St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-04-07

Cornelius j. Vanderbilt, IA brother of
William H., committed suicide in New
York on Sunday.
A queer transaction is exposed in
Philadelphia. 1t appears that a gran
lite quarry owned by Uncle Sam was
irregularly sold to Il company for
$500 which was appraised at Sl02 900.
1t is claimed that the control of the
Mutual Union Telegraph Company has
passed into the hands of friends of the
| Western Union Company. Jay Gould
and two others hold Il controlling in
| terest.
A severe tornado visited some pOr-
lions of Pennsylvania on Sunday, des
| trOying several lives and considerable
property.
A - years old negro bootblack is
under arrest in Baltimore for robbing
letter boxes i'll the post Office 10y means
of an imprOvised pick-lock.
Two steamers recently collided off
the coast of Spain and both were sunk !;
thirty persons are known to have per
ished.
1t is reported that the Czarina will
leave her husband and go to Denmark
with her children, on account of the
Cars fondness for female circus
rider.
For the period of eighteen years
there were pardOned from the Massa-
chusetts state prison 4l2 convicts, and
during this time 2l7 died.
The ice pack at st. Johns, n. F., is
breaking up, and the long imprisoned
| l. hai hni
unpleasant surroundings.
Moses Taylor of New York city has
given $3.50, 600 in first mortgage bonds
of the Delaware, Lackawana and West
ern railroad to found and maintain Il
hospital ut Scranton, Pa, for miners,
railroad men, iron workers and others.
The III outlaw oyster-dredgers re-
Gently captured by the governor of Nir-
ginia are in Richmond penitentiary for
Il year each.
The losses by the stock brokers OF
Paris during the recent panic are COM
puted ut 10000, 900 francs. In Lyons
the losses are estimated ut SO,OOO,OOt
francs.
Jesse james, the notorious outlaw
was shot dead Monday on the street
III 81 Joseph, MO.
1t is said that in Arkansas alone
there are about 81 900 destitute people,
owing to the great flood.
Peters, the Mansonville (P. o. brute
who pounded Il boy to death, has beeI
sentenced to he hung April %, and his
wife gets 10 years imprisonment.
An incendiary fire at HOpkinton
Moss IN Tuesday IaStrnNa1 hnnt
factory, church, hotel and ID dwell
ings, entailing loss of S;150,OOO.
The steamer Golden City was burneC
ut Memphis on the Both ult., and many
lives were lost. She had il cargo O
e lutte, a crew of 90, and 10 cabin passen
4 gers. First Engineer Robert Kelley
e discovered the fire, gave the alarm
e. and stuck to his post until cut off 10y
. the fire. He was the only officer lost
An attempt was made on Thursday
night to blow up the Andre monumen
ut Tappan, \. Y. The monument wa
defaced by some Over-zealOuS indiVid
ual on Washington's birthday.
= Eugene f. Beecher, Il nephew of thu
= noted preacher, is under arrest i'll New
+ York on the charge of fraud.
o The Catholic Provincial Council
e which recently met ut Cincinnati, ha
prepared IL pastoral letter to be reaC
in the churches. 1t denounces the ar
h bitrary rules of labor unions, define
the duty of obedience of Catholics t.
4 the church, denOunces the Irish World
and expresses sympathy with the lrisl
people in their efforts to ameliOrat'
their condition.