St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-07-28
News and Other Items.

Postmaster General Howe has decid
ed that the Louisiana Lottery company
is legal corporation, having the right
to send and receive matter through the
mails.
The Khedive has signed decree
dismissing Arab Pasha and declaring
him a rebel. He has also issued cir
cnlar to the army explaining his mo-
tives for dismissing Arab, and warn
ing the soldiers not to obey the latter's
orders.
The American consul at Cairo has
left the city and gone to Alexandria.
He lost his records and personal eff
fects. No Americans remain in Cairo
except General Stone and his family.
British troops Saturday blew up the
railway leading from Alexandria to
Arabi's position. A slight engagement
took place, in which several Egyptians
were killed. The troops then retired
to the city. Horrible atrocities are re-
ported. Alexandria's water supply is
getting low.
A dispatch to The Daily News from
Vienna reports that 300 houses and
some large warehouses have been de-
strOyed by fire at Radziwilow, Russia,
and that 1900 people are homeless.
The Daily News's dispatch from vi.
emma says it is reported that the Rus
sian steamer MOskaw has been sunk
by boiler explosion with 200 hands.
Martin MilmOre, the sculptor, closed
contract with the New Hampshire
authorities for a statue of Daniel Web
ster, to be erected at Concord. 1t will
be of bronze, eight feet high from the
pedestal, and will cost $4,000.
Heaven defend us The Stanstead
Journal has it that Lydia Pinkham is
going to start Il factory for the manu-
facture of her compound, in Stanstead,
to supply Canadian trade. What shall
we do with that angelic face for so
near neighbOr p Newport Express.
Eighteen boys have died of tOy-pis-
tOl lockjaw in Chicago and vicinity
since July 4th, 6 in Burlington, Ia,
and 3 in Peoria, Ill.
Jacob Parsons, an inmate of the
Woodstock (Ct.) poor house, stabbed
Keeper Miller to death. Miller was
trying to make Parsons work.
A laborer named George Fisher, 40,
threw himself i'll front of an engine at
Portland and was killed. A letter in
his pocket said that he had spent all
his money and sold his clothes for
rum.
A fire recently ragged seven hours in
Smyrna, destroying 400 houses and
making 5000 people homeless. One
life was lost.
Now they say Jumbo is not an ele-
plant, but a Jersey mosquito with his
wings cut of. : Somerville Journal.
Charly Lyon arrived at his home in
Iowa few days ago, satisfied by a
months experience at West Point that
he did not wish to remain cadet. He
says that the rules of the Military
Academy were too rigid and severe to
bear that hazing was practiced; that
he was compelled to eat tallow candles
and chew tarred rope, and that, unable
to stand it longer, he ran away.
The reluctance which doctors enter
tain to advertising their business is
manifested very strongly in Alabama,
where it has been suggested that the
name of the attending physician be in
scribed upon the gravestones of the
dead. This method of bringing them
selves before the public was promptly
combatted by the Alabama doctors.
The proportion of misdirected letters
received at the Dead Letter Office last
year was much greater than in any
previous year. The largest number
came from Germany, with Great Brit
ain second. This remarkable increase
is attributed to the lottery business,
the circulars for which are now sent in
sealed envelopes. There has also been
an increase in the number of dead let
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