St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-17
The Foundry Company.

he burlington free Press says =
The creditors of the st. Adams Foun-
dry Company met in Burlington Satur-
day, when something like $4,000 in
claims were proved. The company of
fer ten cents on the dollar; and in order
to give the creditors time to consider
this proposition an adjournment was
held until May 20. The unencumbered
assets of the company are as follows =
Stock and machinery, $41 ,3l2; bills of
exchange, 1924; open accounts, ST.
247 real estate, $4,000; total nominal
assets, $50, 1884 real value of assets,
$4,000 The unsecured liabilities are
Gncluding some $4,000 of preferred
debts) the enormous sum of 1856, 1863. AZ.
The largest unsecured creditors are as
follows Merchants National Bank of
Burlington, $1,000; w. C. Smith of
st. Albans, S67 ,469; First National
Bank of st. Johnsbury, S25, 900; Ma
tiOnal Park Bank of New York city,
500, 200; First National bank of st.
Adams, $4,000; Frederick Miles of
Copake Iron Works, New York, S14,-
982 j. G. and w. C. Smith, of st.
Adams, 81, $50; Middlebury National
bank, NOrthtield National bank and
Malone IN. W National $4,000 each !;
Waterbury National bank and Phoenix
(of Hartford Ct.) National bank, $1,000
each Merchants National bank of st.
JOhnsbury and Randolph National bank
$4,000 each. The secured creditors are
the Merchants National bank of Bur
lingtOn, for $4,000, and the First Ma
tiOnal bank of st. Adams for $4,000.
The foundry is mOrtgaged for $2I 200
re fnl1 Pa
c. Smith of st. Albans.
w Mrs. Samuel H. Taylor, widow
of the late principal of Phillips Acade-
my, died very suddenly on Sunday
morning at $3.50 o'clock, at AndOver,
Mass. The lady was apparently as well
as usual at breakfast time, and upon
rising from the table complained of
being unwell. Ten minutes later she
was dead. By strange coincidence
the manner of her death was the same
as that of her husband, seven years ago,
he dying suddenly on Sunday morn
ing. The announcement of her death
will bring sorrow to hundreds of old
graduates of the academy who will re-
member her almost mOtherly interest in
the students, by whom she was held in
the highest esteem-BOstOn Advertiser.
Rev. Daniel F. Richardson of Han
over, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1881,
once professor of Greek and Latin in
a North Carolina college, for a number
of years Baptist minister and the vii
lage postmaster under Pierce, has gone
crazy and will be sent to an asylum.
John Folsome of Derry N. H., mark
ed heard of 60 cattle with green paint
recently, and turned them out to pas
ture. Soon after one of them, a valu-
able COW, died, and others were taken
sick, and only saved by antidotes. The
paint has now been sheared from the
of the cattle, and no other
cases of poisoning are reported.
The benevolent Boston men and wo-
men who gave 96l poor children of the
city vacations of week or a fortnight
in the country last summer, hope to
make at least 1000 children happy in
the same way the coming season.
Waters, the young Harvard senior
who recently died in the Worcester in
sane asylum, is said to have killed him
self by studying 10 hours on stretch,
without cessation either for eating or
sleep.
Irreverent remark by the Hartford
COurant-"In dealing with this Con-
gress the country can sympathize with
the back woods parsOn who, after pass
ing around his hat for collection and |
finding nothing in it, thanked God that
he had got his hat back"
During a variety performance in |
tent at Evansville, Ind, the marksman
missed his aim and shot a small boy
dead who was playing outside the
canvas,
Sitting Bull says that he is coming
back from his abode in Canada with his
1900 well-equipped warriors this season
to get possession of his old haunts or
die in the attempt.
Another death from fright was that
OF Bryant Foley, WATERFOWL IN. "
young man with broken leg, who got
so strong an impression that the carbOlic
acid used as wash had poisoned his
system, that, though he was apparently
we'll at o'clock in the afternoon. he
was corpse within three hours.