St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-28
General News.

Forefathers' day was duly celebrated
on Thursday.
A strong prOtectiOnist movement
has been started against all treaties of
commerce between Spain and foreign
nations.
The remains of Commander belong
and comrades of the ilI-f ated Jeahnette
expedition have arrived ut Irkutsk and
were received with hOnors by the in
habitants.
The new Montreal ice palace will be
between 100 and $50 feet long on the
front, will cost about $4,000, and con-
tain 10000 cakes of ice.
The aldermen of NewYork have adop-
ted an ordinance requiring the electric
light companies to lay their wires be
meath the surface of the ground after
two years from May |, 1891.
The French forces in Tonquin took
the city of SOntay on Sunday the 10th
losing comparatively small number.
Prof. Evangelimus Apostolides So
phOcIes, for some forty years past con
nected with Harvard College as tutor
and professor, and the most thorough
Greek scholar on this continent, died
in Cambridge, Monday the 18th, ut the
age of Is years.
One of the largest cattle sales on rec
ord WAS cOnsummated i'll Denver the
18th. H. ID. and }. w. Snyder & Co.
of Denver, bought of Snyder Brothers
of cattle and 400 horses for 5000. OOO
cash. The former firm now own near
ly $1,000 head of cattle and 1000
horses.
Citizens of Wyoming Territory will
petition the president to appoint Mrs.
Durnay, a legal voter in the territory,
as governor.
The trouble with O'Donnell's de
fence was that it was inconsistent. He
was praised for killing an informer,
and defended on the ground that he
acted in self defence. Boston Herald.
A very serious riot occurred last
week i'll the city of Mexico over the in
PRODUCTION of the new nickel coins,
which the lower classes did not take to
very kindly. The rumpus finally re-
suited i'll panic, and mob ruled the
city for time, smashing windows and
committing other crimes. The militia
ry was called out, and finally quelled
the disturbance.
A New York stage carpenter, who
confessed that he attempted to set fire
to the Casino Theatre in that city one
day last week, was sentenced to seven
years in the penitentiary.
A bronze statue of William Cullen
Bryant is to be erected in Central Park
New York, some $1,000, or about one
fifth of the amount desired, being sub
scribed. No man was more worthy of
such an honor than the gifted author
of "'Thanatopsis." Meanwhile the Bar
thOldi statue pedestal languishes and
fingers.
PATHS S4S, 900 palace coach has been
completed, and is to be sent to Mon
treal.
II. Cochran, one of the oldest engi-
neers on the little Miami, died sudden
ly of heart disease in the cab of his
passenger engine as his train was near
ing South Lebanon, Ohio.
Adam Crooks, the minister of educa-
ton in Toronto, who has been declared
legislator. His insanity was caused
by OverwOrk and the assaults of his
political opponents.
At Princeton, n. j., while walking
on the street in company with other
young ladies, the daughter of Capt
Green received a pistol shot in the
back, from some unknown person. Her
corset steel saved her life.
Capt. Gordon, who abducted Addie
Bresnan from Astoria, L. L.. was sen
fenced to five years of hard labor in
the state prison and to pay fine of
$1,000.
Edward d. Dow, who was recently
arrested at SeabroOk, n. H., by Con-
stable Calvin Eaton, shot the latter it
is feared fatally, in revenge. Dow had
been drinking.
There were over five thousand
sleighs out on the roads of uptown
New York, the Goth.
K. G.. Dun & Co., report 25l business
failures in the United States and ~ in
Canada and the provinces last week,
or a total of 323 failures, as compared
with 325 week before last.
Near Winchester, H., Adam Hill
and Geo. Snyder, young men, were
shot and killed at dance by Charles
and John Sutton, brothers, who went
to the dance armed, with the avowed
purpose of having fight. The trouble