St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-06-01
State News.

The Vermont Farmer, published at
st. JOhnshury, has finally gone under
in the arms of Il Boston establishment.
having heretofore sunk, ifrepOrt is true.
some $15, 200. That is the way of many
smart newspaper enterprises, Ill these
days. They thrive wondrously till pay
day comes, and then they sink. The
truth is, the business is overdOne, but
nobody who has not tried it can believe
the fact, and so there are enough to
pitch in, and sink, after two or three
vain efforts to keep the head above
w;fter.- Windsor Journal.
An ecclesiastical council, on Monday,
dissolved the pastoral relations between
Rev. n. F. Cobleigh and the Congrega-
tional church in Marshteld. During
his ministry new church editice has
been erected and 40 new members add
ed.
In the division of the real estate of
the late Dr. Thomas E. Powers, OF
Woodstock, his homestead goes to Mrs.
C. G. Eastman, of Montpelier, who will
make it her home hereafter.
The Morrisville Citizen tells of a
Young man who recently died in that
town who had but one kidney, but III
place of the other was a SOFT of sac ten
inches in length filled with water, hav-
ing a sort of tibrous or fieshy partitions
No trouble or pain was ever expert
enced by deceased in the region of the
abnormal organ, and the doctors are
disagreed as to whether it was there al
the time of his birth, or whether it was
the result of disease but all agreed
that it had nothing to do with his sick.
ness or death.
The editor of the SwantOn Courier
who has lately visited the st. Alban'
Jail, says: "Tatro is apparently as
gay and happy as if his hands were no
dyed with blood and hemp awaiting
him only two years away. When visi
tors are admitted the young murdere
always lodges behind big Stewart
stove and from the dusky corner wher,
lie stands his piercing black eyes pee
out at the visitor, and he shows him
self only when he hears the sheriff
sternly say, Here Ed.-show yourself.
Then he comes forward cOatless, hi
hands in his pockets and his hea,
down, while his black eyes glance slow
ly up through disOrdered black bail
In that big dark dungeon with its higl
, walls and heavy masonry, the fellow
seems but mere boy, frail and with
out the nerve or strength to do a dec
of blood"
BITTEN BY AN ADDER.-Last Sunday
year-and-a-half old child of job
, Tanner, of PittsfOrd, while at play i
the grass, was attacked by large ad
der. The venomOus reptile struck it
fangs into the upper lip of the child
: intiicting Il severe wound. The scream
of the child, brought the mother, VIII
| rescued it just as the serpent had cole
itself for another spring. DR.. Dyer, {
Brandon, WAS called and thinks tn
profuse bleeding from the wound ma
save the child's life.
The Vermont reform clubs will NEE
at Burlington June to complete tn
organization of the grand club of tn
state.
Col. Peck has notified all the Ben
nington saloon keepers to shut up sho
L during the militia muster this summer
t and the law allows him to enforce hi
: order at the point of the bayOnet.
Charles S. Colburn of Pittsford,
graduate of Middlebury college in 81
=, and successful and esteemed lawyer
! has been appointed judge of probate
t fill the vacancy caused by the electiO
of Judge Dutton of Rutland to til
9 bench of the supreme court.
| Elmer Fuller, aged is, step-son {
George Davis, in the employ of j. n
Haven, Rutland, died Saturday morn
4 ing, after an illness of one day, of blac
S diphtheria, and was buried within
few hours after his death without fur
. eral exercises, because of the fear of tn
= cOntagiOn.
While VIM. C. Holman of We:
Braintree was hunting, lately, his GU
was accidentally discharged, and th
contents consisting of about one hun
S bred shot passed through his right arm
q making a frightful wound.
The Addison County Journal hi
, been trif1iug with the Middlebury scho
airs. 1t reported the capture of a re
bat, and many called to see the strang
: creature, including the president of tn
i college. 1t was brickbat.
John McDermott, laborer in one {
the quarries in Rutland, was instan
ly killed Saturday by derrick chat
e which struck him on the back of til
IS head, breaking his neck.