St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-23

Wilson S. Hoover, associate Justice of
the supreme court of Arizona, pending
an investigation by the department of
justice into charges preferred against
him of accepting brides. Judge Hoover
is well known in Washington from his
connection with the Dickson star-route
bribery case.
Luther Tucker, a carpenter of East
Norwood, came to Dover. y. H., stop
ping at the Kimball house. Saturday
he was found in bed, having been suf-
located by gas. 1t is sup osed that he
blew ont the gas, instead of turning it
off upon retiring. He was ~ years
old, and leaves widow. He had an
estate valued at S60.OOO.
Five college students were before II
New York police court Friday on
charge of intention to fight duel.
They were held in $1,000. They were
the principals and three seconds, and
were arrested on the way to the place
of meeting, an island in the sound.
The quarrel grew out of disparaging
remark about a college society.
The physician who attended Prince
GortschakOtf states that there were
enough grounds for suspecting that the
prince had been poisoned. The evil
dence of the princes mistress and of
his valet confirms the suspicion. In
his will, made on the deathbed, the
prince requests the authorities to sup
press any inquiry as to whether he had
been poisoned.
Sarah Bernhardt's latest advertise
ment takes the form of visit to a lu-
matte asylum, where she studied the
manners and customs of the inmates,
\ with view to reproducing them on
| the stage. She had herself locked up
\ In one of the cells where violent mani
\ acs are confined, and then went through
rehearsal of gymnastics such as mad
people are wont to indulge in.
The Connecticut legislature has
passed bill directing sherffis to cause
the body of any executed criminal to
be quietly and decently buried at the
/ expense of the state, the cost not to
exceed $40. He is not prohibited from
delivering the body to relatives, but he
has exclusive direction of the funeral.
and may refuse delivery if there is a
prospect of disgraceful exhibition.
| In Brunswick, Maine, Franklin T..
Perham of the senior class of Bowdoin
college was charged with breaking and
entering and larceny of il diploma from
the medical school made out Tor
| Noah McGOnagle, but not given him
because of failure to pass an examina-
ton. Perham sold the diploma to Me
GOnagle. The charge of breaking and
entering was not sustained. Perham
was fined so and costs for larceny.
Miss Hulda B. Loud of Rockland.
| Mass, attended the recent town meet
ing in that town and made two speech
es in behalf of raising the salaries of
the teachers in the public schools. She
asked for $500 additional, and the
meeting by unanimous vote gave
| $1,000. This is the first time the wages
| of teachers have been raised since the
| town was incorporated, nine years ago.
1t was left for woman to tell the Vo-
tiers of ROckland how low their teach
ers wages were.
Alexander H. Stephens had dog
named Rio, which was IA great flvorite
with the old cOmmOner. Rio was IA
dog of remarkable intelligence, and
had caught up many curious tricks.
such as shutting the door and fetching
canes and umbrellas. While his mas
ter was i'll congress Rio remained with
Judge Linton Stephens. The dog
seemed to know when his master ought
to return home, and when the time
came he would go to the depot and run
through the coaches attached to every
train.
The skeleton of the assassin Guiteau
Is III the army museum--the same
building where Lincoln fell by the
hand of another assassin. Sergeant
Mason who fired a shot into the iail
where the "inspired" monster Law
awaiting his doom, fingers in prison
and is undergoing sentence of eight
years at hard labor. The penalty of
dishonOrable discharge from the army,
with forfeiture of all of his pay and
allowances, very harsh and hard part
of his punishment, he has already paid.
Subscriptions for the benefit of his wife
and child have ceased, and apparently
all legal efforts on his behalf have been
abandoned. His case is not wholly
forgotten, however, and occasionally
petitions in his behalf are received at
the war department from people who
believe that the sentence of the court
martial was too severe, and that Mason
is proper subject for executive elem
ency.