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

ing water for hre purposes. The cost
Will be Sl5,OOO, and this is to be as
sessed i'll the taxes for the next two
years.
The price of trade dollars has risen
beyond the price fixed by the New
York clearing house people, and the
brokers are buying them for purely
commercial purposes at about their
bullion value or a trifie more. The
prices are now $50 to 50. The coin is
understood to find ready market in
the west.
a strange disease has broken out
among the hogs of Dane county. Wis.
The animals affected refuse to eat. de-
light i'll thrusting their shouts into
cold water, and wandering about as if
seeking something. After Il few days
they become very much emaciated and
die. One farmer has lost ! 900 worth
of prime pork and hundreds of deaths
on other farms are reported.
The scheme for the consolidation of
the New England Telephone companies
has fallen through. The Bell tele-
phone company, it seems, wanted to
take one-half of the Sl6,0O0,00 stock
of the consolidated concern ut the out
set, and ! 100000 more as construc-
ton fund, besides generous fraction
of all new ISSUES of stock, to which the
Connecticut and Providence companies
would not agree.
The close of the summers camp
meeting at Ocean Grove, n. j., shows
il phenomenal attendance, there having
been, according to official estimates,
$4,000 persons present last Sunday on
the ground, where fifteen years ago
there was neither tent, house nor
wagon track. The summer converts
number by the records, 1924. One
hundred ministers and 800 laymen
participated in the last communion.
At Garden City, l.. L., the Croft
cathedral of the Incarnation and st.
Paul's school, founded by Alexander
! L. Stewart, were finished the Doth.
The cathedral has been in course of
erection for five years and cost Il, 900,
600. The school cost Il ZOO. 900 and is
believed to be the finest educational
structure in the world. The organ in
! the cathedral cost SlOO,OOO. The altar
was made mt Antwerp. the statues in
| Florence and the stained glass win
dows in London.
One of the results of the telegraphers'
strike is the formation of new com
pany under the laws of the state of New
York. The name designated is the
Citizens and Photographers National
Union Telegraph and Cablegram com
pany. The capital stock is fixed at
$4,000, 600, with shares of the par value
of S25. The object of the company is
the purchase or construction and opcr-
alton of Independent telegraph and
cable lines in the United States, Can
ada and across the Atlantic. There
Will be thirteen trustees or directors
seven representing the citizens and six
the telegraphers. Books for subscrip-
tiOns open Sept. 10. AS soon as 5000,
600 is subscribed the work will begin.
1t is not believed that the two skele-
tons found by George Robertson on the
old battlefield at Bennington are
those of American revolutionary sold
iers but few American soldiers were
| killed, and all were known to some of
their companions in arms, and there is
no reason to believe that any were
buried on the field.
In response to the Bradford petition
ers for a new depot, President Ray
mOnd says that the company are this
year building new passenger station
at st. JOhnsbury and doing other work
on stations, platforms, etc, and it will
not be practicable for them to under
take Il new station at Bradford this
season, but the matter will be cOnsid-
cred as soon as they can get around to
it and find the means to pay for it.