St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18

ing his engine, an incoming train struck
and knocked him seuseless, his head
resting in dangerous proximity to the
wheels of the passing cars, but he is
thought to have sustained only tempo
rary injury.
In the Orleans county court, Charles
Wilson of Charleston plead guilty to
assault and battery and was fined $50
and costs.-C. A. Randall of North
Troy was fined $50 and costs for selling
| liquor.-The proprietOrs of the Barton
hotels were also each fined $50 and
costs.-George Rowland of Barton
Landing who was arrested and put un-
der bonds last fall for uttering forged
stOp-over railroad checks, plead guilty
and paid fine of $50 and COSTS
John Daily of Fall River, Mass, plead
guilty to breaking into G. w. Pratt's
store ut Newport, and taking there
from money and property to the value
of about 500, and was sentenced to the
State Prison for five years.
Thomas Marnock of East Albany,
while at work in the yard at Grandy's
mill, Barton, was caught under some
rolling logs, and crushed into the snow,
having one leg broken and receiving
internal injuries, which are very seri-
Gus. On Saturday mt the same mill, q
Canadian who was at work on the
wood splitter, by some accident got his
hand under the huge AK, and it was
cut clean off. The hand was so crush
ed above the wound, as to require am
putation at the wrist.
Major ID. L. COrbin, a native of Mil
ton, and captain of Co. c, or the old
Third Vermont regiment, who has
been prominent in South Carolina since
the close of the war, was stricken with
apopleXy when entering the breakfast
room at the Wright hotel, Columbia, S.
c., the other day.
a singular fire occurred in Alburgh
on the night of the 4th inst. An ice
house filled with straw, about 100 feet
from the residence of Mrs. Sylvester
| HOldridge, was missed the next morn
ing, and an investigation showed that
it had burned during the night AL
though there were two families in the
house at the time it burnt, the first
knowledge they had of the fire was
when they got up in the morning and
| found only a few ashes where the build
ing stood the night before. Fortunate
ly there was no wind during the night.
President Hamlin of Middlebury col
lege has raised $4,000 to aid in recon
structing the north division of Painter
hall into a library.
1t is stated that the will of the late
A. c. Howard of Townshend bequeaths
$4,000 to that town for the support of
the poor.
S. Bridges of Manchester, who con-
tracted with the government to furnish
the quota of soldiers tOmbstOnes de-
sired has completed the number for all
the New England states and New York,
and is now at work upon those of Penn
sylvania. One thousand nine hundred
and ninety eight stones were furnished
for New York state.
Otis Atwater, a promising Young man
of Brattleboro, graduate of Yale Col
lege, and connected with the chemical
laboratory of Harvard has become vio-
lently insane and taken to the asylum.
The home of the WillistOn murder
els, Joseph Woods and Alma Smith,
has been sold by mortgage foreclosure.
OF the children the oldest is in the poor
house, the second in the Orphans
Home, and the third, an infant, with
the mother in Jail.
! Gov. Farnham and the directors of
the state prison decided to cancel the
present contract with II. II. Mawhnney
& Co., of Boston, for the convict labor
at the prison, and have awarded the
same to VIM. ID. Bracket & Co, of
Boston, at greater advantage to the
state. The making of shoes. will he
continued, and the contractors take
charge in three months, which notice is
necessary according to the old contract.
! C.. p. Luthel's house in North Dorset.
was consumed by fire on the night of
February Sth. The fire was discovered
about / o'clock, and was then so far
advanced that but a small share of the
contents of the house was saved. Mr..
Luther and boy were the only occu-
pants of the house at the time the fire
was discovered. They were sleeping
in the upper part of the house, and
barely escaped being burned with it.
Origin of fire unknown. House in
sured.
The large freight house of E. r.
yelling. paper manufacturer, at state
line, near Bennington, was burned the
10th. The loss is estimated ut $40. 900.
No insurance. The building contained
| five or six car loads of finished paper.
ready for shipment. One New York
Central car was damaged.
Davidson, the Jamaica moonshiner
who took the leg bail last month, when
on trial before the United States circuit
court, has been arrested at Warrens-
burgh, n. Y, and taken to BTattleboro.
In an interview with Gov. Farnham
at Montpelier, be said that he had not
as yet given any attention to the Sc
lection of two companies to attend the
yorktown centennial, nor would he for
some time to come. Furthermore, as
regards competitive drill to decide
the honor, the first he heard or thought
OF the matter was the item which had
appeared in several of the state papers.
-LSt. Adams Messenger.
The measles and diphtheria are so
prevalent at the seminary at Montpelier
that a two weeks vacation has been
taken.
| The Central House at Hartland sta
ton WAS burned recently. Nothing
was saved-tbe inmates barely escap-
ing. Loss $1,000; insurance $500.
Justus Dartt will enter at once upon
his duties as superintendent of educa-
ton, number of prominent men hav-
ing signed an agreement at Montpelier
Thursday guaranteeing him his salary
and expenses.
Mayor Hatch of Burlington estimates
the expenses Of the city next year at
81, l99, of which only $47 500 will
have to be raised by taxation, the wa
ter rates and other sources furnishing