St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-30
Vermont News.

I MIDI. IOSG Ol O6OTSld, dSou ~, anu
, veteran of 1912, walked five miles tn
other day to do little fishing, but onl.
tumbled into the brook for his pains.
Mrs. Mary E. Landon of South Bur
= lington, 81 years old and insane, com
: mitted suicide recently by jumping int
J a cistern.
Uzziah Wyman and his wife of Cam
, bridgeport have been married II years
The Lake Champlain water monste
has been seen again, this time by ;
Trustworthy and temperate farmer.
He describes it as having head like {
serpent, only much larger; showing l!
feet of its body above the water, an(
making noise like the discharge of &
gun.
Aggrieved because Chester Kidder
of BrattlebOro, said that his boy should
be in the Reform School, Thomas Con-
nor recently knocked him down and
screwed the heel of his boot in his face
i Conner was tried for assault.
A somewhat remarkable instance in
the family of Lyman G. Camp of Mont
pelier, who died the other day, is
worthy of mention. He had been
married over sixty years. The family
consisted of parents and eight children,
no death until this having ever occurred
in the family.
AS the hired man of Henry Martin,
of East Montpelier, was drawing flood
wood the other day, with span of fine
horses, the bank caved in, and one of
the animals was precipitated into the
water, dragging down with it its mate
and the load. Both horses were drown
ed before assistance arrived.
Two children, aged respectively,
eight and ten, sons of James Kelly of
West Rutland, died and were buried
during the past week. They were re-
covering from the measles and had a
relapse which terminated fatally.
A Boston correspondent of the Free
Press says it is proposed next fall to
organize Vermont club in that city,
with reading room which shall con-
tain on file the leading Vermont news
papers, register for visitors, the ad-
dress of Vermonters in Boston, and
anything else that shall be of interest
to people from this state.
A man named Greenwood has dis
covered an effectual remedy for sun
stroke. Having an OK that showed
signs of exhaustion from the excessive
heat of last week, he gave orders to one
of his men to get the OK into the barn
as quick as possible. His orders were
Obeyed, and the OK dubbed into a run
OF half mile to the barn, where he
died just as he was being driven through
the doorway.-North Troy Palladium
One Charles Emerson of Mortified,
has hpnn In hnr-inn t1n1nr
hallucination, and goes late at night to
ElmwoOd cemetery attired in white
clothes to take and bear away messages
to and from the dead, as he says. He
confidently expects to be taken up in
chariot on one of these errands, and so
he patiently pursues his sacred calling
with the zeal of prophet.
John Hines of Rutland has sold the
Morgan marble quarry at West Rut-
land to A. j. Griffin and Charles T. Fish
of Lowell, Mass, for S57 900.
At Cambridge, on the Doth, Uncle
ripe old age of "a years. He was one
of the most highly respected men of
that vicinity.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-John Blair, a
section man at work at Alburgh, was
thrown from a hand car, the 10Th inst.
and badly injured. The men were
turning the car at full speed and in
passing some boys on the side of the
track, one of the boys, little son of
Jules Godah, threw a stone which
struck Blair, who was turning. on the
back of his head. In attempting to
dodge the stone, or from the effect of
the blow, Blair was thrown forward OH
the crank of the car, which threw him
over the crank and in front of the car.
The car, which had in it about 500
pounds of tools and iron and two men
passed over him, one of the wheels run
ming over his head, cutting it badly.
The car was thrown from the track.
Blair lies i'll a critical condition. but
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
No action has been taken against the
boy rec Press.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT LAKE DrINMoRE
during a severe wind, the 2Ist. Mr..
E. A. Bump of Brandon, was crushed
by falling chimney at the Lake Dun
more House, and was taken out from
under the fallen mass of brick and NOR
tar in a state of Inconsistencies, in
which he remained about one hour and
L..
back of his head and some portions of
the spine were crushed and one leg
fractured. Mr.. Bump was engaged in
experimenting the erection of a new
building on the site of a portion of the
old one, and he and Hon. j. M. Over
were standing together a short distance
from the chimney engaged in consulta-
ton about the work note or piece of
of thot
Mr.. Dyer, which the sudden gust of
wind whisked from his hand, and he
was running to secure the paper when
the chimney came down with fearful
crash, killing Mr.. Bump, while Mr..
Dyer seemed to be saved as by a special
lnterposltlOn of Providence. The Chin
ney was one left standing after the de-
structlon of the former building, which
was destroyed by fire nearly two wears
ago, and had withstood the storms since
that great confagration. Mr.. Bump
was about sixty years old and leaves a
wife.
Senator Edmunds, with his wife and
daughter, will sail from New York for
Europe, June 18th.
The report which has been LARGELY
to the effect that DR.. Cold.
smith OF Rutland had given his library
to the Rutland County Medical and
Society is untrue.
Martin F. Ordway of Chelsea is said
to have the banner lots of ewes. OnIv
tour out of one hundred failed this wear
to nave lambs. Ninety six ewes have
one hundred living lambs. The breed
Is graded Cotswold.