St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-08-28
NEWS IN GENERAL.

In a few weeks the New York Sun,
Times, World and other New York
daiIies will begin the use of typeset-
ting machines.
James A. Merrill of Rutland won
the first prize and championship of
Vermont in the tennis tournament
at Rutland last Thursday
Word comes that Guatemala has
signed q peace with Salvador and
that Vice-President Ayala has as
sumed the executive power in Saliva
dor, and is arranging for an election
for President
Henry NJ. Stanley is in favor of
scheme for the construction of a rail
road across the Sahara desert He
thinks that with American speed in
laying the rails such thoroughfare
could be built for $40, 900, 900
The great Leary raft has reached
New York in tow of two ocean tugs.
1t now consists of l 3 sections. When
it left Nova Scotia two months ago
it contained II sections, each 100
feet long, % feet deep, and 80 feet
wide.
James Gordon Bennett has leased
for so years the property bounded
by Broadway, 9th avenue and 35th
and 36th streets III New York, at a
rental of 500, 900 per year He will
erect a new building for the New
York Herald.
Walter FumaIee of Admission, Ala,
has become violently insane from
smoking cigarettes, and has been re-
moved to the state asylum at Tusca-
loosa. He smoked twenty packages
of cigarettes daily.
Dr. George c. Lorimer, pastor of
the Emmanuel Baptist church, Chi
cago, is very i'll. He is Frustrated
mentally and physically. He has
been i'll for many months. His resig-
nation has been submitted to the
trustees of the church.
The sun never sets on Uncle Sam S
domains. The distance from the
easternmost point in Maine to the
westernmost island in Bellring Sea is
a little more thon 1876 degrees of
longitude, SO that it is full sun up in
Maine before it is shutdown in Beh-
ring Sea.
Senator Plumb of Kansas has in
PRODUCED before the Senate bill that
ought to become a law. 1t is this ::
Resolved, That the committee on
rules be directed to make such order
as shall wholly prevent the sale or
drinking of spirituOus, vinOus, or
malt liquors in the Senate wing of
the capitol.
Crisp of Georgia, the only member
of the delegation who has not had to
go home TO fight for his place against
the Farmers Alliance has been re-
nominated by reclamation. Crisp,
Turner, BIount and Lester are the
only members Of the present Georgia
delegation who will be members of
the next House.
The will of James NJ. Brown of the
banking firm of Brown Brothers,
New York, who died in Manchester,
July 10, bequeaths $4,000 to CHAIR
table institutions. The American
society, the Society of St. John and
St. Luke's Hospital, all of New York
receive $4,000 each.
In the last ten years the national
debt decreased 1857, IT'S, O09.05, and
the debts of the states decreased
$5S, O2O, 931 A. Taking in the cash
and funds on hand the actual de
crease was 1899 ,141 ,2O5.15 of ma
tional debt and $72, 162, 9S5.O5 OF
state debts Weare the most solvent
and richest nation in the world
Senator Kenna of West Virginia
resumed his seat in the Senate Aug
20 after his recent illness He is suf-
fering from what is called tobacco
heart brought on by excessive use
of tobacco He has been under med
ical treatment for several months
past. and has been Obliged to totally
abstain from the use of tobacco in
any form. Prior to his illness he was