St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02
Vermont News.

Building lots are in good demand nj
White River Junction, and ale selling
for from $500 to $500 per lot.
Orrin Pitkin, one of the oldest bust
ness men in Montpelier, died Saturday,
aged rs years.
Ripley & Stanley's new steam mill at
Poultney was entirely consumed by fire
Friday. Loss $1,000; insured for
50, 800.
A new convent and hospital is soon
to he erected in Burlington, on the land
owned by the Rt. Rev. De Goesbriand.
MOrrisville merchants are paying 10
cents Il dozen for eggs, Is cents pound
for (prime) butter, and from to cents
for maple sugar.
The library of the late Chauncey X.
Williams of Rutland, which is rich in
local New England histories and old
American books now out of print, is to
he sold.
Rev. N. F. Carter, pastor of the Bel
lows Falls Congregational church for
the past four yeaIs has accepted call
to the Quechee Congregational church.
The dwelling house together with the
horse barn and sheds of the farm build
ings of Albert Chapman, of South
Reading, were burned recently, togeth-
er with most of their contents.
John Kennedy who was confined i'm
Jail ut Bennington on a charge of burg
larry, effected his escape the other night
by means of skeleton keys, and has not
yet been recaptured.
The prisoners of the House of Cor
rection are kept very busy now build
ing stone embankment at the river
side east of the building and cutting
and grading for the workho railroad.
Mr.. Emmett Hillock and wife of Bird
port, while attempting to cross the lake.
few days since, broke through the ice
ana were IN the water so long that Mrs.
Hlllock is in a critical condition and
not expected to recover.
David Ordway, the eccentric Proc
torsville man, who had his funeral SER
mon preached last summer, has now
procured his shrOud and coffin, having
the latter trimmed at his direction, aud
had them taken to his house. He is "a
years old and quite unwell.
A barn belonging to the estate of
Carlos Bancroft in Montpelier, with
contents, was burned the Odd Loss,
5000. Insured for $3.50 in the Vermont
Mutual of Montpelier. Children play
ing with matches was the cause.
Four new cells of superior strength of
construction have been added to the
Workhouse, designed for the reception
OF criminals whose desperate character
or peculiar skill in the art of Jail break
ing may demand unusual provision for
safe keeping.
Abner Adams, of Andover, recently
died from lead poison and the doctors
were unable to discover how he OBJ
tanned it, but few days ago, there was
found in the cider barrel which he had
been accustomed to drink from a piece
of lead pipe sixteen inches long.
DR.. j. III. Hamilton of Richford had a
narrow escape the other day. While
ON his way to visit patient, on horse
back he was thrown from the saddle to
the ground, but was held fast by his
boot in the stirrup, and was in immi-
nent danger of being dragged to death
by pranciDg horse, when he managed
to pull his foot out of the boot and re-
lease himself.
Mrs. Plummer BENJAMIN, of Mont
pelier, who has been deprived of the
power OF speech for some two years, the
other day coughed up substance hav
ing the appearance of gristle, and has
since been able to talk as we'll as ever.
She has been very sick, but is now re-
covering.
Eugene Ellis, of Addison, had mar
row escape from death one day this
week. He had been fishing, and in
getting over pair OF bars, having a
loaded rifle in one hand and his fish in
the other, the bar broke and he fell to
the ground. The rifle was discharged.
the charge passing within two inches of
his head.