The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1864-02-19
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.

John S. Walker, Esq, editor of the
Claremont IN. H. Eagle, has been ap-
pointed Assistant Deputy Surveyor at Bos-
ton.
] Our loss in killed, wounded and missing
during the late reconnaissance on the Rapi-
dan does not exceed two hundred. The rebel
loss was probably about the same, as We cap
tured so prisoners.
The students of Washington university at
St. Louis, Mo-. have presented Prof. E. ID.
Sanborn costly silver pitcher on the oceas-
ion of his departure to professorship in
Dartmouth college, with which ne vas for
merly connected.
N. A. NJ. Dudley and other colonies per
manenlly commanding brigades are to be
made brigadier generals by brevet, until va
cancies occur in the number limited by law
so that they can be promoted.
1t is thought by those living on the prai-
ries that wolves are more numerous this win
ter than for many years. Troops of from
two to ten have frequently been seen.
T.. One night last week a pack of wolves
chased deer from the woods into the vii
lage of Sherman, Me-, and finally captured
him, sucked his blood and left the carcass in
the road.
A sailor has recovered $4,000 of New
York boarding house keeper for shipping him
on Liverpool voyage under pretence Of
sending him to Havana.
! The following is an advertisement posted
at road crossing in Kent Co., Delaware.
some months ago, copied by curious col
lectur of gems, who was deluded into jour
ney of observation through that region:
"REwARD.-Lost or strade from the Pre-
muse of the subscriber, sheepe al over
white. one Leg was blakk and half his DO
dy. All pursens shall receive FIVE dolls to
bring him back. He was a she goat"
! In the studio Of Powers at Florence is
statue of America, with one hand pointed TO
heaven and enc foot resting on a broken
chain. 1t was prepared during the presiden-
cy of Franklin Pierce as model for a bronze
figure to be cast for the dome of the capitol,
but rejected by him through delicate re-
gard for the feelings of the South. The
sculptor now hopes the time may come when
such symbol may be acceptable throughout
our land.
A CoCK-AND-BULL STORY.-A Long
Island paper says that Mr.. L. ID. Cock of
yesterday has contributed as his donation
to the Sanitary Fair young Durham bull,
valued at 500. The irreverent Long Island
print adds, d" Bully for him."
The publisher of the Nerm ont Record,
Brandon, who recently gave fifty dollars for
!, the best poem on the Vermont Volunteer
which We published in TIE CALEDONLAN, now
offers fifty dollars for the best miscellaneous
collection of Vermont anecdotes. published
and unpublished, and twenty dollars for the
, toNermonters native and resident. Ii is Mr..
Millikens design TO compile volume from
the anecdotes furnished.
MnnARY.-F. V. Randall of Montpelier
is Colonel Of the Eth Vermont regiment,
: and Charles Cummings of Brattleh oro' is 1t
Colonel. Henry &. Stowell OF Nergelnes
has been promoted 10 lst. 1t. Co. +, an
; Vermont, anG Geo. Ross to same ranks in Co.
b of the same regiment.
. +. II. Deane OF Cornwall has recently sold
the lamb which took the frs: premium at the
state fair.to James Pittsford of Licking coun-
, ty, Ohio, for $1,000.
Leache's perpetual motion machine. which
has turned the heads of all the mechanics in
northern Vermont, has been sent to New
York, where the keenest of the Go,hamites
will be invited . expose the humbug, If such
they can prove it. Il consists of a wheel
seven inches in diameter 20 which are attach
ed twelve arms at right angles, and to each
arm ball weighing half an ounce. These
arms are all connected by twenty-four cords
= two to each arm, and are so arranged that
f the falling OF one bail effects the other i'm
: medltaely behind it, and SO or apparently till
T the machine is worn out
Il Moses Wallen caught lynx in Benning-
= ton county week ago, which weighed s..
, pounds.
y A man at Waits River, who tried the ex-
= pertinent of nc ding a lighted candle at the
t bung of a kerosene oil barrel that he had
t just emptied, played an important part in an
S explosion which followed soon after blowing
e up both the barrel and himself.
. @ THE speculations Of the Richmond
:. papers, touching the coming spring campaign,
unwilling y betray the TACT that the Confed-
crates do not expect to largely increase their
armies by raw conscripts. Thus the Wing
. of February 9Th predicts tina, Bull Run
. stempedes await the Yankees in most of the
y conflicts likely 10 occur ring the next cam
paign. They will have 10 enter upon it with
all the disadvantages of raw levies, who will
: present but poor bulwark against the gal
liant veterans Of Lee and Johnson" This
confirms the view we took last week, that the
n sweeping CONSUMPTION act of the Confederate
!, Congress, can add bit few new men to the
s armies of the Rebellion. While admitting
: that our armies will be largely reinforced By
n recruits, the Richmond press tacitlv acknow-
n ledge that all they have 10 depend upon
S are veteran soldiers.---irmy Journal.