St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-27
GIeaningS.

Mississippi has four times as much
pine timber aS Minnesota.
st. Louis mills produced LIZ ,629
barrels of flour last year, against 2,077,
625 in 1850 and >, l42 ,9I9 in 1879.
The Philadelphia mint has resumed
the coinage of fve-cent nickels, and
the coins will be furnished by the SUI
perintendent in multiples of $50, trans
pOrtatiOn paid.
The price of ice ut Cincinnati has
doubled, and Il further advance is eX-
pected. The brewers, who use I5O,O0
tons Il year, will introduce cold air and
ice making machines.
A newly-appointed negro policeman
i'll Washington undertook to arrest DR..
Mary Walker the other day for wear
ing mans clothes, but somebody who
know the doctor explained the situation.
The strangest suit yet: The widow
of q Philadelphia street-car driver has
sued the railway company for $50, 600,
claiming that her husband was killed
by CHAMBERS, caught from a horse he
drove.
Chicago suicides increased from 81 in
ICfDs W lbp III l''l. -Abpul llslll VI lHt
voluntary exits are by shooting and
poisoning, while hanging comes next
with nearly quarter, and then drown
ing and throat cutting.
Mississippi buys considerable guam
titles of fowls and eggs from the West,
and the Nicksburg Herald complains
that it is all because of chicken thieves,
and calls for a law imposing heavy
punishment for stealing of the kind.
Henry G.. Spaulding, the ''preparcd-
glue" man, was locked up in Indiana
the other night for drunkenness. He
says he sold the patent to Il company
which made Sl,0O0,O0O from it, but
that he never got a cent.
A man was convicted of body-snatch
ing at Augusta, Ga, the other day, and
the judge, in passing sentence, said
that the evidence i'll the case showed
that Augusta was rapidly becoming
the chief market for that kind of bust
ness for all the South and West.
Exhibitors ut the Atlanta exposition
who contributed paid-in advance ad-
vertisements to gorgeous catalogue
of the show will be interested to know
that the entire edition of that publica-
ton has been held by a railroad for
freight charges for several weeks, and
is likely to be so held for all time.
Flathead Indians in Montana have
driven off Il party of Northern Pacific
engineers who were running Il line
through their reservation. The chief
had given the surveyors permission to
work, but the rank and file savages
took different view and threatened tn
scalp the measuring pale faces if they
did not promptly leave.
An Iowa school district with school
property valued at only $3.50 has
bonds outstanding to the amount of
500, 900 or more. In some places in
the state, school taxes run from 10 tn
20 per cent, almost amounting to con
tiscatiOn, and Gov. Gear in his mes
sage urges legislation to prevent the
reckless assumption of Indebtedness
by the districts.
johnny Boyle of Ludlow reads only
advertisements in the newspapers, and
having learned there of Il swell concern
at Lynn that paid big prices for farm
produce, johnny sent them 400 turkeys
and all of his mothers butter. He has
just learned that respectable Lynn
knows naught whatever of the firm J
NJ. Tuttle X Co. johnny should have
read the fable by Bret Harte in last
weeks CdIedORidn about how to pre-
vent sitting on pins.