St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-12-25

The lovers of classic music can have the
pleasure OF listening to the oratorlos OF
The Messiah, Elijah and Hora Novissema
this winter for the Handel and Hayden
society are to render them in Music Hall
under the charge of the well-known mu-
steal conductor B. ], Lang.
Huberman, the boy violnist, who is in
Boston for the first time is received with
considerable applause. He has anatural
genius for music, and it is thought that
if his precocious talents are farther deveI-
oped under a master mind, he will be-
come a master genius.
The 500 Cambridge women, whose
names were pigeon-holed, so as to pre-
vent their voting in the late election tor
the school board, was enough to rouse
the Indignation Of any virtuous woman.
The $50 held a meeting and demanded
to know whether the board OF registrars
or of assessors were to blame. The reg
istrars declared that they had discharged
their duty.
The temperance cause has again tri-
umphed in Cambridge by a no-license
vote Of 378 increase over the last years
majority which was then 1903. The JOY
of he people for the victory was cee-
brated by the ringing of the church bells
A. F. Sortwel was elected mayor OF
Cambridge over G. A. Perkins by 1776
majority. Total number OF votes cast
was 1878. The Boston vote for license
39,426 and no.license, 27,829. Not so
large a majority for license as last year
which was 10, 1856. Orthodox ministers
in the suburban districts did not hesitate
to press the cause OF temperance at the
polls,
Prof. I. H. Bulke has come on from
New York, to take charge OF the Moody
choir meetings in Boston and is holding
preliminary choir meetings in different
parts of the city. He wishes to have a
| CnOlT vi oOO VOICES uliiISu W oihS III I"S
chorus.
Stoddard, the popular lecturer, is to
give a miscellaneous course OF lectures
here, beginning the last OF December He
will take his audience through romantic
Scotland, old England, old and new
Russia and show the wonders of Yellow
Stone park.
The Massachusetts, state board o.
agriculture advised some time since that
another large appropriation should be
made to fight the gypsy moth. 1t i;
usually good thing to make expert
ments in the cause and for the advance
ment of science; but it is necessary to eX
ercise care and caution in doing so. Tn
escape of the larvae of that gypsy moth
blown out of the window of the noteC
French scientist, Leopold Trounlot ii
Mediord in 1889 has cost this state man,
thousand dollars in money and the en'
is not yet.
The present prospects of the petition
which 90 OF the 50 wool firms of BostoI
signed and sent on to the finance com
mittee OF the senate for the passage c
the Dinghy bill as a temporary relief ar
not very promising at the present sessio
of congress. Notwithstanding the har
times and increasing public debt south
ern senator has the courage to ask for
-, large increase Of the salary of senators
Last year they passed a bill to ALLOW
each senator a clerk at a salary of, | bt
leve, $500, whether long or a shor
term of congress- it makes no difference
+ and as oItentimes son, daughter. some
times wife or nephew is the clerk en-
ploved and lives at home, it is yer
welcome addition to his salary, but t
! ask again for so much of an increase t
; the senator's salary, who generally al
[ not poor men, occasions some remarks
. and people wonder which is the most in
portant bill to pass first, to raise II
y salary of the senators or to devise SON
5 way to relieve the pressure on the trea
: ury. The representatives bill last yef
l. made difference in employing clerk
whether it was long or short term
congress, which many considered II
most just bill OF the two.
> AS portion of the subway is nearin
5 completion in Boston, the majority
business men are DESTROYS to have son
voice in the matter OF leasing it as it ma
y materially affect their business interest
: Dore's pictures, which have been on e,
$ hibition at the Copley gallery are we
worth visit. Christ entering Jerus;
lem" has been added to the other maste
pieces. The regular price of admission ha
e been fifty cents but has been reduced t
twenty-five on Saturdays to allow man
to inspect them, who would otherwis