St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-01-12
General News.

Chicago had murder for every
week last year, and two over.
The profits from the Garfield fair in
Washington are nearly $4,000.
1t is thought immigration this year
will be 100000 less than last year.
The steamers plying in Boston har-
Dor carried last year $4,000, 900 passen-
gers.
The state treasurer of Tennessee is
pronounced a defaulter to the extent of
S5OO,OOO.
General amnesty has been decreed
to the Egyptian rebels not already
dealt with.
San Fancisco women hire messenger
boys as escorts to places of amusement
and the like.
New York spent three million dol
lars less for new buildings last year
than in 1881.
A movement is on foot for the con-
solidation of all the rubber companies
in the country.
The colored population in the south
has increased about two millions III
twenty years.
The remains of John Howard Payne
have been shipped to the United
States from Tunis.
The naval advisory board recon-
mend the completion of the monitors
under new contract.
The new catalogue of Tufts college
contains the names of "a students, a
gain of IS over last year.
1t is reported that the diamond as
an engagement ring has gone entirely
out of fashion in New York.
1t is estimated that to complete tn re
Mississippi improvements on the scale
as laid out will cost sixty-six millions.
The consumption of beer in the Ger
man empire amounted last year to the
enormous total of $50, 100000 gallons.
The bullion product of the Lead
vile district for the past year is Slo,-
100000 greater than any previous year.
The New York police found 4,465
children wandering i'll the streets last
year. All but $50 were claimed by
their parents.
The autopsy proves that the pistol
wound inflicted month ago had no
connection with the cause of Gam
betta's death.
The Tennessee legislature have
adopted resolution suspending the
payment of the January interests on
the state debts.
Governor II. NJ. Plaisted has pur-
chased one-third interest in the Lew
iston Gazette and has become connect
ed with that paper.
Massachusetts, has 30, IL persons ac-
lively engaged in the fishing business,
and 800 more employed in making nets,
lines, fish boxes, etc.
The total catch of mackerel in 1882
by the New England fleet was BIS, 1868
inspected barrels, and of this amount
25S, ZIG barrels are credited to Massa-
chusetts.
Mrs. Garfield has in her Cleveland
home "relic-roOm," filled with tokens
of respect and sympathy sent the fam
lily during the presidents sickness and
after his death.
At the end of the calendar year 1882
there were 1858 post offices in the
United States against 1898 for the
" lOClS OCli5 ath ihNiNhot NAhi
the year of 1865.
1t is said at the interior department
that about 30 of the 800 pension office
clerks, whose temporary appointments
expire within the next two months, will
fail of re-appointment.
| In Boston, the suit of Jane White
| (colOred), against George SpOfford,
| (white), for $1,000 damages for breach
of promise of marriage was decided in
favor of the defendant.
The revenue collected at Boston in
1889 amounted to nearly as much as
the receipts for duties collected AT
Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans
and San Francisco combined.
A Cleveland man named Deering eX-
poets Il fortune from his invention of d
barrel without hoops, slaves or heads
| 1t is, in fact, made from wood pulp
and should be called paper barrel.
Mayor Edison has refused to grant &
license for the production of the Pas
sion Play in New York city. The court.
will he appealed to for IA mandamus t.
compel the mayor to license the play.
Reports from the savings banks o
Rhode Island show the total amOun
of deposits to be S46, 320,673, an in
crease in the past year of : ,54S,9
the whole number of depositors is | u,
472, an increase of 9,4Sl.
The director of the mint has prepared
a statement showing that the gain IL
metallic circulation by coinage and i'm
ports during the past six months ha
been about SD, 200. 900 in United State
gold coin and about S74, 800, 900 in sill
yer coin.
Fewer calls were made in New YOrl
on New Years than in any previous
year. The gilded youth of the gay me
tropolis have so abused their privileges
in the past that society people intimat
ed to them that their room was bette
than their company.
Connecticut has I2I 900 schOOl-child
rem and 3,l20 teachers. The expenses
last year, according to the report o
the state board of education, were 81 g,
So, 065, an increase over 1881 of abOu
i S75, 900, which went mostly into tn,
salaries of teachers.
The number of pupils in the public
schools of Pennsylvania last year wa
945, 345, and the average number in at
tendance was Gil, BY. The cost o
maintaining the schools was 8,263,
pa. The number of male teachers EN-
plOyed was 905l, and of females ID,
7SS.
Indiana has 4462 church building
and 1881 church organizations, 1888!
persons were admitted to them las
year, 81 ,246,9 l3 was paid to ministers
and I67 ,572 was collected for charitabl,
purposes. The Methodists keep tn,
lead with l547 organizations and lis,
949 members.
The Eastern and Maine Central rail