St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-26
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.

carriage recently anu 50 UduiJ Injured
that she lived but three hours. She
was 80 years of age and leaves seven
children, the Oldest 10 years and the
youngest five months.
The death is announced of Henry
Brevoort of Addison, aged nearly 81
years. He represented the town in the
Legislature for two years-in 1925 and
lS26-and was justice of the peace fol
thirty consecutive years.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
A Huntington man SO years old was
recently sentenced to rs days in Jail for
intoxication, and was much Disguised
when his son paid his fine, thinking it a
waste of money.
A shocking accident occurred at the
Catholic school in Winooski, OH Friday.
A lighted lamp was knocked to the
floor by one of the pupils and the cloth
ing OF sister. one of the teachers, was
saturated with the burning fluid and
before the flames could be extinguisbed
the woman was so badly burned that
she died the next day.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Thomas White of Island Pond, was
run over by a train at that place on
Tuesday and killed. He undertook to
cross the track just in front of an ap-
preaching train, slipped and fell, and
was caught and terribly mangled.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
There is foot of snow at Richford,
and good sleighing between there and
Montreal.
Peter Rich, who was so severely
burned last Saturday night on his way
to st. Adams Bay, cannot live.
Engineer Cady of Richford, picked a
full bloom buttercup perfectly fresh, in
the fields at that place on the 18th.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
The railroad depot at Wolcott was
entered by burglars last Saturday
night, and S2l .43 taksn from the money
drawer. Two packages of express
money, amounting to SI3, were not
taken. The entrance was made through
the Office window, which was broken
in.
ORANGE COUNTY.
1t is reported that new and rich
copper mine has been discovered in
StratfOrd and that measures are in
progress to secure the incorporation of
company by the legislature for the
working of the mine.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
The late severe gale did considerable
injury to the floral ball buildings at the
fair ground, in Barton.
The starch factory at East Charleston
~ m I,,,
worked 5000 bushels of potatoes.
The S. E. R. r. are taking up their
iron railroad track between Troy and
Newport, and are relaying steel rails.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
George Nichols of Mortified, the
present secretary of state, has held the
office for Is years, and will no doubt
be reelected, as will the other state of
ticers. Their commission expired the
18th, but provision of the laws con
tinues them in office till their successors
are chosen.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
Frank Tibbetts of Putney, has gone
to the county Jail for forging G. d. Kir-
vans name to a $50 check.
Col. George w. Hooker, representa-
tive from BTattlebOTO, has returned to
the state sreasurer his pay for the 26
days during which he was absent in
New York as a member of the republi-
can national committee.
Another new industry established in
the state was brought to the attention
of the officers of the state agricultural
society, at their recent meeting in Bur-
lingtOn, by George Campbell, Esq, OF
Westminster, who exhibited specimens
of apple jelly, produced by him, which
we're pronounced excellent. Mr.. Camp
bell manufactures about 100 packages
a day, which have a rapid sale. He
has used i'll his mandatory some 5000
bushels of apples which have come from
the orchards of his neighbOrs at West
minister and adjoining towns, and
proves remunerative market for their
fruit.
VIM. Mcdonald, of Bellows Falls,
arrested last spring for an indecent as
sault upon the VIM girl at North
Walpole and indicted at the last session
of the Grand Jury at Keene, procured
bail in $1,000 yesterday morning by his
parents mOrtgaging the homestead. He
came here yesterday noon, and in the
afternoon, being i'll a drunken row, was
again arrested at the Farmers Hotel,
and is in the lookup again in this place.
Freight cars on the Brattleboro and
Whitehall Narrow-gauge Railroad have
difficulty in keeping the track in going
around curves, and so many have been
derailed as to cause considerable troub-
lie.
The belfry and spire of the London
derry Methodist Church were blown to
the ground recently by high wind.
Twenty or thirty people were inside
rehearsing for a Sunday school concert,
but were not injured. Damage about
$500.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
On the 18th inst. Sylvester Perkins of
ProctorsviIle was oiling his planning
machine while in motion, when his coat
sleeve was caught by the revolving cyl
inder, drawing his arm into the machine
and completely severing it midway be-
tween the wrist and elbow.
Eben Woodland, an aged citizen of
South Royalton, committed suicide the
other day by choking himself with a
handkerchief.
Samuel Metcalf came into Royal ton
in 1902, located on the farm now owned
by his son, John B. Metcalf. He came
from Lebanon, Conn. died Feb. %,
1855, aged SO years. He enlisted in the
revolutionary army at the age of six
teen years, and drew pension in later
years; married Jane Sterling of Queens
town (nOw Granville, VT his height
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