St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-10-24

| Rev. A. Ladd, of the ROxbury Con-
gregational church, resigns to accept a
Berlin pastOrate.
The Vermont historical society have
reelected Hon. E. P. Walton, presi-
dent, and M. D. Gilman, Esq, librarian.
The list of additions reported by the
| librarian is large one.
Hon. C. w. Willard OF Montpelier,
has returned from the Adirondacks.
The property of the Montpelier Man
ufacturing Company, has been trans
ferred to F. E. Smith, J. w. Brock, E..
Scribner, L. B. Cross and A. o. Cum
Minis.
Andrew j. Phillips of Montpelier, has
gone to st. Louis. Mr.. Phillips has
been engaged to lead a choir in one of
the Presbyterian churches there.
A son of Peter Badord of Montpelier,
ran away to see the world, and was
found In lumber yard at Burlington.
He was perfectly willing to go home
again.
Mrs. w. FL. Hutchins of Montpelier,
died very suddenly on Wednesday, the
18th inst. She was taken sick in the
morning and died in the afternoon.
She had been unwell for some time
past, but was not considered to be in
any immediate danger. She leaves
three young children.
The vestry of Christ Church, Mont
pelier, have voted to call Rev. Howard
F. Hill of Ashland, N. H.
At the annual meeting of the mem
bers of the Vermont Mutual Fire In
surance Company, held Oct. 18th, the
following persons were elected direct
ors for the year ensuing: Addison
county, l.. d. Eldridge Bennington
county, Charles E. Houghton Chitten-
den county, V. P. NOyes; Caledonia
county, Frederick Fletcher; Essex
county, Hiram A. Cutting; Franklin
county, j. FL. Stufflebean Grand Isle
county, j. c. Babbitt; Lamoille county,
w. Il. Fl. Bingham; Orleans county, j.
N. Webster; Rutland county, George
Ruggles Windham county, G. w. Wy
man Windsor county, E. c. Watson :;
Charles Dewey, E. S. Camp, F. E.
Smith, C. T. Sabin. Officers elected {:
w. Fl. Fl. Bingham, president; Fred.
E. Smith, vice president; James t.
Sabin, secretary.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
A man named Patrick Brennan of
BrattlebOro, laborer on gravel train
for the Vermont Valley railroad, was
buried by bank caving in on Thurs
day and seriously injured. He was en-
tirely covered, but was dug out. One
limb was broken and he was badly in
jured in other ways.
The early morning passenger train to
Boston and an up freight train tried to
occupy one track at Bellows Falls on
Friday morning. The passenger train
started out too slowly, and the freight
backed down parallel and converging
track into it. The caboose car was
thrown from the track and the step on
the passenger damaged. Fortunately
no one was injured.
j. S. Brown and wife, of Brattleboro,
were shOwered with rotten eggs the
other night while returning from tenn
perance meeting. Considerable indig-
nation exists over the affair. Certainly
it was a disgraceful thing, and the
guilty parties should be punished.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Timothy Gilligan got on the up mail
train at Ludlow, to ride to his work OF
getting out stone in a cut, and intended
to jump off when he reached Section s
Reaching his destination he jumped of
and was running by the side of the cal
without losing his hold when his foot
struck something, and he was thrown
to the ground with such violence as tC
mangle his head and face so badly that
he was not recognized when found. He
hreathed for about an hour after the
accident. His age was twenty-foul
years.
Rev. Charles c. Thornton, postmaster
of Hartland and representative of that
town in the last Legislature, died sud
denly recently.