St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-12-13
Vermont News.

with lantern to fix loose board, when
the light was struck by the sudden clos
ing of the door and upset, setting fire
to the barn, which was burned with its
contents. Loss 5000 insured for $3.50
Rev. DR.. Stevens of Westminster was
severely injured last week by being
thrown from a carriage, and having
some of his ribs broken.
The December term of the Windsor
county court began the 4th, with 2le
cases on the docket, including l3 crimi-
nal suits.
II. K. Dow of Newbury shot with a
rifle white pOcIupine, measuring 81
inches from tip to tip and weighing
about so pounds. 1t was sent to H. A.
Cutting, the state geologist, and will be
placed in the State Cabinet at Mont
pelier. He says it is a rare specimen.
On the I'd, the annual village cleo
ton took place in Montpelier. Fifty
dollars was voted to the Grand Army
to aid in next Decoration Day and the
use of Village Hall was given to all
state associations that may hold their
meetings in Montpelier. 1t was voted to
| light the streets with kerosene if it can
be done at three fOurths the cost of gas.
A tax of 20 cents on the dollar was
voted.
A Middlebury correspondent says -
This community is considerably exer-
cised over series of burglarles, com
mitted with systematic regularity, and
showing a great deal of bOldness, but
very little skill on the part of the thieves.
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| even the harnesses, sleigh robes, cloth
ing, pipe and tobacco, provisions, and
in one case it is asserted that they took
a lawyers brief. 1t is thought they will
next visit ParsOn Hooker, and secure
one of his sermons on ''moral reform"
A plot of prisoners in Burlington Jail
to escape was discovered Thursday
| night. Having his suspicious aroused,
Sheriff Drew Investigated and found
that in one of the upper tier cells in the
old part of the Jail, hole had been
worked through the inside stone wall,
and half through the outside eight-inch
brick wall, so that only slight barrier
remained between the prison birds and
liberty. Nine prisoners were concerned
in the plot.
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Pinney at Woodstock. ruined their stock
of goods, and E. A. Vaughan, grocer
in the building adjoining, suffered con-
silorably frUur esr.DLSe aud wafer and
the moving of goods; total loss $1,000,
nearly covered by insurance.
Irwin Powers of Williamsville was in
stantly killed by falling upon a large
circular saw at his mill. His feet slip
ped as he was reaching plank, and he
fell with his face upon the saw, which
was in motion his head was literally
cut in two, and his neck also WAS shock
ingly mangled. Ezra Shipman was near,
and quickly closed the gate, remov-
ing the body from the saw, and called
for help. Young Powers was IA smart,
enterprising young man of "a years of
age, the eldest of two sons of widow
RhOda Powers.
During the past ii months there have
been 100 deaths by violence in the state,
and in November there were IA, three
persons being killed by the cars, two
each by drowning, accidental shooting
and carriage accidents, while one was
poisoned, one crushed, and one, Mrs.
George r. Richardson, of Burlington.
injured her foot by stepping on nail,
last week, and died of lOckiaw.
The death of Mrs. Bridget Cleary of
Burlington, who received help from the
city, and was supposed to be very poor,
has just developed the fact that she had
$1,000 in city bank, a mortgage on so
acres of land at Belvidere, and other
property.
Sheriff Trip of Middlebury accepts
Gov. Proctor's appointment as superin-
tendent of the state wOrk-house at Rut-
land, and his successor will probably be
Thad M. Chapman, for some years a
deputy sheriff.
Edwin c. Hayden, the Derby Line
wifemurderer, will petition the next
Legislature for a communication of his
sentence,
Lnthera Peabody, the wife of Deacon
VIM. Peabody of Orange, who was
thrown from a sleigh about year ago,
as they were driving to church, died of
her injuries on the LIST.
A Rutland man bought horse in
Canada, the other day, and did not pay
the duty on it until after he arrived in
Rutland, and then he paid more than
would have been required if he had set
tied with Uncle Sam when he crossed
the line.
David Eddy, of South Londonderry,
thrown from his wagon against the steps
of a cheese factory, striking his head
with such force as to crush his face and
head in terrible manner. He lived
but two hours.
Amos Pratt of Shrewsbury found an
old man dead in one of his barns re-
Gently. He had not been to the barn
for number of days, as it was situated
near the railroad. The man was about
six feet tall, and wore very good suit
of clothes, and was about rs years old.
An attempt was made one night to
steal walnut tree owned by II. C .Glea-
son of Richmond. The tree was nearly
cut down, when they were caught in the
act by Byron Morse. Then, to avoid
trouble, they settled for the tree by
paying V, and returned, took the tree
home, and found to their chagrin that
it was rotten.
Brattleboro now has case of "mirac-
ulous cure" Mrs. Joseph Davis OH High
street, who it is said had not been
dressed for IL months, and who all along
had had a strong faith that her prayers
would result in a complete healing, got
up Sunday morning feeling perfectly
well and healthy, and sent note to the
Baptist pastor, which was read in
church, saying that Divine power had
been interposed in her behalf and ..made
her wholen again. At last accounts she
was about the house, and confident that
she knows the exact hour when the cure
was perpetrated. -Reformer.