St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-17
General News.


During the month of July 100000
feet of logs were RATED out of the Pc
nobscot boom, the number of sticks be-
ing 377 900.
Amy Smith of Lakeland, l.. l., was
bitten by a spider and is suffering
from blood poisoning. 1t is believed
she will die.
The work of erecting Il new music
hall in st. Louis will be soon COM
menced, plans for structure to cost
$500, 900 having been adopted.
The Devon hotel at Eagle, Pa, was
burned Tuesday morning, I25 guests
and about 100 employees being in the |
house ut the time. Loss S75,OOO.
The first trip to the summit of Mt.
Washington on blackboard was made |
on Thursday by n party of nine ladies |
and gentlemen from North Conway.
Oscar Wilde and John Il. Raymond
arrived from Europe Saturday. Wilde
comes to superintend his new play.
He talks glowingly of his prospects.
Major George II. Chandler of Balti~
more, brother of Secretary Chandler,
died ut Canterbury, n. H., on Sunday,
of Bright's disease, aged fOrty-tour
years.
Letters from several of the largest
dealers in fish in Eastern Maine and
others show cOnclusively that this Is
the worst year for fisherman that has
ever been known.
Commissioner Evans is testing Hos
letters Bitters. He says seventy-tive
+, per cent. of it is bad whiskey, the other
twenty-five per cent. being some me-
dicinal preparation.
Hon. George MaTston, late attorney
general of Massachusetts, died at his
residence in New Bedford, Tuesday
morning, after an illness of six weeks,
aged sixty-One years.
The anniversary of the Freedman's
: Aid society of the Methodist church
was held at Ocean Grove, n. j. The
: receipts for the past year were over
SI7S, 900, a large increase over the pre-
viOus year.
c.. ID. Cobb, the head of the we'll
= known grocery firm of c. ID. Cobb Il
a Co., of Boston, died mt SwampScott,
. the 9th. Mr.. Cobb was the eldest of
p five brothers, all of whom have been in
h the grocery business.
= A man entered Center market, New
4 York, Saturday, walked up to Il butch
= ers stand, seized IL cleaver, placed his
g left hand on block, and chopped off
his little finger and walked away, leav-
T ing the finger behind.
It The famous suit of VIM. Barnes,
= trustee, against the Milwaukee 4 st.
e Paul Railway, involving S2,0O0,O00,
:, which has been i'll the courts for Il
- haS nI
+ in favor of the railway.
L. Barbara Wollum died in New York,
at the age of one hundred years and
}, five months. She was born in Wur-
temburg, and was seventy years
" old when she came to this country
= She never wore spectacles.
1t is estimated on a basis of the cen
4 sus reports that the yield of the Maine
:. hay crop this year will reach I50,00C
- tons, the yield being fully One-hali
= r more than the crop of average years
W and one-third greater than the crop OF
g last year.
e Mrs. Captain Webb denies the state
l. ment that her husband left her the sun
II of $1,000. The only money left was
re eIOOO invested in p per cent. British
l. consOls, and being settled on her chill
. ----- - .I"i.., 49,, intn~ost
n $40 per annum.
s The first peach train of the season
&c arrived in Boston Thursday morning,
II and consisted of six cars loaded witt
peaches and one containing cantelOpes
n The peaches are from Delaware, anC
II are sold for $I.25 basket, or - :
Y. crate of three pecks.
Mrs. Fanny Sprague, mother of ex.
Governor Sprague of Rhode Island, ha,
accepted the offer of the Union com
IL pany, which bought her homestead, to
lease it to her during life at 81 pei
month. She accepts, upon advice OF
It Gov. Butler, her counsel.
a The Kimball house, Atlanta, Ga,
IS was burned Sunday morning. The
IL total loss is J ,0O0,OOO. The insurance
:, is not over S2OO,OOO. The fire is
d thought to have been of incendiary
II origin. The hotel was emptied of the
II guests in twenty minutes.
Charles Truesdale rowed through
= the upper rapids from the American
: shore, Niagara, Friday, starting from
y the hydraulic canal and rowing to Goat
y II island. The feat is one of the results
II of the craze inspired by Capt. Webb's
y rapids.
- The news of the suicide of Senator
Allison's wife by drowning Monday at
p Dubuque, Iowa, causes great sorrow at
q Washington. Mrs. Allison has long
g been known in Washington. She spent
some time there with her father, the
late Senator Grimes, previous to her
marriage to Mr.. Allison.
: 1t has been decided to move from
r ireland and settle in Canada 2OO, 900
poor Irish, in families. Ten thousand
e families, to average five persons each,
= aggregating $4,000 people, will be
moved next spring, and the Transport
| tation will be continued as rapidly as
the territory to be occupied can be got
ready.
George Wergen is an emplOye of the
Lehigh Valley railroad in Hazleton, Pa.
He has six fingers and a thumb on
each hand, and seven toes on one foot
g and six on the other. One finger on
each hand grows from the wrist, above
2 the thumb. On the right hand there
: are two little fingers. Every finger
and toe is perfectly formed.
The City National bank at Law
renceburg, Ind, closed Saturday, and
the state commissioner is examining
the books. The capital stock is $780,
600. 1t is stated the failure has been
caused by Henry Fitch, the vice-presi-
dent, who was using the banks money
in his saw mill business. The assets
of the bank are said to be double the
liabilities.
c. Z. Heath of ChicOpee, Mass, rode
down Mt. Washington from the Sum