The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-01-13
Agents for The Oaledonian.
Brief Locals.

1T gives us pleasure to announce tnat
Mr.. Edward T. Fairbanks of this place has
consented to deliver lecture at the North
Church in this place next Tuesday evening.
See advertisement. Mr.. Fairbanks has
spent the last two or three years abroad,
and his extensive tr avel and scholarly at
tanments ensure our citizens an entertain
ment of no ordinary character.
We call attention to the advertisement
of the secretary of the Agricultural Society.
Annual meeting next Tuesday.
This is a stormy, windy winter. An
other heavy snow fell Friday night and
saturday. ending up with regular old
fashioned dritt-maker. Highways and rail-
roads were badly blocked in some localities.
Monday there was another snow of no
mean proportions, but couple of hours
rain stuck it down pretty effectually.
The annual meeting of the Lyndon Ag-
ricutural Library Association will be held
at the store of l.. r. Brown, the librarian.
next Monday evening at 64 o'clock.
AT the annual town meeting in Lyndon
held Jan. 3, it was voted almost unanimous
II to pay the entire Indebtedness of the
town. and a tax of 45l cents on the dollar
Of the grand list was raised for that pur-
pose. The entire tax raised was nearly or
quite $4,000.
Tax payers in this town will find it to
their advantage to pay their taxes to Mr..
Randall the present month, and thus save
three per cent. See advertisement of the
seectmen.
About fifty subscribers, whose year
expired with Jan. '65 did not renew their
subscription until this week. Please watch
the dates following your names on each
CALIFORNIAN, and renew one week or more
tgrore the expiration of your time, thus en-
surfing continuous file of the paper. and
also saving the printer much unnecessary
trouble.
The last Star learns that Harvey B. Dan
forth of Danville was considerably injured
the 18th ult. while passing from one side to
the other of the Springfield depot, being
crushed between some cars that stood
on the track. that unexpectedly started
while he was between them. The SPRING
field station is about as puzzling to stran-
ger as the one at White River Junction, and
a great deal more dangerous; and they
nave not yet learned at either of these sta
tons that very simple and etfectual way of
informing the travelling public by means
of little guide-bOards erected on the plat
form from whence each train leaves. on
which is painted the kind of train, and if
express its stopping places, its time of leav-
me- and its destination. Surely while the
Yankees can teach John Bull many things
in railroading, they might take one or two
lessons Of him to advantage.
One or two subscribers at Lyndon have
discontinued The CALIFORNIAN with the
remark that they were going to take the
new paper printed there. The decease with
in the past few years, of the Littleton Re-
porter, Charleston Union, Stanstead .Senti-
ad. Haverhill Republican, Bradford Tele-
graph, Bradford Inquirer. Irasburg Express,
Newport Ne,rs-all within forty or fifty
miles of this place, ought to convince any
thinking man that more newspapers cannot
live from their legitimate business. OF
course if enough men can be found to pay
III annual sum of S25 or $50, paper can
be printed anywhere; but the business that
would naturally 60 to new paper will not
sustain one in this part Of the State, at
Least, nor do we believe in any other. up.
N.-Since the above was in type we have
received the advertisement of the new pa
per. which will be found elsewhere. We
earn that the publisher has purchased the
press. material and subscription list of the
ate -Ne~port Ne,rs.