St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-20
General News.

The average salary of Baptist min
listers in this country is said to be S4OO
per annum.
Mrs. Charles j. Merrill has been
chosen member of the Dover On. H.
school committee, being the first lady
ever elected to that position in that
city.
William Ousten was hanged at Ian
caster, Ken, on Friday. for the muir
der of his great aunt. He said it was
whiskey that caused him to do the
murder.
Oscar Wilde was arrested at MOnck-
ton, n. B., Thursday night at the in
stance of the Young Mems Christian
association for breach of contract to
lecture. Wilde settled the case by
paying 800.
Neal Lamont, aged twenty five, of
West StOckbridge, Mass, in taking a
loaded gun from a carriage, accidental
ly discharged one barrel and received
the entire contents in his breast. He
cannot recover.
Bob Taylor, one of the three broth
ers who last month murdered the
sheriff and deputy sheriff of Hamilton
county, Tenn, was apprehended on
passenger train Friday morning, near
Lebanon, by Sheriff Goodall TAYLOR
resisted arrest and was shot dead.
Matthew Arnold has not vet made
up his mind to accept the offers that
have been made to him to go upon "a
lecturing tour i'll America. The rea-
son of his hesitation is said to be his
doubt whether he has enough to say to
interest the large and miscellaneous
audiences which would greet him in
the United States.
While walking on the suburbs of
Sand Mountain, Ga, Sunday, S. j.
Hartberger, a moulder of Pittsburg,
was brutally murdered by two despe-
radOes named Walker and Reed
Walker was arrested but Reed escaped.
| Walker admitted that their victim had
given no cause for the murderous at
tack, and that the act was committed
''merely for fun"
Reports from Pittsylvania county, Vir-
ginia, state that the ravages of diph-
liberia in certain localities have reached
an alarming extent, nearly two hun
dred deaths having occurred within
the last sixty days. Not family has
escaped the great scOurge. Twenty
pupils of one school district have died
with the disease, which physicians
seem unable to control. On one day
three children were lying dead III one
! house.
Assistant Superintendent Childs of
the Cambridge, Mass, cemetery was
probably fatally shot on Saturday, by
one of two men who drove rapidly to-
ward him as he was going to pay off
the men. He fell from his carriage,
and the murderers, rushing up, robbed
him of about 5000. They then cut the
breast-plate of his harness, so that no
one could pursue them, and in their
own team drove rapidly toward Brigh-
ton.
A cyclone in Cuba caused consider
able loss of life and great destruction
of property. The tobacco seedlings
were destroyed. At Herredura 300
huts and houses, including the greater
number of the tobacco drying establish
ments, We're destroyed 1000 palm
trees were blown down. Seven hun
dred and sixty houses were also de-
strOyed. The bodies of fifteen persons
drowned by the overlooking of rivers
have been recovered, and many more
persons are missing.
Matte, aged thirteen, and Minnie,
aged seven, daughters of Lewis L..
Wright of Natick, Mass, while on
their way to school, attempted to cross
the railroad track and were struck by
three freight cars, which were being
thrown on side track Matte was
picked up by her father, who was at
work near by, and died in his arms.
An arm and both legs were terribly
crushed, and the wheels passed across
her body. Minnie had an arm crushed
and received injuries about the head
and other places. Little hopes are en-
tertained of her recovery.
Julia Marks, an attractive Westfield
Mass, brunette, about twenty years
old, of respectable family who ran
away from home about five months
ago to enter upon life of shame, has
just died at Philadelphia from the eff
fects of an abortion. Her first tempt
ers were two shOpmates, Nettie and
Nellie johnson, girls without the best
of characters her seducer is unknown,
but is supposed to be a New York
drummer and the operation which
caused her death is said to have been
performed at New Haven, CT. Miss
Marks refused on her death-bed to
give the name of her betrayer, and
her friends did not know of her illness
till telegram came saying that she
was dying. The father of Julia, Aaron
Marks, is a cigar maker, and has lived
long in Westtield, where he is much re-
; SDected