St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-03
and Judge Morrill, and the whole court
if necessary"
GIeanings.

Puck thinks it should be called the
betrayed dollar.
The Boston police force numbers 779
men and cost last year 1906, 500.
MuchachO, one of the fiercest of the
Apache chiefs, will be tried for murder
and hanged.
John Jones of Brooklyn and three
children were poisoned by eating stale
corned beef and cabbage. All will re-
cover.
The summer school of philosophy
was opened at Concord, Mass, the
18th. Prof. Harris was the essayist of
the forenoon.
Ten thousand New York cigar max
ers have been locked ont in New York,
the result of Il quarrel between two
rival workmen's unions.
The editor of the Maple Leaf, New
Brunswick paper, is worried by bears,
which come into his sanctum at night
without wiping their feet.
Chicago is preparing to celebrate the
semi-centenary of its incorporation
August 10, and the newspapers are
feeding the public with local history.
An Indiana man used his wife's face
powder to polish up his big brass
watch chain, and she has sued for di-
vOrce on the ground of extreme cruel
ty.
OF the SOB deaths in Philadelphia last
week l42 were from cholera infantum,
and it is feared that even more will fol-
| low. There were % deaths from sun
| stroke.
| Boston is troubled because a cOnsid-
cradle number of trees are dying on
the Common. Some of the gardeners
think they are too thick and were care
lessly planted.
Joseph Peters, eighteen years old, OF
South Boston, died last week at the
Boston city hospital of lOclljaw, the re-
suit of a wound in the hand from IA toy
pistol on the Fourth of July.
The contracts for the new naval YES
sells will protect the government i'll ev-
cry detail. All extra compensation is
waived, and the vessels when finished
will be accepted only after trial.
The exclamation "GGeat Scott y
means something in Ohio in view %
the new liquor law, which will close
about 1000 of the lowest groggeries ant
put S2,O0O,0O0 into the public treasu
ry.
The plan for celebrating Rev. DIR
Stephen ii. Tyng's golden wedding an
niversary at New York has been giveI
up. The mind of the venerable eX
preacher, now 81 years old, is mucl
impaired.
, Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba, i
suffering just now from a collapse o
a speculative mania that has just rage,
there during the past year or two. Tn,
? city is only ten years old, but has al
: ready incurred debt of 81, 000,000.
Locusts are now to be found in con
siderable numbers in timber and or
chards for miles around Mayville, \
Y. Considerable damage is being dom
by them to the fruit trees, in whicl
they deposited eggs.
How many know that a horse get
up before and COW gets up behind
: and the COW eats grass from her an,
the horse eats to him? How man,
know that surveyors mark upon
tree never gets any higher from til
ground, or what tree bears fruit with
+ out bloom.-[Bill Arp.
. The Georgia Legislature has bill
prohibiting the intermarriage of white
, and Chinese. There is not a Celestial
of either sex in the state, nobody wOul
want to marry them if there were, an
Il law of the kind would probably b
o unconstitutional anyhow but som
p Dennis kearney statesman distinguish
ed himself by introducing the meas
:. ure.
= This time it is Cora Sandford {
3, Wheeling, w. Va, who has elope
: with her fathers coachman. The gil
e is twenty years old, bright and attraC
L tive, and has just graduated at IA SEM
- nary with hOnOrs, while the cOachma
o is Il negro of thirty five, black, lam,
i and ugly as sin. The pair had reg
n ular season of counting on the sly, an
t the girl is supposed to be sane.
l.. A fire started among the shipping &
Brooklyn the 10Th, and several vessel
!, burned to the waters edge and wei
:, heached. They were owned in Eng
: land and were valued at Sl20,000. Tn
cargo was valued at $500, 900, and til
Il other losses bring the total to 5000
600. One fireman was killed and II
y were badly injured, some fatally
e Many sprang into the water and swan
ashore.
= Brooklyn bridge tolls from May
> to july - amounted to $33, 1875, an aS
erage of S676 day, and the receipt
= the first week were twice as large as
! any other and four times as much {