The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1857-09-12
The County Fair.

Extensive preparations are already being
made for the County Fair, which will be held
at the Fair Grounds in this place, September
y; and ~. With favorable weather this will
be the best Fair ever held in Caledonia
County.
We shall be in our Office both DAYS of the
Fair, to receive all moneys honestly due us.
for papers, advertising. or job printing. We
sent out bills to all those owing us for two
years or more some time ago, many of which
have not yet been paid. The Fair will be
a good opportunity for all such to bring or
send the money to us. Friends all we need
whatever is due us to meet current expenses
and discharge prospective payments. How
many will respond to this call? 1851
ATTRACTIONS AT TIE FAIR.-Thc various
committees having in charge preparations for
the approaching Fair, have their arrange
ment, nearly completed. We have already
announced that Mr.. Wise, the experienced
aeronaut who made the very successful as
cension from the Fair Ground last year, has
been engaged to make another ascension from
the same place this year. We well remcm-
Der the breathless interest of the great multi
tudc who witnessed Mr.. Wise in his ascent
then, and can safely predict that favorable
weather will draw out even larger number
at the coming Fair. Among other attractions
present. will be
HALLS BoSroN BRASS BANp-.An lovers
of music will be glad to learn that the above
celebrated Brass Band has been engaged for
the occasion of the Agricultural Fair in this
place. week after next. Mr. Hall. the lead
cr, performs ON the unrivallcd gold Ruglc.
which cost two thousand dollars. and is rich
in tone as in metal. 1t is seldom that a
County Fair can secure such an attraction as
this band. whose music alone will be well
worth the price of admission to the grounds
While in town the band will give two even
ing concerts at the Town Hail.
MtpIcAL Reform. -Jud.iny from the
number who attended Mrs. Addison, M.
DIS lecture last Monday evening. one might
infer that our community was pretty general
ly nvalidcd. But Judging from the way she
murdered the Kings English one would con-
ci"u' that her destructive powers would over
balance even her Wanted prcdspoSition to
incidence" AS she is a woman we wish
to say nothing ungallant: as she is
" doctor we stand i'll ave. as she is a clair
v"yant We laugh but as she is public leg
turcr We have a vigil, tn ..,.- .!.~t ,., r,u,,l,
whom she humbugS don't much resemble us.
Miss ATKINS a negro mOman from Bal
umorc. recently gave two lectures in this VII
layc. Her language. her clocuton. and her
whole manner. was convincing proof. if more
were needed. of the capacity of her race to
excel in the higher departments of thought
and action. Her eloquent plcadings in be-
half of her nation in bondage could not f, to
move any who listened to her
WEoSG.-Mr. H. II. Johnson. the repre-
sentative elected from IIarllwck. is not a
democrat, as reported in the Pui,iot, but
"tull-hlood Republican.
80 Jackson Frost. Esq made his acc,ls-
toned September visit on the night of Mon
day. this week Madame Vine seemed to re-
ccivc almost his entire attention at this visit.
but he promises to remember Others soon.
PEOPLES FME.-Thc Peoples Agriculture
al Society will hold its Fair at Pcacham the
18th inst. The List Of Premiums is printed
on our fourth page this week.
BEFORE TIFF FAIR.-Pcrsons wanting lit
tie or large jobs of printing done before the
Fair, will please send in their orders mmcdi-
atcly. as the printing consequent on the occa-
SION will occupy our time exclusively for sew
cral days before the Fair
Fe~ The Orleans County Fair will be held
al the Fair Grounds in Barton next week, the
10th and 18th.
PERsoNAI.-Among the passengers who
arrived in the Steamship Americo, from l.iv-
crpoOl, on the 9th ult., was the Rev. Geo
y. Wcbbcr. Pastor of the South Congrega-
tional Church in this village. lie has been
fully restored by his sojourn in Europe.
V DOILAIS.-The above reward will be
paid by an abused community for city faith
rr with a head hard enough to butt over the
lightning pole that stands in the sidewalk
near Col. G. \. Mcrril's. Several of us have
tried it lately, and the pole never nodded
But for our poor heads Oh dear. the lugu-
hrious walls. Swclcd fronts, and bloody noses
speak more powerfully than words. Query:
i. that the way "swell-headS arc made, and
is that a village institution for their manu-
facture' If it is a regularly chartered con-
Germ VIC shall be obliged to quietly subsidc
for do not sec how we could get along with
out that kind of article any more than a
democratic government could be carried on
without rats or supplemental returns"
PUBIUOLA.