St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-10-31

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high. New York parties furnishing the
capital.
Butter sells readily at from Is to 81
cents pound, and potatoes are selling
at 25 cents bushel in Orleans county.
A serious and exciting accident Oc-
Cured at Camp g. Stewards block, at
Newport, on Wednesday E. r. Scott
and another painter named Smith were
painting on the building some 25 or 30
feet from the ground, when the staging
gave way. Smith caught rope and
reached a window in safety; Scott
chung to the caves short time when
work man grasped his legs, but failed to
hold him when he let go. He fell to
the ground and was taken up insensI-
BILE. No bones we're broken, however,
and he is in fair way to recover.
On Thursday last, as E. S. Dorman
of Newport, was driving span OF
horses on the Coventry road, little
out of the village, the bolt holding on
the evenerlgave out and let the:whiffie-
trees on to the horses heels. They ran
short distance, broke from the wagon
and went on their way at full speed.
Theo. GrOut and C. A. Prouty happen
ed to be returning from Irasburg, and
were run into by the frightened horses.
The men escaped serious injury, but
their buggy was stove into kindling
wood. No serious damage to either of
the horses.
The Barton Monitor says that the
horse race advertised here OH Friday
last came off between the snow squalls
of that wintry day. Three horses,
"Black Johnnie "BeI H" and ''Dan-
iel LAMBERT trotted. "Black Johnnie"
won in three straight heats. Some two
or three hundred, mostly friends of one
or the other of the horses, were pres
ent.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Rutland has three steamer companies
two hose and one hook and ladder. Its
reservoir has capacity of furnishing
! 100000 gallons daily. Nearly $4,000
feet of pipe, ranging from four to
twelve inches in diameter are used in
conveying the water to and distributing
it through the village. In the matter
of water privileges Rutland claims to
be as well equipped as any place in the
state.
The two barns, and their contents, of
Samuel Parker of Rutland, were burned
Wednesday morning, by incendiaries.
The contents included twenty tons of
hay and the rye and buckwheat pro-
duct of twelve acres of land.
G.. F. Richardson, of the Berwick
House, Rutland, has been fined 800 and
sentenced TO one month in the House of
Correction for a second offence of liquor
selling. Appealed.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
In the Washington county supreme
court Judge Barrett sentenced Lyman
Potter of Marshfield to five years in the
state prison. Potter was tried in Sep
TENDER, 1878, for adultery with his step
daughter, which continued year after
year till three children were born, all of
which occurred with the knowledge of
the respondents wife and the mother of
the girl. Judge Barrett was very Sc
we're in commenting upon the atrOcity
of the crime and gave the respondent
the extreme penalty of the law.
Cyrus Seaver, of Waterbury, aged
35, has confessed that he burned Bis
bees buildings last Wednesday, Rufus
Barnard's buildings the Wednesday be-
fore. Lewis Joslyn's large barn and
stock the Wednesday before that, and
Henry Fulsom's buildings and stock
last year. Seaver burst into tears and
begged Harry Buckley to shoot him.
He has a wife, and has worked in Frank
Green's saw-mill the past year. Green
had an anonymous letter a few days
ago, saying his buildings would be safe
as long as he employed Seaver, and had
better not discharge him. Seaver is a
mOnomaniac on the subject of fires, and
is said to have been SO marked before
birth. He is under arrest.
The house and outbuildings of John
M. Smith of Marshfield, were totally
consumed by fire Wednesday night.
Loss $4,000; insured for 81 900.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
S. L. Coolidge, of Bellows Falls,
broke his leg while getting out stone.
Patrick Brennan, of Brattleboro,
lately broke his leg and was otherwise
seriously injured while working on the
new engine house.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
The proprietor of the White River
Hotel, at Hartford, has been fined S82.-
96 for liquor selling. He paid it.
The death is announced of Josiah
ellison, aged sc years, for more than
fifty years Justice of the Peace in Cav
endish, and for four years representa-
tive from that town in the legislature.
A lad named Henry Merritt, of Wood
stock, broke leg badly while scuff1ing
the other day.