St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
General News.


has been for over four years.
The late New Haven manufacturer.
after whom the Yale lock is named,
left an estate of SS,000,000.
1t is said the postmaster general is
considering the subject of increasing
the limit of weight on letter postage.
Receipts of grapes in New York,
from the Hudson valley vineyards,
aggregate over five hundred tons IA day.
The earnings of the New York state
prisons for the year ending Sept. 80
paid all the expenses and left IA surplus
of 81 1896.
The Springfield Bicycle club has
found that the expenses of the recent
wheel meeting were $1,000 more than
the receipts.
AS soon as the arrangements for
clerical work can be perfected the
three cent stamps will be redeemed
when desired.
Matthew Arnold sails for this cOun-
try on Saturday. He will lecture I'M
der the management of the Redpath
Lyceum bureau.
The supreme court of the United
States convened: Monday. The num-
Der of cases on the docket is l0ll, an
increase of fifty-four over last year.
Principals of intermediate schools in
Cincinnati are paid $1,000 per annum,
and their assistants, mostly ladies,
$500, and it is proposed to reduce the
salaries.
The amount of main track added to
the railways of the Union during the
nine months ending September 30 was
4,244 miles, against SOS miles for the
same period last year.
The New Orleans National bank has
instituted Il suit for 800, 900 against
Postmaster General Gresham on ac-
count of his order forbidding delivery
of money orders and registered letters
to the bank.
The use of Panama wood called
cokobola for knife handles, etc, in the
Bridgeport factories has poisoned a
number of workmen and some children
who played in the sawdust, but none
of them dangerously.
Naval officers are of opinion that
our fleet in Asiatic waters would be
sufficient to protect American interests
if it were in the right place and prop
erly handled, but the squadron is be
lieved to he scattered.
Governor Butler has been in Wash
ingtOn to look after the legal-tendeI
cases before the supreme court, in
which he will be opposed by Senator
n Edmunds. unless lie succeeds i'll having
the hearing put off.
} At Portsmouth, n. H., Miss Abbit
Winchester of San Francisco, heiress
to s 200, 900, was married to Wallace
Hackett, young lawyer of that city
Her trOusSeau was valued at SlOO,OOt
and the wedding presents at S2OO,OO
In the forthcoming report of the
commissioner of education it will he
shown that out of II male population Of
4,I54, I25 in the southern states above
the age of twenty-one years, 4IO, 55C
whites and 944 ,l24 colored are unable
to write.
1t is thought that the Washington
monument will he 40 feet high wheI
work is stopped for the season, and
things progress so well that there i,
talk of having some kind of an inter
national jubilee in the spring of 1873;
to mark the completion of the work.
During the past three years nine
, Episcopal churches have been erected
ut cost of Sl3O, 900, six rectOries at {
cost of 81, 200. The church property
t has increased in value from $3.50, 00C
to nearly S500,000. The number o
communicates has increased from l50(
to 2I00.
Harry New, junior proprietor of the
/ | l.. 4. IL
I G. Thompson, editor of the Washing
ington Sunday Chronicle, on the street
: striking him two severe blows in thu
: face. Both were arrested. Thompson
has been publishing articles concern
ing New and his father, John c. New
which caused the trouble.
Lots of people fail to understand thu
postal change; hundreds of foreign let
= ters are posted daily with only TIVE
cents paid, great numbers of drOp-let
tiers are mailed in cities with one cen
stamps and the postOffice department
is flooded with inquiries. The lette
= rate is changed from three to two cents
the change applies to Canadian letters
and that is all.
: A Montreal despatch to the New
York Evening Post says: The Cana
dian Pacific railway has virtually be
come the possessor of the Southeastern
; road by a resolution of the directors
transferring the road into the hand
of the trustees of the bondhOlders. Al
the majority of the bonds are held by
the Pacific company, the latter is nov
considered the owner of the road t.
all intents and purposes.
; The Washington Sunday Capital ha'
taken the pains to ascertain the vlew'
of the numerous bureau chiefs as to the
best system for promotions in the ser
vice. A very considerable number are
of opinion that promotions should be
made according to seniority rather than
Z by competitive examination on the
ground that as general rule it works
less friction than the promotion of q
. lowers grade clerk above one who ha.
for years occupied higher-grade posi-
ton would.
The post-Oflice department has made
this ruling The liability of party
to pay for newspaper must be de
termined by the rules applicable to
: other contracts. When a publisher
without IL request from party, either
expressed or implied, sends paper
the mere fact that the party addressed
, takes the paper from the postotfice doe:
not itself create liability to pay for it
It takes two to make Il contract, anC
, one party without the consent of the
other cannot make him his debtor.
CarelesSneSS.