St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-07-02

week, fell from a staging and sustained
some painful hurts.
). W Carriers new barn in Cratfsbury
was burned recently. No insurance.
A young man stopping in Newport
for the season, while out shooting SPUR
rels with a pistol, by some accident
shot himself in the neck, infiicting a
painful, but not serious wound.
A 6-years-old son of Hollis Allen of
Coventry had leg broken Saturday by
being run over with load of bark.
Arthur Kidney of Coventry was ar
rested recently for assault on Holland
Hancock, and a partial hearing was
had on Saturday. Kidney was offended
on account of being ordered off Mr.
HancOck's land while fishing, and un-
dertoOk to revenge himself by pound
ing Mr.. II.
George Rowland one of Barton Land
ing BARRIERS, was arrested last week and
tried by the states attorney for selling
forged stop over checks on the Pass.
X. X. He was placed under $500 bonds
for his appearance at September term of
court. 1t seems he has been doing n
smart business in this line for the past
few months.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Rutland county has formed histori-
cal society, with Barnes Frisbie of
Poultney as president.
Three barns owned by Sanderson
Bros. of Brandon, were struck by light
ming and burned Sunday loss $1,000,
partly insured.
Thursday afternoon, Willie. n d
years-old son of Lucius A. Morse of
Rutland, fell from a second story win
dow 10 the ground. He was sitting on
the window sill, leaning against the
closed shutters, when the fastenings
gave way, and he fell backwards. He
is thought not &c be seriously injured.
Nathaniel and Griffith, slate brokers
a. Poultney, are shipping about IS car
loads of slate per month. They recent
/ ~ nlled AN order Tor ID car loads from
an English firm, and expect a still
larger order from England.
The floor of barn belonging to l..
A. Ives of Mt. Holly gave way at milk
ing time the other evening, throwing
Ives, with 30 cows, timber, planking
and hay into the cellar. Ives was seri-
ously hurt, valuable COW killed and
Others were manned.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The expenses of the Mortified grad
ed school district for the year ending
June ! were s., 35S. 81, besides 1925 GA
paid for interest.
Out of 81 scholars in grade No. l of
Montpelier Union school, all but 25 are
sick with the measles. A child of Hen
ry Canning has died of the epidemic.
New and dangerous counterfeit SIS
notes on the Montpelier National Bank
and counterfeit treasury notes of the
same denomination, series of 1875, let
ter ID, are in circulation.
Of Montpelier's 5000 inhabitants lis
are over 20 years old.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
c. E. Allen will pick upward of 5000
quarts of Strawberries, which, with
what are sold in town from Wilson's
beds at Putney and from A. F. Waite
and F. Hooner, local raiser, will make
the largest yield ever marketed in
town.
Anxious and duped stockholders in
First National Bank continue to seek
information relative to possible divi-
dend, but the query cannot be satisfac-
torily answered. 1t is known that two
of the stockholders were not genuine.
and no trace of any dividend paid to
them can be found, though they mildly
consented to lend their influence to the
rotten institution. Forged paper in the
name of the Windsor hotel of New York
was made Waite representing $25 200
A. Skinner, $4,000; N. A. Leonard,
900; Burdett & Co. SIS, 1000; C. C.
Waite, $4,000; Burdett & Co. $780,