St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-11-03
General News.

Texas has a school fund of S9OO,OOO
available for this year.
DR.. Boynton's bill for attendance on
President Garfield is 81, 800.
The revision of the Old Testament
will be completed in a few months.
November will be observed as
Thanksgiving day in the Dominion.
Richard A. Proctor says that the
comet is likely to return in a few
months.
Estimates to pay salaries and mileage
of the next Congress aggregates ST.
100000
Mrs. A. E. Smith has been elected
Superintendent of Schools at Barring
ton, r. |.
Objections are being made in Eng
land to placing IA bust of LOngfellOw in
Westminster.
The Flint mill at Fall River was
burned Saturday afternoon. Loss
about 100000.
Mrs. Scoville was adjudged insane
at Chicago on Saturday, but she has
not yet been found.
During the past fiscal year the Pat
ent Office issued 17,713 patents and
registered 10, 700 trademarks.
A suit for breach of contract has been
entered against Henry Ward Beecher
by Ford & Co., publishers, New York
city.
The registration of voters ceased at
New York on Saturday night with a
total of 1876 ,233, as against 40, 4l9 last
year.
1t is again rumored that DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes is to resign his Pro-
censorship at the Harvard Medical
School.
The new japanese minister arrived
from Yokohama in twenty-five days
and nineteen hours, the quickest time
on record.
A French gOverness in Washington
family has been detected in stealing
about $4,000 worth of diamonds, vel
vets, etc.
Three hundred thousand dollars
worth of land in West Texas was sold
at New York, Friday, to an English
company.
A cometary mass has been discovered
eight degrees east of the great comet,
supposed to have been detached from
the latter.
The village of Grindelwald, Switzer-
land, about thirty-five miles southeast
of Berne, has been almost destroyed by
, a hurricane.
f The Baroness Burdett-C Courts Bart
lett owns the smallest pony in the
; world. 1t stands thirteen inches high
: and is five years of age.
| Tho Iononnc, loo No
solved to establish primary schools
, throughout the kingdom and compel
! the attendance of children.
A domestic employed at SomervIlle
fell down stairs Sunday morning with
E a lamp in her hand, set fire to her
clothing and was burned to death.
: The wOman's national Christian
: temperance union has unanimously
: elected Miss Frances E. Willard presi-
dent and reelected the other officers.
Foreman Dickson IF the star-rOute
Jury is held in $1,000 on the charges OF
trying to corrupt his fellOw-jurors and
to eXtOrt money from the United States.
Cholera has returned to Japan, and
the official returns show that since the
: LIST of May over AZ 900 cases have been
t recorded, of which nearly %, 600 ended
fatally.
> The interior department has decided
II that seven years absence shall be pre-
sumptive proof of a soldiers death,
; warranting the payment of pension
: to his family.
The catch of whales in the Arctic
l. ocean is light this season according tC
l. reports at San Francisco. Last yeal
: the catch to date amounted to $50
n whales, against 81 this year.
: Six robbers boarded a train on the
Grand Trunk road near Windsor, On
i tario, Thursday night, but only on,
IF passenger was robbed. Five of tn,
y fellows escaped and one was captured
l. The number of silver dollars actual!
out among the people is 35,250,OOO, o
l. little over % per cent. of the tOta
lie coined. Sos, 100000 in certificate
l. based on silver dollars has been issued
tie Texas fever has been discovered
among 40 carloads of range cattle Il
l. Chicago. They were shipped from
of Kansas City. 1t is understood that
g. part of the lot has been shipped t,
= Boston.
Asgill Gibbs, believed to have beel
y United States, died at Rochester, aget
e, ninety-five years. Mr.. Gibbs was bOrl
" in POwnal, and his longevity is attrib
uted to his abstemious habits.
m A Buffalo family named Roger an,
t. consisting of husband, and wife ant
,h two children, were mysteriOusly poi
lg soned by pancakes Friday. Mrs. Re
ger and one child are dead Mr.. Rege
n and another child are very sick.
l. The dollar subscriptions to the Gar
"a field monument fund of Cincinnati nov
q. aggregate about O,0O0-enough TO
s. the purpose. The statue is to be o
bronze, full length, of heroic size, an,
T mounted on granite pedestal.
as 1t has been decided thata Chinamal
IL having a through ticket from Ney
ne York to any place in the United States
D. having passed through Canada on tn
J. Grand Trunk Railway is entitled t
1y admission into the United States with
he out further evidence of his right tina
be such ticket.
ep The six-days' gO-as-you-please walk
or ing match closed in Madison Squar
wv garden, New York, Saturday nigh
with Patrick j. Fitzgerald winner
rs. This was the score Fitzgerald, 81
ly miles 2 laps Noremac, 567 miles
he laps Herty, 54I miles ! lap, an
he Hughes 525 miles.
" A saloon keeper in Maries county
r. Mo-, was recently convicted of sellin
liquor on Sunday, and applied to Gov
rs Crittenden for redress. Mr.. Crittende
at refused in the following words : -
N, won't pardon any man who violate
IN the Sabbath day in this country.
ed he does not desire to comply with tn
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