St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-10-16

a little in front of him. The train was
just slowing up south of Sullivan when
the shot was fired. The governor took
the matter coolly. No disturbance
was made, and many persons on the
train were not aware of the occurrence.
There is no clue to the author of the
deed.
Mr.. Emo. fugitive from Justice, has
leased a Quebec house at 81 900 year.
The average salary of all the college
professors in the United States is
$3.50.
The presidency of Gen. Diaz was
publicly proclaimed in the city of Mexi-
co Oct. 3.
The postal statistics for the year
ended June 30 show a decrease in re-
ceipts and an increase in expenditures.
More candidates for the ministry |
have offered themselves this year than
for any former year for a long while,
says the Evangelist.
Amherst has l04 men in the new
freshman class Yale has 147 /; |
Williams, 30 the University of Wis
consin, 105: Princeton, 100; Amherst
Agricultural, %.
1t is estimated by the commissioner
of education that the total value of the
grounds, buildings and apparatus of
the 372 colleges in the United States
will reach S43,0O0,000.
AT Jersey City, Frank S. Chanfrau,
the well known actor, died the I'd, of
apOplexy, aged 60. He was stricken
while eating his dinner and died with
out having recovered consciousness.
1t is said that Frank Chanfrau, the
actor, has selected his own epitaph. 1t
was IA quotation from his exit, the
Arkansas Traveller" 81 done my level
best. amt got nothing to take
back"
The Massachusetts state Organiza-
ton of the w. c. T. u, during the
past year, sent ont 500,0W pages of
literature. distributed 500, 900 circulars
among the unions and 5,079 outside of
the unions.
OF eight principal colleges, only one,
the University of Pennsylvania, advO
Gates protection. Harvard, Yale,
Amherst and Williams are for free
trade and Columbia and Princeton are
on the fence.
In the case of Clawson, indicted for
polygamy at Salt Lake City Oct. 2,
Judge Lane decided that "a man who
believes it right to commit II crime
which he is called upon to try cannot
be an impartial juror"
John W., son of Brigham Young, is
on trial at Salt Lake City, for poly
gamy The last step, taken Saturday,
| 6, 81 b,, a.
sustained as legal the exclusion of
polygamous Mormons from acting rs
| jurors.
The Continent, conducted by Judge
Albion w. Tourgee, has been sold to
the Christian at Work, and will here
after he incorporated with that jour
nal. Judge Tourgee will conduct his
department enigma" in the Christian
at Work.
A construction train, with fiat cars
loaded with piles and accompanied by
- MN, plunged into a washOut near
Bayfield,, Wis, Oct. ,, and Il rail
ran through the boiler, the escaping
steam badly scalding fifteen men, and
several have died.
The element of amusement, comedy
|
been steadily dying out of daily life,
says the London World, and the press
does, as is perhaps unavoidable, re-
fleet the progressive extinction of de-
light. There is very little fun now
left in the world.
The closing of all the cotton factories
at Petersburg, Va, and the vicinity in
consequence of the scarcity of water
occasioned by the longcontinued drouth
throws out of employment over 700
men, women and children, nearly all
of whom are actually suffering for
want of the necessities of life.
George Turner, IL, discharged Il
mnsket by accident or design into Il
crowd of boys with whom he was
camping near BiminghamtOn, n. Y,
Saturday Oct. 1, and killed Ernest
Gibson, 10, and dangerously wounded
another boy named Jamie Livingston.
Turner is in Jail and there is great eX-
citement in that vicinity.
The revision of the Bible, begun
II years ago, is completed; and the
publication of the Old Testament is
anxiouSly awaited not only in this
country and England, where the re-
ever the English tongue is spoken. 1t
is not probable that the new work will
be published before spring.
The report of the prudential COM
mittee, at the seventy annual
meeting of the American board of
commissioners for foreign missions ut
Columbus, Ohio, last week, showed
that ten corporate members had died
during the past year, that eleven mis-
sionaries and twenty-One assistants
had gone to foreign lands, that the
Morning Star, the missionary ship, had
been completed at cost of S45, 900, of
which S36, 900 had been received from
Sunday schools, and that the receipts
for the year were S590,00O.
| What is claimed to be the fastest
time ever made by an ocean steamer
was made last week at Glasgow on the
trial trip of the Umbria, which has
been built for the Cunard line by John
Elder & Co. at Fairfield. The Umbria
is sister ship to the Etruria, and is a
steel steamer go feet long over all and
with an extreme breadth of ST. feet.
At her trial trip she made 81 knots an
hour and developed $500 horse pow
er. 1t was predicted the Umbria
would beat the best trip of the Alaska
across the ocean by p hours. She
will start on her first voyage from
Liverpool to New York on Saturday,
! November |.
President Angel of the University of
Michigan, late our Minister to China
in 1880, met General Gordon at Tient-
sin, China, and describes in few words
this man who has for year or more
past been so much in the public eye.