St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-02-21

4tD IDSt. he was Drotnef OF IDe LOT
mer proprietor, Lyman j. McIndOe, ant
was in his 55th year.
L. b. McClintOck, conductor of {
Pullman car between Montreal anC
Boston, slipped on the sidewalk be.
tween the depot and his hotel in Boston
on the 18th, and broke an ankle. lie
returned on his train to Montreal next
morning. Mack is a printer, and for
merly foreman in Newport Express
office.
Hon. f. E. Woodbridge was in town
yesterday, and on being asked when
he intended to remove to Colorado, he
laughed and said that the newspaper
item about that was the first he bad
heard of it. The information probably
grew ont of the intention of his son,
Mr.. F. A. Woodbridge, to remove tn
Minnesota in the spring, for the purpose
OF managing several thousand acres OF
his fathers land, situated in the Red
River country near the Northern Pacific
road.
The grandmother of George E. Eaton
of Danville, the ablest democrat in the
last legislature, will he 100 years old if
she lives until next September.
Nathan Murphy, the West Hartford
lad who recently committed suicide, is
said to have been made insane by read
ing the current Phair and Gravelin lit
erature.
r. H. Whittier, a wealthy citizen of
Montpelier died the 18th, of cancer. He
had been treated at Rome, n. Y, with
out permanent relief. Deceased had
been in the meat business at the capital
81 years, and was universally esteemed.
He leaves large property to his widow
and one son.
The Observer says the death of LO-
renzo Richmond, JT., formerly of
WoOdstOck) was not by suicide, but WAS
caused by the accidental discharge of
Il pistol which he kept under his pillow,
the ball passing through the pillow and
lodging in his brain, killed him instant
ly. He was ii graduate of Dartmouth
college in 1870, and member of the
st. Louis bar.
Stephen Spencer, aged 45 years, died
of diptberia in Plainfield, Feb. IL, after
an illness of eight days. He was SON
in-law of Dea. Gale, and had assisted in
nursing those sick in Mr.. Gales family.
He leaves IL wife and four children, the
youngest year old. He had been
county commissioner for Washington
county the last two years, was chairman
of the committee of the Congregational
society, an excellent citizen and a man
OF enterprise.
Several thriving farmers from Ram
dolph have recently been over to Chel-
sea and purchased ashes as Il fertilizer
for their farms. The market price has
been about 20 cents per bushel.
A correspondent of the Troy Times
writes as follows of IL Fairhaven farmer
AT FairLaven we visited the farm of
Charles w. Gardiner who makes butter
from Jersey cows. Mr.. Gardiner sets
his milk in pans four feet long, twenty
two inches wide aud six inches deep.
Ice water is made to run around the
pans To cool the milk. His head of nine
cows averaging 3l73 pounds of butter a
year. This Is almost 200 pounds above
the average in the state per COW. Jer-
sey cows and cool milk make the sue
cess. He sells his butter as fast us made
from five to ten cents above the market
price. His cows are fastened with
chain around the neck, as he thinks
SlhnCuiOuS cruel.
One of Dentist Comegy's young men
is taking singing lessons of Phillips.
and when at work in the rear office he
takes occasion to practice little The
other day lady who had an engage
ment at the office called half an hour
late, and when asked the cause of her
delay, replied that she reached the foot
of the stairs in time, but hearing a per
son screaming above, she concluded the
doctor was extracting teeth, and so she
thought she would go away for il little
while. The young man don't like to
hear anything about it.-St. Atbans
Messenger.
EXPLANATION NECEssARY.-The Mont
peleI Waterman says: Sometime last
fall Mrs. Stack of Mortified was con-
vlcted OF selling cider, and in default
of payment of fine, was committed to
jail abont two weeks since. At the
time of her commitment she claimed to
be Ill, and soon after was taken worse.
A young lady in Montpelier, whose
step-mother Mrs. Stack was, paid the
fine and released the old lady from Jail.
After her discharge she rapidly grew
worse, and on Wednesday last she died. |
Public opinion quite strongly favors the |
theory that the case was an arbitrary
and unjust one, and one that will re-
quire considerable explanation to clear
up. An effort of few moments among
the citizens of Montpelier was sufficient
to raise fifty dollars to reimburse the
young lady for the fine paid.
King, Fuller & Co., contractors. |
brought three suits against the Lamoille |
Valley Company for labor performed |
IN constructing the road, under three |
different contracts. Judgment WAS
rendered for the plaintiffs and the case
went to the supreme court. Judge
Powers has just filed the decision which |
give the plaintiffs in the first case SI3.-
29l.ll and costs; in the second case
> ,3536O and costs, and in the third
case $6,5lO.62 and costs-the total costs
being 1900.
Sixty tive persons is the sum total of
those who attended the lecture of Presi- |
dent Hnrlburt, under the auspices of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. Our good Christian temper
ance people don't support the cause as
they ought, it seems-Bur. Revie,c.
Tho st. Adams Messenger saws that
the bust of the late Peler B. Brigham
at Bakersfield, VT, from Boston
Cd the 18th, and is to be placed in the
niche on the south side of the Briobam
academy. The bust is 81 inches high.
'hu wnen placed upon the pedestal the |
sntife night Will be 55 inches. The bust |
Is the work of Martin Millmore, is of ex-
1 T marble, and those who knew |