St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-27
General News.

The city of Portland, Me-, is to erect
a memorial statue of Longfellow.
Rev. DR.. Henry NJ. Storrs of Newark.
y. j., has accepted a call to the First
Presbyterian church in Orange, n. j.
Mr.. Holloway, an Englishman, has
given S2,0OO,00O to endow an institu-
ton for the higher education of wo-
men.
David $. Thomas, long Barnum's
press agent, is to retire from the road
and will have a jOb-printing Office in
New Haven.
The wife of Governor Crittenden, of
Missouri, has been robbed of 81 900 in
money and jewelry, while in sleep
ing-car in Colorado.
Miss Mary Hall has been admitted to
the Connecticut bar by the supreme
court of that state, and is the first of
her sex to gain that distinction.
The latest specimen of counterfeit
silver coin is an imitation of the silver
dollar. They have well-finished
covering of silver, worth twenty or
thirty cents, and cannot be detected
by the ring.
Ten starch manufacturing firms, rep
resenting twO-t thirds of the starch man
ufacturing interest in the west, have
agreed at Cincinnati to consolidate by
forming "A joint stock company with
81, 200, 900 capital.
The Turkish government has de-
manded of the Providence tool compa-
ny 1852 rifles, with bayonets and
scabbards, manufactured by the COM
pany, and, as alleged, held in store for
the Turkish government.
1t is said that three counties were
left out in the congressional reappor-
ton of Tennessee and are therefore
unrepresented, mistake which will
probably cost the Tennessee delega-
ton their seats in Congress.
Negroes in Charleston, S. c., have
been more fervent in their religious
exercises lately than for long time
before because of the rumOred APP
prOach of comet with wings and tail
on its way to destroy the world.
A collision took place on the New
York Central g. Hudson River railroad,
between two freight trains, Saturday
morning, which resulted in the derail-
ment of three cars and throwing To-
cOmOtive of one of the trains into the
Hudson. No persons were injured.
Mrs. Warren Crawford while walk
ing near North Adams, Mass, was at
tackled by vicious COW, knocked
down, trampled on, and probably fatal
ly gOred. There is a hole three inches
i'll diameter in her left side. 1t re-
quired the combined strength of sever
al men to take the COW away.
Six indictments for robbery, riot,
extOrtiOn, assault and battery and
found against James II. Corey, landlord
who eXtOrted $4,000 dollars from Cyrus
Field and another who had friends sick
with fever in the hotel.
Fifteen drunken cowboys, led by F.
A. Mead, a discharged telegraph oper-
atOr, shot into an express and special
car in which was Superintendent Mel
Ion of the AtchisOn, Topeka and Santa
Fe and some friends at Lakin, Kan,
Wednesday, breaking seventeen win
dOws in one car and five in the special.
By lying down Oh the floor the passen-
gers escaped the bullets.
The government authorities claim to
have conclusive evidence that the star
route defendants paid money to one of
the jurors. The much abused ex-Sen-
atOr Dorsey is reported as reiterating
at Kansas City recently his charges
that eX-POstmaster-G eneral James, ex-
Acknowledgement MacVeagh and At
torneyGeneral Brewster are Cocoon
spiratOrs to ruin him by trumped-up
charges, as declaring his confidence in
the entire truth of Col. Ingersoll's data
regarding the alleged attempt at brib-
cry and as asserting that Bowen and
Fall are and have for some weeks been
in close intimacy with Brewster and
Cameron.