St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-01
General News.

General News.
Senator Fair of Nevada has been di-
vOrced from his wife.
The Washington monument has
reached Il height of $50 feet.
An average of $500 people per hour
passed over the Brooklyn bridge Fri
day.
The toll for foot passengers on the
Brooklyn bridge has been fixed at one
cent.
At the New York dog show, Hon.
Samuel j. Tilden paid large price for
Il pug dog.
BY law of the Maine Legislature,
the legal school week is now five days,
instead of 81 days, as formerly.
1t is estimated there are about 10000
dead laws on the statute books of New
York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and
Ohio.
Salmi Morse has been granted a Ii
cense for his theatre upon promise
that he will not present 'The Passion
Play
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe reads poem
and Col. Albert Clarke delivers an ad-
dress Memorial-day at Wellesley,
Mass.
In New York, the police seized six
boxes containing $4,000 slung shots,
one of the most deadly weapons carried
by criminals.
Ex-Governor Frederick Smyth of
New Hampshire has just reached home
after tour of nineteen thousand miles
in the Old World.
The Figaro publishes Il letter from
Count de Lesseps, stating that the Su-
ez Canal company proposes to cut a
second canal across the lsthmus.
The monument to the memory of
Thomas jefferson, erected near his old
home ut Monticello, Va, will be I'M
yelled with appropriate exercises on
July /.
Jennie Cramer's mother, widow of
Jacob Cramer of New Haven, Conn, is
so poor that she is allowed her back
taxes in monthly instalments, interest
abated.
The Emperor William has issued Il
decree ordering that the 10th and lIth
of November be observed as the 4OOth
anniversary of the birth of Martin
Luther.
The returns of the assessors show
some $500 taxable liquor saloons in
Hamilton county, Ohio, in which cOun-
ty is Cincinnati, whose aggregate tax
will reach nearly S500,000.
Jersey City saloon keepers are mott
fled that the law against Sunday liquor
selling is to he enforced, and that the
doors of their respective establishments
are expected to be closed Sunday.
The Garfield monument committee
of the army of the Cumberland have
selected }. q. Ward of New York as
the artist to design and complete IA
monument ut "A cost not exceeding $50
900.
The annual report of the New Hamp-
shire state prison show the number of
inmates as 100 males and female, and
that the total expenses last year were
so, 367, or 1892 in excess of the earn
ings.
The Brooklyn bridge was not the
only important structure of the kind
opened to public use on the queens
permanent bridge across the Indus be
came IA thoroughfare. 1t spans the riv-
er at AttOck.
Daniel II. Rogers, chief clerk in the
state treasurer's office, has sued the
Springfield Republican and Boston
Globe for 81, 900 each, for libel in pub
fishing a charge made against him by a
Boston lawyer of using trust funds as
collateral for loan.
There is an unseemly forwardness
about Malone, who is not a person of
nice instincts. He has filed an appli-
cation for the front seat in the Senate
which Senator Anthony has occupied
for years, the demand being contingent
on Mr.. Anthony's death.
At st. Paul the Washburn will con-
test has been decided in favor of the
widow of the ex-governor. She is in a
lunatic asylum hOpelessly insane. I'm
der the decision she gets IA third of the
estate worth about S300,0O0) in addi-
ton to provisions made for her in his
will.
The Lowell Telephone Syndicate
purchased of the Southwestern Bell
Telegraph aud Telephone company,
with a capital of s2,6OO,OOO, covering
for all telephone purposes the entire
states of Arkansas and Texas. The
price paid is understood to have been
$50 per share.
Statistics of the American Sunday
school union Of new schools organ
lied during the year there were 2252
teachers in same, 1896; scholars, So
700, a decided increase over last year.
Since its organization the union has
founded "A ,027 schools with member
ship of S3,567 600.
A steamboat blew up near Lakeville,
Cal, Friday morning. All the forward
part of the boat was blown away. The !