Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-28
CALEDONIA COUNTY.

james Gray and family of Sheffield, are
about to move to Stanstend.
Nelson Drown, of Sheffield, came before
Justice Ingalls,, aud plead gully, and WAS
fined one dollar aud cost for an assault on
one Ed. HALFWAY, OF Glover.
Success in Life, how to win it?" will he
the subject of the closing lecture of the pres
ent course to young people. Mt the Church of
the Messiah, next Sunday evening. Servi-
ces commence at 81 o'clock.
The snow in the yard back of the FARMER
office is now level with the bottom Of the top
panus of glass in our press room windows,
or about eight feet deep. This represents
nearly the actual snow fall for the winter.
The annual meeting of the several fire
companies of st. Johnsbury, will he held as
follows: Deluge No. 2, March 4th, It O'Clock
T.. NJ. Excelsior Hook and Ladder. March
9Th, It p. NJ; Torrent No. |, March 18th,
II p. NJ.
Some Ass wrote an anonymous letter to
Judge Poland, last week, charging him with
going easy on certain congressman be-
cause they were Masons Considering that
he is about the only Od-f,tshioned, hard-shell
anti-Mason left over in Congress, the judge
thinks this decidedly funny.
VIM. +. Pearl of Sheffield has rented II
house ON Summer Street, St. JOhnsbury, and
is going into the wholesale busin es- with
Fletcher on Railroad Street. We wish him
success. Williams a. Jcnness have moved
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meat business the same rs before.
The Farmers Festival is adjourned until
March 9th, 1879, at the same time and place.
| Hon. +. +. Cotton Of lrasburgh, and Gen.
W. w. Grout of Barton, are expected to
address the meeting in addition to the former
| programme. Farmers come with your wives
and daughters and devote one day to mental
| improvement and recreation. Railroads car
ny for fare one way.
! The second lecture of the course of Tenn
perance Lectures ut Passumpsic, was deliver.
ed by the Rev. Isaac Hyatt Of st. Johnsbury
which was listened to with marked interest
and must be productive of much good. The
choir sang several temperance songs, which
added to the interest OF the occasion. \ unan
iinous vote of thanks was rendered 10 tho
speaker and choir for the entertainment
Next lecture in two weeks. Speaker an
nnouced next week.
The Saturday mornings train from Hyde
park looked more like an iceberg on wheels
than anything else. Two engines were ut
tached, both of which were completely coy
cred with snow, packed into every lodging
place that could be found. and snow was also
piled on top Of the cars, and on the platform
and window stills. The headlight of tn,
forward engine was smashed in and filled
with snow, also some of the cab window,
had been broken in by snow which the en-
glneer and fireman had to shovel out in ordel
TO keep their fire going. The conductor anC
all the train hands were completely showed
and frosted over, and no one doubted then
assertions that they had dug through snow
drifts fourteen feet deep, yet notwithstand
ing the extremely perlous way they haC
travelled over, and the dangers that had be
set them, they had arrived in ut II 80, an,
made connection with the Pass train which
WAS "a hours late by reason of the storm
The scene WAS photographed by Clifford, 81