St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-04
GIeanings.

During lSS2, y i divorces were grant
ed in Rhode Island.
Rev. Robert Collyer expects to go to
Europe this summer.
Forty counties of Georgia have voted
prohibition under the local option law.
A New York physician has been sued
for $4,000 damages for vacclnatlng a
child with impure matter.
Hon. Oliver Ames is expected to in
vest about four hundred thousand dol
lars i'll his new house in Boston.
Lake Winnipisiogee has never been
so low as at present, thousands of feet
of lumber being left high and dry.
E. c. Allen of Augusta, Me-, the
well-known publisher, is going to Eu-
rope, and will be absent several weeks.
Nearly two million dollars worth of
sewing machines have been exported
to Europe from this country during the
past eight months.
1t will surprise some to hear that
Pennsylvania has 1859 persons en-
ployed in getting about 10000, 900 tons
of coal annually from her 339 anthracite
mines.
The Texas legislature has just set
apart an additional million acres OF
land for endowment of white and col
Ored universities, also million acres
for common schools.
Hon. Roscoe Conkling will deliver
the Grafton in New York city on Memo
rial-day. Hon. Joseph X. Hawley has
been invited to deliver the Grafton Oh
. FL. Sauna IaN in Rpnnlylvn
The old Advertiser building, oppO-
site Court square, Boston, is being de-
molished. 1t was formerly the site O
the printing and publishing Office o
Benjamin Franklin and his brother
James.
Hon. Noah Davis of New York, aftel
twenty-six years of experience on the
| bench, says that more than nine-tenths
of the crimes committed in New YOrl
city are the result of the traffic i'll in
tOxicating liquors.
Jay Gould, only forty seven year.
old, and with one hundred million dol
! lars, has decided to retire from activ,
| business in favor of his son, who vii
| try to he Us successful a speculator al
his father has been.
| 1t is alleged that a careful Statistical
| investigation among the Good Temp
/ lars of an entire county i'll England has
proved the smoking teetOtalers to be
over five times more liable to breal
their pledges than those who abstain
| from tobacco.
Charles II. Reed, who was Guiteau'i
counsel, and who is to defend William
Pitt Kellogg in the criminal action
against the government that he con
spired to rob, will try to save his no
torious client by resort to the statut,
of limitations.
Some idea of the immensely of thu
cattle business of Texas may be oh
tanned from the fact that 2l5 trains
VIII be required to move one herd
odus of the cattle from the southern
portion of the state.
Work will soon be begun at BedlOe'
island on the pedestal for the Barthold
statue. The executive committee hav,
issued Instructions to the treasurer t.
call in the subscriptions, which amour
to about S60,OO0. Besides this, ther,
is over So, 900 cash on hand.
The enterprising citizens of Denver
Col, expect to make at least 81 ,000, 0Ol
ont of the strangers within their gate
the coming summer. The mining ano
industrial exhibition opens on July II
the Grand Army reunion begins on Ju
| ly -, the Colorado regiments meet il
September, the Royal Arch Mason
convene August I3, the Brotherhood o
Locomotive Firemen is to hold IA con,
vention on IA date not yet named, and ;
host of Independent tourists are certain
to visit the city.