St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18
Vermont News.

first annual visit to that place. lime
has dealt very kindly with Mr.. Jewett,
and we trust he may live long to enjoy
the many pleasures to which an indus
trious and honorable career so fully en-
title him.
Teachers MEETING.-The twenty
ninth annual meeting of the Vermont
State Teachers Association will be held
at Woodstock on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, August 5th, 9th and 9TH.
The association will be cordially well
coined in Woodstock. Those who are
expecting to attend the meetings are
requested to apply for entertainment to
Ward o. Crosby, Woodstock. Cards
of introduction will be sent to such as
apply before July Both. By special de-
sire of the executive committee, it is
announced that the Eagle hotel, Wood
stock, will entertain members of the
association at from $l.00 to $3.50 per
day For room, etc., apply to the pro-
prietoI. The railroad companies of the
state will extend their usual courtesy
to those attending the meetings of the
association. The programme of the ex-
ercises will be given in due time.
DIR. o. H. Morehouse, while fishing
in a. brook near Sudbury the other day,
found a large turtle whose shell was
completely covered with moss. Having
some curiosity to know how thick the
moss was, he caught the turtle and with
a sharp stone removed the moss, when
to his surprise he found the shell bore
the date of 1885.
1t is rumored that the State Auditor
refuses to pay certain appropriations of
the last Legislature made by joint resO-
lutiOns, on the ground that all resolu
tiOns apprOpriating money must be APP
proved and signed the same as public
and private laws, and that Gov. Proc
tor, either through ignorance of the law
or neglect, failed to approve and sign
the resolutions. 1t is also said that he
is looking quite sharply after the con-
tracts for the State printing since the
documents have been issued.
| Friday afternoon an eight years old
Milton boy named Ryan lost his hat
while looking out of the ear window in
passing through the Burlington tunnel,
and he ran out and jumped after it,
breaking his leg.
Two men attempted to break into
the dwelling of Clifford Drugg at Wat
erbury, Sunday night. Diugg fired a
gun ut them, wOunding one man in his
legs, ana he was helped away bleeding
and grooming, as if in great pain.
Last Thursday, Arthur Vancleete of
Middlebury, aged 6 years, was eating
cherries, when a stone lodged in his
throat and he nearly choked to death.
A physician relieved him but did not
remove the stone. Monday evening
the stone got in his windpipe and he
died in short time. - ''' =
A young man named Patterson, of
Rock Island, Que, subject to fits, went
fishing July 4th, from which time he
was not seen until Monday, when his
body was found in Lake Memphrema-
cog. .
The next grand movement upon the
temperance board will be the Union
Temperance camp meeting to be held
at Northfield, August 10, 20 and 81, on
the grounds of the Central Vermont
Camp Meeting Association. This meet
ing will be a union of church, Sunday
school and all temperance societies on
the best camp meeting grounds in the
state. Speakers of eminent ability,
both from within and without the state,
will attend. Trains will run at largely
reduced rates, and accommodations for
tent boarding, restaurant and hotel
board will be provided in ample shape.
j. A. Holtham of Newport has fisher
mans luck of the right kind; one day
last week he brought in two lunge, each
weighing % pounds, besides several
smaller ones.
A gentleman happening into the Of
flee Newport Express) yesterday gave
the following recipe for the destruction
of potato bugs, which he says he has
tried and knows to be effectual: Oil of
cedar, four ounces alcohol, one pint !;
water, eight gallons. This quantity is
sufficient for an acre.
Some miscreants drove down several
iron spikes in C.. L. AlvOrd's meadow
at Wilmington, and they were struck
by the moving machine, throwing the
rider to the ground with such force as
to seriously injure him.
Herbert Wilton and VIM. Moulton,
the two illicit distillers of Corinth, have
been held in $500 and $3.50 bonds, re-
spectively, for trial in the U. S. court.
This is the fourth time that Moulton
has been arrested on this charge.
A woman living in Berkshire has
been badly poisoned by drinking the
milk of a COW that had eaten potato tops
sprinkled with Paris green. Though
i'll critical condition hopes are enter
tanned OF her recovery.
Harvey Powers of South Ryegate
suffered severe accident Saturday by
the falling of a broad-ax from high
beam in James Nelson's barn. Powers
was struck on the back of his head, his
skull was smashed and two arteries
were severed. His recovery is doubtful,
though possible.
The American Institute of Instruc-
ton was closed at the White Mountains
yesterday. One of the most interesting
papers was by Hon. Edward Conant,
superintendent of education for Yer
mont, upon the subject of GLOW teach
ing may become profession"
A few days ago salmon was caught
at Plattsburg. The Free Press says
another was hooked though not caught
near Split Rock, which is near Burling-
ton. 1t would seem, therefore, that
Seth Green's salmon stocking of Lake
Champlain has been a success.