St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-06-17

"Star route mail contracts: From
Jamaica to Manchester, by c. Holden !;
Tinmouth to Wallingford, E. Brown I;
New Haven depot to Bristol, J. j. Rid
ley +; No. Ferrisburg to Monkton Ridge,
II. 0. Blanchard; Marshfield to Wal
den station, Haynes & Jennings st.
Johnsbury to Littleton, n. H., VIM.
Sunbury; st. Johnsbury to No. Dan
vile, Isaac Church; Jericho Center to
Jericho, E. F. Law.
Rev. Louis A. Arthur, rector of Christ
church, Island Pond, has resigned.
At Bennington the other day son
of Mrs. Heman lockwood, Is years
old, sawed off one of his hands with a
circular saw.
The Vermont State Teachers assOci-
alton will hold its thirty first annual
meeting at Northfeld, August 10th,
IIth and 18th. An interesting pro-
gramme of exercises is promised.
Superintendent Dart has just held
an interesting educational meeting at
Montpelier.
Charles H. Gibbs, n well-knOwn
butcher of West Lebanon, N. H., was
killed recently near West Hartford, by
kick from horse.
A lot of iewelry and watches, stolen
from Hewitt and Williams in Quechee
last April, have been found in n wood
pile near White River Junction.
At the meeting at White River June
ton of the Green Mountain Universal
list association, Rev. j. II. Farnsworth,
l.n I'LL
statistics regarding the Universalist
denomination in Vermont: 1t has Ga
parishes, with 29l3 families 81 church
es, with 1877 members; 80 Sunday
schools, with 1896 members So church
ediiices and parish property worth
$249, 200.
Bellows Falls is agitating the matter
of a public library.
Springfield is contemplating the
erection of a soldiers monument.
The libel case of Judge Lyman f.
Knapp of Middlebury against the Ad-
Olson County journal, has ended with
a verdict for Knapp of 5000 and costs.
He sued for $4,000.
NJ. NJ. Stoughton and George Hub
bard, painters, were fatally injured at
Rutland, last Friday, by the breaking
of Il scatfOlding. They fell 40 feet and
were picked up unconscious. Slough
ton died in about five hours, and Hub
bard cannot recover. Stoughton was
about 40 years of age, and leaves "A
wife. Hubbard is % years of ago and
unmarried.
The state Masons held their ANIMALS
at Burlington this week.
Edward Hackett of Bennington went
out on the roof of the pOrticO attached
to his house early on Sunday morning,
to see the eclipse, and while occupied
in observing the phenomenon he fell
asleep and rolled off on to the ground,
distance of twenty feet, and was Sc
riOusly injured. Hackett is a married
man. His condition is precariOus.
John p. Howard of Burlington has
just given to the University of Yer
mont S5O,000, the largest individual
gift ever made to the institution. The
income is to be applied to the cndow-
ment of the Howard ProfessOrship OF
Natural History, the purchase of speci-
mems, apparatus, etc, i'll the depart
ment indicated, and to the increase OF
the university library.
Joseph Brarar's buildings in GrotOn
were burned the other night. His wife
was seen running from her home to
her fathers and eXclaiming that hel
husband was going to shoot her, and
on going to the house the neighbors
found it on fire. Brarar had gone to
the house of another Frenchman, where
he was pursued by some twenty mel
and arrested.
On Sunday morning the residences
of J. b. Bromley and Mrs. A. G. w
Smith, in CastlctOn, were burned, witt
their outbuildings. Loss estimated nj
5000 insured.
Grand musical convention at Islan(
Pond the DIST, 22d and Odd insts., undel
the direction of Prof. Jas. Whitney.
The steam boiler in the Smith shingl,
mill, Craftsbury, blew up on Thurs
day last, killing Charles Gilbert o
Wolcott, very badly injuring Mr.
Smith, and almost completely demol
ishing the mill. Smith, who had sever
al ribs broken and was terribly cu
and bruised elsewhere, says that TIN
engine was running without steam
gauge, and Gilbert had just gone below
to pump water into the boiler whel
the explosion occurred. 1t is proba
BILE that the water was low and the eX
plosion occurred when the water strucl
the overheated flues. Smith is in
critical condition, but will probabl
recovery Barton Monitor.
At Williston market, Monday, goo
to fair butter sold at I6 to II cents
choice II to 10; selections little high
t cr. Eggs, Is cents cheese to
cents.