St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
Vermont News.

ates is worthy of mention. Rev. DIR.
Stafford leads in seniority, having been
with us 81 years, and Rev. Mr.. Ware
stands next, with a service of lS years.
Rev. Mr.. Wilcox had, at the time of his
recent resignation, been pastor of the
First Baptist church for over IA years,
and Rev. DR.. Brastow has served his
present parish for over years. Bur-
lington Free Press.
Typhoid fever has prevailed at the
mines in Ely more than for several
years. There have been several deaths,
while quite a number have recovered,
and others are still on the sick list.
Burlington proposes to reach out be-
yOnd the breakwater in its search for a
pure article to drink.
The mail carrier between Vergennes
and Addison is plucky woman, who
is noted for making her trip of IL miles
a day on time in any sort of weather.
Moral Vergennes people are outraged
at the discovery that gambling is being
carried on all day every Sunday in a
low grOggery almost within the shadow
of one of the churches.
o. S. Dodds of Burlington indignant
ly denies that he had any connection
with the recent crooked transactions
of which his former partner, Fred d..
Hazen, stands accused.
The Middlebury Baptists have raised
the $1,000 needed to build their church,
while their Vergennes brethren are
struggling under load of $1,000 for a
meeting house which it will take sew
eral thousand dollars more to finish,
and will then be too big for them.
A Vermont pastor desires to put our
readers on their guard against young
man who calls his name Chamberlain.
He claims to be Il theological student,
finds himself out of money and in
pressing need of a loan; and our cor
respondent says that at least three per
sons have been swindled by him.
CongregatiOnalist.
By collision on the Troy and BOs-
ton road, near North Pownal, the other
day, locomotive was badly damaged,
and fourteen cars derailed and smash
ed. No one injured, and no blame at
tached to any of the employees.
Perley Staples, of East Dover, was
killed on the 9th ult., by falling tree.
Chas. Squires of Guilford knows how
to make farming pay. He sOwed the
past season 81 acres of oats, yielding
upward of 600 bushels, planted 10 acres
of corn which produced 1000 bushels of
ears, besides devOting several acres to
root crops, cut 100 tons of hay and will
winter 80 head of cattle and six OF
eight horses. All this from farm
which IN faN Grad
worn out and of little value Reform
er.
Mrs. Meaker is the fifth person who
has received sentence of death by hang
ing, in the Washington county court
house, in the past four years.
In Starksboro, on the ODD Lorenzo
A. Thompson was stabbed i'll the left
side with knife, by some person as
| yet unknown, though suspicion rests
on his brother, John L. Thompson.
Peter Good of Westminster was
found dead in his wagon the oath.
| Cause, rum.
Ex-Secretary VIM. NJ. Evarts spent
Thanksgiving at the Windsor home
with his family. He looks hale and
hearty at the age of 63.
The late Mrs. John A. Conant, OF
Brandon, left $500 to st. Stephens
Episcopal church of Middlebury, and
$1,000 to the Brandon Episcopal church.
Alexander Crowell shot and killed
in Barnard, recently, the largest cata-
mount or panther, it is thought, ever
seen i'll this state. 1t measured Z feet
and weighed l82 lbs. Thompson re-
ports one killed in ROxbury, sixty
years ago, which weighed 1lS pounds.
A. b. Gardner, prominent lawyer,
formerly acknowledgement, and the
Greeley candidate for governor in 1872,
died recently at Bennington Centre.
Amos Chapman of Irasburg heard
sounds near his hog house, the other
night, which he thought came from
eating, he found girl of 10 years OF
age slowed away in box in the pen,
where she said she had lain since the
Wednesday previous, not having had a
particle of food or water during the
five days. She said she was from the
French settlement in Newport, and
that getting lost she called on different
parties who would not harbOr her.
According to the Vergennes Yer
mOnter, Judge Pierpoint continues
steadily to gain, and is approaching
cOnvalescence.
An adopted daughter of Elizur Tut
tie of South Newbury ran away with a
married man named Wheeler recently,
and was found by Manchester officers
at Auburn, n. II.
The Rutland county court was run at
IA net profit to the state of $1,000, last
year, and will apparently make an
equally good showing at the close OF
the present fiscal year.
w. B. Nichols has been appointed
postmaster at West Braintree.
Ezekiel Smith and wife, of Water
bury, were found dead in bed Oh Sat
urday night. Both were in usual
health that afternoon, and both died
within the same minute. Smith had
lost considerable property and had
been Respondent over it.
Eight liquor saloons in Rutland
have been posted as nuisances under
the nuisance act" passed by the last
General Assembly.
The Baptists of Burlington have ex-
tended a call to Rev. f. j. Parry OF
CoOperstown, n. Y. He is expected to
enter upon his new relation on Jan. /
There is some stir over the liquor
dealers in Addison county, but the
states attorney thinks there must be a
few test cases in the line of perjury
before the liquor seller can be made to
suffer much.
Ex-Gov. Proctor, with his son and
daughter, has sailed for three months
tour in Europe.
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