St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-04-20
General News.

The work of double tracking the
Boston, Concord & Montreal railroad
is to begin next month.
Francis 5. Street, proprietor of the
New York Weekly, is dead. He leaves
IN estate valued at million and a
| half.
The Brooklyn Congregational assO-
citation has asked Henry Ward Beecher,
who last year withdrew from its mem
bershlp, to return.
The two hundred and tiftieth ami
versary of the Jesuit society was cele-
brated in the Catholic churches Sunday
in Boston, Baltimore and New York.
The demand of the carpenters of New
York city for an advance to $3.50 per
day has been generally conceded. The
painters are to demand the same price.
The Greeley fam at Chappaqua, n.
| Y, consisting of eighty acres with sew
eTal buildings on it, is soon to be sold
under the provision of Mrs. Greeley's
will.
Joe Brady was convicted at Dublin,
| Ireland, Friday, of the murder of Cav
endish and Burke in Phoenix park near
| ly Il year ago and sentenced to be
hanged May II.
They have had 100 days continuous
| sleighing in Pittstield, Mass, this year
In 1890 they had 10; in 1869,
l24, and in 1928, good sleighing from
Nov. p to April 10.
| The Princess Louise arrived in Bos-
ton Saturday. She was met by the
Marquis of Lorne and driven immedi-
ately to the hotel. There were forty
policemen on duty at the depot.
| The Massachusetts house rejected the
bill to restore the double taxation of
mortgages on real estate also a bill
providing for the collection of damages
for injuries received in Sunday travel
| ing,
Nirginia's monument of Robert f..
Lee will be unveiled at Lexington on
the 9Th of June. jefferson Davis will
preside, Gen. Joseph E. johnson will
be chief marshal, and Major John w.
Daniel, orator.
| George II. Smith, financial secretary
of the Superior lodge of odd Fellows
of Central Falls, K. l., has been arrest
ed for the embezzlement of SlI45 of the
lodge funds. He has pleaded guilty.
| He spent the money for family expen-
| SeS.
a decision has been rendered at
! Hartford, Ct, that IL report made to Il
| Good Templars' lodge by member APP
| pointed to investigate the moral con-
duet of another member is a privileged
communication and that, therefore, a
suit for SANDER will not hold.
a.,
to about two millions. The will be-
queaths 100000 to Cooper Institute
The principal part of the property goes
to his children, Edward Cooper and
Mrs. Hewitt. His benefactions have
amounted to nearly 81 100000.
J. Astor Broad, a well-known organ
list and composer of Worcester, Mass,
died at Berlin, Germany, on Saturday
He has been studying there for two
years. lie has been an Organist at the
! Mt. Vernon and Park street churches,
Boston, and Plymouth church, Worces-
ter.
Fred Wagner, brother of the dead
New York senator and inventor of the
Wagner car, was found recently shot
through the neck near Powers Station,
Col. lie had been missing since last
fall. The body was terribly disfigured.
Considerable money was found neal
the body.
Baby farming is practiced to such an
extent in Connecticut that the legisla-
ture has passed bill providing that
any person engaged in the business OF
taking infants under three years of age
in any number exceeding two must re-
sa hn oil t,y
authorities.
1t is said that County Undertaken
Chaffee at Chicago sells seventy five
per cent of the bodies of the pauper
dead to the medical colleges at that
and other cities, and his revenue from
this source exceeds $4,000 annually.
Freeman, who in a fit of religious
frenzy murdered his child at POcasset,
Mass, four years ago and was commit
ted to an asylum, is now considered
perfectly sane. For some time he has
been under nominal restraint, being
allowed to travel about with a single
attendant, visit friends, etc. There
have been no symptoms of a return of
his malady. An Indictment for muir
der is pending against him, and the
case comes up at the May term. Free
man has no recollection of committing
the crime and says his "inspiration''
must have come from the devil. There
is much speculation as to the final dis
position of the case, but it is believed
he will be released.
Scheller, the supposed Newhall house
incendiary, Milwaukee, was acquitted
! on Tuesday afternoon. Five ballots
C&ere taken, and during all the ballot
ing\but one of the jurors was for con-
victi3Ss and he finally gave in, because
the judges instructed him that if there
was any doQbt in his mind he must
J give the prisoner the benefit of the
doubt. The j1fY was out two hours.
The trial lasted a week, and nearly 100
witnesses were called\
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes was Civ
en- dinner the 10Th at DehnOnico's by
the medical profession of New York
city. About 225 persons were present,
and responses to tOasts were MAIDS bv
William NJ. Evarts, George Williafa
Curtis and others. DR.. Holmes read a
humorous poem.