St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-11-18
Vermont News.

A Bellows, Falls man has lost four
children in rs many weeks by diphthe
ria.
H. A. Hodges of Richford has ship
ped 5000 bushels of cider apples,
bought at ten cents bushel.
A Brattleboro man awoke the other
morning to find a large rat savagely
gnawing at his ear.
Dressed turkeys are being shipped
largely from Rutland county for the
ocean steamer trade.
A strange dog which had been run
ming about BrattlebOrO for several days,
was shot after young son of Prof.
Schuster had been severely bitten.
Mrs. Justin Child, an aged lady, fell
down stairs at West Randolph, the
10th, and received such injuries that
she died i'll few minutes.
Oliver Lovely of Milton was knocked
down and robbed of his money by Ed
ward Arnell, Joe. Garrow and another
fellow last week. Arnell and GarrOw
are arrested.
On the 10th, Michael Floyd, living at
Mortified, had his house and barn
burned, with their contents. Loss
about $500; partially insured.
Fifty thousand pounds of wool,
bought and held for rise by Stevens
Bros. of Vergennes, is now being ship
ped to Boston.
There are now 7S boys and IL girls
in the Vergennes reform school.
Two brothers named Winslow of
Weybridge bought up eggs last sum
mer and held them for a rise. They
gathered 1000 dozen and are now send
ing them to market. They will double
the money invested.
TenyOn of POultney, who was con
victed of arson at the recent term of
the county court and sentenced to ten
years in the state prison, has been sent
to the insane asylum at BrattlebOro.
The Proctorsville cheese factory has
made $4,000 pounds of cheese the past
season, the milk of some four hundred
cows being required.
Hon. q. G. Benedict of the Burling-
ton Free Press is at present busily en-
gagged in writing the military history
of Vermont during the rebellion.
w tltiI dI Ilulldllu,
with its contents, was burned the other
morning. Insured for $1,000. Albert
Wilson's barn, near by, was also burn
ed.
A handsome new baggage car has
been put on the Central road to run
between st. Adams and Boston.
Western nursery-men pay SO per
bushel for Vermont apple seeds.
Burlington is agitated over the city
agency question. The former agent
was removed by the county commits
sioner for alleged malfeasance in office
and new agent appointed. The for
mer agent claims his removal was lille
gal, and declines to retire, being sup
ported by the aldermen. The agency
is closed to await developments.
The Grange building at Woodstock
was burned on Friday last. The losses
amount to about $1,000. Moses Shell
born's house was also burned, with II
loss of 800.
Norton Bros. of Brandon have grown
large fields of sorghum, and are manu-
featuring mOlasses which the local
trade prefers to the West Indian arti-
Gle.
The Bellows Falls board of health
are looking sharply after sanitary mat
tiers in that place.
F. ID. Hazen, a trusted clerk of Wells,
Richardson & Co. wholesale druggists
of Burlington, died last summer, and
it is Just discovered that he robbed the
firm of several thousand dollars worth
of merchandise. Part has been re-
covered. Suspicion was first aroused
by the fact that Hazen's father was
selling costly medicines much below
the market rates, and this led to
search of the elder Hazen's house,
where a large quantity of stolen med
ieines were found. The father denies
in the crime, claiming that
he received the articles in good faith.
Further suspicious led to search of
the house of o. 5. Dodge, Hazen's part
ner in the Queen City sOapwOrks, and
several kegs of brandy were found
there.
During the past season the town of
Cornwall raised 80 acres of onions,
with an average yield of 400 bushels
per acre, making snug crop of - 900
bushels, which at an estimated value
of Is cents per bushel, amounts to S24-
900.
1t is said that the entire 81 300, 900
capital stock for the proposed railroad
from Dandy to Whitehall, n. Y, is
subscribed for, and the money is in the
bank. The surveys are made and
maps are being engraved.
Brakeman Dennis O'Day was jammed
at White River Junction Monday even
ing between shifting engine and a
car to which he unsuccessfully tried to
couple it. He lived only about three
hours, his internal organs being hurt.
He was 80 years of age and leaves
wife and two children.