St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-09
Vermont News.

The recent fair of the new Union
Exhibition Society at st. Adams was,
is said, the most successful ever held
in the county.
Thomas C. Hill of Charlotte was
seriously injured, on Thursday, by be-
ing thrown from his team by barrel
tipping over, and dragged several rods.
The little city of Vergennes had a
narrow escape from contiagration re-
Gently by the bursting of the large
kerosene lamp of St. PauPs Episcopal
church vestibule. The burning oil ran
over the platform and blazed up along
the street for several minutes before it
was smOthered.
! Mrs. Main, worthless SALISBURY
woman, killed her baby, a month old,
Thursday, by feeding it paris green.
| She was charged about two years ago
with choking an older child to death,
but nothing was done about it. She is
now under arrest.
A man named Smith, living near
Richford, accidentally shot himself re-
Gently while hunting, and lies in a
critical condition.
1t is estimated that there are 20O
acres of onions i'll the vicinity of Corn
wall, and the yield this year is large.
They are now selling at IS cents to 81
a bushel.
w. L. Leland, of Montpelier, fell
from load of ice and one wheel passed
over both legs below the knees. The
load weighed about 2400 pounds, but
no bones were broken.
The Montpelier and Barre railroad,
which has been running trains over
part of the Montpelier and Wells River
line, will soon have direct connection
with the Central Vermont.
Vermont has three temperance hotels
now-the Junction House, at White
River Junction, having fallen into line.
Newman Weeks house and barn, in
Rutland, were burned the other day.
Insured for 5000, which will nearly
cover the loss.
The annual muster of the First Reg
iment is held at Rutland this week.
There are now confined in the House
of Correction 60 persOns-62 men and
women. The addition to the work
shop of the institution is completed
and is partially occupied. Its dimen-
siOns are 40x40 feet, and it forms an
extension to the south end of the Origi-
nal shop.
Rev. NJ. A. Wilcox, for fourteen
years pastor of the First Baptist church
in Burlington, is soon to leave the city
for new field of labor.
A. A. Hall, Esq, of st. Adams, has
been appointed inspector of rifle prac-
tice in the Vermont national guard
with the rank of LIST lieutenant, vice
Charles Wells, resigned.
The Orange county veterans reunion,
which closed a three days encampment
at Camp Sedgwick, Post Mills, the ID,
was the most fully attended and the
most interesting of any held in the
state this year. Some 300 old soldiers
were in attendance and among the
prominent speakers were Gov. Roswell
Farnham and Gen. Stephen Thomas.
The Randolph Normal school now
has an attendance of 160 students, an
increase of about 25 over one year ago,
and with but one exception, the fall of
1870, the largest number in attendance
in the history of the school. The at
tendance at that time, l67, bids fair to
be exceeded in the course of the fall.
G. c. Stearns, station agent at Beth
ell, and for some % years in the employ
of the Central Vermont road, hung
himself on Monday morning. He had
run short in his accounts with the road,
not dishonesty but carelessly, and the
fear of threatened discharge made
him Respondent and superinduced in