St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-15
General News.

is issued to veterans of the Mexican
wal to join.
Two hundred thousand Cuban slaves
are to be freed in 1888, and the ques-
ton of importing labor to fill their
places is occupying the attention OF
Spanish statesmen.
The mayor and aldermen of Port
land, Me-. have voted to dead-head
themselves into shows, and to wear n
badge of "sOme appropriate design"
Let them wear much-wilted beet.
The decline in curiosity and the in
crease of the heat have reduced the
travel on the Brooklyn bridge. Only
1900 people walked over Thursday,
and only $50 were taken in from We
hicles.
The Indiana Supreme Court has de-
cided that a married woman cannot
enter into copartnership with her hus-
band or any other person for the pur-
pose of carrying on a partnership bus
mess.
The bills that were supposed to have
been stolen from Governor Buffers
Office have been found. 1t is said that
full statement as to the finding of the
bills will exonerate the governors de-
partment.
Francis NJ. ScOville, sister of Charles
Guiteau, who was divorced from her
husband last January, has filed petit
ton in the circuit court at Chicago to
have her name changed to Francis
Maria Howe.
Timothy Kelly, who was convicted
of participation in the Phoenix Park
murders, was hanged in Kilmainham
Jail Saturday. He was the fifth man
executed for those murders and the last
one convicted thereof.
The Boston and Maine, Eastern,
Boston, Concord and Montreal, Con-
cord, Manchester and Lawrence, North
ern and Concord and Claremont rail-
roads have agreed to support the pro-
posed law for the consolidation of the
railroads of New Hampshire.
Chester w. Chaplin, ex-president of
the Boston and Albany railroad, is
dead, aged eighty-tive. He was elect
ed member of Congress in 1874 and
served one term. Mr.. Chaplin was for
mony years one of the most influential
railroad men of Massachusetts,.
A company has been organized to lay
two new ocean cables between this
country and Europe. The details of
the new project will be made public in
a short time. 1t is said that the enter
prise is in strong hands and in such a
state as to leave no doubt of its
| speedy success.
The condition of Lake WinnepiseOg-
ee again attracts unusual attention. Its
water is unprecedentedly low. Large
stretches of shore bottom, not pleasant
to look upon, are exposed to view.
! That complete beauty which only
comes from the fullness of its waters
does not exist this season. 1t is assert
ed that the large steamers cannot reach
some of the landing piers.
At Concord, n. H., on Thursday
evening, Col. Q. p. Patten, the we'll
known representative of the Fairbanks
Scale company in the Dominion of
! Canada, was presented with an elegant
parade and dress sword, belt and chap
eau, by the active and honorary mem
bers of the Third New Hampshire reg
iment, Col. Patterson, in appreciation of
the courtesies which he extended to the
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the recent queens birthday.
The Niagara Falls park commission
elected William DOrSheimer president
Saturday and adopted ii resolution de-
Gliding that the least they could take
for the reservation would be all the
islands and IL strip of land beginning
at the head of the rapids and extend
ing down to the new suspension bridge
Just below Prospect park. This strip
is mcagcr bit of territory, nothing
like what should be included in such i
scheme. AT the upper end it is very
narrow, and varies on the way from
30 to 100 feet in width.
The anniversary exercises at Dart
mouth will be as follows Sunday
June Thursday, 2S. Sunday, bac-
calaureate by President Bartlett and
address before Young Mems Christian
association by Rev. c. ID. BarrOws OF
San Francisco ; Monday, prize speak
ing; Tuesday, anniversary of New
Hampshire college of agriculture and
mechanical arts, of the Chandler scien-
tilic department, and class-day eXer-
cises Wednesday, alumni meeting
with addresses by representatives OF
classes from 1909 to 1888; Thursday
commencement exercises.
At Il meeting of the Grand Army o
the Republic ut Denver, Col, on Sat
urday, the Veteran Mining company
which recently sent circulars through
ont the East urging comrades to invest
in its stock, was denounced in unmeas-
ured terms by a unanimous vote, anC
the department officials were censured
for lending their official influence tC
the scheme. 1t was shown by the rec.
ords of the county where the mines are
claimed to be located that the compa-
ny has no valid title to that property
and whether the mines have any value
whatever is seriously questioned.