The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-03-10

Commissioner stood 81 majority for A. G.
Button, the temperance candidate.
81 The Vermont Cavalry are with
Sheridan, and doubtless when Early was
captured they were thar.
Orleans Items.
BY the burning of the Barton Hotel Mr..
kimball lost some $500. He has purchas-
ed the hotel lately owned by Jerry Drew.
and will Immediately open it to the public.
1.-THE school house in the Young district.
Greensboro, was destroyed by fire on Fri
day. Feb. l7-suppOsed 20 be incendiary.
1.-THE Standard says that singular case
Of trespass on the freehold recently occur
red in Greensboro. A party of men went
into the woods and procured quantity of
large maple and beech logs, which they cut
up into blocks about foot and half long.
and then piled them up in Rev. Mr.. Wild's
door-yard, filling it up so full that he can
hardly move round in it. AS they refuse
to remove the lumber, we understand that
Mr.. Wild will try to work it up into stove
wood.
First Lieut.. Thomas Noonan, 9Th Ver-
mont, tried and convicted on the charges of
conduct prejudicial to good order and mill
tary dicipline. and conduct unbecoming an
officer and gentleman, has been sentenced
to be dismissed the service.
Among the nominations for Brigadier
General from brevet are those of Col. Fl.
NJ. Plaisted, 18th Maine Volunteers, Col.
VIM. Wells, LIST Vermont cavalry, and
among those nominated to be Commissaries
of subsistence, with the rank of captain,
LIST It. Chas. S. Shattuck, 9Th vt. Vols,
Mark H. Wooster and Lucius E. Smith,
both of Vermont.
The st. Adams Messenger notices the ap-
pointment of Fl. Fl. Locklin, for some time
ticket agent on the Vermont Central rail-
road, as assistant superintendent. BY the
appointment of so competent man, Super
intendent Merrill's severe labOrs will be. no
doubt, materially lightened.
VERMONT DEsERrERs. Among the
passengers on the train from the north,
Saturday evening, were a squad Of YER
mont recruits, who, as the train was two
and a half hours late, were obliged to re-
main till midnight before going south.
While waiting at the depot, some of the
guard discovered that three of the recruits
were missing, and rushed to the city mar
shars office in hot haste for assistance in
hunting up the s. deserters." A deputa-
ton of police hurried to the depot and
found the missing three quietly sitting
there with no thought of deserving. The
splendid class of men Vermont is sending
into the field, just now, enlist to fight, not
to desert; and the guard ought to have
known it.-SwingfeM Republican.
Mrs. John MCGOWAN, of this village,
committed suicide Wednesday forenoon by
hanging herself in the barn. She has
been partially deranged for sometime past.
which accounts for the commission of the
rash act Her age was about sixty years.
: st. Adams Messenger.
At a meeting of the Montpelier Home
, Guard held Feb. 25th, the following were
chosen commissioned officers: Charles
: Reed, Capt, c. w. Willard, lst Lieut..
: John d. Bartlett, I'd Lieut..
4 GEN. GRANr.-The Army and Navy
! Journal says that Gen. L. A. Grant, late
: ly commanding the Vermont Brigade
: having been confirmed as Brevet Majol
: General, will at once be assigned to com
: mand suitable to his rank.
/. The labor of the Rev P Merrill. Meth
: odist at Crafsbury, has resulted in tn,
;, conversion of about thirty, mostly aget
T. people, and the awakening of many more
n In Craftsbury no extra meetings have beer
held, but in Albany evening meetings hav
/, been held for about two weeks, and il
y West Albany many conversions have oc
/. CURED.
7. Somebody entered the store of Mr. Ma
s. than Pierce of Rutland, Tuesday night
y the Soth ult., by breaking one Of tn
t. large panes of glass in the front door, an,
l. stole between two and three hundred dol
lars worth Of goods.