St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-12

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st. Johnsbury. VT. Friday. Aug. Is. 1881.
Tnrzl and State HfHs.
The band plays tonight, weather
permitting, a; the head Of Main street.
Another hot wave is said to have
started from the West, and will strike
MS soon.
The new brick sidewalks are APP
preciated so far as they go, and will 60
farther as fast as may be.
This seems to be catching as
the fly said when it stepped on GER
tain sort of fiy-paper which is just now
all the go.
Professor Edwards A. Park, of
Andover Theological Seminary, was
registered at the st. Johnsbury House
this week.
-Messrs. w. p. Smith and II. c.
Bates, attorneys, have moved their
Office to rooms over T. G. Fletcher
store, opposite their old Office.
"A hard looking character who ap-
peared on Summer street Tuesday,
with gun, amused himself by shoot
ing doves-against which nobody was
( near enough to protest.
The model of the Strasburg clock
on exhibition this week at the town
hall, is wonderful piece of mechanism,
and well worth seeing. a good many
. people have been in to look it over.
The regular choir at the Episcopal
church has been given up, and the eX-
pertinent of children's singing, assisted
by one of the ladies of the former
choir, is to be tried.
Two men and two bears have been
amusing the children on the streets
this week. The bears did pretty well,
and were rather ahead of the men in
earning an honorable livelihood.
A. Melville, who registers from
an. "" and who has been through
the state getting up hotel bills of fare
with an advertising annex, appears to
be fraud. At any rate he beat the
printers at this place.
MIR. VIM. Renfrew, of this village,
started last Monday for California with
his two sons, one of whom has been
suffering for the past two years with
bronchial trouble. 1t is his intention
to remain there until spring, and if the
climate proves beneficial to his son,
probably longer.
A party of st. Johnsbury people
go to Maquam to-day CThursday,) take
in moonlight ride on the lake this
evening, and put up over night at the
new Hotel Champlain at Maquam. II.
French and family have gone to
Old Orchard.
Those 'large and cOmmOdiOus'
steps in front of the Brown building
have been removed, and front en-
trance cut into the basement, which
will no doubt be rented. The premi-
SEES are greatly improved by the
change.
DR.. Brooks is fitting up tenement
in the rear portion of his house on
Main street. improvements are being
made around the Union block. Sunk
\ en- places are being filed in, and the
sidewalks Strengthened. An addition
is being made to Governor Fairbanks
barn, to afford more shed room.
Rev. Mr.. Mcfarland, one of the
secretaries of the Seamen's Friend So
/ ciety, of New York, preached mt the
North church on Sunday morning; i'll
the evening he spoke concerning the
claims of the Society. The choir OF
the North church was assisted on that
day by Mr.. Geo. Clark of Boston
II AT a recent meeting of the vestry
of st. Andrews church, Rev. William
c. Hopkins, son of Bishop Hopkins, of
Champaign, H., was elected rector.
Rev. Mr.. Putnam leaves about the first
of September, and his successor is eX-
pected to begin his labOrs mt that time.
The selectmen are trying to induce
Il the railroad company to remove the
4 dry bridge over which the highway to
Il Passumpsic crosses, Il little below this
4 depot, and substitute for it graded
crossing, which will he easier for load
ed teams. 1t is hoped some satisfacto,
ry arrangement will he made.
On the first page of this week
n issue will be found the first of a series o
q letters from California, describing tn,
4 beauties of the Yosemite Valley ano
the delights of a ride through that
4 region. We have no doubt the lette
Z will be interesting to all our readers
since many of them know of the wri
= ter, and they can appreciate his account
of that wonderful region.