St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-15
GlcaIIiIIgS.

Rev. Henry Ward Beccher is seventy
years old the 9th.
Governor Hale reports the debt OF
New Hampshire to be S3,360,O60.
The authorities of New York are
drowning about one hundred dogs IL
day.
a colored woman has died in New
York who is said to have been 10 years
old.
The seventeenth annual encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic will
he held at Denver, July 23 p.
En- Governor Plaistcd has retired
from editorial and business connection
with the Lewiston, Me-, Gazette.
The Topeka (Kan.) Capital says the
doctrine of prohibition lis stronger
to-day in this state than it WAS when
the constitutional amendment was
adopted"
\ suit 10y William l.. Smith against
the Chicago Grand Trunk railroad for
injuries received three years ago re-
suited ut Port Huron, Mich, in YER
diet for I 900 damages.
June | marked the beginning of the
operations of the new tariff law. In
respect to all other schedules the law
goes into effect on the first of July,
but sugar was made an exception.
Ohio has enacted law making it IL
punishable offence for any one to sell
or give Il toy pistol to ii person under
fourteen years of age il dealer who
violates the law is liable for all DANA
%es resulting.
The New England fair has been def
nitely located at Manchester and will
he held Sept. /, ,, q and I. A large
number of men are fitting up the
grounds. The citizens have contribu-
ted $1,000 toward erecting the necessa-
ry buildings.
Boston consumes daily b, 6l6 gallons
of milk, an increase of 1900 gallons
daily over last years supply. The
Yearly value of the milk trade of the
city is estimated ut S3,5OO, 900 and en-
ploys at least 800 persons, exclusive
of producers.
The committee appointed to consider
the proposition addressed to the trus-
tees of Columbia college by the assoc
citation for promoting the higher edu-
cation of women have made their re-
port. The committee declare that
co-educatlOn at present i'll Columbia
college is impracticable.
1t is said at Cleveland, o., that
Amasa Stones will bequeaths SlO0,0OO
to Adelbert college, making his cohtri-
buttons to that institution S6O0,00O,
property valued at 81 ,0O0,0O0 to his
widow. and the remainder of his fort
une, variOuSly estimated at from six
to twelve millions, to his two daughters.
1t appears that two Massachusetts
governors never received the degree of
Ii. ID. at all, three had received it be-
fore becoming governor, one received
it i'll the tenth year of his service, three
in the second year, and of the five who
received it in their first year, previous
to lS44. three were Harvard graduates,
and these five did not hold the office
cOnsecutively.
The Chinese minister is quoted as
saying that his government is entire
ly satisfied with the manner in which
the United States Is executing the new
anti Chinese law. He adds that he
believes that in ten years the law will
be repealed, and that the United States
as their labor will be needed. He be-
lieves that the fist move in this direc-
ton will come from the Pacific coast
states which were so earnest in their
demands for the passage of the restrict
i've bill.
The members of the Congregational
Ministers association of Chicago. after
a full discussion of the subject, have
agreed not to marry divorced persons
of either sex without the most satisfac-
tory proofs that sufficient cause existed
for a dissolution of the sacred contract.
and that the divorce was obtained in
an open and honorable manner. This
is position which all Protestant min
listers might well initiate, and thus
largely reduce the scandals connected
with this subject pending the general
reforms in laws and practice which an
aroused public sentiment will compel
at the earliest possible moment Elk.