St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-09-18

II, OuG Will NOlC IOI SloNcidnu-
The Maryland prohibitionists have
decided to put state and cengres-
sional ticket in the field.
Ex-Governor Hendricks denounces
prohibition as an Infringement of the
rights of the people.
Gen. Bragg of Wisconsin has writ
ten letter denying that he said in a
recent Chicago speech "Let the Irish
CO."
Congressman Finarty of Illinois has
come out, in his paper, for Blaine on
the strength of the latter's aggressive
foreign policy.
The cholera epidemic in Naples is
ing Tuesday evening there were only
40 new cases and 167 deaths.
1t is believed that Postmaster Gene
raj Gresham will accept the judgeship
of the eighth circuit, which will leave
two vacancies in the cabinet.
A receivership of the Bankers and
Merchants Telegraph company is con-
templated, as the company is unable
to meet its obligations.
A resident of Philadelphia acciden-
tally hung himself while endeavoring
to prove that Bill Sykes could have
been hanged in the manner described
by Dickens.
At the wedding of S. D. StOner and
Mrs. M. j. Scott at Burnside, ILL.,,
Thursday night, canned fruit poisoned
seventeen persons, including the bride
and minister. Three victims will die.
The directors of the national bank
of New Jersey at New Brunswick xate
that every creditor will be paid in full
and the bank will resume business.
They claim that the capital of the
bank remains intact.
Opium joints are becoming so COM
mon in Boston that the common coun-
ell has appointed committee to go to
New York to learn how to suppress
them.
A fast express train is to be run
from Boston TO st. Louis, leaving BOs-
ton at $50 p. M, arriving in st. LOuis
on the second morning via Niagara
Falls and Detroit.
The boiler of a cotton compress ex-
plOded at Enfaula, Alabama, Monday
destroying the building and 300 bales
of cotton and killing from 25 to 80
persons.
c. r. Milliken, proprietor of the
Glen house at the White mountains,
Monday arrested a man named F. E.
Smith from Belgrade, Maine, for steal
ing $4,000 worth of .jewelry and dia-
monds from Il guests room.
The balance of opinion of the Lon
don press justifies the killing of the
boy Parker by the survivors of the
wrecked yacht Mignonette in order to
keep themselves alive.
William V. Messer, "a years old, of
BoOntOn, n. j., shot his wife and
daughter Friday while laboring under
a fit of insanity, and then killed him
self. The recovery of the wife and
daughter is doubtful.
Two Philadelphia and Reading rail
road trains ran into each other at
POttstOwn, Penn, Tuesday and forty
five cars were wrecked. Both engines
were damaged. The engineer of one
train was hurt in jumping. The tracks
were blocked.
NIL DIilHO itIb AUGUSTA OH HIS WeSU-
ern trip at p. IN. yesterday accom-
panied by Senator Frye. He remained
in Boston last night, will attend the
Worcester fair to-day and reach New
York tonight. After several days
spent in New York he will go west
ward as far as Ohio and perhaps far
ther.
George Stephen, president of the
Canadian Pacific railway, has Just en-
tered an action for 81 ,52S 900 against
Bradley Barlow, ex-president of the
South Eastern road, to recover the
amount of the advance made by the
Canadian Pacific to the South Eastern,
for which the latter was bonded and
controlled by the former. The action
is brought because the shares, it is
alleged, were never regularly trans
ferred.
While Walter ii. Perkins of Wall
ingford, Ct, was riding with a COM
paniOn on Saturday morning he was
shot twice in the head. One ball
struck him back of the right ear, pass
ing around the skull and coming out at
the temple. The other struck him III
the back of the head. He fell out of
the carriage, but was picked up and
taken to the doctor, who pronounced
the wounds serious but not fatal. The
shooter and his motive are unknown.