St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-28
General News.

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rectly towards the earth.
Jay Eye See trotted mile in 2JI4
at Mystic park, Boston, Thursday.
F. y. Beaudry of Montreal has sued
Bradley Barlow for S15,766 on note.
Five hundred postal orders have been
stolen from the postoffice at junction
City, o.
An unaccountable malady has de-
stroyed nearly a million bushels of
oysters this season.
The Daniel Webster monument at
Marshtield was defaced Sunday by van
dals or relic seekers.
The total receipts of the Maine state
fair were 500, 1872. As, which is 81. 29I. 50
in excess of last years.
By the will of the late n. C. SAWYER
of Deering, the Portland public library
will get about $4,000.
Thirteen cOnvicts, seven colored and
SIX white, were publicly whipped at
Newcastle, Del, Saturday.
The fines and costs so far paid into
the superior court at Portland on liquor
cases this term are SI0,27I.
Minneapolis has been selected rs the
next place of meeting of the SOverei On
Grand lodge of Odd Fellows.
Since the adjournment of Congress
nearly two hundred presidential post
masters have been appointed.
The Telegraphic brotherhood is still
paying the wages of women operatives
who lost their situations by the strike.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has reduced its rates in and be-
tween the Eastern and New England
states.
Every ten years the railroads in New
England require 650,OOO tons of rails,
2O,OOO,OOO ties and 1000 tons OF
spikes.
a large number of cotton operatives
ut Montreal will be temporarily thrown
out of employment next week in order
to stop over production.
A train load of canned fruit is ell
route from Portland, Me-, to Portland,
Oregon, and is to make the trip from
ocean to ocean in ten days.
In Chicago, Saturday, in one court
divorces were granted in forty cases
One judge tried and decided nineteen
cases in exactly three hours.
The educational convention at Louis
vile adopted IL resolution favOring
federal aid to education. Only one
vote was east in the negative.
Horace Greeley's farm of seventy
eight acres at Chappaqua, n. Y, which
cost him over S70,00O, has been sold to
Gabrielle Greeley for SI0,0O0.
Western railroads are cutting rates.
and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
road sell tickets to indianapolis for
five cents and chrome thrown in.
A New York .jewelry house has just
imported the largest diamond ever
brought to this country. 1t weighs
l25 carats, and will be cut in Boston.
About one hundred prisoners at the
state prison in Weathersfield, CT, were
taken sick suddenly Friday, it was
supposed by poisoning by corned meat.
No serious results are anticipated.
The village of Winthrop, Me-, has
just completed a system of water works
at a cost of only $4,000. There are
3, 400 feet of eight-inch pipe, with eight
hydrants and | POO feet of fire hose.
The monument erected by Kentucky
to President Zachary Taylor was dedi-
Gated the Goth, at the Taylor home
stead. The monument is of marble.
thirty feet high, surmOunted by a
statue of Taylor.
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd
Fellows, in session at Providence, de-
cided that members incapacitated by
old age are not entitled to benefits as
a right, but are the subjects of such
contributions or relief as they may re-
quire.
Following the reduction by the New
York Times, the Tribune has put its
price down to thee cents. 1t is said
that the publishers of the New York Sun
will reduce its price to one cent, and
that the Herald will be reduced to two
cents.
The Houston and Texas Central rail
road company will put on separate and
exclusive cars, with equal accommOda-
tions, for its colored patrons, within
three months. Other roads, it is said,
will shortly follow the action taken by
the Texas Central.
Two men were accidentally poisoned
near Quincy, Ill. They procured a
quart bottle of what was supposed to
he bitters, at drug store, to he taken
rs Il beverage, drinking of it freely.
Both in short time dropped dead.
The third man who drank was seized
with spasmS, but will recover.
The suspended Exchange bank of
Montreal is redeeming its circulation
with gold on presentation, but has re-
duced the amount payable to each
person one-half. A demand has been
made on the directors for an official in
vestigation of the banks affairs, which,
it is believed, will he acceded to.
Instructions have been issued to the
New York customs officers to specially
examine into the sanitary condition of
all kinds of cattle coming from Great
Britain. The United States commits
sion report that the foot and mouth
disease is alarmingly prevalent among
the cattle of that country, and that
measures are needed to prevent it's
spread here.
1t now appears that Frederick p.
jenkins, well-knOwn cotton broker,
who was found dead in the fremont
house, Boston, several weeks ago, com
mitted suicide by taking an overdose
of opium. Detectives who have been
working on the case claim that jenkins
killed himself rather than face the ex-
pOsure of fOrgeries committed by him,
SI2,559.45.
Fully 5000 spectators were present
at the bicycle tournament at Spring
field, Mass, which was great success
The most important feature of the race
was the ten-mile ameteur race for the
of the United States and