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

The United States uses S27 ,OOO,O 900
of friction matches in year.
II. p. Martin, the new mayor of Bos-
ton, began life as a truck driver in that
city.
a new committee, on the alcoholic
liquor traffic, will he Il part of this con
gress. Public opinion is crystalizing.
Sarah Bernhardt vindicated her good
name by horsewhipping Il lady rival il
few days ago.
Chicago hotel-kcepers are already
receiving applications for rooms during
next summers convention, and some
anxious men even send money to make
the thing sure.
a severe snow storm visited New
York Friday; from five to seven inch
es of snow fell. There was also Il
heavy snow fall in New Hampshire.
and trains We're considerably delayed
The world moves surely, for here is
Il correspondent of the democratic Gin
cinnati Enquirer boldly saying that,
''if a fair vote could he obtained Mis-
sissippi would certainly he republican"
and Louisiana also.
MOyamepSing prison, near Philadel-
phia, has 725 prisoners in its :}}O cells,
and law which requires solitary con
linement, morals, health and comfort.
are lost sight of. Some cells, intended
for one, have five inmates, and bows IA
waiting trial on petty charges are shut
up with condemned criminals of the
worst type.
The strict Baptist churches are dy-
ing out in England, so one of Spur
geon's pupils tells the New York Bap-
tist minister's meeting. Surgeons
church is now about the only one
which requires its members to lie i'm
mcrsed, and even that lets anybody
come to the communion table.
General Hancock had a magnificent
reception in San Francisco. Five thous-
and invitations were issued for the re
ception and the General was escorted
from his hotel to the Pavilion by the
governor, the mayor. the state and fed
eral officers, and Il dcputatiOn of the
state militia.
The survivors of the steamship st.
Augustin, which was burned in the
Bay of Biscay, while on the voyage
from Manila to Liverpool, state that
b men were left on board when the
four boats put off from the vessel. 1t
is feared that all were lost, as, when
the steamer was last seen, heavy sea
was running and the vessel was all Oh
fire and had no other boats.
Buffers Presidential boom is intend
ed to he started with IL national con
ventiOn at Washington in May, of
Greenbackers, grangers, Knights of La
Dor and other "wOrking men, 1t is
said they propose to antagOnize both
the republican and the democratic par
ties. They claim that the organized
labor of the country is almost a unit
for Butler.
Pierre Lorillard gave Christmas
present of Sl7 900 to the employees of
his Jersey City tobacco factory. 1T
averaged weeks wages to each
of the 1000 men, women, boys and
girls. w. II. Vanderbilt's Christmas
gift was $1,000 one to himself. He
paid that sum for Fifty fourth street
lot, so that nobody could interfere with
the view from his bay window.
4. l.. Murdoch of Boston has re-
ceived a verdict of $500 damages
against the Boston a Albany railroad,
because he was not allowed to ride on
a ticket which had been punched, al
though he bought it of the agent at
the Springfield office. He was ~ rest
ed and imprisoned, but brought suit
against the company, and the superior
court decided in his favor, giving him
$1,000, which was set aside by the su
preme court as excessive. But at Il
new trial the superior court gave him
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