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

Mr.. Sturgeon writes that he is re-
gaining his health at MentOne.
Sarony is said to have given Mrs.
Langtry $1,000 for the privilege of pho
tOgraphing her.
The governor of Louisiana has final
ly concluded to give Kellogg a certiti-
cate of election.
The court martial sentenced Arab
Pasha to death, and the khedive COM
muted it to exile for life.
Thomas Tullock, New Hampshire
man, succeeds Anger, the deposed
postmaster at Washington.
Chicago has public library of near
ly 10000 volumes, from which 10000
books are taken every month.
A biography of the late Samuel
Bowles, of the Springfield Republican,
is to be written by George S. Merri
man.
A lot of confederate bonds, amount
ing to SI45, 900, was sold recently at
Charleston, at S. c., $3.50 per thou
sand.
An attempt is to be made to remove
2000 intruders who have been for some
time in Indian territory and trouble is
feared.
Secretary FOlger has recommended
an appropriation of $4,000 to erect a
monument at the grave of Thomas
Jefferson.
A meeting of the republican national
committee will be held January II, to
consider the matter of delegates
by districts.
The case against A. c. Soteldo of
assault and battery with intent to kill
his brother Anthony at Washington
has been dismissed.
Rats bit the wife of Rev. 6. w. Ba-
ker on the arm while she was a guest
at the Atlanta hotel. Mr.. Baker sues
for $4,000 damages.
General Tom Thumb is a Knight
! Templar, the smallest in the world,
and possesses "a regalia that cost more
than the Prince of Wales.
Rev. Phoebe A. Hanaford of Jersey
| City is dangerously i'll of blood poison
taken into the system while gathering
sumac leaves for church decorations.
The friends of Governor elect Waller
of Connecticut have presented to him
IL democratic rooster" in gold, with
diamond eyes, to be worn as scarf
pin.
The yield of corn for 1882 is estimat-
ed at | ,636, 000, 900 bushels ; of wheat,
so, 900; oats, 470,000,000; barley,
2,OO9,OOO; rye, 2O,0O0,0O0; buckwheat,
I2,000,000.
John Henry of Reading, Pa, brought
his three daughters into court as plain
titfs i'll three separate actions for breach
of promise of marriage. Two of the
girls sue their cousins.
Postmaster General Howe has given
instructions that in future no infOrma-
ton be given out by the pOstotfice de-
partment in regard to the weight of
copies any newspaper may mail.
Mrs. John Smith, daughter of Nor
gan, alleged to have been killed by
Masons in 1896, recently died at Port
land, Oregon. She refused to throw
any light on the subject to the last.
The Alabama temperance convention
has decided to ask for no general pro-
hibitory measure from the legislature,
but proposed an amendment for the
better carrying ont of the license law.
Mrs. A. w. Stay back of st. Louis has
sued John A. COckerill to recover $1,000
damages for the shooting of her hus-
band. This is done in order to secure
IA trial of Cockerill, the grand jury
having failed to indict him for murder.
The tranit of Venus was successfully
observed at most of the stations thus
far heard from, and we may expect as
IL 4 80 L.
the question of the distance of the sun
from the earth will be definitely deter
mined.
Mrs. Annie Louise Cary Raymond,
seeing a newspaper announcement the
other day to the effect that she was
soon to reappear in concerts, said to a
friend ~ shall never sing again be-
fore an audience | have retired from
the stage definitely"
/ A Bloomington despatch says the re-
port OF The intended marriage of Sena-
tor David Davis is without foundation,
and his friends are now of the opinion
that there was never the shadow of
truth in the report that he was to wed
ii North Carolina belle.
Chilli has preferred claim of TWEEN
" llllIlOu against iDe
States of Columbia for allowing arms
and military stores from the United
States to pass across the Isthmus to
Peru and Bolivia. 1t is believed this
is simply pretext to gain possession
f the Isthmus.
I Persons who claim to have informa-
ton as to the conclusions of the tariff
commission say that they will recon-
mend the continuance of the present
rates of duties on most classes of i'm
ports, including iron, but that they
will advise very considerable reduc-
ton in the duty on steel rails and
sugar.
Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe expects
to pass the coming winter on her plan
tation at Mandarin, Fla. Her orange
grove, which was set out when she es-
tablished herself there not long after
the war, numbers something over one
hundred trees, and from seventy-five
of them she reaps an income of SIS, OOO
"a year.
The days of the iron nail are pretty
certainly numbered. Pittsburg has a
company, with S75O,0OO capital, Or
ganized to manufacture them of Besse-
mer steel, and factories in Wheeling
will come only little later. The steel
article is sitter and tougher than the
iron nail, and so much lighter that the
added cost per pound will be more
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