St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-08-04
News and Other Items.

George l.. Fletcher of Chester for Con
gress.
Postmaster G eneral Howe says it has
been simply impossible for him to ar
range for fast mail service between
New York and San Francisco with the
$6OO,OO0 appropriated for the purpose
because of the jealousy and rapacity of
the railroads west of Detroit and Tole-
do.
The value of the hay crop in Yer
mont, according to the statistician of
the Agricultural Department at Wash
ingtOn, is 81, 293, Il2. Total for New
England, 500, 383,GO4.
An enterprise is on foot to illuminate
Mt. Washington by electricity. 1t is
proposed to place six powerful lights
on the observatory, and it is said that
they can be seen at a distance of 100
miles.
Herbert Bartlett, l6, and Frank p
Green, another youngster, were arrest
ed at NewburypOrt Friday for the
recent highway robbery there of Mr..
Fowl. Bartlett confessed, duplicating
Green, in whose possession were found
pistols, masks and chlOrOfOrm.
Grading has begun on the new rail
road running to Sheldon Falls from
Frelighsburg, p. O., known as the
Montreal, Portland and Boston rail
road. 1t will connect with the ST.
JOhnsbury and Lake Champlain, and
form new route to Boston via the
| White Mountains and Portland.
Fanny Parnell, aged % years, sister
of Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish
leader, died suddenly of paralysis of
the heart at BOrdentOwn, n. j., last
Thursday afternoon.
1t is not an uncommon occurrence at
HammOntOn, n. j., to ship 10000
quarts of blackberries in a single day
More than 1000 Italians are employed
in picking.
The Detroit Post and Tribune says
"the Republican papers of Michigan
are almost unanimous in condemnation
of the attack made in the Grand Army
Journal on Senator Ferry"
The Senate on Saturday appropriate
100000, instead of million asked
for, to complete the MiantonOmoh and
launch the other four monitors.
The Governor of Iowa has issued a
proclamation announcing the adoption
of the prohibitory amendment to the
Constitution by majority of 29,759
votes.
Charles Chaille Long Bay, the Amer
lean consul ut Alexandria, after serv-
ing in the war of the rebellion here, at
its close went to Egypt and took ser
vice with the Khedive. Life III the
Egyptian army being too quiet, he
joined an exploring party into the re-
cesses of the desert. He was the first
white man who ever visited King
M'Tesi, and wrO'e an amusing book of
| travel, entitled "Naked Truths of Ma
ked people" On his return he became
consul, and appears to have been of
great assistance, not only to Ameri-
cans, but to the people of other cOun-
tries, previous to and since the bonn
bardment. His knowledge of the Arab
language enables him to deal directly
with the natives, without that cOmpul-
sive recourse to the Interpreter which
seems to have been the cause of much
disaster.
The total receipts at the New York
Post Office for the last fiscal year foot
up 81 200, 066.07, and the expenditures
Sl,3l6,0l6.4O, leaving Il net revenue of
%, SS4 ,049.67.
The Russian steamer MOskva, which
was reported on the 25th inst, to have
been sunk with 200 hands by boiler
explosion, was wrecked off Ras Hafun :;
40 of the persons on board were saved.
Reports from MatamOras, Mexico,
state that there were - cases, and :
deaths had occurred from yellow fever
up to the 2Sth.
The American Lumber Company
has purchased from the Detroit &
Mackinaw Railroad Company the
standing pine on its entire land grant,
comprising 800, 900 acres, besides large
amounts in Chippewa county, on the
OntOnagOn river, and will erect mill
with 100000 feet per day capacity at
Newburg.
At HagerstOwn, Md, the other night
somebody entered room where Jen-
ME BOggs, aged IL, was sleeping, and
cut all the hair from her head. The
tresses were magnificent, reaching
nearly to her feet. Last Thursday
Jennie died, it is alleged, from cholera
mOrbus, but the general opinion is
that she died from grief at the loss of
her hair.
While practicing with a target rifle,
X. S. Bowman, ticket agent of the Ohio
& Mississippi railroad, at Louisville,
accidentally shot and killed Annie Nc
MOhOn, a seven years daughter of a
widow living i'll cottage near by.
They fine little boys in Washington
81 for bathing III the Potomac. 1t is
an Offense against decency, and the
average Congressman is not to have
his delicate nerves shocked with impu-
nifty.
The Minnesota wheat harvest will
begin in about a week, and the crop
having had fine growth, a yield of
4O,OOO,OOO bushels is expected. Corn
is gaining ground very rapidly under
the influence of good weather. Crop
reports from Dakota are very favOra-
BILE.
At the new oil town, Garfield, in
Pennsylvania, there is no water, and
the supply required for human exist
ence has to be brought from spring
some distance from town. 1t costs
sixty cents "A barrel, while oil is worth
10