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

ones for making cider vinegar. 1t
looks now as if cider drinkers would
get chance to dispose of cider made
of frozen fruit.
Flint Bros. have removed the par
tition which separated their two stores.
and now have more roOmy establish
ment which they propose to improve
still more by painting and papering.
This change ought to have been made
before.
! Miss Rosa A. Harrington, late lead
ing soprano at the South church and
teacher at Bailey's, was married on the
81 inst. at Chicago, to Mr.. John A.
Sanborn. Miss Julia X. Whipple, who
has taken Miss Farrington's place at
Bailey's, has been engaged to succeed
her at the South church.
While engaged in removing pull
leys from the fallen shaft at the scale
works last week, a workman drove one
against another with considerable
force, badly iniuring the hand of
Charles +. Bacon who happened at the
! time to have his hand over the rim of
the stationary pulley.
We have received from ii. H..
Warner a Co., of Rochester, n. Y,
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure manu-
facturers, a handsome, large, cOlOred
Autograph of the late president Gar
field and Cabinet" to the inspection of
which we cordially invite our sub
scribers. 1t is a fine picture and well
worth preservation.
The Gloom" in prices of bread
stuhs is over for the present. The
highest prices were touched about the
LIST of October. Undoubtedly prices of
food will be somewhat higher next
winter than last, but some of the ad-
vances asked for are preposterous and
should he met by slack demand.
AT meeting of the lecture com
mittee of the Y. NJ. &. A. on Monday
evening, it was decided to have a
course of public lectures the present
season. The time of same and lectures,
will he announced hereafter. 1t is
hoped to secure the old North church
for the course, as being a more desira-
bile audience room than the town hall.
1t is reported that on Monday
morning the mail from Montreal for
Georgeville, Que, was thrown off at
Smiths Mills, on the Passumpsic rail
road, and when it arrived at George
vile it was found that the bag had
been split open and robbed of its con-
tents, which is said to have consisted
of registered letters to n large amount
There will be county Teachers In
stitute ut st. JOhnsbury, Oct. 9th, 2Stf
, and Doth, under the direction of State
: Superintendent Dart, assisted by Prof
NOrthend of Conn, Prof. G.. II. Per
kins, Miss Alice NJ. Guernsey, Edward
COnant, II. Il. Fuller and other promi-
nent teachers in the county. Lectures
on evening of 9th and 26th and morn
ing of Goth. Programme and further
particulars next week.
This shutdown on mutilated cur
rency is getting general, but is moi
: accomplished without numerous com
ments from holders of these condemned
coins. Some speculative persons at
tempt to add value to the coin by fill
ing up the hole with Il substance as
near as possible like silver. But thi,
: game doesn't work successfully. The
plan to get the mutilated money out OF
circulation meets with general appro-
val.
The vice president of the w. C. Il
U. for this county writes lis that the
report of "no saloons in st. Johnsbury'
did not originate with her, but came
from somebody connected with the To-
cal union; also that this county has
nineteen unions instead of fifteen. Mis-
, takes will happen i'll the best regulated
families. Very glad to make the abov,
corrections; but we are trifie scepti
cal as To this ''no saloon" business, al
the same.
Atwood has prepared for col,
weather by putting in a furnace in TIN
basement under his store. He has ais
finished off room in the basement
where he will keep his stock of trunks
Brown has finished painting an,
rcnovating his store, and is now paint
~ ing his house. Several other house
i'll town are being re-painted and 9th
d erwise Improved First Nationa
r, bank is putting in the necessary ap
|, paratus for heating their premises b
l. steam. The apparatus comes from tn
e Boston SOapStOne Furnace Company
The excursion season has prett
much closed. We are glad to lear
l. that the excursions under the auspice
1t of the Passumpsic road have been eve
I, more successful this year than las
ID Those over the st. j. & L. C. road hav
&c been made pleasanter by the variet
ii afforded 10y the new steamer, and wi
next year he more numerous and bel
il ter attended by the public. TIL