St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-03

The bids for building the new
schoolhouse are not yet all in.
A st. Adams dry goods dealer Is
selling what he calls bankrupt goods
at auction in Hastings block.
The st. Johnsbury band give one
more promenade concert, on Friday |
evening, March 10.
The Girls Benevolent Circle
send box tomorrow to our home
missionary in Nebraska, valued at
Sl25.G3; freight paid.
Tie meetings at the Academy last
Thursday special season of prayer for
colleges and schools were quite well
attended, and the exercises interesting. |
- The Academy Cadets, organized
in the spring of IS1I, have given up
the ghost, and their muskets have been
sent back to the state arsenal.
o. +. Harvey of West Concord fell
down the stairs leading to the st. j. 4
l.. {. railroad offices, the other day,
and was pretty well shaken up.
Butter is selling in st. Johnsbury
at from ~ to b cents eggs at p cts.
per dozen; the better parts of beef
have raised two cents pound.
Spencer, Pearl 4 Merriam have
taken possession of their new store Oh
Main street, and by another week will
have things Strengthened out in good
shape.
The programmes for the Listcmann
concert on Tuesday evening were ex-
cessivrly meat, though not gaudy."
They are worth preserving as Il me-
mento of the lecture course of lSS2.
A very dry individual walked up
to much dricr soda fountain ut Bing
hams the other morning and called for
IA glass of soda water. He was inform
ed that he was tritie out of season.
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Mems Christian Association occurs on
Saturday evening at u o'clock. I'm
pOrtant business is To be transacted,
and it is desired that every member he
present.
The weather during the past week
has been rather varied. as will be seen
from the record and the thaw of the
last two days has made very bad going
and threatens to use up our sleighing
completely.
The Boston journal says that
"there is something which is worse
than 'assailing' the character of public
men, and that is the covering up of.
their misdeeds until the public sense
is weakened and confused"
The advertisement of Kendall 4
Whitney, seedsmtn at Portland, APP
pears in this paper. This is ii reliable
firm, and deals on the square, as we
have found out 10y several years eXpe-
rience.
- Mr.. VIM. T. Fairbanks and wife
and Asa ;. Livingston and wife have
gone to Washington. Judge Poland
has been in Burlington this week i'll
attendance upon the United States
court at Burlington.
The admirers and friends of the
New York Observer land it has many
such) will he glad to know that, al
though burned out at the late New
York fire, it is in new quarters, with
business running smoothly as ever.
No. ~ Park Row is its present location
Number one of volume four of the
Academy Student was issued on Tues
day: 1t will he issued the last Tues
day of every month this term. The
new editors have got out very inter
esting number, with good variety, and
many short and spicy paragraphs. 1t
has circulation of $50 copies.
Edward Delaney, of SwantOn, a
young man who was employed for
some time on the St J. y l.. c. road,
but who had been of late working foT
the Central Vermont, was fatally
crushed between the cars near Alhurgh
on Saturday last. His funeral was at
tended at Swanton on Sunday.
AT last accounts Miss Ross was
holding her own. with occasionally Il
favorable symptom.-T. Prescott is
very low. and can hardly recover
Editor Bradford. of the Sherbrooke
Gazette, has been sadly afflicted in the
death of IA little daughter, aged one
year, which occurred on Wednesday.
Calvin Cushman received a tele-
gram the other day announcing that
his son John. who has been building
past, had fallen from a large coal scale
and was So severely injured as to rem
der his recovery doubtful.
Two slight washouts on the st. j
y l.. c. road were caused by the rains
b of Wednesday between johnson
and Cambridge and the other between
Hardwick and East Hardwick. Tn,
breaks were speedily repaired. howev
er washout occurred also on tn,
Central Vermont road, which necessi