St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-10-26
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY

Hon. L. E. Smith of Monkton raised
IL 900 bushels of grain on his large farm
this season {: so says the Brandon News.
Yesterday, while the Middlebury
rifle club were practicing target shoot
ing, George Brasson, boy of 10 years,
standing near the target, was accident
ally shot He died this morning after
great suffering.
The Vergennes Vermonter says the
Reform School is in healthy and pros
porous condition. There are 1913 boys
and Is girls. The near presence of
diphtheria-it has been raging fatally
within mile of the grOunds-has led
to the observance of the most stringent
sanitary rules, and the result has been
very gratifying thus far not case has
occurred. There is one case of fever,
but the general health of the inmates is
excellent.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
The Burlington Democrat says 1T
is pleasant to know that that young
man from Milton who confiscated a
pistol at Ed. Payne's store, last week,
relented after listening to the preaching
of Moody, and Mr.. Payne found the
pistol nicely wrapped up in paper,
sticking in his door handle the next
morning
| Mrs. Chloe Patchen of South Burling-
ton celebrated her one-hundredth birth
day, on the 18th inst. Of her descend
ants there are now living three chill
dren, ten grandchildren, thirty great
grandchildren and one great-great-
grandchild. A large number of guests
were present on the occasion.
Rev. w. w. Atwater, editor of the
Vermont Witness, is reported very sick,
fears being entertained that he cannot
recover.
The Free Press says a tramp at
tempted at commit suicide at the sta
ton house in Burlington, by cutting
his throat with a triangular piece of
glass. As the blood flowed he wrote in
blood with his fingers upon the wall
81 have sinned forgive" which CHASTITY
inscription, with pool of blood, still
attest the attempted tragedy. The
wound, though serious, will not prove
fatal. 1t is said that ''rum did it.n His
name is John Collins Barry, of Water
ford, Sigmore county, Ireland. He is,
1T seems, physician, and an educated
man. He was cheated out of a small
patrimOny in his native country, came
to the United States, and finally drift
ed to Burlington. He is now getting
along very well.
AS the train due in Burlington at
twenty minutes past seven, Thursday
morning, 18th, was passing through
Shelburn, it ran over a man Just the
other side of the village. Nothing was
known of the accident by the train men
until the train arrived at Burlington,
when one of the watchmen, attempting
to grease the locomotive, picked up a
fragment of flesh which was recognized
as part of human body, instead of a
piece of tallOw as he supposed it was
On investigation it was found that the
the locomotive was partially covered
with blood, and bore along with it mu-
tilated remains of human BODY. The
victim of the tragedy, it afterwards APP
peaTed, was FrenchmaD, some %
years of age, having no family, who
lived at the side of the railroad track,
and who, it is supposed, being weary
of life, committed suicide in this man
ner.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Rutland Herald reports that
James E. Owens of Fairfield has issued
a challenge to any man in the world,
regardless of size, weight or strength,
to wrestle, collar and elbow, best two
out OF three falls, for a purse of from
1000 to $4,000.
ORANGE COUNTY.
A. M. Banks was recently attacked
by highwayman, while driving from
Fairlee to Bradford, but knocked his
assailant down with the butt of his
whip and left him by the roadside.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
George E. Nelson, aged 25 years, son
of A. B. Nelson of Derby Line, on We'd
nesday afternoon, 18th inst, installing
undiluted for diluted choral hydrate
took an overdose and died in twenty
minutes. Mr.. Nelson leaves a wife and
one child.
A son of Mr.. Belknap of Holland,
was instantly killed, Saturday. Young
belknap and another young man had
loaded their guns, preparatory to at
tending a shooting match The other
boy, having set his gun in a sap holder,
stepped some eight feet back. When
Belknap placed his in the holder
he hit the lock of the other gun, dis
charging it, and the charge struck him
in the chin and blew the top of his
head entirely off.
Owen Donegan of North Troy raised
a pumpkin that weighed 1872 lbs.
A Vermont paper says that lady at
Newport Center recently accused Il
man of circulating stories against her
character. A high alteration ensued,
which she followed by pounding him
with a tin dipper. He only laughed at
this, and "then she threw fat iron at
him, striking his shoulder and breaking
off the handle." A man with the han
die of his shoulder broken off would be
likely to laugh out of the wrong side
of his mouth.