St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-19


State VS.. Bigelow. Fined $40 and
costs for indecent assault.
NEW ENTRIES DISPOSED OF.
1873. Stevens vs.. Concord. Town
bond case. Removed to U. S. District
Court.
203. Aver VS.. Lawrence. Judgment
for plff. by default.
204. Brooks and wife vs.. Phoenix Life
Ins. Co. Removed to U. S. District
Court.
205. Town of Barnet VS.. ]. D. Alb
bolt and others. Action on collectors
bond. Plea in abatement that bond was
taken to selectmen and that town had
never by any vote directed this writ
brought. Demurrer to plea. Demurrer
sustained.
2l4. Flood VS.. Flood. Default.
219. Osborne and Woodbury. VS..
Shawmut ms. Co. Motion to dismiss
on ground that both plffs. and defts. re-
sided out of state at time suit was be-
gun. Motion denied. Case goes to
Supreme Court.
22l. Stevens VS.. Stevens. Default.
227. Judevine vs.. Bridgman. De-
fault.
241. Humphrey VS.. Streeter. Judg-
ment for plff. Clerk to assess on notice
to subsequent attaching creditors.
243. Ide VS.. Same. Same entry as "a.
244. Lyndon National Bank VS.. Cut
ting. Same as last.
248. Merchants National Bank VS..
Weeks. Default.
249. Hawkins VS.. McClary. Judg-
ment for plff. Clerk to assess.
254. Howard VS.. Cobleigh and POr-
ter. Appeal granted and case brought
forward.
26l. White VS.. Peck. Appeal granted.
267. Rice VS.. Murphy. Default.
269. Bank VS.. McLaren. Default.
$50. Colby VS.. Pratt and Trustees.
Judgment for plff. 1851.
292. Bradley VS.. Bradley. Default.
292. Brown VS.. Knox. Default.
81. Taylor and Perry VS.. Streeter.
Judgment for plff.
327. Emerson VS.. Udall. Default.
New entries the present term at law,
137.
New entries at chancery, 81.
A train with troops returning to Sher-
brooke and Richmond, P. O., backed
on siding at St. Henri junction, Sat-
urday. The large crowd of roughs in
the vicinity began taunting the troops
and finally assaulted the train with
stones. The soldiers fired into the
mob, wounding two fatally. The mol
fed. The authorities will investigate
the affair. One of the wounded is re-
ported dead.
The Berlin Congress closed Saturday
Prince Bismarck made the closing
speech. The treaty contains fifty sever
articles and is the longest ever known
1t was signed by the plenipotentiarie'
alphabetically.
The troops under Captain Miles had
a fight with the Umatilla Indians neal
their reservation in Oregon Saturday
The result is not known. Two white
men were murdered Friday. There il
much distress in PendletOn, a neigh
boring settlement.
The weather report from st. Louis il
positively startling. A hundred ant
fifty people were Frustrated by the hea
Monday, and over a third of tina
number died. And the hot weather il
no respecter of persons there, but take
down those not usually in much DANCE
of sunstrOke as well as the laborer nee
essarily exposed to the sun. This heat
ed term began there on Friday.
The first white man to suffer from
the new Virginia law providing whip
ping as punishment for certain of
fences was publicly logged at Hampton
last week by negro constable. HI
was a sailor, and his crime was tn
theft of an anchor.
Pretty much every body who ha,
f anything to do with affairs at Montreal
on the 10Th seems to have had a hank
ering to fire off gun without much re
gard to the object that the bullet woul
f hit. Private Kelly of body of troop
from Huntingdon, which landed a
I Port Lewis Saturday evening, discharg
+ ed his rifle without even raising it t
e his shoulder, wounding Capt. McKeow
I so that he had to have his arm ampu
tated.
Edison has started for Colorado, t
help observe the eclipse of the SUI
He is going to devote himself to exam
lining whether the suns corona give
forth heat to any extent, and has ne,
). instrument that measures accuratel
the fifty -thousandth part of a degree {
p the thermometer.