St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-03-13
GleaningS and Gossip.

Hon. Richard ID. Hubbard, ex-Govel
nor of Connecticut, died in Hartfor
Thursday morning, Feb. 26, of Bright
disease.
The New York legislature has re
fused to submit to the people the ques
ton of constitutional amendment relat
ing to the liquor question.
Boston talks of going back to tn
gas-light, so far as practicable, becaus
of the great cost of electric lighting
The new system is certainly expensive
Perhaps it will he considered IL sur,
decline in Beecher's church when it i.
known that the appropriation TO
music in 50 was $4,000; in '53, $4,000
in 81, 81 800.
They are trying to make Good Fri
day Il holiday in New York. Thi.
making it illegal for man to pursue
his livelihood upon certain secular days
has already gone quite far enough.
The secretary of war having beer
called on to furnish money to rebuild
houses destroyed by the floods, replie.
that he is only authorized to supply
food, clothing, tents and personal ne
| cessaries.
George William Curtis has accepted
the invitation of the Boston city gov
ernment to deliver the eulogy ON Wen
dell Phillips, and he has selected Fri
day April Is. as the time for its de
livery.
1t is said that Dartmouth will apply
for reinstatement in the college base
ball league at the coming convention
expecting with Harvard and Princeton
disposed of by the new regulations to
be successful.
" "r'Tuers of the ST. Nicholas hotel
~ ftlcn can pay, prospect Is
that the property will be cut up into
stores. There are probably not half Il
dozen frst-class hotels in New YOrl,
paying expenses at present, and either
rents must go down or the list be shor-
tened.
The trade in bogus butter in New
York city seems to be carried on upon
vast scale. At three quarters Of the
markets and groceries SO-called butter
made from lard and tallOw is sold at
from 20 to 10 cents Il pound. Good iud-
ges cannot tell the bogus butter from
the genuine and great profits are made
on the fraudulent.
Henry NJ. Stanley, the correspondent
who found Livingstone and who has
since found a fortune in the African
wildS, is to be maintained in command
of the Congo country. Among others,
the king of the Belgians has sent Mr..
Stanley letter filled with expressions
of satisfaction and confidence in view
of the results of his labOrs.
The Chicago Tribune smartly cor
rects prominent citizen who said in Il
speech that the city spent : ,O0O,0 "A
year for liquor. Congressman Fiuerty's
bailiwick alone spends more than that.
the whole town SI2,000,0 900 and the
city and immediate suburbs not less
than SO 100000. The figures are i'm
portant, because upon them are based
the famous estimates of population
which 81 confound st. Louis.
Mr.. Beecher is nothing if not Origi-
nal. Therefore in the work of reOr-
ganizng the choir Of Plymouth church
he has selected IA son of DR.. Leopold
Damrosch As organist and choirmaster
There will be a chorus of sixty voices,
with quartette to lead, but there will
be according to the plan, little of the
solo and quartette display. The aim Is
to have congregational singing instead
of an altogether paid service. Mr..
Beecher's example, it is hoped, will
commend itself generally.
Two English bulldogs, "Belcher''
owned in New York and "Danger'
owned in Boston, each weighing 2!
pounds, were pitted against each other
at Sewtown, l.. l.. the 9th, for S250t
and gate money. The fight lasted | !
hours and was won by danger
| The latter had his throat torn open
and both fore-legs broken, and when
brought to the scratch for the last time
was dying. "Belcher," though little
hurt, turned tail. Three hundred per
sons paid so each to see the fight.
Millions of robin red-breasts have a
roOst III the cane-break near Harris
! burg, y. c. About } O'Clock in the
( evening the birds begin to gather from
all directions, one flock after another.
until the cane break Is alive with
/ them aud the canes bend down with
their feathered burden. When they
/ have become well settled for the night
| the country people for miles round
about go there with lights and clubs
and slaughter the birds by the thOus
and. one party, in an hour, the Other
/ night, killed over two Thousand and
| this wholesale bird murder has beer
( going on for the past four weeks.
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