St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-07-17

at fremont Temple. The speakers
were Henry Cabot Lodge, Gov. Robin
son, Senators Dawes and Hoar, Con-
gressmen Grape and Rice. Ex-Collector
Beard presided over an overflow meet
ing.
Gen. Butler reached Washington
from New York Tuesday morning. He
positively declined to he interviewed
by any cd Internal reporter" as to
his political attitude or future policy,
but said that when he had given the
subject proper consideration he would
declare himself over his own signature
in unmistakable terms.
The match game of cricket between
the Derbyshire eleven and the Phila-
delphia Club was resumed at Derby,
England, Tuesday. The Americans
finished their second inning with 243,
and the Derbyshire eleven scored 90,
with five wickets down. The match
was then drawn in favor of the Ameri-
cans. Thayer, of the Philadelphia
team, made a score of %, and X. New
hall, of the same team, a score Of..7l.
The appropriations authorized by
congress foot up about S22 ,000,000
more than those granted last year, the
total, including the reapproPriation of
unexpended balances, chiefly for pen
sions, being $259, POI ,067. Nearly
two thirds of the increase is due to
the river and harbor bill, which calls
for almost 81, 000,000 whereas no APP
preparation of this sort was made last
year. The president has signed this
bill.
Col. Thomas p. Cheney of New
Hampshire, for many years superin-
tendent of the railway mail service for
New England, is appointed pension
agent for New Hampshire and Yer
mont, and the office will doubtless
remain at Concord. New Hampshire
has several times the federal appoint
ments that Vermont has, and it would
seem in common fairness that Col.
Seaver's claims ought to have been
recognized.
The Call publishes reports from all
the agricultural counties of California.
They show loss by the June rains of
l35, 900 tons of wheat and $4,000 tons
of barley, The loss on wheat is equiv
alent to u per cent. on the gross yield,
which was estimated in May at $780,
600 tons. The loss on barley is about
IL per cent. on the May estimate of
Co., tons. The loss on the May
crop was 40 per cent. The farmers in
cur additional loss by increased eX-
pense in harvesting on account of lodg-
ed grain.
The banking house of Fletcher &
Sharpe, the oldest financial institution
in, InIionanAlic SnSnAnhnH Tuesday
morning. A notice posted on the doors
stated that the suspension was the re-
suit of inability to realise on securities,
and added that the property, when
converted, would be ample to pay all
depositors. William Wallace was ap-
pointed assignee. The suspension was
an absolute surprise even to bankers,
and is generally supposed to be the
result of large advances to grain and
pork dealers and their inability to
realize on securities.
A party of young men who were out
hunting on Saturday near Elk Gardens,
Maryland, came across photographer
who was taking views of the pictur-
esque scenery. Thinking it would be
a good idea to have picture of the
whole group taken with guns pointed
at each other in duelling position,
they arranged with the photographer
to do the work. While they were in
position one of the guns exploded, in
stantly killing James Kitzmiller, who
stood opposite. The young man was
spending the summer i'll the mountains
with his widowed mother. The pho
tograph was failure.
The Oregon harvest promises great
things to the Portland News: sit is
safe to say that the crop this fall will
be one of the largest ever harvested in
this state. With a wheat crop of 49,
00O,0 900 bushels, a wool clip of 10000,
600 pounds, large hop yield and an
immense fruit crop, the Pacific North
west will rapidly overcome the effects
of the short crop of last year. This is
essentially an agricultural community
and a good crop of wheat, fruit, wool
and hops means good times"
Gen. Sherman has finally adjusted
his water rent trouble in st. Louis, and
will not seek another city to live in.
He merely lost temper when a demand
came for extra pay for the street-wash
ing supply because he did not under
stand the ways OF the place, and final
ly sent his check for the amount with
this remark: "The city of st. Louis
reminds me very much of a hotel in
Omaha, whose proprietor advertised,
Terms, $3.50 per day board and lOdg
ing EXTRA"
Make note of it:-The editor of
the Boston Journal of Chemistry, j. r.
Nichols, NJ. D., an eminent scientific
authority, takes the advanced position
that alcoholic liquors are no longer
necessary in medicine or the arts. He
says that ''if the natural vinous fer
mentative process should cease, and
the art of distillatiOn become a lost
art, not life would be sacrificed in
consequence, not a case of disease
would be retarded in the process of
cure, not pain would be aggravated,
and not one of the art processes suffer
detriment."