St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-18
NE VS. IN GENERAL.

The father of Lewis Hayden, the
notable cOlored man who died re-
Gently in Boston, is said to have been
once sold by Henry Clay for two fine
horses.
John Bright left an estate valued
at So, $50, 900, which is to be divid-
ed among a large number of persons,
even distant relatives being included
in his will.
Tobias Hippar, a five-yearold Jew
in New York, died Friday evening
from a most cruel beat ting at the
hands of three older boys. The boys
are all under arrest.
Mrs. Theodore Thomas, wife of the
well-known conductor and musician,
is dead She was a woman of fine
intellectual attainments and unusual
force of character.
The Manchester liquor dealers, who
were prosecuted several months ago
through the law and order league
under the nuisance act, are settling
their cases, and about $1,000 has al
ready been received in fines and costs
Vermont is ahead of every other
state in the production of butter, the
annual product averaging seven
hundred eleven pounds to each farm,
while New York produces four hun
dred sixty-four pounds to each farm
California is to be added to the list
of states which have rejected muni-
cipal suffrage for women this season
The less coveted privilege of voting
for school inspectors was, however,
conferred upon women by the Cali
fornia legislature.
The attorney general of Illinois has
urged the speedy indictment of all the
participants in a prize-hght in Wood
ford county. "An insult to the peO-
pie of Illinois and gross defiance of
the law" is the way the attorney
general refers to the mill
Mrs Theron Beach died the 18th at
her home in Litchfield, Conn, in her
one hundred and first year During
more than a century of life she had
lived in one state, in one town, in one
house. That house her grandfather
built in 1885, and there she was born
and there she died.
Spring emigration to the United
States has assumed large proper
tons Four thousand emigrants,
mainly Germans and Swedes, sailed
from Liverpool Friday. The people
are of better class and go to stay.
The increase is due to the pressure of
the immense burden of military duty
and taxation imposed on the CONT
mental nations.
The Eiffel tower, which is to be one
of the great attractions of the Paris
exposition, has been completed. 1t
is 117S feet in height, surprising in
this respect any other structure the
world has known The ascent will
occupy five minutes by elevator and
40 minutes by stairs. A restaurant
capable of seating several hundred
people has been placed in the tower
on level with the top of Notre Dame
The Rhode Island Legislature in
Joint assembly has ended the long
contest for the United States sena-
torship in the election of State Sena-
tor Nathan F. Dixon of Westerly.
Since the balloting began Senator
Dixon has been the leading candidate
with ex-Gov Wetmore. AT the third
ballot and the ninth of the series, the
democrats transferred their votes.
Thus Mr. Dixon owes his election to
the favor of the democrats.
South Carolina has seen a notable
industrial advance during the last
two years. The total capital en-
ployed in the new mining and manu-
featuring companies exceeds 81 .O00,-