St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-07
General News.

Geo. VIM. Ballou & Co.'s liabilities
are S3,OOO,0O0. A month ago they
were S4,000,0OO.
The breakers at Nantucket have been
higher this season than for years, roll
ing from twenty to thirty feet high.
Two monuments and three tablets
were dedicated on the battlefield of
Gettysburg by the survivors of several
Pennsylvania regiments.
In Cincinnati, John Flynn, aged
twenty-five years, for thirteen years IA
city newsbOy, has sold his stand for
SD 900, and will open IL hotel in Den
yer.
The first appointment at Chicago
under the civil service law was made
on Friday, to fill $1,000 clerkship.
The average standing of the appointee
was 9Sf.
The receiver of the Indiana banking
company states that the cOmpany's
liabilities are SSO5,OOO; assets face
value), S9O9,000; appraisers value,
S406. 900.
The death of Miss Libbie Quick, at
Newburg, n. Y, was the fourth caused
by the drinking of contaminated well
water. About twenty persons are now
i'll from the same cause.
Reports from over one hundred to
baccO towns in Connecticut and the
Housatonic valleys Indicate that the
tobacco crop will be full average in
yield and excellent i'll quality.
At Metuchen, n. j., Mrs. Sanborn
ten years ago swallowed a set of false
teeth. Recently one tooth was extract
ed from her shoulder and eight more
from different parts of her body.
DR. ID. Newell, il Chicago physician
of standing, committed suicide by tar
ing an overdose of morphine. He had
suffered from ill-health, and had sus-
tanned IA number of financial reverses.
At Macon, Ga, band of masked
men gave Solomon Coleman, colored
contractor, three hundred lashes on the
bare back and tortured him four hours
recently, because he paid high wages
to negro laborers.
At Greenville, ILL.,, while Freddy, a
thirteen year-old son of DIR. Daniel
Griggs, was out hunting, a dog knocked
his gun over and the contents were
discharged into the breast of the boy,
killing him instantly.
On the stage of the Buckingham
theatre at Louisville, Judge HOk mar
ried John Imaris, a Russian dwarf, II
inches in height and 33 years old, to
Maria Nail, the North Carolina midget,
81 inches tall and b years old.
The fall term of Dartmouth college
opened Thursday. The size of the
new classes will he about as follows ::
Dartmouth college, 70; Chandler Sci
entific department, %; New Hamp-
shire college of Agriculture and Me-
chanic arts, 10.
The Delaware Il Hudson canal com
pany announce that the price of their
"Lackawanna" coal for the month of
September will be as follows, per ton
of 2240 pounds: Furnace lump, steam
CT lump, and CRATE, each $3.50; egg,
$4.30; stove, $40; chestnut, $3.50;
and pea, S3.I5.
The poisoning of imported cattle at
the Boston quarantine was caused by
carelessness in selecting grounds. The
land near their drinking place was
formerly used as a potato field, and
was strongly impregnated with Paris
green. Considerable quantities were
found in the water. Thirty are now
sick
The fire at Cottage City, Martha's
Vineyard, taught needed lesson. The
taxpayers have accepted the report of
a committee recommending the adOp-
ton of a stationary system for supply