St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-02-01
Vermont News.

w. H. H. Bingham has sold his
share of the Mount Mansfield hotel
stock, to Col. E. c.. Bailey, who now
owns seven-eighths of the whole stock.
VIM. B. Strong, native of Orleans
County, has been appointed Superin-
tendent of the AtchisOn, Santa Fe and
Topeka railroad, with salary of $l5,-
600 per year.
Henry Rivers, who was sentenced
from Caledonia county December 18th,
1876, for five years, for larceny, has
been taken to the asylum at BrattlebO-
70, having been adjudged insane.
We learn that A. w. Griswold, pro-
priet0r of the celebrated "Malvern
farm" in MOrristOwn, VT, has been SEN
fenced to IL months confinement in
the New Jersey state prison, for crime
committed in an insurance transaction.
At Corinth the other day, little son
of Sullivan Taplin was accidentally
knocked down while attempting to
cross the path in front of boy who
was coasting, and received injuries
which resulted in his death in few
days.
Mrs. John Liberty of Vergennes has
been so severely poisoned by the use
of colOring matters in dyeing clothing
that she is not expected to recover.
Her physician finds that the vitriol and
other poisonous ingredients have been
absorbed into her system.
jeremiah Leach, Jr., about 20 years
old, employed by the Vermont Farm
Machine company, at Bellows Falls.
/ a,ufrI,t law N holt ha obi i'm,
the 23d, thrown over the shaft and one
arm torn out ut the shoulder aud thrown
away. He is in a critical condition.
VermOnt's centennial day for 1878
occurs on March 18th, the one hun
dredth anniversary of the meeting OF
the first state Legislature at Windsor.
In Addison county good cows are
selling at $50 to $50, and farmers who
cut large surface of meadow last sea-
son are stocking up for the Winter.
Vergennes has small work-house,
which provides labor for the unemploy-
ed and those who are passing through
the country asking for help. These
persons are given employment at eighty
cents per day. All tIamps who want
assistance are required to earn then
bread before they can have it.
SwantOn has sensation in the recent
mysterious disappearance of Thomas
Melville, thriving young druggist
He came from Canada and was former
ly Il Catholic, and his wish to marry
the daughter of IL prominent citizen was
opposed by the girls parents on ac-
count of his religion. RenOuncing his
church, however, he won the bride, set
tied in town and was established in the
drug business 10y his father-in-law. But
now he has left everything and ran
away, writing Il letter from ST. Sebas,
tian, p. O., announcing that he must
return to his old religion.
Speaking of Mr.. Bentley's connection
with the Central Vermont, the Railroad
Gazette, which is authority in such mat
tiers, says: at is understood that he
is to be absolutely at the head of affair,
so far as the management and opera
ton of the lines worked by the com.
pany are concerned, and to be respon.
sible only to the board of directors.
A school ma'am at Hydepark tried
to break her pupils of the baleful habit
OF using tobacco by sleeping up Il mum.
Der of old pipes and giving some of tn,
!, elegant reliquum to those detected il
nicOtian indulgence-a dose unrivalled
we believe, since Mrs. Squeers' admin
istration of stomach comfort in the
shape of birthstone and treacle to the
hapless inmates of DOtheboy's' Hall
1t made the little boys very sick and
their parents very mad, and the useful
ness of the school is naturally some
what impaired.
The Rutland savings bank received
200 in deposits the other day-tho
biggest sum on record.
Rutland is recalling the fact tina
Walter Cotton, a native of that village
was the first person to make known
the presence of gold in California
started the first newspaper there ant
built the first schOOl-hOuse.
An owl was shot near Burlington
some six weeks since upon one of whose
legs was steel trap and two feet o
chain. The trap and chain is now
claimed by man in Hinsdale, N. H..
who has proven property. He says the
trap was set some five weeks previous
to the shooting of the owl, in his hen.
house, to catch some unknown ANNA
who was killing and carrying off his
chickens. The owl must have travell-
ed the 100 miles between the two places
in the five weeks.
The Windsor journal says the item
going the rounds, that there are five
murderers under sentence of death il
the state prison, is incorrect there are
but four, in the following order: Henry
Gravlin, sentenced to be hung on the
second Friday in March, 1879; John P
Phair, the first Friday in April, 1879
Asa MagOon, the fourth Friday in No.
vember, 1879; and Edward TatrO, the
first Friday in April, 1880. Lewis is il
Jail at Fayetteville, and Edward C
Hayden is in state prison for safe keep
ing both awaiting the action of the su
preme court on exceptions.
Trenor w. Parks attorney. Lawye,
Harmon, has notified Luther r. Graves
the Bennington town treasurer, that
r the bond suit having been decided ad
. versely to the town sibeyond eayil O.
dispute" Remington must at enc,
pay the accrued interest coupons a
mounting to about $4,000.