St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-20
Vermont News.

Vermont News.
Chelsea had lively snow squat on
the 18th which lasted an hour
j. c. Page of Charleston has lost
seventy horses in twenty-eight years.
John Philips of Bolton has raised
1000 bushels of pOtatOes-about 400
bushels to the acre.
A. X. johnson of Mortified Center
raised this year from seventeen rods of
ground eighty bushels of onions.
Rev. o. S. Basford, former editor of
the Hyde Park News, is principal of
an academy at Redtield, Dakota.
The Windham county court ad-
jOurned Thursday after a session of
four weeks, the longest term for sever
al years.
A load of hay was lately set on fire
in Charlotte by the friction of the tire
of the wagon i'll the guard irons of
the rack.
Smith Bartlett of Sharon had pitch
fork stuck into his hip while moving
corn fodder. 1t is feared that lOckiaw
will result.
A new corporation has been organ
lied ut Brandon and now proposes to
develop some of the underground
wealth in Brandon, PittsfOrd and Or
we'll.
w. n. Batchelder, formerly of
CastletOn, who went to Colorado in
1870, has been nominated for secretary
of state by the greenbackers of that
state.
The dwelling house of Horace w.
Smith near WinOOski village was
burned to the ground last Friday
morning and most of its contents de-
stroyed.
A musical convention is to he held
at SwantOn the last of this month, I'M
der the direction of Prof. Perkins of
Chicago. A number of noted soloists
will be present.
Bridgewater has one of the largest
wheat crops this year ever raised in
that place, about $50 bushels on ten
small farms, some of it yielding near
ly thirty-tive bushels per acre.
At Rutland, Thursday, Helen NJ
Lincoln was fined 81, 100 for 205 second
offences of selling liquor-equivalent
to IA sentence of nearly thirty five
years in the house of correction.
w. F. Smith, general eastern passen-
ger agent of the Central Vermont rail
way, has resigned that position and
accepted the same position for the
Grand Trunk railway, with headquar-
tiers in New York.
The case of Myers against the town
of Rutland, to recover $4,000 taxes ON
the ground that plaintiff is resident
of Cleveland, o., was decided in favor
of the town by jury in the United
States district court there. The judge
held the doubling clause of the law to
be constitutional.
The WOman's Christian temperance
union of Vermont issue little sheet
called the Amendment Herald. 1t is
devoted to consideration and discus
sion of the petitions now i'll circulation
throughout the state in regard to tenn
perance education i'll the schools, and
the constitutional amendment.
The Operator, IA Geographic journal,
says CAT present, telephOnically
speaking, Vermont is isolated from
the outside world, having in operation
no extra territorial lines but ere
snow flies it is promised that Bellows
Falls will be heard via Fitchburgh,
and later in the season Rutland, Mont
pelier, st. Adams and other points
will fall in"
| The quartermaster-g generals report
/ gives list of the arms and equipments
/ of the state, which comprise 2260
| Springfield muzzle- loading muskets,
573 breech-lOading rifle muskets, 45S
revolvers, 40 carbines, 596 cavalry
sabres, 90 artillery sabres, six pound
er brass guns, 10 pairs harnesses and ,
| batteries twelve-pounder bronze Ma
! poleOn guns.
At the session of the Vermont med
ical society at Montpelier, officers
were elected for the ensuing year as
follows President, DR.. L. NJ. Bingham
of Burlington vice president, DR.. j.
| H. Hamilton of RichfOrd secretary,
| DR.. J. S. Richmond of Woodstock ;
treasurer, DR.. S. Putnam of Mont
pelier auditor, DR.. c. NJ. Chandler of
Montpelier, with long list of council
ors. DR.. J. p. Lynde of AthOl, Mass,
read "A paper on obstetrics and the
Care of Children"
/ From Col. Bliss pamphlet is OBJ
| tanned sample item of the river and
harbOr bill ''The harbor at SwantOn,
Vermont, gets $500 this year for the
construction of breakwater 1900 feet
long. Up to date only 260 feet of this
wonderful breakwater have been ac-
cOmplished, and yet it has already
cost 100000 BY this simple rule OF
three we find that at this rate the com
pleted structure will cost the nation
"a, 1874, 625. That is considerably more
than "a thousand dollars for every man,
woman, and child in the township of
| SwantOn."
Daniel CrOfoot, aged seventy eight
years, former resident and prominent
citizen of Benson, but for the past year
| living at Manchester, while suffering
from an "effusiOn of the brain" on the
afternoon of the 9th inst, made ali I'M
successful attempt to commit suicide
by cutting his throat with his pocket
knife He was, however, discovered
in the act and the knife taken from
him. The wound made on the left
side of the neck was small, and he bled
but little. He has been in very poor
health for some time and at times
showed signs of an unsOund mind he
is also nearly blind and quite deaf.
Frank Clifford, one of the Mortified
bank burglars, was put in $500 bonds
and given forty eight hours To secure
bail, being under keepers during the
time. Thursday night he was in