St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-30
General News.

Republican newspapers out in Iowa
are busy nominating president, and
nearly all are for Blaine.
Governor Sherman of Iowa express
es the opinion that no prOhibitory leg
islatiOn can be forced through the Iowa
legislature.
Emily 5. Rice was elected county
clerk of Harper county, Kansas, Nov.
8, by over 300 majority. She was the
first woman ever elected to that posi-
ton in Kansas.
There is hopeful gossip in st. Louis
about the building of another big
bridge, IA little above the one con-
trolled by Mr.. Gould. The opposition
railroads chafe under Gould's extor-
tons.
Lewis Houston, colored, awaiting
trial at Birmingham, Ala, for attempt
ed outrage, was taken from Jail at 10
o'clock Saturday night, by $50 men and
hanged to a tree.
The reading of Gov. Buffers Thanks
giving proclamation was omitted in
nearly all the Boston churches. the
presidents message being substituted
i'll some.
The dead body of Phoebe Paullin,
IL, daughter of David 5. Paullin, was
found in field at West Orange, n. j.,
Sunday. She had been outraged and
her throat cut.
Thomas Evans & Co.'S glass factory
at Pittsburg, Pa, was burned Satur-
day; loss estimated at 100000. The
fa pt lAt of "a
kind in the United States.
Samuel f. Jones, leading Hartford
criminal lawyer, announces that he
will not hereafter defend men accused
of selling liquor illegally. He says the
! liquor traffic is so great an evil that he
will not countenance it in any way.
The Brooklyn bridge is the biggest
humbug in the country as at present
managed. The New York entrance is
blocked by a railroad station. Cars
are not run at night, so it is useless for
returning from places of amusement.
Getting an education at Harvard: A
Boston Globe reporter claims to have
attended a cOck-fight in one of the stu
dents rooms at Harvard, with the
walls carefully padded to prevent the
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ting ran from So to $50.
There is a little graveyard at North
Haverhill, n. H., where rest the re-
mains of Mcintosh who led the Boston
tea party. He died in 1910 or 1911, at
the house of a man named Hurlburt
who had bid him off as Il public pau
per, and his grave is unmarked.
Cochituate water is so bad that BOs-
ton people buy from 600 to 500 barrels
a week of the spring water which is
brought into the city and carted about
from house to house, and pay not less
than 10 cents gallon for it. The first
class hotel and restaurants use spring
water exclusively.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
is busy campaigning against the adOp-
ton of standard time i'll its city. The
difference between that and local time
is nearly % minutes, but the CONNER
cial will find that railroads are very in
tiuential i'll the matter.
A heroic method of treatment fol-
cataract was developed by the recent
Brooktield o.. ~ tragedy. The blind
old man, whose wife and daughter
We're so brutality strangled, was felled
to the ground by the murderer, but the
blow intended to take his life simply
restored his eyesight. The adhesions
of the cataract are supposed to have
been broken by the blow.
DR.. james Marion Sims, a distin-
guished physician and surgeon of New
York, died suddenly of heart disease
ut his home in that city, being little
more than 20 years old. He was ma
tive of South Carolina, and became ia
nous as Il specialist in the diseases of
women.