St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-17
Vermont News.

winter, are dissatisfied with the coun-
try, and will soon return.
Many of our exchanges are noting the
scarcity of organ grinders. Perhaps an
entire failure of the crop would not be
regretted.
A Montpelier man lately returned
from Greensboro bringing 100 pounds
of trout, and party of six brought SUI
pounds. At this. rate there will be no
trout left by midsummer.
In the Chittenden County Court, the
9Th, the following sentences were I'M
pOsed james Eaton, of Richmond,
shooting a man with intent to kill, fif-
teen years in the State prison John
Levanway, of Bolton, rape upon his
own daughter, three years; Paul Don
dero, passing counterfeit money, two
years Louis Gedette, of Charlotte, lar
ceny, one year.
Judge Daniel Baldwin. of Montpelier,
says this is the earliest spring he re-
members and he remembers how it has
been for eighty years. The latest sea-
son was in 1885, at which time he was
a delegate to the convention at Balti-
more, which met May 20. Returning
home the 29th, not a leaf was to be
seen, while all the region hereabouts
was as dreary as an average March.
At New Haven, VT, the 5th, eighteen
persons united with the Congregational
Church.
Henry Woodruff, a veteran of the
war of 1912, died at Westford, the other
day, in the 85th year of his age.
D.
tells the Freeman, that when the news
of General Washington's death came he
was living (then seven years of age)
with Mr.. Morse grandfather of Hon.
Heman Carpenter of Northfield) at Roy
alton; and Mr.. Morse coming home on
horse hack, rode into the yard with great
solemnity and calling to his wife, when
she came to the door, said, ''MOlly, the
father ofour country is dead. Gen. Wash
ington is dead" And thereupon Molly
lifted up her voice and wept in concert,
and the young Daniel cried aloud, part
ly because of his own grief but largely
because of theirs.
The Vermont conference at its recent
meeting adopted a resolution pledging
the members not to marry divorced
persons, unless the divorce was granted
for "scriptural reasOns.n The next
meeting will probably be held at st.
Adams.
The doe presented to the Rutland
Game Club by Gov. Fairbanks and
turned out week ago last Saturday
has been found dead. She was in
distressed condition when released from
the box, but few hours afterward ap-
peared to be much better. The cause
of her death is unknown. The other
deer are occasionally seen and appear
to be doing well. Deer tracks have
been seen recently up Lye brook, and
are supposed to be those of the buck
and doe put out by the Ondawa Club a
year ago. The other doe and one of
last years fawns are near Arlington
the other fawn died or was killed by
some one last winter.
Young George Mckee, of Barre, fell
from a tree 30 feet to the ground, the
other day, suffering severe and perhaps
fatal injuries.
The Bellows Falls Times says A
great many new bOnnets were disap
pointed last Sunday-couldn't go to
meeting because it rained.
The jury in the case of the State VS..
John NJ. Flanders, for arson, returned a
verdict of mot guilty." by reason of
insanity, at Hyde Park, Wednesday
The respondent was remanded to jail
to await the action of the court upon
the question of sending him to an i'll
sane asylum as dangerous person. A
fuI Their charge for assault with intent to |
l. i'll will nrnha hlx- not ba triad
Fourteen years ago in one of the hard
fought battles of the rebellion, Lemuel
Giles, resident of Hartland, received |
il bullet in one leg. So firmly was it
among the bones that it re-
sisted all efforts of surgeons and physi- |
clans to extract it, until a few days |
since, he with a little help and two or
three .jacknives, succeeded in removing |
it. 1t was much battered and flattened |
A joint resolution was passed by the
last Legislature, authorizing the Gov
ernOr 'tO appoint three commissioners
to devise plan for the better accom-
of the State Library, the
State Cabinet, and the collections of the
Vermont Historical Society, and to pre-
pare designs and make estimates of the
ature." Gov. Fairbanks, has appoint
ed as commissioners under this resOlu-
ion, Hon. c. w. Willard, of MOntpel-
er; Hon. Roswell Farnham, of Brad
ford, and G. G. Benedict, of Burlington.
The Woodstock Standard says THE
great audience in the Methodist church
On Thursday evening ID inst, expert
snced a sensation that came near being
/ panic. In the midst of DR.. McCabe's
address the foundation stone of the
centre post supporting the floor burst
md was crushed, and as a consequence
he floor settled two or three inches.
The noise of the breaking of the stone
esembled the muffied report of blast
md for moment rush was imminent.
Voices at the door and in various parts
If the house assured the people that
was safe and quiet was
The semi-annual meeting of the Yer
mont State Medical society will be held
N Brattleboro, June 18th and 18th.
At North Pownal, the other day, A.
;. Wright caught four-pound eel, in
whose stomach was found a young
hicken.
Edward Fairbanks, aged 81 years,
nd long a resident of Springfield, VT,
Ommitted suicide by drowning, on the
tn.
A Dorset fisherman captured a trout,
he other day, which weighed three
POUNDS and ten ounces, and girted
welve inches. :
Two boys named Broadwick and {
about seventeen years old,
escaped from the reform school at Yer
'ennes, when out blowing, the 9TH. No
race of their whereabouts thus far.