St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08

That swell legislator, Ely-GOddard OF
| West Fairlee, who is said to have dOz-
en- or more different pairs of shoes and
as many hats, keeps a number of game
cocks, and entertained choice cOterie
of his friends with real cock fight in
the basement of his hotel at Montpelier
the other evening.
Christopher Carter, alias Albert
Stone, a sharp horse thief who escaped
from Middlebury Jail several years ago,
has just been captured at Providence,
r. l., and will be returned to his old
quarters.
Rev. Elmer Hewitt, pastor of the
Hartland Universalist church, has re-
signed and gone to Massachusetts.
Two tramps have been captured at
Burlington, with jewelry, cutlery, ETC.,
stolen from st. Adams and Mortified
stores recently, in their possession.
A twelve-year- old Bridgewater boy
has killed 40 woodchucks with a rifle
the past summer, which is Outdone by a
Proctorville Is years old, who has slain
SO red squirrels and gray ones.
J.E. Crane of Bridport has shipped
three tons of choice clover honey of his
own raising to Boston market, although
he calls the honey crop light one this
this year compared to last year.
The six-year-old son of Thomas Nor
way, of Waterbury, fell from a loft of a
lumber shed the other day, and cut a
frightful cash in his head. The doctors
have some hope of his recovery.
The new Methodist church at Sand
gate was dedicated the other day. The
church is comfortable and convenient,
capable of seating $50 to 300 persons,
well furnished, substantial and cost
some $500.
Mrs. Catherine Mccarthy. over 80
years of age, of Jay, went to the field
recently, shOuldered a bushel basket
full of potatoes, put them on her head
and carried them to the house, twenty
rods distant.
Thomas Kelly was arraigned in Bur-
lington on the 29th ult., for knocking
down a man and rObbing him of his
watch, and was bound up in the sum of
$500, failing to procure which he was
committed to Jail.
The MorrisOns having failed to put in
an appearance, the directors of the
BrattleborO and Whitehall railroad
have awarded the contract to B. ID.
Harris, as the next lowest bidder, for
the construction of the narrow-guage
road to Londonderry.
At Salisbury, recently, while Clinton
Eastwood, a young man of rare promise,
and having just graduated at a COM
mercial college in New York, was hunt
ing, he had the unfortunate luck to lose
nearly his entire right hand by the
bursting of his gun, it being over load
ed. He is in very critical condition
at present.
AT Mendon, the 31st, Daniel Dervin,
a farmer, while getting hay for his cat
tie from the loft of one of his barns. in
some way missed his footing and fell,
landing in the shed underneath, strik-
ing his head on a sharp stone, cutting
1t severely, and severing one of the ar
teries, which came near resulting in his
bleeding to death.
The canal boat L. A. Hall was sunk
at midnight, the Both ult., near West
port, Lake Champlain, in 200 feet of
water. 1t was laden with 100 tons of
for Maquam bay, and it is sup
poscu Gue IIOu OTOhe uOWn the deck |
and crashed through the bottom of the
boat. The captain and his boy were
asleep in the cabin at the time and had |
n very narrow escape, hearing the noise |
just in time to leap aboard the next
boat. The Hall was one of several |
boats in tow of the Winslow and was
The value of the iron was
SI,7OO.
John P. Phair, the Rutland murderer,
whose case has created much interest
and is now before the Legislature, is
said to have been quite confident of re-
ceiving a reprieve, and expressed him
self to that effect short time before |
Gov. Fairbanks's dispatch, which saved
his life, was received by Sheriff Slim
son in the Windsor prison. This would |
seem to indicate neat bit of acting on
the part of the prisoner, when he faint
ed away in his cell at the announce
ment of the "news."