The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1858-02-06


dressed, G3a pounds. This SOW raised two
Filters Of pigs the past season, some Of which
weighed over 800 pounds, dressed when siN
months old, Mr. Allarl bias sold pigs raised
hy lhIa tDw TO the amougt Of s7e, and has
five OF her pigs now hcados ono be- has hill-
cd, Reckoning the old hog Mt cents per
'hu we mvci
Old bog, G33 lbs, at 7c, sli,3l
Pigs sold previous 10 Jan, t. 6S 1900
One pig killed, l5i lbs at 7c, 1878
Five pigs now alive, at 5000 apiece, 1890
making a total from this one hog Of $1,000,
EmGRtuNCs-Th Bemugfou Banner says
that \, u, Hall, Esq, Of that village, the
present States Attorney Is about removing
to California, Il regret, hi, loss to their
town Henry I. Dewey, Esq, Is intending
90 leave for the same State IN tho spriug
Mr.. Dewey has been First Cous,sLlc for ten
years, and the EoHH,c thinks the people Of
Bennington and vicinity will not receive "by
the authority Of the State of Vermont" us
calmly from any other man, Scarlet foyer IL
now prevailing TO a considerable extent ia
bennington, though as yet not fatal. a. b.
Oatman, Of Bennington bad his store enter
ed ON Monday night, and quantity of oy'-
tcrs stolen, The Eouey calls for revival
Of the Police force, TO ser what effect 10 may
have onnumcrous hurglarics which are being
committed Ia their town.
lluUsi lmr AEHfsup-Th- Woodstock
standard gives un account Of the arrest OF
one Richardson, at Clrcmout ~ H., who
stole a horse from Oliver Chaplin of Newport,
y. H., and proceeded 10 pomfrct VI, where
hc snapped OIL the stolen rropuiywth Ed
muud Hodges Of that place, Mr., Hodges
learned soon after that the horse belonged TO
Mr. Chaplin, and gave il up, but not until last
wccl, could the thief be found. He is now
in, Newport jail
NATIVE BmIp AuEu.-S,cphcn Marvin,
Esq of Fairfield, ha, iuuiUcd "a, with the
following;
FAIRFIELD Jan, %, 1855,
Mr. Whiting Dear Sr;-l see by Your
paper of the eth inst, that Mr., Harmon Nor
throp, of this town, has bull calf nine
month, oldblood half Native and half Here.
Seventeen days after his girt was five feet
AID half an inchi height upon shoulders
four feet, length six feet and four inches.
,Now have Native calf nine months old
today and his weight, on Fairbanks Salcs,
Is N11 - lusi grit i've feet four inches 4;
height four feet four inches length Of hull
and neck sis feet four inches, He :, I'm
nothing more that good store order, and his
feed iu the summer was Is mixture OF whp,
bod. D f...| q
N,ss.uQtr
~ In Worcester, on thc 2lsr inst, Mr.
-ArRrl Hancock vas engaged ia drawing wood
down a steep. hill, he made miss step, asd
fell in such manner that one of the oxen
mud the sled, containing thrcc-fourths Of a
cord OF green wood, passed over his body.
The OK passed him vita but little injury,
when the sled struck HIM, and after dragging
him about sixteen feet passed over him. 1t
was supposed ut first his injuries would prove
fatal but he is now alive and doing WE'LL
ll'0trbm,W.
20 We learn from the Huntington Re
m1rkcy that ON Sunday of last week it was
discovered ON going into the meeting house
i'm that place in the morning 70 l,udlc the
fire that considerable damage was done by
fire hRying been somehow C0mQJuIiCarCd- 10
the. wood worn of the floor undet the row
OF seats in the cpEter 6f the house, burning a
hole through the Aonr for several feet in
in a longitudinal direction besides charring
the seats adjacent. The fire had gone out
of itself Considering that this occurred in
the interim between meetings, and unknown
10 any one. IT is very singular as wen rs lucky
(for those interested in the housed that il
should have escaped entire destruction.
A THE Rus THRoUGu A IIorsr.--Quitc
4 ..ts.t linn
in Starksborough one day last week Ii was
in what is called the Big Hollow one mile
north of the Aill4gc, whore a Mr.. b. Stokes
rrvtrtr'~ 'tltt,-,A AA-.4-- sitH+teA-et tte-f,tet
of nigh steep hill covered with timber that
this said Mr.. Stokes had tut down and cut
off tree on the side Of thc ill,.whcn, whcth-
or by design or otherwise it started sliding
down the hill in the direction of the house,
which with its gathered impetus il struck
entering at the upper and passing through
with the forward end the lower side of its
wall where it stopped, after knocking the
stove down and catching and raycling out u
womau's knitting as she sat in the room, but
who together with the other inmates of the
house most fortunately escaped without iu-
Huntington Rema,Rcr
Coon House. AND Coon PRrcr-We
understand TINT Mr. ]. Merrill, of Colchester,
has sold his fast colt, well known among
stock breeders in this vicinity, to a gentle
man of Montgomery, Alabama, for the very
handsome sum of t,co Thousand SIR h,mdrcd
/ ioiidrS-F Free Press.
VERMONT SHEEP.-GcQrgo Campbell of
/ West Westminster sold ten Spanish Mcrino
Bucks to go to Buenos AyreS, South America.
Three years since he sold twenty Bucks and
ten Ewes to the same individual and arrange
mcuts are now madg, for future expectations.
/ Free Press.
4 HEAVY Spsck OPERAToN.-Atth the stock
board Yesterday three shares of the once fa-
nous Vermont Central Railroad were offered
/ for sale, and brought one ce,R per share. 1t
/ v,s. nor n "tinip contract hut fot~cash on de-