St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-07-21
Vermont News.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.


were bathing from raft, in the rail-
road pond, one of them, John Nichols,
became entangled in a patch of eel
grass. He exhausted himself with
Intellectual struggling, and sank before
assistance arrived. The body was re-
covered, but life was found to be ex-
tinct
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
E. r. Powell of Burlington has just
received patent for metallic fence
post and clamping device.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A man giving the name of Sanford
Sherwood came into st. Adams terri
bly, bruised and cut about the face
He said he was the victim of assault
and highway robbery, but his story is
discredited by the train men, who say
that Sherwood was pulled out drunk
from under a trestle-work.
Sunday morning, about 9 o'clock
flames were discovered issuing from
the engine house of the st. Johnsbury
Il Lake Champlain railroad, at Swan
ton. The alarm was extended through
the village and in a short time a large
number of citizens had gathered at
the scene of the contlagration. A rusl
was made for the three locomotives
inside the building, and by hard work
they were all pushed out of the round
house before any damage was done to
the machines. Several cars were also
got out from the burning building
The structure being of wood was rap
idly consumed and burned to the
ground. The fire is supposed to have
caught from the sparks of the lOcOmO-
tive which had been run into the house
the night previous.
ORANGE COUNTY.
The champion tactical artist halls
from Braintree. The following is his
record : Willis Howard MIXED, last
Friday evening, seven cows in thirty
three minutes; the longest time OF
milking one COW was seven minutes
the shortest was two minutes.
Mrs. Melvin Dickinson of Corinth,
has been badly poisoned by potato
bugs which she was crushing on a rock
A small particle of the matter flew and
struck her lip she Immediately wiped
it off and washed it thoroughly a,
soon as she reached the house, but she
has suffered severely f1Om the effect Of
it since, but is now recovering.
A 15-year-old son of John Conway
of Brookfield, died recently from lock-
jaw, induced by wound in one of his
hands made by toy pistol few days
before.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Henry Badger of Irasburg was taken
violently crazy Sunday afternoon, and
the doctors fear congestion of the
brain.
Geo. w. Bridgman, G. E. Rowell,
John G. Hall and Geo. Reed, all OF
Barton, are each to build a silo fol-
this seasons crop.
AT Albany, while some children were
at play about doctor CampbelPs new
barn last Thursday night after the
wOrkmen had left, Willie, son of the
doctor, met with fall and broke his
left leg above the knee.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
Julius ID. Scott of Waterville, left
town last week, for Denver, Colorado
He is the last member of a family OF
five persons who have gone West al
three different times within a few
weeks.
| RUTLAND COUNTY.
AS the steam tug Oliver Bascom was
passing Benson Landing with a large
tow, little boy by the name of La
fOuntaine fell overheard from one OF
the barges and was drowned.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Freddie Putnam, little nine-years-
old Middlesex boy, while fishing from
a rock, fell into deep water and was
drowned before his companion could
summon assistance.
John Driscoll of Waterbury, is held
in $1,000 for an alleged attempt to shoot
lawyer II. C. Platt and his son at Mil
ford, n. II.
Pensions have been recently granted
to the following persons: Michael
O'Day, Waterbury, S24 per month
with $1,000 arrears Elizabeth Taylor
of Waitsfield, a dependent mother,
$1,000 and So per month (; Captain
John w. Clark, Montpelier, $500 and
S24 a month.
WINDHAM COUNTY.
Horace, son of the late Aurelius C,
Howard of Townshend, lies in a crit
cal condition at Ogdensburg, n. Y.
from a pistol wound in the head, but
how it was received is unknown.
Young Howard is a graduate of Shelf
field scientific school and of the law
school at Ann ArbOr, Mich.
Vernon was recently the scene of a
lamentable accident by which Henry
Aldrich, an insane man, lost his hand
He obtained goods at CrOwell's store
at South Vernon by singular repre-
sensations. Clerk Esterbrooks under
took to get them back. Aldrich VIC
lently kicked at the clerk, who caught
his foot and threw him upon the knife
of a cradle, inflicting a wound so Sc
we're as to render amputatiOn necessa-