St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-21

the last legislature. Inc act provides
that in cases of special intricacy and
Importance, the assistant judges of
county court with the county clerk,
may prepare list of AZ names of per-
sons they may deem best qualified to
try the issue. The parties at issue or
their counsel are then allowed to strike
out IL names each, and the remaining
"a are the persons drawn to serve as
Jurors for the case.
Gen. Grant was not as we'll the mid
die of last week, but was better again
in day or two. A pleasant incident
occurred Saturday forenoon, when 300
children between and 10 years of age,
from the Sixty first street NJ. E. church
Sunday school, passed in procession by
his residence. The general appeared
at the window of his room, smiling
down upon the children. Three hun
dred little handkerchiefs were waved
towards him and as many childish
voices shouted greeting.
The jury in the great railroad suit at
Rutland brought in their verdict last
Thursday, to the effect that Gov. Page
was not indebted to the railroad, and
that he recover from the railroad one
dollar, a plea in offset which throws
the taxable costs on the railroad. There
was great enthusiasm at Rutland over
the result. A tOrchlight procession
was formed, Gov. Page was serenaded,
and the town looked as though it was
the night after election. A sketch of
| this important case can be found on
the second page of this paper.
The following is valuable mainly as
being the only editorial expression
ever found in the Bradford Opinion /:
"When we see a democrat and mug
wump striving for the same Office we
feel good deal as the old lady did
while watching the fight between her
husband and the bear, we don't care
much which wins. Yet we must con-
TESS we prefer to see IA bitter democrat
rather than a treacherOus mugwump
win, hence we hope that our towns
man, A. NJ. Dickey, will get the APP
pointment of District Attorney for
Vermont rather than c.. II. Pitkin of
Montpelier.
| Under the head of Vermont news,
the Springfield Republican the other
day said, ''Danbury is to have a new
morning paper" Despite the fact that
there is no such town in the state the
Burlington Free Press copied the item
in it's next issue, and since then it has
been circulating among various Yer
mont papers under the head of state
news. All the trouble was that the
Republican got its Vermont and Con-
necticut items mixed that morning.
Justice Charles Allen of the Massa-
chusetts supreme court, in hearing di
vOrce cases at Boston last week, de-
clared in court that clergymen who vi
Olate the law by marrying persons un
der l6 years of age without the consent
of their parents ought to be indicted
and punished. Judge Allen is right in
saying that one way to diminish di-
vorces is to "tighten up the marriage
laws"
Robert Z. Odlum, swimming" pro-
Il; 70
by making a foOlhardy plunge from
the railing of the great East river
bridge between New York and Brook
| Ign, a distance of 135 feet from the
river. He was 81 seconds in making
the descent. He went down for 100
feet all right feet foremost, when his
body began to turn, and before he
could save himself he fell into the
water with a mighty splash, and was
only sensible for a moment after being
taken out. 1t has been his ambition
and dream of life to make the fatal
jump from the Brooklyn bridge. He
made the attempt once before the
bridge was completed, but was pre-
vented from carrying out his scheme
by the police.
Washington people were scandalized
last Sunday because Frederick Doug
lass and his white wife secured pew
in DR.. Sunderland's church, near the
presidential pew, which it was stated
he had hired, a statement which Doug
lass denies. The fact seems to be that
the feeling was not due to Douglass
coming to church, but to his escorting
three white women, one of whom is his
wife. The feeling against mixed mar
riages i'll the District is so strong that
his action was resented by many, and
the rumor that he had hired the pew
in which he sat yesterday made DR..
Sunderland's parishioners angry. The
President says he does not care who
sits around him, and intimates that he
does not go to church on account of his
neighbOrs, while as for Mr.. Douglass
he knows of no reason why he and his
family should not sit where they
choose.
has now gone below 81 800, 000, 900 for
the first time since the war. Twenty
years ago it was S2,7O0,00O, 900. No
body in those days expected to live to