The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1859-12-10


- Mesns. Clarke and Worcester Of the
30, Juhnsbury Academy Of Music, gave ia
concert in the Methodist Chanel In this yil-
'ags the other evening, which was well at
tended, Il gave general satisfaction, being
10 BE- said the best Kind We have ever had FL
AZ tho close Mayor Dixon made d prop0ai.
ton 60 ral.e funds o. secure % years 'instruc.
ton i1l our village Brass Band, which was
Handsomely responded % by the gentlemen
present Nearly 500, We understand, having
lech raised towards tnc pgrpose,- SlaHsttgi
NrNiWrL
~ Ia the back numbers Of IIarpcrs
Magazine lJuuuary lsj3J is picture ofMo.
fgh giving The Jaw 20 the lsraclitcs from NJ
Sinai ln the foreground, while To- the back
ground post and rail fence is seen running
over abe mountain,
O. a valuable horse belonging TO J. J.
Van N4k Of Fishkill, y, Y, has been killed
aud half eaten by large hog which Was
prputd loo t@c same lot, The hog had been
noticed following the horse around all dan
uui lhe uoNt morning lhc noble animal was
found dead with its neck badly eaten, the hog
having attacked it while living down. The
hog vac then killed, aud weighed 2io pound,
when drc'ncds We are decidedly vegetarian
on such a1gs,
o. Mrs. llplcomb, the unfortunate vic.
Niii 'i wv '''Ntt N iNN lIhHiA ~ lttltlk very
Fast On Friday she was taken with u crazy
iIt and the ply ,lciuns Say the prospect Of her
recovery are decidedly slim. llolcomb is
ttill az home and assisting Ia the care Of his
wife.
~ The Dutch always Kill FISH the moment
they are taken out of the wutcr and they re-
main plump and Of better flavor than those
which arc allowed TO expire In long agotiy.-
This hint is worthy of the attention of our
fishermen,
~ llocomb, the wife murderer, has re-
turned TO his own house in Southwick, aud
is now engaged in taking care of his wife
When recently asked why he committed the
terrible deed, he said there is a mystery
\Uhout il that will never be explained" Mrs.
Hulcomb is no better, and the chances OF her
recovery arc still very doubtful Springfield
HepUbhcgH.
~ \ printer named Moore, IN the Office
of the Pliludcacr, had spoken slondcrousk
OF young woman working as cumpositor
IN the same Office, and she, on Thursday last,
Ia lAGn-e- hc1-NranEG-- attempted t---!.-.-.-
him down, first in the street aud then in his
own board%l g-house She was oyerpowcrcd.
and had the pistol wrcslcd from hor both
times but she still promises to perform the
job and make "pic' of the nasty " form"
DARTMOUTH CoLLEcE.-At a recent meet
ing OF the Trustees OF Dartmouth College,
William 4. Packard, (son Of Prof L. OF
BNNdoiu College, was elected Professor of
Modern Languages and Prof. James W.
Patterson, Professor of Astronomy. This
transfer of Professor Patterson TO tho astron-
omical Proicssurship leaves vacant the Pro-
fyssorship Of Mathematics.
a. A Cincinnati firm tclcgraphod to
Cleveland, last week, that cranberrics were
rising, and directed to "send Immediately one
hundred barrels per Simmons" that indiyi1/
ual being the agent of the house. Down
came a hundred barrels OF "persimmons,n at
which everybody was sour.
TuRE One of the tcrrorS Of an editors
harrasscd lot is--not, by any means, the Ii
bel suits with which patry pettifoggcrs con-
trivc ~ iniest him, nor yet the indignant nui-
sanccs who stalk into his Office to talk of
cowhidcs and revolyers when he wants 10 be
quietly attending to his own business, but
the good people who most unrcasonably in
sist on eugrossing his columns with replica
tiuus TO attacks made upon them by some
body else. flake any shape but that'-comc
armed with Nrits and bludgeons--and he
meets. you with smiling composurc, but the
man with grievance for which said editor Is
not responsible, is his despair.
A Fearful PLOT TO LIBERArE BROWN
A Jour printer engaged in an office not
thousand miles east OF Dayton, carelessly
squabbled few squares OF type, which he
afterwards, set up in column width without
regard to order, aud the matter, after he had
completed bis work, was unintgl!igiblc
mass of-characters. At this point he CON
criy,d the notion Of taking an impression OF
the type on slip Of paper, enclose It IN an
envelope, aud send 1t TO John Brown,
CnaHestown, Va. This was accordingly done.
The document, Of course, was opened by
y owns jailofs, and was taken for some
,lr,Adl4l- I.l..t, -, cipher Il Furnished alarm
for m drnizcns Of that place, ana sensation
telcpra III gossip for the public at large
bogtoi. IoUmaL
fhe prorir Of aukHkce county, H.,
who're Father Chiniquys colony OF coHS crted
Cn,boIics is gcatcd, have held publ5c meet
ing and declared the representations made at
the east by Father Chlniquy Of the DESTINY
lion in that county TO bc false.
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