St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-04

ST. Sohnsblrp Galedonian.
.,.Tohnspury. Vt, Friday, July 4, 1879.
Torai and State clews.
The only extra mail on the new
,..,ins is the Boston mail at 3 p. m.
Post office will be open July from
@ to 10 a. M, and from 6 to z p. m.
Evening mail closes at z.
The evening services at the Church
of the Messiah will be suspended dur
ing July and August.
Last Sunday passed for a I"
day-making the fourth wei '""O"'
in the month.
An adjourned school meeting is to
be held Saturday evening" to see IL tne
district will provide more school room'
Mrs Samuel Johnson of Common
wealth Avenue, Boston, is visiting
friends in town.
Miss Charlotte Morrill, of the
Adclphi Academy, Brooklyn, is spend
inc a vacation in town.
Court will probably adjourn over
the Fourth. We understand the scale
works will he shut down both the 4th
and 5th.
Charles P. Bowman, son of Judge
N. p. Bowman, has been elected princI-
pal of Sioux City High School, Sioux
City, Iowa.
Rev. S. l.. b. Speare of Bangor,
who was spending a few days in town
with friends, preached at the South
church last Sabbath.
&C. G. Wells on Summer street and
JAS. Flynn on Western Avenue had
fully grown green peas on the last day
of June. Pretty well for a backward
spring.
President Bartlett of Dartmouth
College is expected to supply the North
church pulpit next Sabbath, and Rev.
DIR. Rankin of Washington, the two
succeeding Sabbaths.
The First National Bank pays a
semi-annual dividend of three dollars
a share the 10th inst, and the Mer-
chants National like dividend the
18th.
1t is hoped that on account of quite
"a number of people who are seriously
ill in our village, that all noisy demon
strations will be postponed until sun
rise tomorrow morning.
-Harvey's next excursion for Chica-
go, Milwaukee, st. Paul, Omaha and
Kansas, will leave st. Johnsbury Tues
day, July %, at p. M, by special
The railroads are making large
preparations to carry people to Lyn-
dOnville and SwantOn tomorrow. A
program Of the Templars' exercises at
LyndOnville is given elsewhere.
WIN. Peck living on Cherry street
has several rows of corn in his garden
which is tasseled out, potatoes and beans
in blossom, and emenmhars over an
inch long, all of which are out door
productions.
There have been four splendid hay
days this week, and farmers generally
are cutting their grass. The hay crop
will be light in this vicinity notwith-
standing the June rains. May drouth
and June frosts are the attributed
cause.
The figures of the Passumpsic time
table vaiy little from those given in
the last CdtedOniGn. The only impor-
tant change is the time of the Accom-
mediation going north. 1t leaves this
station at 1915 a. M, instead of the
time given.
The Receivers & Managers of the
p. & o. Road have made contracts to
do the work on the road ordered by the
Court. The contractors are coming
on at once with a large force, filling
trestles, ballasting, etc.
"A. l.. Bragg and wife of Paddock
village, were surprised Saturday eve
ming by the unexpected arrival of a
large number of neighbOrs and friends,
loaded down with tin ware. 1t was the
tenth anniversary of their wedding, and
it seems the friends remembered it.
We understand the town authority
decline to abate the taxes on the
Batchelder place, Cherry street, pur-
chased by Rev. Boissonnault, and used
by him us Catholic school house for
girls, and that he proposes to let the
supreme court decide the question.
School houses are exempt from taxa
ton by statute.
Golden Wedding.
a notable local event this week was