St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-04-26
Vermont News.

Charles McLenithan's infant chile
at WoodfOrd has five grandmothers anC
great-grandmOthers living, two of the
latter being centenariaDs.
1t is rumOred that Vanderbilt vii
soon claim his own, and take charge O
the Bennington & Rutland r. R., wheI
it will be run directly under his man
agement.
The st. Adams Messenger says it j;
understood that the work of laying stee
rails over the track of the Central Yer
mont will be resumed at once, and ex-
tended from Montpelier (where it was
suspended at the close of the last sea.
sony to White River Junction.
j. H. Tracy of Woodstock was Sc
verely injured Tuesday. His cattle
started to run and in attempting to
step upon the cart tongue behind them
he made mistep and fell and was run
over. One cheek bone was broken and
his face considerably lacerated.
James R. Proud of Pownal so brutal
ly beat his wife (whO is in delicate
healthy the other day, that her life is
dispaired of.
DIR. S. w. Thayer of Burlington, who
sued the city for $4,000 damages fol-
injury caused to his property and the
health of his family by an open sewer
near his residence, has been awarded
only S766.66 damages. The case will
go to the supreme court.
The Burlington authorities are max
ing another raid on houses of i'll re-
pute.
The Burlington Free Press says:- AT
about half past eleven O'Clock, Tuesday
morning, the jury in the Mech will
case, after being out something like
eighteen hours, came into court and
stated that it was impossible for them
to come to an agreement; and they
were accordingly discharged. 1t is un-
derstOOd that they stood six and six
through the night but that on the
final ballot they stood eight for the will
to four against. On the first trial, it
will be remembered, the jury stood nine
to three against the will.
A thirteen-years-old girl of Elisha
Heard of West Rupert fell off foot
bridge into the creek last Friday and
was carried down stream three-fourths
of a mile, being in the water over halt
an hour, when she was rescued in an
insensible condition by Charles Hop
kins, who swan the creek to reach her.
By prompt action of a physician and
Others she was fully restored from the
effects of her prolonged exposure.
The Barton Monitor says We no.
tice with not a little pride that Justin
+. Colburn, formerly of this town, has
been selected by the President as Con-
sui General for the city of Mexico. Mr..
Colburn worked his way up with
out any means or special help to
be head reporter at Washington
for the New York Times. and has won
the esteem of all with whom he has had
to do. His friends here and elsewhere
rejoice in his prosperity.
Lucretius Hubbard, by direction of
Henry Fairbanks of ST. Johnsbury, de-
posted about 5000 salmon-trout in
Bellewater, and as many in WillOughby
on Friday last. These are some of the
valuable fish which the Fish Commits
sioners are introducing into the ponds
and rivers of this State.-Barton Mont
tor.
Ice in the lake at Greensboro broke
up the 18th this year, about month
earlier than last year.
A mail bag was found near HeaIdville
station the other day, which the route
agents had failed to get with their
had remained under the snow oyeett
three months.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Educational association will be held in
June, in Brandon. The literary exer-
clses will consist of an address by d. NJ.
Camp of the Newport Express, and a
poem by Mrs. Julia c. r. Dorr, of Rut-
land. An excursion to Lake Dunmore
will be among the attractions of the re-
union.
An old feud between Frank Atkins
and David Galpin, of Monkton. culmi-
mated Friday, when the latter was se-
rlously injured by having his arm bro
ken three times and his head cut opeu
with a pickax in the hands of Atkins.
who has been held in $4,000 for trial on
the 25th.
The new clock in the tower of the
College Street church, Burlington, was
Illuminated for the first time Friday
evening. The dials, five feet four in.
ches III diameter, are of ground glass.
with black hands and figures. The
dlals are lit by gas jets, and by an in
genius arrangement the gas is turned
on and lit and turned off by the clock
itself at any hour desired.
A fire broke out in the press room of
the Rutland Herald at O'Clock SIM
day morning, and burned through the
floor into the Globe job office before it
could be extinguished. The Herald
press and their paper was badly dam
aged. Their loss is about 81 500. The
Globe paper company's loss on printing
office and J. W. Cramton's loss oH