St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-01-11
Vermont News.

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There is talk Of several wealL
Workers building elegant and eyn ny Ne
residences in Burlington, next Sa pens
Under the direction of tbe Ivy Ivy
several Mortified men are dig,,S'p7
hidden money in the southeasfemS
of the town.
The mayor of Burlington has cor
meeting to see if the city will '" "7
pirate $22, 900 for the purchase oF SpR
for fair ground.
Vennor didn't prognosticate anr
snaps to occur in January. If III Co.
of thing continues poor Vennor VIII MIN "
his reputation as a weather pronI,.
The receipts from the rental or
in the Universalist church, Brazil, ya
amounted to 81 800. Rev. NJ. II U~
is engaged for another year, at ~ .a
of 81, 900. '''.
In the cemetery at North Pome..
a gravestOne bearing this ipscrirg
'sIn memory of Hannah, wife of P Io
w. Dana, ESQ.,, and daughter of I C
Israel Putnam, who died April > w w.
aged rs years.
Ex-Alderman r. G. Rowe of Rurr.
ton died Friday, aged AZ Years \
had been a telegraph operator va.
active democratic politician and,tS
time of his death was proprietor If u
Stanton House.
r. E. Townsend, of Woodstock l..
pair of three years old steers that r l'
3,90S pounds probably as heavv,,
as can be found in Vermont. Mr. Tai
send also has a yearling Durham La
that weighs ,430 pounds. 'u-
About $1,000 has been pledged .
far, for the erection of Mef6oJi,.
church in Coventry, and it is eynactsl
that work will he begun on it soon
George, son of w. r. KimbaU ,rs
formerly of estminster, shot bim,s.
through the heart the 2Sth ult.. at h
boarding place in Boston. His lemaT
were brought to Westminster for 4
termeDt.
Wolcott has got things down fl.
fine point. Good beef is selling attha
and half cents by the side; pork H.
dollars per hundred; potatoes. for
cents; dry hard wood at one dollar
fifty cents, and green hard wood atr.
dollar and twenty-five cents per cod
Recently, as "a young man of Asr
NEVILLE, was returning home late
night, and when nearly at his hons he
was seized in the street. cboked and
roughly handled by two unknown me-
who threw him down and robbed biz
of his wallet, containing a small sum q
money.
Since the advent of cold, bracin.
weather, the diphtheria epidemic il
Burlington has materially subsidized, aut
hopes are entertained that the gem
will be so effectually stamped out eI,
the return of damp or warm weathe
that we shall have no more of it. al
least for spell.
VIM. Dady, who has fleeced Wind
ham farmers and others about the com.
ty, to the tune of several hundred dol.
lars by buying their produce, fOrgiu.
notes and in other similar transaction.
was arrested the ID, ut Dummer>ton
where he WAS stopping with farmG
and representing himself to be OF sui.
ficient means to purchase a fam.
. A Montpelier dispatch to the Bostor
Globe says: 1.-The treasurer of Vernon
at the beginning Of the new year, find,
himself out of funds, and will lie CON.
PEELED to borrow money to meet tLt
current expenses of the state for the
next seven months. This is due to
the last Legislature voting Il tax of rr-
per cent. less than the state tTea@a-
estimated would be required fw NJ
two years"
The Rutland Herald says 323 drint
ing men there have signed the pied.
since the opening of the reform NOV
nent.
Rev. DR.. Walkers engagement wi
he Centre Congregational society
ends with the close of Il
present year, and owing to the cond
ion of the health of his family. D
Walker refuses to renew or prolOng Il
The annual statement of the Vernon
savings bank of Brattleboro, the large
of the kind in the stat,
shows the amount of its deposits to b
over S2,O00,000, Its assets are S720
200, strictly convertible into cash q
short notice, being mostly gOvernmen
bonds and first-class city bonds. 1t b.
DO losses, and has handSou
after paying two 3 per cen.
and it's mortgages, amour.
ing to over S1,000,000, are amply st
cured. Its careful management show
itself now in the fact that, while Il
many cases mortgage securities havt
proved to be insufficient to cover none
loaned, in the case OF this bank tb
margins on the present low values ar
ample. 1t is pleasant in these times d
distrust and failures to chronicle such
a statement.
The fact is recalled that in the It.
mild winter of 1S47-S Captain
now Judge, S. d. Chapman of IVES
Charlotte, took nearly 100 young ladir'
from Burlington on his boat on Lakt
Champaign excursion New Years day
and, while returning, the party had
lance on the upper deck in the opel
air. The lake was scarcely frozen owe
Turing the winter, and no one crossed
t on the ice.
A malignant type of diphtheria ha
prevailed in some parts of Ferrisburg-
80 fatal that it is stated-though j
seems hardly credible-that 20 out Of
II children attacked, the whole schoo
population of one district, have died.
In their appeal from the award Of tn
for land taken by u
Woodstock road for the crossing al
White River Junction, the Central YER
mont places the damages at the moleE-
ate figure of 100000. The proceedinss
under the appeal will be simply the
of another commissions
to decide what the go rods taken arc
really worth.
There is much levity ut Bennington
over the makeup of the battle monu
mani g., tee