St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-08-18
News and Other Items.

The sultan has offered free pardon
to Arab.
Just now gold is going out of the
country at the rate of Sl,5O0,0 600 a
week.
Two thousand acres of woodland
have been burned at North Sandwich,
Mass.
The town of Mankato, Kan, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire Sunday
night. Loss $4,000.
There were fifty deaths from yellow
fever at MattamOras for the week end
ing Sunday morning.
An insane asylum at Lancaster, Pa,
was burned on Saturday; loss 10000.
None of the patients were injured.
Smith & Woodbury's saw and plan
ing mill in Brewer, Maine, was burned
recently. Loss between 100000 and
$40, 900.
Fifteen tons of powder exploded in
a powder mill ut Vallejo, California,
killing two men and destroying the
buildings.
BY an accidental gunpowder explo-
sion near a schOolhOuse in GRADING,
Russia, nearly all the school children
were killed.
Apaches have killed nearly fifty
people in Northern Mexico. All
available troops are being concentrat-
ed against them.
Vegetation in New Hampshire is
suffering exceedingly from the pro-
tracted drOuth, and many crops, if not
failure, will be severely injured.
There waa collision on Sunday be-
tween two COney Island steamers no
person was injured, but the passengers
were pretty thoroughly frightened.
Two boys in Florida held play
mate under the water until he was
drowned, and then fled. When found
the body had been nearly devoured by
aligatOrs.
Rev. Joseph Bartlett, retired Con-
gregatiOnal clergyman and brother of
President Bartlett of Dartmouth col
lege, drowned himself while insane
Saturday at GOrham.
A fire in livery and sale stable in
Providence, r. l., Sunday night, de-
strOyed the buildings, forty seven
horses, fifteen carriages, five hacks,
harnesses and other property. Loss
$4,000.
Crops are suffering in Connecticut
more than in any other New England
state. The recent showers which have
frightened the faces of Massachusetts
farmers have barely laid the dust in
Connecticut.
The grand jury at Meherin, Va,
have indicted Richard B. Garland for
the murder of Joseph Addison in the
imprOmptu duel on the 14th ult., over
a young lady to whom both were at
tached. The trial was begun on Mon
day.
The Passumpsic railroad depot and
wood sheds at Thetford and Lyme
station were destroyed by fire Sunday
The sheds contained one thousand
cords of wood. The fire is supposed
to have been caused by spark from a
passing locomotive.
An absurd story is that a Toronto
gentleman has received letter from
an ex-Officer in the confederate army
that cavalry expedition is being or
ganized in the southern states to aid
Arab, and requesting him to join.
The expedition is expected to start for
Egypt in a few days.
Edmund Bond of Drewsville, n. H.,
married man about thirty-th
years of age, stabbed himself seven
times in the stomach Sunday night at
his home. 1t is thought that he will
live. No cause can be assigned for the
act. His father is a wealthy merchant,
and the son recently had quite a sum
of money fall to him.
Charles F. Ackley, marble dealer
of Peru, Clinton county, n. Y, while
attending picnic with his family and
several friends at Ausable Chasm, Sat
urday, was going around a projecting
point of the rocks and slipped into the
water and was drowned. The body
was recovered in about an hour and a
half. Mr.. Ackley was about forty
years of age, and leaves wife and two
children.
Frank H. Smith of Charlestown,
Mass, the Harvard sophomore who
was shot July % by Sergt. Dennis
Kelley of Fort POpham, died very I'M
expectedly on Sunday. Kelley at the
time claimed that the shooting was ac-
cidental, but was placed under $500
bonds to await the result of Smiths in
juries. Smith and a companion were
within the government enclosure when
the shot was fired. The young men
had crawled under the gate to get into
the grounds of the fort and the sergeant
claimed he thought they were thieves.