St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-07-06
General News.

Texas will send over 100000 cattle
to market this year.
The cholera in Egypt will cause tour
lists to avoid the Nile this season.
About $4,000 young shad have been
placed in the Merrimac river, above
Concord.
The New York aldermen have adop-
ted an ordinance prohibiting the sale
of the toy pistol.
The Universalist state convention at
Dexter, Me-, adopted resolutions de-
plOring the restoration of capital pun
ishment.
The Brooklyn police authorities have
issued an order restraining the Saliva
ton army from conducting services on
the streets
1t is estimated that the watering
places on the New Jersey coast, from
Long Beach to Cape May, take in
Sl4,OO0,OOO every summer.
Several New York savings banks !
have notified the chamber of commerce |
committee that they will refuse to re-
ceive trade dollars after July.
The graduating class of Dartmouth
college have elected Irwin Fish of
Brooklyn permanent secretary and pre-
| scented him with the class pipe.
Eighteen thousand immigrants have
arrived at Montreal this month. The
! Dominion government has appropri-
ated Sl5,000 toward Il Castle Garden
there.
Miss Elizabeth b. Richard, late asso-
ciate principal of Mount Holyoke,
Mass, seminary, has been elected prin-
cipal in place of Miss Julia f. Ward,
resigned.
A letter was received at the postoflice
in Springfield on Wednesday from Ire
land addressed to Mrs. Catherine Beat
tie, Hinsdale, n. H., Springfield, Mas
sachusetts, New York, America.
The statue of the late President
Zachary Taylor arrived ut Louisville,
:, KY, on Saturday, from Carrarra,
Italy. 1t will be mounted as soon us
it can be placed i'll the cemetery.
A brother of Prof. Henry Ruggles. of
. Dartmouth college, arrived ut Han
over, n. H., last Tuesday, after twenty
years absence. His friends have been
without any clew to his Whereabouts.
He is rich ranchman in Colorado.
The eighth annual Yale Harvard
| eight-Oared four mile straight way race
ut New London, Thursday, was won
by Harvard by fifteen lengths, in TWEEN
, ty-four minutes, forty-siX and one-half
, seconds.
: Thursday was commencement ut
Dartmouth. A class of sixty-one re-
ceived diplomas. Hon +. A. Rollins of
Philadelphia has agreed to give the
college 100000 to build chapel, on
certain conditions.
| sculptor Woods of Hartford has
: just finished his statue of Nathan Hale.
the martyr spy, representing him as
he was about to step upon the gal
lows, his arms pinioned, his head and
neck bare and wearing no coat or
) vest.
The state library at Boston has re-
ceived 40 volumes in half-morocco
comprising the entire list of laws of
Brazil from the adoption of the consti-
tuition. They are the gift of Emperor
Dom Pedro and are the only ones of
the kind i'll the country.
Over seven hundred Mormon con
: verts are expected soon from Europe.
1t is said that the Mormon missionary
r work in Europe had been very success
full during the past six months. 1t is
expected that about five thousand will
/ come within the next four months
f The trustees of the Garfield Monu-
ment fund at Cleveland, O., have
finally selected il place i'll Lake View
cemetery for the presidents last rest
ing place. 1t is said to he the most
,, magnificent spot in the State, as it
commands Il fine view of Cleveland,
Lake Erie, the entire cemetery and
a long stretch of farming country.
The seven days test of the Jersey
COW ''Nalue, ID, 6SI4, owned in Balti-
more, was completed the 2Sth The
COW was MIXED at intervals of eight
hours, yielding 327 pounds of milk
: from which was produced p pounds
and Il-l2 ounces of butter. The COW
was bred in New Jersey, and is pro-
nounced the best butter producing COW
in the United States.
The supreme court of Ohio, Thurs
day, gave its opinion in the Scott liq-
uor tax law, holding it valid and con
stitutiOnal except the second section,
wherein it is held not to apply to leas-
es executed prior to the passage of the
act, as no contracts made can he vio-
lated. Leases, however, entered into
subsequent to the passage of the law
came within its province.
a pOst-mortem examination of Jon
athan Chesley of NOrthwoOd Center, \
H., IA blacksmith, who died suddenly
last week, showed that his stomach
had been eaten through by the common
bolt, grub worm which attacks hors-
es. 1t is supposed that he swallowed
the eggs of the bOtt-hy, which had
been deposited on the legs of horses
that he shOd, and that they Matched in
his stomach.
DIR. Arthur F. Taylor, a son of DIR.
Samuel H. Taylor, the famous princi-
pal of Phillips academy at Andover
and graduate of Dartmouth in the
class of 1874, died suddenly at New
York Thursday at the age of thirty
one. He was principal of the Cass
school of applied science at Cleveland,
o., and has been assistant instructor in
the department of physics in the uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
On and after Monday there was
a reduction i'll the charges upon money
orders. The schedule will be Not
over 80, cents so to SI5, 10; SIj
to $50, Is; $50 to $40, % $40 to $50,
% ; $50 to $50, 30; 500 to go, b. go
to $50, 40; $50 to $500, Ia cents. No
more than three orders payable at the
same pOstOffice can he issued to one
person in a single day. These rates do
not apply to international money Or
ders.
The grass crop of Addison county