The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1857-06-20
II For the rain it raineth every day."

For the rain it raneth every day."
NEW ADvfETIsEMENTs.- Card-O.
+. Harvey. Drugs and Medicines-J. L.
Carpenter Books and Maps-A. Ranney
Old Bourbon Whiskcy-Willson, Fairbank
Go. Legal notices. Board Planning.
J. Lamb Maple Honey-E. F. Brown.
Good Wheat-F. B. Gage Woman's Labor
Made Easv-S. Jcwett.
STATE CoNvENTloN-Notice the call for a
Mass State Convention at Burlington. July
LIST.
excelsior. - Torrent Engine Company
propose to make al excursion to Burlington
and Montreal next week. They will be &C
companied with the St. Johnsbury Cornct
Band. with John II. Paddock of Montpelier
and {. II. Clark Of Boston, as leaders. At
Burlington they are to be the guests or Boxer
Engine Company, and at Montreal they will
will have public reception from the Fire
Department. \ reporter from our Office will
accompany the party. and whatever may be
worth noting will be jottcd down for THE
CALIFORNIAN.
GRAND JrRY.-The Grand Jury of this
term Of Court remained in session ten days.
and considered between thirty and forty
charges of crime Fourteen true bills were
found. the remainder were ignored. The
Grand Jury passed a unanimous vote of
thanks 70 the States Attorney for the fidelity
with which he had discharged the duties of
his Office, aad assistance he had rendered
them in their inyesti cations. This is an I'M
usual. and so all the more valuable, tcstimo-
NAL to a public officer
FiNEn.-There is one provision of the An
t-Liquor Law which is very seldom enforced
that namely, which makes it a penal offence
to procure or offer to procure liquor
from town agent by false pretcnccs. Our
vigilant States Attorney found that one Muir
tina Flood railroad man, had brought HIM
self within the Statute, and accordingly had
an Indictment found against him, to which he
plead guilty, and was fined so and cost
Coop GEowTiI.-Mr. Joseph Hancock of
this village. brought into our office a stalk of
Rhubarb. i've and onc-half inches in circum-
ference. the leaf on which was three feet wide
ELoPlMENT-On Monday night. June s.
a Young man by the name of Ralph Davis
and Miss Mary Forest. elopcd from the house
of Marshall ". S,oddard, in Newark 1t APP
pears tkat the young man got assistance of
his mother, and they enticcd the Young lady
TO leave a good home and go with them.
70 There was 2O,ol5 lbs Of sugar made
in district No. 1. in Lyndon. there being
six farms from which none was made. Well
done Pudding HILL"
NARROW EScArE.--A little boy, aged about
eleven years, son Of Mr.. J. p Foster, of Bar /.
net. was assisting his father in the woods
pccling bark. AID while his father was chop
ping down a tree, the boy was busy little /
distance from him. when the tree suddenly
broke oser in the direction of heboy The
boy. alarmed, ran with the tree and was
caught about the middle of the top and
crushed down. but escaped with few bruises .
THANKs.-Wc would express our thanks
20 friends all about far and near, for the in
tcrcst they have manifested in THE CAIEDo- .
MAN in giving us such quantity of local
news. Our readers cannot but have no.
ticcd the increased amount of local items
which have been happening about the coun-
" of late. and for an account of which we
arc indebted to friends who have taken the .
trouble to inform Us Of such.
MEDICAL CONVENTION. - The Caledonia
County Medical Association held its quarter
ly meeting at this place on Wednesday of .
last week. All the members. twenty in num-
Der. were present. Several cases, highly in
;erestng to physicians and pathologists, were
reported, and in the discussion arising before
those cases, the time of the Association was
agreeably and proftaby occupied
!g Hon. Edward Everett will deliver his
Grafton on Washington at Hanover, on Tues
day next. at . p. NJ
TOWN REPRESENTATIVES,.
GRoroN.-Joathan McCumber, 1903 Jcs-
Sc Heath, 1SO4-1SOS; jeremiah Hidden,
lSO9-lSlO Jesse Heath lSl1-1S12: Pc
ter MLacklin. lSl3-lSl6; James Renfrcw.