St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-25
NE VS. IN GENERAL.

Mr.. Parnell has instituted suit
against the London Times for libel,
claiming 100000 damages.
Vermont has the largest export
trade with the Argentine Republic of
any state in the Union except New
York.
The death is announced of Dr. John
Bailey of Billerica, Mass DR.. Bailey
was the inventor of the silo and some
years ago published treatise on the
subject.
The challenge of the Earl of Dun
raven for the Americas cup was &C
copied Thursday by the New York
Yacht club, and a despatch was sent
| to England announcing the accept
| ance.
Assistant Postmaster General
| Clarkson has secured the appoint
ment of 1000 fourth-class post
masters to date This is at the rate
of about $50 a day The work of
his best day figures up at 1877.
The largest natural gas well ever
struck was discovered Monday by
the Philadelphia company near Belle
Vernon, 26 miles from Pittsburg. 1t
is running off 40, 100000 feet a day,
the pressure being 800 pounds to the
inch.
Philadelphia is the greatest carpet
centre in the world. There is now in
the city ITO establishments, working
1850 looms and employing 1880
workmen. Last year II, 100000
cards of carpets were produced,
worth very nearly $4S 100000
Inquiry among the recent laborers
on the Panama canal shows that
there is great suffering among them.
They have literally no money, so that
it is impossible for those who would
to leave. Many are ready to do
anything to obtain simply a meals
victuals.
While a train load of Thoroughbred
Young cattle was en- route to Pres
colt, Arizona, few nights ago, the
car next to the locomotive caught
fire, and the entire lot of cattle, 40 in
number, were roasted alive A high
wind was blowing, and the rest Of
the train was saved with difficulty.
President Harrison informed a
prominent applicant for a consulship
that he would not be able to consider
| any applications for cOnsulships for
three or four weeks yet. Secretary
Blaine estimates that there are up
wards of 8, 500 applications on filein
his department for 21O cOnsulships.
A manuscript copy of the Gospels
for which sos, 900 has been refused,
is about to be sold at auction in Lon
don. 1t is the copy known as the
"evangelar1um, written in letters of
gold on purple vellum, and was writ
ten by a Saxon scribe for Archbishop
Wilfrid in go.
The Beet Sugar company has been
incorporated with a capital of So
| 900, 900 in San Francisco. The OBJ
ject is to erect large sugar refineries
at various points on the coast, in adj
dition to one already established at
Jacksonville, Cal, in the expectation
of refining $4,000 or 10000 tons of
sugar year.
A reckless youth in Detroit was
throwing stones at a railroad train
on the Detroit and Bay City road one
| day last week, while he stood on the
track of the Lake Shore road. So
engrosSed was he in the rascally per-
Torrance that train came along
and caught him unaware as he was
picking up a fresh missile. He was
instantly killed
1t is reported that the Standard
Oil monopoly has just completed one
of the biggest deals on record. For
two years the company has been
quietly securing property in Ohio,
and has now $7,OOO,OOO invested
there. The Standard will abandon
the Pennsylvania fields for those of
Ohio. The consummation of the