St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-12-11
General News.

The Pemberton mills at Lawrence
started up on full time Monday.
New Jersey democrats declare
against General Mcclellan for cabi-
net position.
Greater returns from Francis Muir
phys temperance work at Pittsburg
are reported than ever before.
The New York Central has cut its
rates to Cleveland and Detroit to 81 to
meet the latest West Shore cut.
Gov.-elect Moody Currier resigns as
treasurer of the Amoskeag savings
bank at Manchester. He held the po-
sition 81 years.
The North Chicago rolling mills,
which shut down two weeks ago, start
ed up again Monday, and will continue
till February at least.
Rev j. w. Presby of Mauchester's
First Presbyterian church Thursday
shot his wife in the back, accidentally
but probably fatally.
1t has been discovered that vessels
at the London docks, supposed to be
taking on board cargOes of provisions,
are really loading munitions of war for
| China.
Seven thousand little girls in Phila-
delphia public schools get a sewing
lesson once fortnight in lieu of other
instruction, as a beginning in industrial
education.
New York may hear the famous
| French tenor Talazac next year; he
has signed with MaplesOn for the sea-
son, and Nilsson has written that she
will come then.
We want all to come back into the
republican party except the free trad
ers. We do not want them. They are
n source of weakness to u.s. Lebanon
Free Press.
| A Vermonter who called on Gov.
Cleveland remarked to him, "You are
the first democratic president | ever
saw" The president smiling re-
piled, 81 am the first one | ever saw
myself" -.-...
E. c. Brooks, chief of police at Wa
verify, N. H., was fatally shot by a
brother officer early Sunday morning
while trying to arrest burglars who
had broken into Moses Sawyer's store.
The burglars escaped.
Gen. Briere de rIsle, French COM
mander in Tonquin, telegraphs that an
imperial decree urging the natives to
poison the French has been placarded
at LOchnau by order of the viceroy of
| Kwang Ting.
The passenger rate war at Chicago
has been resumed through scalpers by
the Ohio river lines. Brokers are sell
ing tickets over all north and south
lines to Cincinnati, Louisville and In
diauapolis ut about 50 reduction.
Coy. Hoadly of Ohio has appointed
a committee of eight members with j.
| ID. Cox as chairman to procure statue
of President Garfield and present it to
Congress as part of OhiO's cOntribu
ton to the national gallery at Wash
ingtOn.
Alvin c.. l.. Sawyer, the heroic .iani
tor of the Hotel Helen in Boston, died
at the city hospital Friday afternoon
from injuries received while arousiDg
the inmates of the hotel during the re-
cent fire.
Gen. Grants refusal in ad vance of a
pension is probably due to his prefer
ence to go on the retired list, with the
pay of q general. The veterans pref
erence may well be respected in a mat
ter of this sort.
The rumor from Washington, that
when Frank Hatton ceases TO edit the
pOstof1ice department he will come
West to edit the Chicago Times, is
denied at the Times office, where they
think tn v ought to know something
about it.
The federal grand jury yesterday
Indicted B. T. o. Hubbard, cashier of
the First national bank at Monmouth,
| ILL.,, on Il charge OF embezzling $780,
600. In default of bail he was commit
ted to Jail. The Monmouth bank failed
last spring.
John COwdery, a wealthy and re-
spected citizen of Tunbridge, died very
suddenly Friday night, aged 70. He
had been reading his newspaper and
did not retire until about IL. He soon
called his son-in-law telling him that
he felt sick, and in a very few minutes
expired.
Gurdon FL. Smith, who has just died
at Manchester, was for number of
years sheriff of Bennington county and
was the man who hung Bates, the
famous Salisbury murderer, at Ben
nington in 1899. This execution was
attended by thousands of people from
all the surrounding country and was
the last public hanging in Vermont.
A large number of Connecticut cler,
gYmen appeared before the railroad
commissioners to advocate restriction
of Sunday traffic on the roads. Nearly
all present spoke in favor of restrict.
ing Sunday traffic on the grounds of
expediency and economy as we'll as on
religious grounds. The commissioners
promised to take the matter into con-
sideratinn.
States attorney Bates, who was shot
Thanksgiving night at Bennington, by
young Joseph Bennett of White Creek,
is more seriously injured than was at
first supposed. A gradualIy-deepen-
/ ing paralysis has attacked the right
! arm, so that both sensation and motion
are much impaired. The right leg is
also bordering on u similar condition.
No trace of Bennett has. been discaY-
cred.
The Central Pacific railroad COM
pany has discharged 100 men in three
months and 400 more at Sacramento in
! lIfc iitsL tHioc uay o. hosL VI INC men
discharged have been employed on re.
pairs and reconstruction, and are no
longer needed. Some have been dis
missed on account of the light freight
business, which is due largely to the
refusal of farmers to sell wheat at its
present low price. There has been a
general wedding out in various depart
ments.
VANDERBILT SUES GEN. GRANT