St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-07-20
General News.

Une granting OF the charter to Rhode
Island by King Charles ii.
The celebrations by the Orangemen
on the 18th passed off quietly in all
parts of the United States and Canada.
The Maine Press association, num-
bering with their lady friends over fifty.
made an excursion last week to Halifax.
The dies for the Hawaiian coins will
be prepared at the United States mint
in Philadelphia, and are to be similar
to the American.
Roger Amero's sister has become in
sane on account of her brothers arrest
on the charge of numbering Mrs. Garlic
ton at Waterfowl.
Mrs. Annie Louise Cary Raymond
has just added another free bed tn her
numerous gifts to the Maine general
hospital Mt Portland.
a Lansingburgh On. " merchant is
closing business and preparing to die,
because his ancestors have died Mt the
age he is approaching.
The Toronto Globe says that the
new tariff bill will kill the Canadian
export malt trade, which amounts to
7,OOO,0 900 pounds year.
The Gospel Banner, one of the oldest
papers of the Universalist denOmina-
ton, has been sold to Rev. |. J. Mead
of Hiram and George w. Nickery of
Augusta, Me.
The third annual reunion of the
Fletcher family descendants of Robert
Fletcher, Concord, Mass, I630) is to
be held at the Merrimac House, Lowell,
August %.
The grand total of prospective wheat
production is about 444 ,0OO, 900 bush
els, against 504, O00,0 900 last year, a de-
crease of nearly 81 900, 900, or about -
per cent.
Hon. VIM. Butterfield, eX-secretary
of state, has given notice of his inten-
ton to bring suit against the city of
Concord for $4,000 damages for al
legged injuries received through de-
fective sidewalk.
The two-foot railroad system is evil
IDENTITY proving Il success in Maine.
Two such roads are already i'll protita-
bic operation in the state, and now one
is talked of from Dover to Winterport
by way of Bangor.
Rev. w. II. II. Murray stopped in
New Haven over Sunday. He Says he
proposes to open IL law office in New
York city and another in San Antonio,
Tex, and devote himself to the prac-
tice of that profession.
Denver rejOices over artesian wells.
Water of excellent quality is found at
375 feet, and four wells now in opera
ton yield 100000 gallons day. The
present city supply is very poor and
expensive, and it is proposed to bore
dozen more holes and let the old works
go.
From surveys and calculations made
by civil engineer, the famous Wash
ingtOn boulder, near Conway Corner,
is found to be 30 feet in height, 46 feet
in length, % feet in width, and to
weigh 1867 tons. This is the largest
known isolated piece of granite i'll the
world.
Orange Judd, well known through
his former connection with the Orange
Judd publishing company, has failed.
For some years he has had only nOmi-
nal connection with the American Ag-
riculturalist, and has devoted himself
to various philanthrOpic and benevo-
lent enterprises.
The annual report of the New Hamp-
shire Bank commissioners states that
there are sixty savings institutions do
ing business, and several in the hands
of assignees. The deposits in the for
mer aggregate $50, ia, SI4.6S Their
surplus is 81 1850, 42064, and guarantee
fund, 81 ,363,2I0.32.
Prof. Egbert Smyth of Andover de-
clines the presidency of BowdOin col
lege. Prof. Alpheus S. Packard has
been chosen acting president and as
sumes his duties October -. 1t is
twelve years since General Chamber
land became president. He is asked to
remain as lecturer i'll political economy.
On Tuesday, July "a, the annual en-
of the Grand Army of the
Republic will begin at Denver, Col,
and continue until Friday, July p. |
The attendance, it is thought, will
reach $4,000 men, representing every |
portion of the country that furnished |
troops to the Union army during the |
war.
Brave Mary Trainer was a Pittsburg
servant-girl who saw little child be
longing to the family for which she
worked playing on the railroad track
in front of an express train, ran and
picked it up, was herself struck by the
engine, but at the instant threw the
child so that it was picked up unhurt.
The girl was frightfully mangled and
lied after two hours of agony.
One of the special branches of the
work carried on by the Bos-
on Young Mems Christian union is
hat of "rides for invalids." Last year
Ourteen hundred and forty nine per
'Ons, inmates of hospitals and homes,
md from private families, were favored
with carriage drives in the suburbs of
Boston. In addition to the carriage
lrlves, over two thousand harbor eX-
.ursiOn and hOrsecar tickets were dis
ributed.
The members of the Ancient Order
If F0resters of New Haven, Conn, are
greatly incensed over the refusal of
Gather Mckinney, pastor of st. Mary's
Roman Catholic church, to allow mem
,ers of Court Hermann to wear their
society regalia in church, while attend
ng the funeral services of deceased
brother Thursday. The society went
o the church in body. At the door
Father Mckinney forbade them enter
ng wearing their badges. They refus-
ID to remove them and left in body.
The postmasters' accounts for the
bird quarter of the last fiscal year are
ust being settled. There promises to
De a surplus for the year of about 81,
10000. The blunder in the pOstOfiice
ill passed last session is costing the
department., it is estimated, about 81
80, 900. 1t was intended to put the
lew roll of payment of postmasters of
he fourth class into effect when the
wO-cent stamps came into use, but the