St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-01-05

and their padded coats over their
swelling bosoms nearly bursting with
ecstatic delight.
Congressman have custom of send
ing round their albums by pages for
signatures of their fellow members.
The other day Congressman Moore of
Tennessee thought the little fellows
who brought him the books were sollc-
iting for their own collections. So, IL
a kind, fatherly way, he put some good
advice, of the cOpybook maxim style,
in each album. In Senator Edmunds
he wrote with flourish: "Be good
boy and you will become a good man,
and the Green Mountain statesman is
making it one of the jokes of the season
"ThurlOw Weeds statement about
the fate of Morgan is a downright false
hood, and not living person knew
that better than he" says Rev. DR.. Rob
ert McCurdy of Dayton, Ohio, preacher
in the Episcopal church, Mason and
newspaper writer, and proceeds to tel
what really did happen to Morgan how
he went to Canada, then sailed fol-
Smyrna on the brig america" owned
by Ezra Weston of Duxbury, Mass.
and finally died in the East. But Nc
Curdy will hardly offset Weeds repu-
tatiOn with his story, or get much at
tention for himself.
Thirty years ago father, mother
and two infant sons were sold at slave
auction in Georgia to different masters
1t is a singular circumstance that one
of the sons is now President Arthur's
barber and the other n waiter at the
White House, but credulOus public,
always willing to be entertained dur
ing the hot weather, may perhaps be
trusted to accept it as the truth. 1t is
just possible, too, that people will be-
lieve the story that an ancient negro
who recently drifted into Washington
on an excursion and naturally went tC
the White House to pay his respects
found there in the persons of the afOre
said barber and waiter the sons from
whom he was separated at the auction
block, and from whom he had not hearC
a word for three decades.
General Meade's war horse, "OlC
Badly" died recently, at the age o
thirty years, ''near the Abingdon meet
ing house, in Pennsylvania. The ami
NAL was originally the property of Gen
eral Baker, who rode him during til,
first battle of Bull Run and then solo
him to General Meade. The latter
used the horse during two days of thu
seven days battles near Richmond, anC
then at the second battle of Bull Run
where "Old Badly" was wounded il
the near hind leg. At Antietam til,
horse was again wounded, a bullet pass
ing through his neck. General Mead,
dismOunted and abandoned the horse
believing that it had received its dealt
wound. However, after the battle, tin
Generals groom found the hOrs
browsing about the grassy field a
though nothing had happened to it
General Meade and his horse were bot
wounded at Gettysburg. A bulle
pierced the saddle-tiap and entered TIN
horses side, passing between two q
his ribs.
The highest railroad bridge in til
world is now being constructed on tn
extension of the Bradford branch q
the New York, Lake Erie and Western
railroad, and is now nearly half com
| pleted. The bridge spans Il deep ra
vine, at the bottom of which flows tn
Kinzua creek, situated in Mexican
county, Pa, and the structure, whel
finished, will be 2052 feet long between
abutments and 302 feet high from tn
surface of the ground to the base of TIN
rail. 1t is composed OF continuous lat
eral girder irons, supported on twent,
iron towers, formed by columns strong
] L.. Il l.
to give the greatest amount of strength
and stability to resist pressure from
wind and storms. These towers hav,
il uniform length at top and bottom o
IS feet q inches, width at top of II
feet, and at the bottom the width va
ries with the height, the two highes
towers having Il width at their base
of l02 feet 9 inches. There are twent,
clear spans of siXty-one and one O
sixtytwO feet in length.