St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-15
Vermont News.


Burlington has debt of S439, 900, a
reduction during the year of S6562,
and a sinking fund of $55, 900. Its
schools have cost it Sl9,62S, and its
streets and sewers S22. p.
Rutland, by the redistribution of the
United States deposit fund under the
new census, gains 1856.
President Garfield has been formally
invited to be present at the national
teachers institute to be held at st. AL
bans in July, and it is thought he will
come though no definite answer was
given.
A movement is on foot to raise fund
for the permanent support of the bish-
OPP of the Episcopal church. Burling-
ton thinks it can raise $4,000, and the
other $4,000 can easily be raised by
the other churches of the state.
One of the SwantOn listers recently
exempted two cows on account of their
having lost their upper front teeth.
st. Adams has voted to adopt plan
which will increase the capacity of the
reservoirs b ,000,000 gallons, at an es-
timated cost of $1,000, and to organize
the fire department on paid system,
if the trustees deem it advisable. A.
A. Hall was elected trustee. Five-sev-
enths of the funded debt has been re-
funded at per cent.
A Burlington man has been fined s.
for snow-balling a woman.
The st. Adams Messenger, which bit
terly opposed the new tax law, reports
thut tho IStApS II i'm nil
ress in the farming districts, nearly
every man having his list ready, and
that so far the appraisal of real estate
has been but little increased, but con-
siderable personal property has been
added to the list.
A serious blunder of the last Legisla-
ture has just been brought to light, by
which the courts have no assign cOun-
sci for respondents, not even in muir
der cases. The mistake was found out
in connection with the trial of Woods
and Mrs. Smith, the Williston muir
derers. Mrs. Smith is said to be so i'll
that it will he impossible to try her this
term.
Ex-Judge Barrett of Woodstock has
been retained by Alexander Stewart of
Proctorsville in his suit against Judge
Hilton of New York in regard to the
settlement of his suit to test the will of
the late A. Il. Stewart.
The amount of freight passing south
ward over the Central Vermont railroad
has more than doubled the past week,
owing to the quantity of grain being
shipped to Europe.
The parties who bought and sold
oleOmargarine are to be prosecuted and
the papers are all made out, and will
be served soon. No steps will be left
to enforce the law to its full extent.
The parties implicated have secured
counsel. Mr.. Joseph Upper, we'll
known farmer of Bakersfield, has left
town for Canada, whether on account
of the new tax law or threatened de
velopment relating to oleomargarine,
which has been sold there, the people
do not knOw.-[St. Adams Messenger.
A paper is being circulated among
the preachers of the Burlington district
of the Methodist church, protesting
against the removal of the Burlington
district from the Troy conference as
unconstitutional, promising to abide
by the decision of Bishop Wiley, and
recommending the appointment of
committee to act with like committee
from the Vermont conference, to which
the whole matter shall be referred. A
Center Rutland man has raised 1857
for the support of any minister the
Vermont conference may send. This
is Oh the condition that the church and
parsonage is closed against him. Three
months board is also pledged.
Spirtualsm seems to flourish best in
Vermont communities where churches
have declined or become extinct, and
an intellectual and moral stagnation
has succeeded to healthful activities of
social and religious life.
The Methodist conference of Vermont
is to be held at Bradford the 29th.
North Troy finds a great many who
refuse to fill out and swear to the tax
inventory.
The case of the WillistOn murderers,
William Wood and Mrs. Smith, has
been continued to the next term of the
Cbittenden county court, on account of
the illness of Mrs. Smith.
The spiritualists' association of the
state, talk of buying one of the small
islands in Lake Champaign, on which
to hold camp-meetings in the summer.
The confirmation of Gen. James 5.
Peck as postmaster of Montpelier will
necessitate his resigning his office of
adjutant and Inspector general, and
there are already several candidates
for the place. Col. Theodore S. Peck
of Burlington is recommended as be
ing fitted for the place.
Baker sfield had a lively school meet
ing the other day. One of the commit
tee, a lawyer, was charged with having
appropriated three cords of wood be
longing to the school, and this led to
the fight. One of the features was an
attempt to bite off the ears of the ac
cuser.
We thought the newspapers had got
through abusing the last Legislature,
but here comes the Ludlow Tribune
again
A Weston man wants the last legis-
lature patented so it can never he
repeated. No danger, there was only
one such set of men in this state, and
few men are ever returned the second
time Tribune.
The Van Ness House sold for $685.
447 and the new prOprietOrs assume
charge on Monday. The price paid was
not one half of the cost.
The April term of the LamOille cOun-
ty court commences on Tuesday, the
Goth. There are 80 cases in the county
court and 26 in chancery, slight in
crease over the December docket. The
most important case for trial will be
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