The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1861-01-11

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Brief Locals.
- The annual meeting Of the Agricultural
Society will be held at the St Johnsbury
House next Tuesday, at 10 o'clock, a. M. 1t
is hoped there Will be good attendance of
the friends Of Agriculture.
AT the adjourned annual meeting of the
Firemen's Library Association, Alexander
thompson was chosen president; A. c. Dick
erman, Henry Steele, prudential committee !;
and J. G. Willard, librarian. This associa-
ton has 4O4 volumes upon its shelves and is
free from debt. The library is open every
Saturday night at Union Hall.
Fast day was quite generally observed
here last Friday. Appropriate and interest
ing services were held at the South Church
in the afternoon, and in the evening a collec-
ton was taken to aid the sufferers in Kansas,
at which time SCI were realized. AS all
did not have an opportunity to give to this
worthy object at this time, committee of
young ladies was appointed who faithfully
canvassed the village, and thus increased the
sum to 500. A well-known business firm
of this place sent in addition to the above a
donation of 500.
Quite sensation was occasioned by the
appearance in our place on Sabbath evening
of man dressed in military garb and when
it was known that he was the bearer of a
message from Gov Andrew Of Massachusetts,
to Gov Fairbanks, rumor and speculation
were rife Whether Col Wardrop came sim
ply on the "salute" mission, or whether he
was looking up the resources of our state
preparatory to a concert of action with the
other Northern states in the work of sus-
tanning the Flag Of our Union, had not fully
been settled in the minds of the people at
last accounts.
AT a meeting Of the stockholders of the
Passumpsic Bank on Tuesday last, the old
board Of directors were elected, as follows ::
John Bacon, Calvin Morrill,, Ephraim Jewett,
Ephraim Chamberlin, Geo. A. Merrill, Hor-
ace Fairbanks, E. c. Redington. At sub
sequent meeting of the directors, Ephram
Chamberlin was chosen president, and F. C..
Redington cashier. A semi-annual dividend
Of $3.50 per share was declared, leaving re-
spectacle surplus.
The members of the Ladies Library AS
sociaton are requested to return all the books
TO the Librarian before the LIST of February.
The books can be drawn again the third
Wednesday Of the same month.
The third of the series of Promenade
Concerts will be held at the Town Hall, Fri
day evening, the 18th. The one Tuesday ev-
enlng passed off pleasantly we trust to all
who attended.
BY concert of action, on Tuesday the
9Th, at moor, guns were fired and bells rung
throughout nearly all the New England towns
md villages, in honor of the Flag of our
Union and the hero of Fort Sumter" and i,
might be added. to commemorate the memo
~ Of Jackson, and the battle of New Orleans,
If which the Sth was the anniversary. Our
citizens could not find any powder nearer
than Bradford SO miles, but it was procured
from that place in season to participate in the
,loritica,ion. We learn that the salute was
quite general in all the towns about and if
the kilograms are true, Major Anderson join
ed in the firing at Fort Sumter, the only diff
;erencc being, ours were blank cartridges and
his were not.
The question for the Lyndon debating
club to settle next Tuesday evening Isle
Soleed, That Liberty is dead