French coin is reported to have been
dug up in Franklin, Penn, few days
ago. 1t was probably placed there in
1859, when Fort MacNault was evacu-
ated.
Clerk Mcpherson has computed that
there will he l9l democrats, l2l repub-
lacans, & readjusters, 3 independent
democrats and , Independent republi-
cans. The democrats will have ma
iority of 80 over all.
On Sunday Fletcher Wilcox, pastor
of the Christian church of Chicago,
preached a sermon denying the i'm
mortality of the soul and claiming that
eternal life was to be the reward OF
virtue. The church dismissed Wilcox
j. c. 5. Blackburn, despite the can
didacy of j. G. Carlisle of Kentucky
for the speakership of the next house,
M. r.,
divide the support of the Kentucky
delegation between the two candidates.
DR.. Yarrow, of the army medical
museum, denies that Guiteau's skele-
ton has been articulated for exhibition.
The remains are ready to be turned
over to the person designated by the
court before which litigation is pend
ing.
1t is said that the late Congressman
Updegraff, of Ohio, was nearer seventy
than sixty years old at the time of his
death. He was the only man in Con
gress who would never give his age
for publication in the congressional
directory.
Sixty-seven converts to the Mormon
faith, bound for Utah, passed through
Atlanta, Od., ule OUleG udN. OnlA
seventeen were men. Many of the
females were mere children. One wO-
man had with her three babies, triplets
which she carried in a basket.
The painting of the Baptism of Po-
cahOntasn in the rOtunda of the capitol
was ruined during the Garfield fair by
draught of hot air. The picture can
be restored at an expense of $4,000,
which is more than the fair Melted.
The "Embarkation of the Pilgrim
Fathers" valued at $4,000, was also
damaged.
John B. Cough has recovered his