St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-01-05
General News.

Milwaukee made 81 100000 worth
of lager beer in 1882, against $780,
600 in 1881.
1t is estimated that the redemption
of the public debt for December will be
about SI3,0O0,OOO.
The. collapse of the cooperative
dress association of New York is attrib
uted to bad management.
Since Dec. seventeen citizens have
been knocked down and robbed by
highwaymen in Chicago.
Johan Most, for whose arrival the So
cialists of New York have been eagerly
watching, arrived Sunday.
Three hundred and thirteen tramps
have been killed on the railroads of the
United States in the last eleven months.
State Treasurer Polk of Tennessee
refuses to obey the law providing for
the refunding of the state indebted
ness.
The Pennsylvania legislature will be
asked to establish free night schools
for those compelled to work through
the day.
The star-route trial drags along heav-
lily. The lawyers all the time are
squabbling over the admissibility of
evidence.
William Walton shot Miss Jane Mil
burne dead at Belleville, H., and then
blew his own brains out. Jealousy was
the cause.
The inauguration of Governor Cleve-
land took place in the senate chamber,
Albany, Monday, and was witnessed by
large audience.
w. {. Anderson, Il young telegraph
operator at Lachute, Ont, has fallen
heir to S35O,O00 by the death of two
uncles in Scotland.
Captain w. ii. Hooper, eX-delegate
to Congresses dying. His death will be
a severe blow to the liberal party in
the Mormon church.
The Garfield monument fund of Gin
cinnati now amounts to S,9699.77, and
has been placed in bank to draw four
per cent. interest until used.
The business men of Boston have
held meeting and passed a resolution
to make efforts to secure fast mail
train between Boston and New York.
Thirty-siX persons are known to have
been killed and fifty others injured,
mostly women and children, by the fall
ing chimney in Bradford, England.
Evangelist Moody has been present.
ed with three valuable Ayrshire heif-
ers by friend abroad, and they will
sOCn arrive ut his home in Mortified.
Two boys, eleven and eight years
old, have confessed to attempting to
wreck a train near Meriden, Conn, be-
cause an employee drove them off the
track.
The President moved into the White
House Saturday, and he was assisted
at the New Years reception by Mrs.
Frelinghuysen, Mrs. Chandler and Mrs.
Brewster.
The tobacco manufacture of st.
Louis has increased since 1872 so that
it now consumes lS,OO0,00O pounds of
tobacco, against 5,750,0O0 in the for
mer year.
Marcus Pike, aged Is, shot his sister,
Annie McKeOn, aged 20, in New York
the 9th, and she is not expected to re-
cover. He had playfuIIy pointed toy
pistol at her.
There have been 81, 500 deaths at
New York during the year, 81, 32I
births and ,0S5 marriages, as against
2S,624 deaths, 26, 100 births and 1907
marriages in 1881.
Judge Briggs of Philadelphia has
ruled that atheists and all others who
do not believe in Il Divine Being and
divine rewards and punshments are
incompetent as witnesses.
The advance sheets of the report of
the commissioners of savings banks of
Massachusetts show $I0,O00,0O0 in
crease in deposits and over S6,OOO,OOO
i'll loans on personal securities.
At Yankton, OAK, there is great ex-
citement over the secret marriage of
DR.. Sebastian Ross, a young Russian
physician, and Sister Mary Paul of the
Catholic convent of the Sacred Heart.
1t is noted by the journal that not
one of the masters of the public schools
of Boston was born in that city, though
there are scores of natives of Boston
serving as heads of schools in other
parts of the country.
Cornell University is the richest
college in the country, with the posi-
In two years its wealth has increased
nrarly S3,OOO,QOO, its total being esti-
mated at S7,72l, 255.
The proceeds of the recent sale of
articles accumulated in the dead letter
office, after deducting the expenses,
amounted 10 81, 497 81, which has been
deposited in the treasury to the credit
of the post office department.
A house in Kittery, Me-, built fifty
seven years ago, is for the first time
having the shingling of the roof re-
paired: The original shingles were of
cedar, shaved by hand, and before be-
ing laid, were soaked in fish oil and red
ochre.
The damage suit for $1,000, institut-
ed by Alice w. Slayba against John
A. Cockerill, managing editor of the st.
Louis Post-Dispatch for the loss of her
husband, Alonzo w. Slayback was dis
missed, Friday, at the plaintiffs in
stance and cost.
Miss Josephine c. Meeker, daughter
of the late n. c. Meeker, who was tor
tured and killed by the Ute Indians in
the massacre of 1879, died at Wash
ington Monday of pneumonia. She
was clerk in the Office of the secretary
of the interior.
A young girl named Bessie Bye, age
fifteen years, while skating on the ca
nal at MerriltOn, Ont, fell through the
ice. Her sister, ten years old, who was
standing near by, in attempting to res
cue her also fell into the water, and
both were drowned.
General Sherman says of the dispatch
printed in the New York Sun, to the
effect that he had been received into
the Roman Catholic church in Wash
ington recently: "The article is a bald