St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-22
Vermont News.

Robert a. Perkins, sometime of the
Woodstock post, has gone to Chicago
where he has an engagement as writer
on one of the daily papers.
A Barre woman is troubled because
she expected to get married on the
strength of having few thousand dol
lars, while the tax law shows that she
has no such sum and the prospective
husband is likely to back out. She
talks of suing the listers.
The liabilities of H. w. Mason & Co.
of Winooski, ruined by the defalcation
of II. w. Mason, are SOS, 822, and assets
S42,7I3. The largest creditors are the
Merchants national bank of Burling-
ton, S25, 900, and the national Revere
bank of Boston, SI6,l30.
Charles +. Sabin, of Montpelier, has
accepted the superintendency of con-
structiOn and motive power of the in
ternatiOnal cotton exposition, to be held
in Atlanta, Georgia, next October.
Henry A. Miles, formerly clerk at
the Pavilion in Montpelier, and after
wards proprietor of the Avenue house
at st. JOhusbury, and now station agent
at Georgia, is lying quite low of con-
sumption ut his home in that place.
This morning lie was about the same,
but can not live long.
Abram johnson. a native of Vermont,
and lUS years old, died few days ago
in Salem, Wayne county, Pa. His IA
Their was soldier in the Revolutionary
war, the family then living near Lake
Champlain. Abram enlisted in the war
of 1872 us a private soldier, but was
soon made captain of band of Oneida
Indians under the command of Gen.
Macomb. He participated in the bat
tie Of Plattsburgh, and narrowly es-
capped, bearing scars, which lie always
exhibited with pride. Oneida, the
l6-years-Old daughter of one of the
chiefs, took a fancy to johnson and
tenderly nursed him through his sick
ness, and when, short time afterward
peace was established, they were mar
ried.
F. C. Clark of Northfeld was killed
Wednesday by being caught by the
drag-chain of derrick and drawn over
a ledge in a quarry.
1t is reported that George w. Grand
ey of Nergennes has been offered the
cOnSul-generalship at Montreal and has
declined it. Vermont thinks the posi-
ton properly belongs to it, and wants
some more willing citizen nominated
for it.
A curious case is now on trial in the
Chittenden county court, in which E.
NJ. Slayton, commission merchant of
Manchester, n. H., sues the Richmond
cheese factory for $1,000. He bought
$500 pounds of cheese of the defend
ants, which was not only unfit for food,
but made some of his customers so sick
that he had to pay $500 for medical
attendance upon them. He also claims
that his business reputation has been
injured, and hence the suit. The case
has been decided in favor of the cheese
factory.
Rev. L. b. Hubbard, lately of the
ludlow Tribune, is said to be negotia-
ng for the Montpelier Farmer.
Chief Justice Pierpoint has decided
that drunkenness has never been held
in Vermont sufficient cause for di-
vorce, and has refused to grant one on
that ground.
Owing to the increased demand and
ready sale of Merino sheep throughout
Addison county, the listers in several
towns are appraising them at SI5 per
head for entire fiOcks, which makes dis
satisfaction among real estate owners,
who are well aware that these Merinos
will sell readily at from $50 to $50 per
head for entire tlOcks. Single sheep in
some of these fiOckS are worth $500 to
$1,000 each, and the owners in several
instances have refused to dispose of
them at those prices.
There is some complaint among farm
els that an unusual number of their
dairy cows have "gone farrow" this
season, which is attributed to drouth so
prevalent last summer.
StantOn's Bradford Opinion SAYS two
pairs of cattle were shipped from that
station Saturday, five aud six years old
respectively, and their combined weight
was over 5000 pounds. Bliss Brothers
received an even $500.
Governor Farnham will deliver a
memorial address on the Bradford
Guards at that place, May ?.
The family of Professor Seeley, of
Middlebury college, are sick from eat
ing something that came near killing
them.
Mr. r. =. Grover of the senior class
at AndOver Theological seminary, is
called to the Congregational church at
Glover.
The dwelling house of E. II. Lathrop,
at Coventry, together with most of its
contents, was burned Friday. Loss,
$1,000; insured for $500 in the Farm
ers' Mutual.
George A. Farnham, a native of Yer
mont, but long connected with the |
Hamilton hotel, Bermuda, is the sole |