St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-11-23

Mrs. Thomas Rutter was knocked
down by runaway horse and fatally
injured at Portsmouth.
The state agricultural society lost
1921 by the last fair, though there is
1865 still in the treasury. George A.
Merrill of Rutland is made president.
DR.. Phineas S. Connor, of Cincinnati,
has accepted the appointment of Lee
turer on Surgery in Dartmouth Medical
School.
Mrs. Mary Clemmer has an opinion
as to noses. She says that Stanley
Matthew's nose, slender and rather
fat, is not the Nose of Power. 1t will
Eight striking engineers on the Bos-
ton and Maine railroad have been con-
victed in the United States Court at
Portland, of conspiracy and obstructing
the mails.
Grace and Perkins, two of the burglars
who overpowered the jailer and escaped
from the Bennington county Jail last
week, were captured at North Hoosic,
N. Y, Saturday evening. Healy, the
other, has not yet been captured.
A spirited contest is going on for the
mayoralty of Boston. Over 1900 citi-
zens have signed request to Henry l..
Pierce to be candidate, and he has
consented. The Democrats will run
the present occupant, Mayor Prince.
Farmer Robbins's stable floor near
Keene, N. H., fell into the cellar the
other night, and four cows were found
hanging by the neck and dead in their
stanchiOns.
During a drunken quarrel between
George Adjutant and one of his SONS at
WOlfborO, N. H., Mrs. Garland, his aged
mother-in-law, was knocked down, and
on being picked up was found to be
dead.
The Boston subcommittee, who have
been considering the matter of admit
ting girls to the Latin school, report in
favor of giving girls as good classical
education as boys, but in separate
school.
Superintendent Foster of the South
Eastern Railway has discharged all the
section men that were at work for the
Passumpsic Co. while running the South
Eastern, and has employed new hands
in their places.
The lyceum decided last evening that
the government should operate all rail-
way and telegraph lines; and Raymond
will probably think so, too, before he
sees the ''end."-St. Albans MESSENGER.
There is an effort at Boston to drop
the experiment of making Saturday a
whole holiday and return to the practice
of giving Wednesday and Saturday af-
ternoons, on the ground that the chill
dren grow listless by five days of con-
tinuous study. The committee, how
ever, think that the majority of teachers
and parents favor the present course,
and propose to continue it.
A New Bedford girl dining with
neighbor the other day bit upon some
thing hard, which proved to be ring.
The bread was portion of some which
she had sent to her neighbor the day
before, and the ring was one she had
lost from her finger while mixing the
dough, and which she had missed that
morning.
The white mountain region will have
important additional railway facilities
next season. The Brown lumber COM
pany, who are building road from
Whitefield east into the great forests,
TO CransPOrI Ilmoer 10 their Hills at
Whitefeld. will run passenger trains,
connecting with all express trains on
the Montreal road, and they will extend
the road through the Randolph forest
to Gorham, some 25 miles, connecting
there with the Grand Trunk railway.
Fifteen banks and 18 insurance COM
panies have s'gone up" at Chicago with
in comparatively short period. Among
the banks was the Franklin, which could