St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-06-23
State News.

We are pleased to learn from the assessors report
that the number of dogs in this city has been ma
terially decreased this year. Last year there were
'i' anu this year but 2s6-or only -59 part a dog
for every man. woman and child in Burlinpton-
Free Press.
rape was committed upon the eight Years old
lighter of William Conant, of Salisbury on Wed
IL lay by a brute named Rock. The rascal caught
her n the woods and accomplished his purpose in
DEF ace Of her struggles. He was afterward ar
rested and identified by the girl and is now ill Gus
tody.
little boy, eight or nine years of age son of Mr.
Lapoint, brick-maker at Richford while at play at
the brick yard, Tuesday afternoon. was caught in
the machinery, and his skull was crushed III,
died Wednesday morning.
l-aSton, the Bellows Falls ticket office rnbber.
who broke Jail at Ncwfane Sunday night entered
the house of Clark Harris in South War,isbnro
early "Wednesday morning He. secured but littI,
booty and after smashing number of windows
escaped. Wednesday night when Lewis BARNARD
oi the sam place went 10 feed his cattle, he found
the robber secreted i'll the hay i'll his barn 4 ST.
we're tussle ensued between them but BARNARD
hnally overpOwered the fellow and went for assist
ahce When he returned lawton had disappeared
As the train from the South du, here at I55
Tuesday afternoon, was entering the lower part of
the city some miscreant fired revolver it tn, ball
passing through an open window side, OF the
smoking car and breaking the glass the opposite
side Something like score of people were i'll the
car, and II WAS very fortunate that in
jured.-BtnIngton Free Press.
\ little boy named Eddie Anterior living with
Henry Anterior. of Westfurd met with an acct
dent some weeks ago. breaking his leg near the hip
TN the occasion of his first attempt To walk after
his recovery. he fell and broke again i'll the same
place The boy being quite y"ung, it is very prob
able that he will not he crippled hN this second
cident.
ReVoir, of south Troy. who recently shot his
wife, placed the muzZr of the revolver close thu,
ear and the ball passed into it without rupturing
the skin, and lodged III the head Some days after
the ball dropped from i- dlmrnt and being rx-
tracted, was found to be- mashed into the aurcrest
shape. When the woman WAS shot she was not
even stunned, hut soon felt dizzy. and then com
m"nced vomiting She remained sitting in the
chair without changing her position. until helped
and, when raised she could not stand. She is not
considered out of danger yet and the vision of thu,
right eye is affected.
Commencement week at the University of Yer
mont and state agricultural college in Burling ton
opens Sunday June ~ with thu. haccalaur-at- hy
President Buckham and tn, anniversary of the.
society of religious inquiry. with an address by
Prof Timothy Dwight of Yale college comes in
the evening; commencement concert. Goth meet
Ings of the Phi Beta Kappa society and the alumni
PROT. Charles X. Adams of Michigan university
addressing the f"rmtrD anniN -rsary of tn, medical
department with addresses 10y DR. Morris II. Hen
~ of New York city. and Junior exhibition. 9Th
graduation exercises, 2-th examination for adms-
sion. .9th
Mrs. W. J. Boyce of Woodstock having for a
moment left her baby nine months old. in a baby
cab on porticn at her house. the other dav the
the cab started rolled down four steps To the drive
way, across that and a piece of ground some ~ or
IL rods wide, the shore of Qurchrc river thence
down a bank some II feet high into the, river. The
mother had started after. but unable tncatch up
She dashed int" tn, river and caught tn, child hut
being IN deep water, Obliged tn let 20 the babe.
t" save herself The h"u-,. maid had followed and
reached the river in time to the mother. The
baby was carried about - rods when man pulled
it and its life was saved by the assistance of a
ply stefan.
\ couple If vulturrs have made. Nulturc noun
tain at Gaysvillr tStockbr,l their home for years
and the other day. party of men went up there
and by tn" aid of ropes made their way down the
prrcpicr $50 feet where they hasgrd four l"unc
vulturrs. Meanwhile the old ones SCARED above
them Just of reach of rifle balls.
The Republican town committee at Calais this
Stat, evidently resolved To sell their lives to
fierce and terrible Democrats dearly possible,
Their call for the for the election nf dele.
gates Ia the State Convention is addressed all
electors without regard to past political differ
rnccs of opinion who in favor of restoring the
government I" its original purity under the consi-
tuition, and VIII" are in favor of driving out of office
and keeping out. all thieves burglars robbers.
drmasogues, educated idiots, superanmuatrd FOSSILS
and imbrcilts and all who made the agony of the.
nation their opportunity to Hmass wealth by cheat
ing and swindling the poor soldiers and negroes
out Of their hard earnings and after accommodating
wealth in that villainous way come and ask us to
put them into office, while their hands ar. re-kin.
with the blood of our mart yrrd soldiers and Whose.
garments saturated with the tears of widows and
orphans Certainly the people of Calais b,.
encouraged in frowning down such "iious persons
\ DANGEROUS RIpE.-As the Montreal express
south over the Central Vermont Railroad. approach.
ed Braintree station, Monday and while the north
ern bound express train standing upon the side
| track, there noticed by the passengers who
were on board the northern train a youth not over
ten years old sitting upon the cow-catcher of the
engine. The boys appearance in the prrilous posi-
ton startled the bystanders as the train dashed by
| lie seemed to be well braced and holding fast Ia
the iron coupling rod. The engineer moti"ncd
to out upon the front of the engine but the train
passed ~ swiftly he doubtless knew not the mean.
ing of the motions. When the train stopped at
West Randolph twenty miles from Northfrld
the boy jumped from the COW catcher and ran ont
Of sight His name is Knapp a resident of North
field