St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06
Vermont News.

NCNSs
Sylvanus G. Kinds has been made
postmaster of North Hydepark
Rev. j. p. Demerritt of BroOkfield,
has been called to the pastorates in
Jericho and CastletOn, and accepts the
latter.
Mrs. Paine, mother of Judge Paine
of Lowell, Orleans county, at the add
vanced age of ninety years, by a sad
accident has a broken hip, from which
it is believed she will not recover.
The pOstoffice at Castleton has been
in charge of members of the MoultOn
family for 90 years, since its establish
ment- Samuel Moulton 30 years, Gull
len Moulton 10 years, and William
MOultOn, the present incumbent, 20
years.
w. G. Kendall, Bellows Falls hard
ware clerk, left for parts unknown, in
company with 800 belonging to his
employers.
Richard A. Leslie, alias Leslie H.
Scrivens, has been arrested at Chatta-
nOOga, Tenn, on charge of rObbing
the postal cars on the Bennington and
Rutland railroad.
c. H. Carpenter of Enosburg took
5000 pounds of honey from 80 swarms
of bees the past season.
Ed Smith, a Newport boy, became
suddenly insane the other day, and is
in such condition that he has been
taken to Brattleboro. He says he was
bitten by a dog some two months
since, but nobody else knows anything
about that.
A young man named Wilson, hOstler
at Wilson's hotel in Bethel, was in
stantly killed the other afternoon while
absent from home after load of wood.
His body was found by the side of the
road, with indications that he had been
thrown from the wagon and instantly
killed.
BrattlebOro is to have a new indus
try-the manufacture of newly per
fected and patented sewing machine.
The village of Bellows Falls con-
sumes 1900 quarts of milk daily, and
500 of them are furnished by one man.
Chief Justice Pierpoint is steadily
sinking at Nergennes, and all hopes of
his recovery are given over by his
come at any time.
Vergennes is having a hot contest
over the post-Office. There are several
candidates for the pOstmastership, and
the air down that way is said to he full
of 'feeling"
The proprietors of Towns Hotel,
Bellows Falls, have been sued under
the Personal Liability act for $50, 900,
for selling liquor to one Peter Good of
Westminister, who, it is alleged, died
suddenly in consequence.
Governor Farnham has appointed
and commissioned Professor Mead of
Middlebury, Charles E. Putney of st.
JOhnsbury, and President Buckham, as
normal school examiners for the first,
second and third congressional dis
tricts, respectively.
James r. Langdon of Montpelier,
whose taxes amount to S5l1S, means
to test the doubling" section in the
statute of 1880. He had failed to give
the listers a sworn inventory of his
property, and they by the new law
made out his grand list upon double
their appraisal of his personal property.
The constitution of Vermont says that
the rate of taxation shall be uniform,
and on the ground that doubling his
tax is unconstitutional, LangdOn will
have the case entered at the March
term of the Washington county court.
Alexander Stewart receives $1,000
for giving up the suit against the es-
tate of the late A. T. Stewart, and
his son Matthew was also given S25,
ha Inf
all the costs, including a $1,000 fee to
PLAINTIFFS counsel. The people of Proc
torsville believe in the Justice of the
claim, and eX-GOv. Fletcher is report
ed to have stated his conviction that
Alexander Stewart is first cousin of the
dead merchant.
The jury business of Orange county
court closed Thursday. Five cases were
tried by jury. Among the divorce
cases, of which there were l3 new en-
tries, was that of Sylvia Osley against
Lewis Osley, for intolerable severity,
in which Judge Powers, after granting
the bill, said the court was only sorry
that it could not send the parents to
the state prison for compelling their
girl of II to marry a man of 81.
to law, sold % volumes of the Vermont
Reports belonging to the town, but
were soon convinced of their mistake
and cancelled the trade.
William j. Hazeltine, aged 20, of
South StraffOrd, was killed by a falling
limb while chopping in the woods
Thursday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Russell was born IA
years ago i'll Rupert and has just been
arrested at Eagle Bridge, n. Y, for
bigamy. She is said to have been vic
timized by others.
According to the just-issued report
of the comptroller of the currency,
Vermont has AZ national banks with
capital of 81 ,S0l 900 and circulation of
81 1852 $50, deposits of s., 19I ,35I, sur
plus of 81 ,77S ,953 and undivided prof
its of S605 ,046. During the year 1881
losses amounting to $685., 0S4 were
charged off. The banks were taxed
$235, 423 or 80 per cent, and from
March to September paid dividends on
their capital at the rate of 5.4 per
cent.
Mr.. Powell, for many years janitOr
at Middlebury college and the friend
of the boys in all their fights with the
faculty, has at length given up his
place on account of years.
A Rutland hunting party are on the
trail of large panther lately seen in
that vicinity. 1t is supposed to be
first cousin to the one recently killed
in Barnard.
An attempt was made the oath ult.,
at midnight, to set fire to the house of
Dwight b. Thomas, chief of police at
North Bennington. The act is believ-
ed to have been inspired by those in
terested in the sale of li0uor. as Mr.