St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-11-30
Vermont News.

A family in Bloomington numbers
fourteen children-the oldest 81 years
old and the youngest GALL living.
A Vergennes correspondent says =
Ezra P. Smith, now under examination
at Middlebury, is not now, and never
was, deacon of the Baptist church in
Vergennes, nor of any other church in
Vergennes.
According to the catalogue of the
University of Vermont, just issued, the
total number of students in that insti-
tuition is 1874, divided as follows: Sen
iors, 40; juniors, %; sophomores, % !;
freshmen, 25; medical students, go.
Of the undergraduates, twelve are
young ladies.
Wednesday night, while crossing the
bridge from Montpelier to Berlin, Alvin
Cummins of Berlin was assaulted By an
unknown person aud severely stabbed
in the breast and hand. There is no
clue to the assailants. 1t is supposed
their intention was robbery.
There was considerable pistol firing
at South Vernon the other night be-
tween the Waterman at the steam saw
mill and two chicken thieves whom he
tried to foil. The Waterman had a
bullet hole put through his coat, and
one of the thieves was laid out by a
ball, but both of them finally got away
unrecognized, and probably not much
hurt.
George A. Foster, a steady, industri.
Gus carpenter in the car shops, at St
Adams, was run over and killed while
walking on the railroad track to his
work, Thursday morning. Both legs
were cut off, and his body was shock
ingly mutilated. He leaves wife and
five children. Mr.. C. E. Best, who was
walking on the track with Foster, was
struck by corner of the tender and
pushed from the track, but escaped in
jury.
The Springfield Union says The
'sDrs. Sweet recently exposed il
Brattleboro, hail from Plainfeld, Mass.
where Alexander H. Sweet, the father,
has been farmer, blacksmith and preach
er. Although in his circular he claim
ed $40 years. study and practice" he
has only undertaken to practice medi-
cine since last fall. His son Orrin, who
calls himself DIR. Preston Sweet, was
formerly negro minstrel, and is equal
| ly ignorant of medicine. The Vermont
doctors did a good thing by exposing
them.
The house of Charles Laraway, al
Morrisville, was destroyed by fire the
other day. Loss $1,000; insurance
$3.50.
At Brattleboro, on the 2lst, not two
hundred pounds of meal could be bought
in town, which is one of the results o.
the stoppage of freights in the railroad
fight.
Mr.. E. H. Farrar of Fairfax intend,
soon to commence lecturing on the
growing and important reform of hal
day schools. A life's devotion has made
him master of the subject.
Joseph Smith, young man living il
Chelsea, was terribly, if not fatally, in
jured by the accidental discharge of ;
gun Saturday. He was leaning upol
his gun and is supposed to have hi
the hammer with his foot. The entir,
charge of shot passed into his left sid'
under his arm, lodging in his shoulder
j N. Barlow Atwood of st. Adams
aged about 80 years, committed suicid,
; on Saturday afternoon by placing
coil of lead pipe about his neck ant
jumping into rain water cistern. TIL
cause was temporary insanity.
!. The annual catalogue of Middlebur,
/. College for the academical year of 1877