St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-11
Vermont News.


Ness house of Burlington are between
10000 and 81 900.
l.. E. Smith Of Monkton, a member
of the Legislature and formerly United
States consul at Prince Edwards Island
lies dangerously i'll at his residence.
With the foreclosure of the mortgage
upon the Missisqaoi & Clyde Rivers
railroad by the Passumpsic railroad,
went the $2S 900 of stock taken by this
town in the rOad-S26. 900 gone clean
to Hades, with no redemption. Well
may the taxpayers repent their rash
ness North Troy Palladium.
A five-years-old daughter of E. Har-
ris OF Barnard has been fatally burned
10y falling into an open fire.
A. NJ. Albee of Springfield has been
: appointed commissioner of the United
States circuit court for the district of
Vermont.
young son of Martin Barney of
Swanton, rode with some friends from
Fairfax to this village Wednesday
morning, and came near perishing from
the cold. When taken into DIR. S. S.
Clark's office he was thoroughly chilled
and unconscious, and il was with no
normal condition. st. Adams Messen-
ger.
Gov. Farnham has appointed Hiram
A. Huse commissioner on publication
of the Revised Statutes in place of
Judge Thompson, resigned.
The house passed the senate bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for the erection of
IA monument in cOmmemOratiOn of the
battle of Bennington. The bill now on
ly needs the approval of the president
to become law.
Benjamin Brown of Shelburne, died
the Goth ult., aged 80 years. Mr.. b.
was in the employ of the Champlain
transportation company, on their steam
ers, and at Shelburne Harbor, for over
10 years.
w. Z. Howard of Ripton received a
severe blow on the head from club in
the hands of Jim Phersons. He now
lies in critical condition. Phersons
was arrested, placed under $500 bonds,
which failing to procure he was lodged
in Jail.
Orange Young was taken i'll in the
night at Westminster. He was "a,
alone in the house three miles from
gress, and fresh snow was drifting deep
on the ground. The old man, satisfied
that he would not live until morning
without medical help resolutely started
out. The struggle was a hard one, but
he made the distance on foot and re-
covered.
little over year ago Mrs. Ware
ham Morse was drowned at Centreville.
A few months later Mr.. Morse died
from an overdose of morphine, proba-
bly, accidental. Monday, the son, Hen
ry p. Morse, who has continued the
harness business at West Brattleboro,
died of scrofula. 1t was n most malig-
nant ease, his head swelling and dis
torting badly. Now to complete the
round of misfOrtunes, it is found that
his sster-n-law, who attended his last
illness, was badly poisoned. She got
little of the poisonous matter from his
head into scratch on her forefinger.-
Brattleboro Reformer.
The case of Hayden, the murderer,
will come up at Montpelier before
Judges Ross and Veazey for the last
time the 10th. Henry Ballard will APP
pear as his counsel.
1t is said that Is 900, 900 feet of lum-
Der will lie manufactured in LamoNle
county this season. This will absorb
about 300 acres of the best timbered
land, or rather the timber on it.
E. Ely Goddard took a party of "a
Montpelier ladies and gentlemen from
Montpelier to Ely, last week. They
were in two long sleighs, one drawn by
six and the other by four horses. The
young gentlemen were well supplied
with tin horns, and the footing, as they
passed through the villages, was i'm
mense. The ride ended with a recep-
ton and ball.
A barn with shed attached, belong
ing to Asa j. Rogers, about three miles
south of Putney, was burned Sunday
morning, together with all the contents,
including % head of cattle, farming
utensils, hay, etc. The loss is estimat-
ed at $500. Insured in the Vermont
Mutual for 800. One John Tenyon,
living in the neighbOrhood was arrest
ed as the incendary and held in the
sum of $500.
Some days ago Mr.. p. Mckenzie, an
aged and infirm man OF Hnesburg, was
run over aud seriously injured, under
circumstances which created no little
stir in the community. He was walk
ing in the road and being very deaf did
not hear the approaching team, which,
driven at full speed, knocked him down
and the horses and sleigh passed over
him. The sleigh contained man and
two women, who did not stop to rem
der the assistance demanded by human
lty, but drove on, leaving the old man
wounded and helpless. Some neigh
fnnnH nd IN for hal
be would have died.
The state-prison at Windsor is to be
extended 30 feet and new workshops
built for it with the 100000 appropria-
ted by the last Legislature.
l.. b. Englesby, prominent lawyer.
and respected citizen of Burlington died
Jan. %, at the age of 81 years. He
was native of Burlington, graduated
at the Vt. University in the class of
1915, with Rev. Drs. Clark, Cutler, Fer
rim and Lamphere. He was in the
state senate in 1866; and the three
following years he was states attorney
of Chittenden county.
! Hon. Henry II. Niles, NJ. D., died
January %, at Post Mills (Thetford),
aged 73 years. For more than forty
years he had been principal physician =.
in that village and vicinity, and had
been a state senator for Orange county.