St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-25

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destroying potatoes. One man in Chel-
sea states that they have destroyed ~
bushels for him.
The Burlington Democrat says that
COngressman-elect Tyler is Ineligible,
and if he were not there were misprint-
ed votes enough cast for John" M.
Tyler to defeat James.
George Miner, of Newport, aged &c
wears, was apprehended the 18th, for
feloniously assaulting his niece, Alvira
Rogers, aged Is.
An old lady named Spencer, living
near Randolph, tried to commit suicide
the other night by hanging, but was
cut down in season to save her life.
| Gov. Proctor and the joint legislative
committee have returned from visit to
the State prison. The committee heard
grievances from several citizens of
Windsor, living in the vicinity of the
prison building in relation to bad drain
age.
Landlord Schofeld's wife could not,
even for the sake of remaining the wife
of the proprietor of the Otter Creek
House at Pittsford, stand being fire.
auently knocked down stairs and hav-
ing her face burned with lighted cigars,
so she got a divorce at Rutland the
other day.
A 72-year-old citizen of Dandy, who
went with the excursion from Rutland
to New York, appeared in the Jefferson
market police court, the 10Th, in de-
moralized condition, and informed the
Judge that he had "seen the elephant,
and the pesky critter cost me S7l.4O."
Saturday was the 18th anniversary
of the St. Adams Raid. The leader of
the rebel party in that affair, Bennett
H. Young, is at the Paris Exposition,
serving as one of the commissioners for
the state of Kentucky.
The sixth annual reunion of the First
Vermont Cavalry will be held at Mont
pelier, Oh Wednesday, Oct. Both. The
society will meet in the State House at
z o'clock p. H., in room No. ~, where
the usual business of the society will
be transacted, and a paper read by
Lieut.. H. o. Wheeler; after which the
evening will be spent in social reunion.
Charles Ryder, sentenced in the Or
leans County Court for grand larceny,
and committed to prison Sept. 18th,
1873, escaped from his keeper, John
Hull, at Windsor, Friday, while outside
the prison wall assisting in stable work.
Keeper Hull is solely to blame, as he
violated positive orders forbidding the
keeper from allowing prisoners TO go
outside the walls without special per-
mission of the Chief Warden.
Amasa Dickerson, a 72-years-old
Dandy man, has been amusing the New
York police courts with a display of
much tongue, an old umbrella and a
carpet-bag. He was taken into court
Wednesday partly to get him out of
the way of sharpers, and partly because
he was drunk, and ''sassed" the justice
right and left, but was dismissed with
an injunction to go home. But the old
fellow had tasted just enough wicked
ness to want more, and he went straight
for saloon and treated girl, whom
he considered ''e-mense." The police
found him drunk again about midnight,
and in the hands of four fellows, who
had got over $40 from him, and left
him nothing but Il shOe-string and his
watch. The Judge sent him up for 10
days, aud the verdant sinner went off
very cheerfully, merely observing that,
if anybody would lend him so to pay
his fine, he would foot it hum, and
think nothin' ont"
Green Brimmer, a prominent citizen
of North Pownal, was assaulted Monday
by three drunken tramps as he was
passing along the highway, large
stone striking him in the forehead and
intiicting Il dangerous wound. His con-
ditiOn is critical. The ruffians have
| been arrested.
The farm buildings of John Boyle,
consisting of dwelling house, one
large barn, carriage house, horse barn,
hog house and sheds, situated in Lud-
low were totally consumed by fire Sun
day. An old lady, the mother of Mr..
Boyle, and who is at times insane, had
to be held by main force to keep her
from casting herself into the devouring
flames. Insured for $1,000.
Recently, child of Charles Slack, of
Chelsea, got bean into its throat so
far that it was impossible to remove it
without surgical operation. An in
cision one inch and Il half long was
made i'll the neck, and the windpipe
opened so that the bean was taken out
with IL pair of forceps. The child was
one year and Il half old.
There was novel prosecution at
Burlington last week against three
trampS who had for several weeks lodg-
ed in one of the barns on Mr.. james A.
Shedds farm, just inside the city limits.
They were arraigned under provision
in the riot act, forbidding the as
semblage of two or more men tor I'M
lawful purposes, and were convicted
and sentenced to ninety days in the
State wOrkhOuse.
There was Il narrow escape Saturday
afternoon from frightful accident at
the toll bridge crossing over the Con-
necticut River at Bellows Falls. A. K.
Adams, a farmer, was coming down
with two horses and an express wagon !;
when near the end of the toll bridge his
horses SHE'D at the cars, and became
unmanageab!e and dashed into the side
walk part of the bridge, striking against
the corner of the bridge. Mr.. Adams
was thrown out and fell within a few
feet of the precipice. The horses broke
the railing down, and one of them went
over the side of the bridge, falling until
stopped by heavy grape vines, on the
very edge of an eighty-five foot per-
pendicular ledge. He was drawn up
with ropes without serious injury. Mr..
Adams sustained serious injuries, and
has been unconscious most of the time
since.
New England exhibitors at Paris re-
ceive a total of 116 medals-16 gold, So
silver, and AZ bronze.