St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-14
Vermont News.

Bradford is much excited over H. d.
Davis alleged cruel treatment of his
fourteen-year-old son. A horrible sto-
ry is told in connection with the affair
Burlington is to begin on Il musical
convention next week Tuesday, at the
Howard Opera House. Carl Zerrahn is
to be director, and grand success is
expected.
Montpelier is suffering again from
diphtheria and typhoid fever-so it is
reported. Several children are now
sick, and one child died last week.
Lafayette Garwood of ClaremOnt
n. H., employed by the Fall Mountain
paper company ut Bellows Falls, fell
from a shute on Wednesday and was
seriously hurt.
At the recent session of the Chitten-
den county court in one case the diff
ference between the parties was only
SI.75, and the plaintiff finally recover
ed the bewildering sum of 1913.
1t is estimated that over 10000 bar
rels of apples were produced this year
in Addison and Chittenden counties
alone. One orchard owner named
Miller sold over 5000 barrels at So pei
barrel, making the gross income from
this part of his farm alone SI5,0O0
Many orchards are yielding from $500
to 5000.
The Memphremagog House at New
port will be closed for the winter No
vember |.
Five tenement houses were recently
burned at Titusville in Chester.
Several cases of diphtheria in South
Woodstock.
Ludlow is to have full blown opera
house.
Recently, while the people of Well,
River were at the Bradford fair, the
houses of Ed. r. Davenport, Alder
Waterman, Edison Doe, Dan johnson
and Geo. IL. Reno were broken int
and something taken from each.
Alonzo AmidOn of Middlebury, somt
two years ago, blistered the inside o
his right hand, and took but little no.
tice of it at the time, but soon it be
gan to be inflamed and painful, unit
medical aid was called and all the or
binary means of skill were used t.
check the swelling but failed, and am
putatiOn became necessary to save his
life. Now he has had to have it cut
off again.
Enough snow fell at West Randolph
the 4th to Written the ground. Fruit
and vegetables were seriously damaged
The body of Jack Cain, IA young man
working ut Rutland and belonging in
Dorset, was found lying by the side OF
the Delaware and Hudson canal com
pany's road near Centre Rutland, the
9th; killed by the cars.
The appropriation of $4,000, which
the last legislature made to imprOv,
the state prison at Windsor, is being
laid out to advantage and devoted to :
renovation of that institution. Pure
water is among the desirable things
put into the prison, new brick build
ing has been erected, and the old rooms
and shops are being cleansed and i'm.
proved in every possible way.
Lightning struck the barn of Dea. G
b. Weston of Belvidere, tearing til,
center post of the building and running
to the ground without setting it on fire
A horse was within ten feet of the track
of the bolt, and found uninjured.
According to recently issued cen
sus bulletin l3I ,4:}2 pounds of tobacco
were raised on ~ acres of land in thii
state in 1879. Windham is the leading
tobaccO-raising county, devoting t.
that crop "a acres and producing 127, >.
2l9 pounds. Chittenden and Rutland
counties had each two acres and raised
respectively $50 and 760 pounds. Ad
Olson, Bennington, Franklin, LamOille
Washington and Windsor had each on,
acre and raised an average of 42c
pounds.