St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-10-01

been drowned at Castleton, boating
while drunk.
Seven petitions for divorce entered
at the September term of the Rutland
county court.
Quite serious accident occurred at
Poultney recently at the Ripley and
Stanley steam mill. A child named
Loomis was struck by log which roll
ed completely over its head and body.
1t is thought that the injuries are not
fatal.
George William Ballou, of Boston,
formerly of Castleton, takes the presi-
dency of the San Pedro mining and
improving company in New Mexico
which General Grant declined.
The roofing slate business is fully as
prosperous this year as it was in 1876.
There is not an unemployed slate work
man within 25 miles of Fairhaven, and
work in every quarry promises to be
good all winter. Many proprietOrs
have more contracts than they can fill.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Hon. B. F. Fifeld of Montpelier, VT,
has sent in his resignation as Uuited
States District Attorney.
Capt. c. A. Curtis, late principal of
the Military Academy at Mortified,
has gone to Fairbault, Mimi, as mill
tary instructor in the Shattuck school
for boys, under the patronage of the
Episcopal bishop of MINI.
The First regiment National Guards
will go into camp at Montpelier, Tues
day, October 5, 1880, and remain until
the following Thursday. The camp
will be known as Camp Farnham.
There will be an inspection of the COM
mand by Adjutant and Inspector Cen
eral, James S. Peck, and "a review be-
fore His Excellency, Governor Roswell
Farnham and Staff, October z.
DR.. N. w. Braley of Barre, died of
apOplexy, Saturday morning. He
was president of Barre National Bank
and the Stafford 81 Holden Manufac-
turing Company of Barre, and was the
wealthiest man in town. He leaves
widow and three sons.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
w. H. Greenwood, recently killed by
robbers near the city of Mexico, was a
DummerstOn man, and was sometimes
called the father of the narrow gauge
railway system. He served through
the war in the engineer corps, and has
been engaged in railroad work ever
since.
Charles kellogg Field, a well known
lawyer of Brattleboro', VT, died on
Thursday, aged II years. He was a
graduate of Middlebury College, and
began the practice of law at Newfane,
afterward removing to Wilmington,
and subsequently to BrattlebOro'. He
represented the town of Wilmington in
the Legislature from 1885 to 1889, was
elected delegate to the State Constitu-
tiOnal Convention in 1896, represented
the town of Newfane in the Legislature
during the years I8534-5 and 1860,
and also represented that town in the
Constitutional Convention in 1913, 1850
and 1857. He was elected member
of the Council of Censors in 1869, and
in 1870 was again chosen a member of
the Constitutional Convention from the
town of BrattleborO'. He leaves wife,
two daughters and one son.
The controller of the currency has
declared per cent. dividend in favor
of the creditors of the First national
bank of BrattlebOrO, VT, making in all
dividends of rs per cent.
On Wednesday Daniel Reilly, an en-
ploye in the Fall Mountain Paper Com
pany's mills at Bellows Falls, had his
hand and arm caught in one of the roll
ing machines and the flesh stripped
from the bones. His hand was ampu-
tated. 1t is thought his arm will be
saved.
Last week Mr.. Jerry Keefe of West
minister turned three good calves into a
pasture where there was an acre of po-
tatoes upon which Paris green had been
used. A few days later he found the
calves all dead.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
A Chester cat has adopted two
weeks old chicken, tenderly nestles it
between her three kittens and allows it
to drink from the same cup.
While Windsor county is entitled to
the banner for the handsOmest increase
of republican vote and majority in the
late election, Addison county, as here
tofore, is the banner county, for the
largest percentage of republican votes.
Windsor's aggregate vote is Sl27
Her republican vote is 6f67
AddisOn's aggregate vote is 5052
Her republican vote is 4lS3
That is to say, the republican vote of
Addison county is eighty per cent. of
the total, while that of Windsor is sew
enty-fve per cent. There are probably
no two counties in the United States
that can equal either of these percent
ages.
Rev. j. S. Small of FelchviIIe, while
preaching the annual sermon of the
Woodstock Baptist association at Lon