St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1868-01-10
BENNINGTON COUNTY.

\ Ortn Dorset, Mount LABOR ana DeE-
nington were visited by severe gale We'd
nesday morning. and at the latter place
sheds and chimneys were blown down.
A man named Moon hung himself in his
barn in Pownal last Tuesday. No cause
save momentary insanity is assigned for
the deed.
Hon. A. B. Gardner. of Bennington.
narrowly escaped a horrible death on
Tuesday. in the depot of the Union Rail-
road Company in Troy. n. Y. Caught
between two trains. he was struck by an
engine and thrown upon the Cowcatcher,
and had not assistance at once been rem
dered he would have been crushed.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
Water in Burlington is selling at half a
dollar a barrel. Wells. springs and els
terms are generally dry, and water has to
be drawn from the lake. The cartmen
are reaping a good harvest by drawing
water for family uses.
The First Congregational church of Bur
lington has unanimously voted to invite
Rev. f. W. Griffin to become its pastor.
Mir. Griffin is n son OF Prof. Griffin of Will
liams College. and a graduate OF Union
Theological Seminary. The Society has
yet to act upon the subject.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
TRAGEDY AT ST. ALBANS.-On SatuT-
day last John Bishop shot his wife twice.
wOuuding her dangerously. ami then killed
| himself He was all Englishman, who
married Mary Jane Roman in May last.
and until very recently had treated her
with excessive tenderness. Previous to
Christmas Bishop had been temperate, but
since that time has been under the power
of liquor. This heated jealous DISPOSE
ton into frenzy. which led to this awful
crime, and nearly to the murder of two
other persons. Mrs.. Bishop was sick, and
has given no cause whatever tor jealousy.
We gather this account from the St. Al
bans Messenger.
| LAMOILLE COUNTY.
THE AMERICAN Iona full grown
specimen OF this animal. recently killed in
Lamoille county, is now on exhibition i'll
Montpelier, Dan. y and will be through
the week. Its length from the nose to the
tip of the tail is eight feet and one-halt
inch. its height feet inches. and its
weight. when killed, was l02 pounds; but
on dissection to prepare the skin for stuff
fling, the taxidermist discovered that the
animal was very poor, and its body libeT-
ally supplied with porcupine quilts, pierre
| Il Il,
In Thompson's Vermont. section of Natu-
raj History, page 81, will be found a de-
scription, and good portrait, this animal.
1t is known in the South and West as the
cougar, painter, or American lion, in the
North as the catamOunt. and in Europe as
the puma. In agility it has no equal
among animals of its size. except in the Ii
ger and leopard, and in strength no supe-
riOr but in the lion. which is about one
third larger. DIR. Williams, in his history
of Vermont, relates that catamouni
seized large calf in farm-yard in Ben
nington, jumped fence four feet high, and
, assembled a ledge of rocks where one OF
his leaps was 10 feet in height. all the
r while bearing the calf on his back. The
' men who killed the specimen now on eX
/ hibition here declare that after he was
|. wounded by the first shot. the ANNA
= made leap of 30 feet to tree. and struck
l. the tree p feet from the ground. In De
i cember. 1921, an animal of the same kline
was seen on the hill lying between Mont
pelier Village and Dog river. on the ole
Mortified road, and few days Thereafter
II was killed in Roxbury; its length proving
u TO be seven feet, and its weight 1lS pounds
y We remember that animal. and recop
$ nize the present one as being exactly o
= the same kind.-Walton's Daily.
ORANGE COUNTY.
- Harry Hockenberry was run into by
careless driver in the streets of Bradford
Ie and badly injured. He was struck by til
,o pole of the sleigh. the driver of which wa
le trying to pass him on the wrong side.
,e Nicholas Gilman, of Chelsea, had a
al arm broken by kick from horse; an
10 Mrs. Hannah Atwood, of same place
o. fractured her thigh by falling down stair!
or They have a farmers Club at Bradfor
: which meets weekly, and discusses topic
y relative to their calling. These meeting
90 have been very interesting.
n ORLEANS COUNTY.
is C.R. Clough has received the appoin
|. ment of postmaster, in Newport, in pla'
of j. I'll. Cushing resigned. and we undo