St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-17

as to the principal results of license
and prohibitory legislation.
1t is rumored that General Butler
has consented to prosecute the claims
of the Government employees for extra
pay for the two hours per day which
they have been compelled to work
since the beginning of the administra-
ton of President Hayes.
Chauncey Smith, a Vermonter who
had been in the post office department
for 43 years, died the other day, and
was buried on Sunday with high Ma
sonic hOnOrs.
In General.
Boston is Just now agitated over the
murder of Mrs. Bell and Intellectual
attempts to find clue to the murder
er or "A motive for the crime.
The Michigan legislature has passed
bill apprOpriating S265,000 for the
further relief of the sufferers by last
falls fires.
A little boy about IA years old, q
son of Truman Thomson, living three
miles from New Lisbon, Wis, came tc
a horrible death, recently, being chok,
ed to death by worms which came W
into his throat.
The Iowa house has passed the pro
hibitiOn amendment, GA to %. 1t now
goes to the people.
A child at Northampton, Mass, re-
Gently vaccinated, is in pitiable con
ditiOn. Besides sores in various parts
portion of the flesh of the arm has
slOughed off down to the bone.
Three thousand children of deceased
wives sisters are presently to assemble
at Exeter Hall, London, and clamol
for the repeal of the law which makes
them illegitimate.
MacLean, the Queens assailant. has
been committed for trial on the charge
of high treason.
Charges of terrible cruelty are made
against John Bennett, a JOhnstowT
On. W farmer. 1t is alleged that he
has mercilessly beaten his 4 years old
daughter, after. stripping her, throw
ing her naked into IA snow bank, dane
ing her in cistern, and combining her
without food in cold room. Bennett
has fled. His neighbors threaten
lynching.
Forty persons are reported killed by
the falling in of mine shaft neal
'Teplitz, Prussia.
The Russian nihilists threaten revo-
luton if their condemned brethren are
executed.
An Ohio steamboat exploded Friday
killing four persons and wounding sew
eral others.
A fellow named Charles Z. Cunning
ham, who was formerly Il waiter al
the Parker House, Boston, is under
arrest for sending threatening letters
to Mr.. Parker, demanding the sum OF
S25, 900.
The stories telegraphed across the
water to the effect that there is danger
of European war are pronounced alb
surd.
A Chinaman has been refused natu-
radiation in New York.
Henry jackson, "A colored man, was
attacked by IA young stallion the Other
day, at Newmarket, n. j., and was
only rescued from instant death by
great effort on the part of bystanders
Captain Lee, who was sent South by
Secretary Lincoln to investigate the
condition of the people in the over
flowed districts, reports that at least
5000 people i'll Mississippi alone are
destitute. Gov. Churchill of Arkansas
says there are about $4,000 people in
his state who require aid.
Jesse James, the noted outlaw, has
been captured at last, after desper-
ate fight, in Kansas.
A New Yorker was arrested Tues
day at Paterson, n. j., for blasphemy.
The Massachusetts house has passed
the Prohibitory bill, and the senate the
bill providing for biennial sessions of
the Legislature.
Smallpox of virulent type has
spread i'll Bethlehem, Pa, since Sun
day, with remarkable rapidity. On
Sunday only three cases were known
to exist, and on Tuesday one hundred
existed in a clearly portion of the
town, among those who for the most
part had not been vaccinated.
Railroad and other laborers at Oma-
ha, Neb., are on strike, and causing
great deal of trouble. Troops have
been called out and ringleaders arrest
ed, but a serious time is feared.
An appalling earthquake has recent
ly occurred i'll Costa Rica, and thou
sands of lives were lost.
Mrs. Sarah Howe, the manager of
the Boston ladies' deposit company,
has been sentenced to three years i'm
prisonment in the house of correction,
for obtaining money of depositors on
false pretenseS.