St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-03-27
News GIeaningS.


ored, died Monday, aged l2l years.
He was born in Virginia, and claimed
to remember Gen. Washington. .. .
In Boston Herbert L. jackson, aged
Is, has been arrested for mutilating
the tomb of Daniel Webster. He said
he was collecting relics and Clipped off
pieces of the marble slab.
Pierre CoIte, aged li5, the oldest
man i'll Indiana, is dead at Vincennes.
He was very eccentric and used cay
enne pepper for snuff and swallowed
large quantities of it to quench his
thirst.
Mrs. Arabella A. Wilson, the author
of can Apeel for Fresh Are to the Sex
tant of the Old Meeting House," died
at New Bedford recently. Her home
was Canandaigua, n. Y. and she was
a woman perfected in every good word
and work
Rollic Coleman, aged 10, son of Pro
fessor Coleman. died at Newark, n.
j., after undergoing an operation to
extract IA lead pencil which had been
held perpendicularly under him as he
was sitting down by a fellow pupil in
ii pnblic school.
The Boston Post tells of some col
lege boys who after dark took an entire
load of wood from a farmers sled, left
in the street over night, and with great
labor piled it up III citizens wood
shed, under the impression that he'd he
charged with stealing it. They found
the next morning that the citizen had
bought that wood the night before.
A Clinton clergyman announced that
he would preach last Sunday from the
longest verse in the Bible, and should
not announce his text, but would give
"a silver dollar to every member of the
Sunday school who would find out for
themselves what verse it was. On Sun
day he received thirty eight correct
answers, and distributed thirty eight
silver dollars to the fortunate children.
A clergyman in Durham England,
some short time since, taught an old
man in his parish to read, and found
him an apt pupil. After his lessons
were finished he was not able to call
for some time, and when he did found
only the wife at home. GLOW is JOhn?"
said he. ''How does he get on with his
reading9" so, nicely, sir" ''Ah, | sup
pose he'll read his Bible very comfort
ably now ~ "Bible, sir! Bless you, he
was out of the Bible and into the news
papers long ago"
The Brooklyn health department, at
the request of the society for the pre-
ventiOn of cruelty to children, anal
yzed the candy known as "Rye and
Rock" candy. The department say
that its chemist found that the candy
was favored with "essence of whiskey
or fusil oil" The fatal dose of fusil
oil is stated by authorities to be from
IA to g grains, or about the quantity
found in two pounds of the candy.
The effects of a smaller quantity is to
produce dizziness, headache, sense of
falling and suffocation. a good deal
of this candy is purchased by school
children.
w. j. Mallory fell dead in horse
car at Cincinnati last week and there
is good deal of evidence to prove
that he was killed by sitting tobacco
smoke. The car was small and crowd
ed with smokers; a woman got faint
and was taken outside. Mallory, who
had heart disease, took her seat and in
few minutes fell over in his death
struggles two other men fell in faint
ing fits and one WAS supposed to be
dead for some time, but was finally
restored. As the two men fell, other
passengers smashed the windows to
get relief. Two young men exhaled
volumes of smoke from cigarets.
Officer Kendall had desperate fight
with burglar, James Donovan, in
house on Boylston place, Boston. early
Thursday morning. Donovan did not
resist at first, but on the way to the
station he tripped the officer, grabbed
his club and pounded him brutally Oh
the head. Kendall drew his revolver
and shot the burglar in the mouth.
Officer Burnett came to kendall's as
sistance, but Donovan died before the
station was reached. The list of cas-
ualties was completed when Burnett
accidentally dropped his pistol, which
exploded and put ball through the
calf of his leg.
The gray horse owned by E. n. SEQ
will manifests a remarkable intelligence
on some occasions. On Sundays, when
allowed to take his own course, he
invariably turns in at the gate of
DtlHdnI Cnutch ana stops. On any
other occasion, he passes the place and
goes to Mr.. Scovill's store. Recently
he was harnessed to the sleigh to bring
the family to the evening prayer-meet
ing. He WAS going at n good pace
toward the store when, just as he came
opposite the church gate, the bell be
gan to toll, and he came to a stop so
suddenly as to almost thorw out the
occupants of the sleigh Montpelier
Waterman.