St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

citizen of the United States, having the
highest number of votes" This sets
the Mormon delegate, Cannon, one
side, on the ground that he is an alien
but in the long discussion which is in
evitable, the ground will be taken by
several Republicans that Cannon is in
eligible because he is Mormon.
About S60,OOO have been subscribed
to the Garfield Memorial Hospital fund.
The pOst-Office department learns
that the MOrmOns are "bOycotting'
Gentle pOstmasters in Utah, who get
commission on the sale of stamps, by
patronizing only Mormon postmasters.
The public debt was reduced nearly
Sl3,0OO,O0O in December.
Serious Railroad Accident.
A serious accident occurred on the
| Boston q Maine road, near Kenne-
bunk, on Monday. An express from
Boston to Portland crashed through an
iron bridge and four cars were wreck
ed. The fire which followed cOmplet-
ed the work of destructiOn-thO
strange to say only one man was killed
outright, while some thirty more were
more or less injured one probably IA
tally. The passenger car went down
right side up, but the smoker Jared
worse and was flung bodily some IL
feet to the highway below.
Seated near the forward end of this
car were four gentlemen playing cards.
One was instantly killed: the one sit
ting opposite him was not even
scratched, and the others were more or
less bruised. Most of the other in
mates of the car were badly injured.
| The passenger coach which followed
was well filled. The shock came so
suddenly that, as the passengers say,
the first they knew they found them
selves out of doors. The roof of the
car was torn completely off, so that
the passengers easily climbed out of
the wreck before the fire started. In
the next car, the occupants, seats and
all, were thrown to the forward end,
and escaped, most of them, through
the window.
Conductor Weymouth, although very
seriously injured, showed the greatest
pluck in providing for the rescue of all
in the ruins as quickly as possible from
the danger from fire. He ran back and
made sure that all were safe before the
flames reached them. One lady was
held fast by her clothing. She was
cut away just before the fire reached
her. The flames appeared about five
minutes after the accident happened,
and within two hours nothing remain
ed of the four cars but Il lot of twisted
rods and bolts and smoking cinders.
The man killed was j. c. HodgdOn
| ,fN al L. IL
employe of the road, will probably die
from his injuries. The entire mail,
with the exception of few registered
letters, was burned. The cause of the
accident is a mystery.
| In General.
The>total amount raised for the Gar
field professOrship in Williams college
is S35, 900.
Three thousand persons have been
arrested for participation in the anti
Jewish riots in Warsaw.
Gas has been struck at depth OF
1900 feet at Honesdale, Pa.
Mrs. Cruise living at Florence,
in California was delivered the Doth
of six perfectly formed female children.
1t is the most remarkable instance OF
the kind ever known in the state.
1t is estimated that 10000 CONVEX
sions have rewarded the labors OF
! thirty three missionary societies work
ing in Africa.
The Cork Qreland) police has seized
a large lot of arms imported from the
United States.
Business failures in the United States
the past week were Isl.
Leon X. Moore, young clerk EN-
plOyed in Bradford & Anthony's store,
Boston, shot Miss Belle Cushman dead
at Biddeford, Me-, recently, and then
took his own life. jealousy is sup
posed to have been the cause.
A New Orleans woman was shot
dead the other night by her four-years
old boy, whom she had just been in
structing how to use the pistol.
Albert Burch, a Pullman car con-
ductor who Struggled jewelry into
Montreal for Mr.. Patterson of Boston,
was sent to Jail for eight days and fined
800.
The will of the late Jesse George of
Philadelphia gives S700,000 to various
charities.
A North Andover (Mass.) man has
been arrested for robbing his wife of
$500, on the highway.
j. NJ. Bell, an Arkansas brute, whip
ped his wife on Christmas day so Sc
verely that she died. His neighbors
promptly took him out and hung him.
A London dispatch of the 30th says
that three European steamers have
finally been given up as lost, and that
the probable loss of life will aggregate
40.
Smallpox at the West is on the de-
crease. 1t has ragged severely there
and caused many deaths.
A boarding house at Richburg, n. Y,
was burned early Sunday morning.
Three children were burned to death,
and the mother will probably die from
exposure to the cold.
Twenty three horses were burned to
death at Worcester, Mass, the other
night.
The post Office safe at Warren, n
H., has been robbed of over $1,000 in
bonds, gold, etc.
During a festival at ShOnesville, o.,
Saturday evening, the floor of the hall
gave way, precipitating over two hun
dred persons below, killing two and
wOunding about one hundred men and
women.
The number of failures through
out the country in 1881 was $500, in
vOlving liabilities of more than eighty
one millions, sixteen millions more
than for 1880.
The New Orleans health authorities