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

100000; the Catholics, 2I2. OOO. 900 :;
the PIotestants, 10, 000,O 900; the Jews.
100000; MahOmmedans, 1000. 900 |;
Brahmins, l63,000,0O0; Buddhists.
423, 000,O00
Experiments continue to be made
with a railroad which is designed to
traverse the Brooklyn bridge. the re-
suit of which, up to the present time
at least, has not been of character to
warrant belief in the complete success
of the system.
AkThe report that the Garfield Hospi-
tai scheme has been abandoned is un-
true. The managers have bought a
double building with seven acres of
ground, at the head of Tenth street,
and after the erection of a wing. the
hospital will be opened.
Jefferson was the champion absentee
president. He was away from Wash
ingtOn 100 days in eight years. Mon
roe is next with 70S days in eight
years. John Quincy Adams was absent
ODD days in four years, and Washington
Isl days in eight years.
Probably the oldest postmaster in
the country is Sumner Shepard of
| WindsOrville, Conn, who has held the
Office in that village, where he has also
been Il merchant, for fifty-one wears
without interruption. He commenced
in 1882. Mr.. Shepard is ninety four
years old.
Miss Minnie F. Hoyt of Connecticut.
twenty-fOur years old, Vassar grad
uate, who is the first person appointed
to clerkship i'll the treasury depart
ment under the new civil-serVice rules.
is now a clerk in the census bureau.
Her standing was 1896, an Indiana
woman was marked 1913, a Virginia
woman 74.75 and a Louisiana girl, 1875.
The inhabitants of Nashville, ILL.,.
are much disguised by the growth of a
new fanatical sect founded by Caleb
Anderson Obenshain, former Method
list preacher, who claims to be able to
heal all diseases, and who prOpagates
the most disgusting free love doctrines.
The community numbers 300 persons,
including many wealthy farmers, and
is growing rapidly.
The FlOridians are preparing for
next winters visitors. st. Augustine
proposes to Outrival Jacksonville by
building the largest hotel in the state.
1t is to be 81" shaped, go feet long
by 24O feet deep and five stories high.
The hotel will be beautifully situated
on tract of land just outside the old
city gates and near the fort, and COM
handing splendid view of the har-
Dor, city and ocean.
Judge NOOnan of the court of Grim
inal correction gave Il decision ut st.
Louis in the case of William j. Lemp,
charged with violating the Sunday law
by keeping his saloon open on Sunday.
The court decided that the Downing
law does not repeal the special act of
1857, which was submitted to vote of
the people and carried and which per-
mits the sale of beverages or refresh
ments other than distilled liquors on
any day of the week. The court then
instructed the jury to acquit the de
PENDANT, which was done, and the beer
saloon and keepers are happy.
Another man has tried to lay claim
to that tract of land at East Haven
river, says the New Haven Palladium,
known us "NO Mans Land" l.. +.
Richmond of East Haven has erected a
frame house there with the hope that
it might stand the required number of
years to allow possessions. Like all
its predecessors, it came to he ruin
during the night Even the fences
were torn up and carried away. A
well was dug by the would-be owner.
and this is to he filled. 1t is evidently
the intention of the residents of the
town to maintain their rights in com
mon to the land.
They tell good story of Landlord
Roberts, who kept the first hotel mt
Bar Harbor, some thirty years ago. |
He woke up one night by hearing
some one travel about the house. and |
IL candle, found one of his |
guests i'll full shirt dress, wandering
the rooms. "What do You !
want :" said Roberts. Il want to find |
the hen PEN" said the man. "What
in thunder do you want of the hen pen
ut this time of Il night ?" asked Rob
erts. "Well," said the man, ''You see
| lost my pillow somewhere, and
wanted to get into the hen pen and get
IL feather and make another"
The Springfield Republican saws
''The people of Massachusetts will |
willingly cOncede to Gov. Butler the
honor of being the hero of the Charles
ton convention, and do not care how
much history Is amended to give him
the full glory of that occasion, but
when he attempts to rob his honor of
Gov. Andrew, dead, and with his story
neglected and scattered by his own
of devotion to the nations
cause, there should he indignant pro-
test through every means by which the
people make themselves understood.
SHINING paupers is civil compared
with appropriating the just h0nors
won by the patriotic and voiceless
lead"
If the New York Graphic is to be
Uncle Rufus Hatch is finding
some elephants, or perhaps we should
say hogs, among his English guests.
In a dispatch which purports to come
rom the Yellowstone park one of the
is said to have cost Hatch
81 800 since he left England, the
Britons consume much costly wine.
and one of the party bought under
clothing and had it charged "to the
IOst." Lord HOadley is said to be
much mortified at such exhibitions and
lOOr Uncle Rufus is quoted as saying
hat if he gets out of this scrape with |
enough money to keep his family /.
through the winter he will never do i
he like again.
On Star island there is Il little stone
.hurch, with a seating capacity for
bout $50. When this church was !
,uilt the island was occupied by fish
,rmen. The minister was preacher
md school teacher all in one, and this
vas his church and school house. Mrs.
ella ThaXter, the authOress, in her .
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