St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-10
Vermont News.

The Mary Fletcher hospital at Bur-
llngton Is to start Il training school for
nurses.
Rev. H. V. Baker has resigned his
passionate of the Baptist church mt East
Dover.
Rev. J. l.. Sewell of Andover, Mass,
has been called to the Westminster
Congregational church.
Henry Gray, a seventeen-year- old
youth of AndOver, is wanted for steal
ing S75 of his employer.
The Connecticut River Mutual fire
insurance company, at Bellows Falls,
has voted to wind up its business be
fore March 20.
Nellie Hayes, at Montpelier, was
found drunk and fined five dollars and
costs.
Burlington Republicans have renOm-
mated Mayor Hatch and City Judge
HaseltOn.
The Central Vermont railroad burns
annually nearly 100000 cords of wood,
costing about half Il million of dollars.
Potatoes have "got black eye" in
Milton, having fallen from 90 cents to
10 cents per bushel in one week.
William Perry, 90, drove off Is
foot embankment the other night near
Burlington, and was drowned in a
brook.
Rev. j. ID. Beeman of Swanton has
been rendered the position of princi-
pal of the Vermont conference semin-
airy at Montpelier, but will probably
not accept Messenger.
st. Adams is making an extra effort
toward Y. NJ. c. A. work. G. NJ. Stow
ell, of Syracuse, n. Y, is expected to
take charge of the work among the
railroad men.
A little three-years- old in Hyde
park swallowed two pennies recently,
which We're retained i'll the stomach
and bowels until the third day, produc-
ing no very perceptibe bad result.
j. B. Southworth has resigned his
position as principal of the Vermont
Conference seminary at Montpelier
and E. A. Bishop takes charge next
term.
The Rutland Herald tells of two
brothers, living under the same roof,
eating at the same table and sleeping
to each other for several years. Both
deaf and dumbP
A Bennington county Frenchman
tells a yarn about meeting wild wO-
man in the woods near Stamford, the
other day, who scratched him and ''tlcd
with demOniaral laugh That
Frenchman chad 'em" badly.
The remains of Sophia Bowen of
Bennington were found four miles
north of Petersburg, n. Y, recently
Rats had eaten the flesh, and only the
skeleton remained. The woman was
demented and probably starved to
death.
A Marshfield woman who cannot
move her body without help and whose
hands and arms are all drawn out of
shape, has during the past year quilt
ed 10 bed-quilts, having cut out with
scissors placed between her thumb
and fingers 1912 "blOcks" for each
quilt.
Edison S. Fuller, awaiting sentence
in the state prison at Windsor, for the
murder of Melvin l.. Whitman, at Reads
boro, hanged himself with his suspen-
ders in his cell last Thursday after
noon. He left a note saying he could
not help it, and wanted his body sent
to his wife.
The probate court at Bennington has
decided for the defendant in the case
of Ellsworth against the estate of Alon-
20 Rudd. Miss Welthy Ellsworth OBJ
tanned from "A New York state justice
valid duplicate marriage certificate
4
court decides that no marriage took
place, and the case goes to the county
court. The woman is also under in
dictment for perjury.
In Montpelier, according to the
Waterman, petition has been signed
and forwarded to Washington, praying
for an appropriation by congress for
the erection there of a public building
for the use of the general government
in the transaction of its postal and in
ternal revenue business. The Mes
senger thinks st. Adams is as much
entitled to such a building as Mont
pelier is.
While Charles F. Sears and wife of
Bennington Center were out riding
near that place on Friday they were
set upon by couple of dogs. The an
imals tore the buffalo robes in pieces,
and would probably have injured the |
occupants of the sleigh had not hay
wagon happened along. The men on
this drove the brutes off with their
pitchforks. One of the dogs was
bloodhound their owner is not
known.
Constable Irish has levied upon suffi-
Client personal property of James X.
LangdOn to satisfy the highway tax |
amounting to 1915 assessed against |
him on the grand list of 1881, and filed |
list of the same in the town clerks |
office, as required by recent statute.
The collection of his other taxes is
held in allegiance for the present. The
whole matter will in some form come |
before the courts, and the constitu-
tionality of the doubling" clause of
the new listing law will be affirmed or
denied Montpelier Waterman.
The Baptists have lis churches in
Vermont, with 96I4 members. Only |
seven churches have membership of
over 200.
During the month of February S4I,-
92l.I9 was collected at the ST. Adams |
custom house, handsome gain of SI3,-
96S.S9 over the corresponding month |
last year.
Arba Nelson was drowned on the ID |
inst, while cutting ice on the pond at |
Craftsbury. He leaves a wife, but no
children.
A donation party in George Chase's
house at Bethel last week, proving too
heavy for the parlor floor, invOluntari-
ly adjourned to the cellar, many per-
scent.