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


bales.
A bill was passed by the Tennessee
Legislature Tuesday abolishing public
executions.
Secretary Chandler is preparing to
send to two expeditions to the Arctic
this summer.
1t is estimated that the treasury sur
plus will be reduced ten to fifteen mil
lions under the new tariff.
The government has decided to re-
lease Sitting Bull and his braves and
place them on Standing Rock reserva-
ton.
Germany has purchased l,OOO,OOO
acres of land in Mexico and is negOtiat-
ing for 5000, 900 more for colonization
purposes.
EX-Representative X. p. Flower of
New York has returned to the treasury
S456 overpaid him on account of salary
and mileage.
In New Zealand the American COM
mon school system has been introduced,
and there are now $50 schools with
"a, 400 pupils.
There was disgraceful scene the
other afternoon in the PENNSYLVANIA
senate chamber, one senator slapping
anOther's face.
The senate of New York has passed
bill requiring telegraph and tele-
phone companies to put wires under
ground by March |, 1885.
In Boston, Cora Barber of LYNN. a
tailOress, has sued j. c. Phillips, son
of Eben Phillips, a millionaire, for
S2O,UW for breach of promise.
The Young Mems Christian associa-
ton of Hartford, CT, has received $50
volumes of valuable books from the
library of the late Gov. Jewell.
The trustees of the Brooklyn bridge
have voted to not put its control in the
hands of the two mayors, on the ground
that they want to keep it out of poll
tics.
Ellen Gorham, handsome young
white woman, employed as "A waitress
in hotel at Paterson, n. j., has elop-
ed with John Rankin, full -blooded
negro.
The president has appointed A. U.
WYman, assistant treasurer of the
United States, to be treasurer, vice
James Giltillan, whose resignation has
been accepted.
In New York, Ellen Conway, who
sold newspapers, was found dead in
bed Saturday. Her rooms had a mis-
cradle appearance, but when searched
$1,000 was found.
1t is rumored that Capt Boner, faith
erin-law of George Scheller, the al
legged Newhall- incendiary, con-
fessed on his death bed that he was the
man who fired the hotel.
In Boston, Otis Randall, broker, re-
puted to be worth a million and half,
was arrested Saturday, on a charge of
purchasing stolen postage stamps from
office boys at low figures.
AT Biddeford, Me-, Levi Peavey of
Dayton committed suicide by plunging
into a spring of water. He was about
sixty-eight years old and the deed was
caused by domestic trouble.
AT the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Tract society, the total receipts
were reported as 1913, 900, and the ex-
penditures S36S 900. The donations
and legacies amounted to 800, 400.
During the dozen years of the pas
torate of Rev. DR.. Walker in Boston he
has married 200 couples, an average
of more than one per month. So far as
he knows, but two couples have been
divorced.
The will of the late Adam j. Glasz,
merchant of Philadelphia, which was
admitted to probate Monday, bcqueaths
100000 to various Catholic, chart
table and educational institutions of
that city.
Thirty -hve insurance companies that
hold policies on the store of Edward
Malley of New Haven, which was
burned year ago, have refused pay
ment, and they have been sued to re,
cover $4,000.
The bill to settle the state debt at
fifty cents on IA 81, with three per cent.
interest has passed the Tennessee SEN
ate as it came from the house of repre-
sentatives. 1t now awaits the sigma
ture of the governor.
A Washington special says an official
of the state department informed an
attache of the German legation that
demand from the German government
to return Herr Most to Germany would
receive due consideration.
A panic was created Friday night at
the Cosmopolitan theatre, New York, !
by the giving way of the supports to a
balcony. Several persons were injured
in the panic which ensued, and pocket
books and clothing were lost.
Benjamin Bates, aged forty
committed suicide at Richmond, Va, |
Sunday morning by shooting himself
through the heart. He was grand |
nephew of Edward Bates, attorney
general under President Lincoln.
In Pittsburg, Roth, the defaulting
cashier of the Washington savings
bank, has been found guilty of defal-
cations to the amount of over $780,
900. He confessed taking the money |
and losing it in specializing.
A new factory law goes into force on
May | in Russia which provides that |
no child under twelve shall be employ
ed in factories, and those between |
twelve and fifteen who work shall at
tend school at least three hours day.
The English revisers of the Old Tes-
lament are now reported to have fin
ished the second revision of the whole. |
from the first chapter of Genesis to the |
last of Malachi. They will now con-
slider the suggestions of the American
revisers.
Ex-Governor Samuel j. Kirkwood. |
secretary of the interior under Presi-
dent Garfield, was accidentally thrown .
from carriage at Iowa City on Satur-
day, and suffered severe injuries.
though his condition is not regarded as
dangerous.
Reports from various parts of Illinois
indicate that the frequent cold spells