St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-16
General News.


Gently passed her IIth birthday.
Measles are having run at the
Burlington medical college.
Mr.. Phelps qualified as minister to
England Thursday.
Edward Everett Hale was sixty-fve
April B, and Harriet Prescott Spofford
fifty.
Bismarck was 20 years old April l,
and the event was duly celebrated in
Germany.
The mother of s. S. Cox, minister to
Turkey, died at GAINESVILLE, O., Thurs
day.
The court house at Minneapolis was
burned the I'd, at loss of $40, 900.
The records were saved.
A bounty of five cents is paid for
each crow killed in Cape May county,
n. j.
WOlcott is to have camp of "Sons
of Veterans" The veterans of Hart
ford propose to organize a G.. A. r.
post.
The misguided Windsor Journal
tries to lead the young to matrimony
by offering itself free for six months
to any newly married couple in its
field.
Lieutenant Schwatka says that the
whale fisheries of Alaska are alone
worth 81 100000, year, and that the
grazing for cattle is unexcelled in any
country.
Grasshoppers and drouth did such
mischief around Woodstock last sum
mer that six carloads of baled hay
have recently been sold there, brought
from distant parts.
The famous "Cape Cod Folks" suit
has been settled by the defendants,
Cupples, Upham 81 Co., paying IA sum
said to be less than half the amount of
the verdict rendered against them.
Mrs. Julia b. Lake of London. a
lady of great intellectual ability and
possessed of considerable property
died recently, aged 81. She was sister
to Prof. E. ID. SanbOrn of Dartmouth
college and of the late Chief Justice
Sanborn of the Queens court of Can
ada.
Alvin Allen, aged 81 years, of VOL
colt, while being pursued by Il posse,
at Manson, Iowa, who wished to arrest
his pursuers and fifth through his
own brain, Letters found on his per-
son Indicate that he was a fugitive
from justice elsewhere and resolved
never to be taken alive.
1t is said that Minister-elect Phelps,
when young man in Washington
more than thirty years ago, recon-
mended Rev. Byron Sunderland, his
classmate, to a church then needing a
pastor. The young clergyman went to
Washington, and has been there ever
since, and is now the pastor of the
church which the presidents family
attend.
Franz Abt, the German song writer,
is dead at the age of 65 years. He first
studied theology at the university of
Leipzig but abandoned this course of
life to pursue music, which he loved.
His fame rests on the lovely melodies
which he has produced in prOfusiOn
for over 30 years, many of which are
familiar in all countries where music is
known, such as "When the swallows
homeward fly" etc.
A business man of HolyOke, Mass,
who recently went to New Orleans,
undertook to do some business Incl
dentally while there, and was arrested
for selling goods by sample without "a
license, exposing himself thus to fine
of $50. After dely of five hours he
was brought before n magistrate, where
he pleaded his case so effectively that
he not only escaped with n warning,
but in quiet chat with the Judge, n
few moments later, he succeeded in
selling him and his clerk specimens of
the very products of Yankee ingenuity
which had just been the occasion of
his arrest.
At New York fire Officer Coogan
valiantly dashed up stairs, and seeing
a little golden haired form in the bed
in one of the rooms, quickly wrapped
a quilt about it and said sOOthingly,
"don't be scared, dear I'll take care
of you" Then he made his way back
to the street, and heard little Emily
Pepau exclaim jOyfully: so that good
policeman has saved my big wax doll"
Coogan took look at the gOlden-hair-
ed form, resigned it to his owner, and
hurried to the station house to file an
application for IL night off.
The case of Judge Royce VS.. NJ. j.
Maloney, editor of the RichfOrd Ga
zette, tried in Orleans county last De-
cember for libel, and which went to
the supreme court on exceptions ia
ken by defendants counsel, has been
decided adversely to Maloney. Judge
Taft rendered the decision of the su-
preme court, sustaining the demurrer,
the pleas insufficient, and
the case to the county court.