St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-12-15
Vermont News.

The reform school inmates enjoyed
n substantial Thanksgiving dinner.
A new project at Bellows Falls is
the creation of valuable water privi-
lege.
Rev. C.. 5. Sargent is to be installed
pastor of the Congregational church
ut New Haven.
Gov BarstOw has appointed Hon.
Charles Dewey of Montpelier state in
spector of finance.
The Vermont academy cleared $4,000
by its recent fair ut SaXtons River.
The money will aid poor students.
John Livingston of Coventry got
his neck broken on the Both, by be-
ing thrown from IL sleigh in BarnstOn,
Quebec.
Walter Bailey, freight conductor,
who was run over by train at Man
Sonville station, died from his inju-
ries, at North Troy.
Fifty-six rum shops under the shad-
ow of the capitol at Montpelier, and
still the prohibitOry law works add
mirably Exchange.
George Chittenden of Wells, while
hunting, accidentally discharged his
rifle, and the ball passed through his
foot and lodged i'll the sole of his shoe.
Mrs. Lucy Curtis, the oldest person
in Randolph, nearly l0I years of
fell the other day, and it is very
doubtful about her recovery.
Myron NJ. Parker, assistant pOstmas-
ter of the city of Washington, who
was removed by the president, is Il
Nermonter. He went from Cambridge,
LamOille county, to Washington sever
al years ago.
A singular accident happened to a
| little son of A. ID. Whitman of Ches
ter, last week. The boy was skating,
and fell backward upon the ice with
such force as to fracture his skull.
/ His recovery is doubtful.
An India ink portrait of the late
| President Garfield has been given the
state by Governors Barstow and Pin
gree and others. 1t is said to he an
excellent likeness and is the work OF
j. Grundy Converse, a NermOnter liv-
| ing at st. Louis.
/ Gov. Barstow first sent to the senate
/ the nomination of Judge Thompson, OF
| lrasburgh, for tax commissioner, but
the nomination was rejected by vote
of IL to Il. He then nominated Hon
| w. p. Dillingham;, who was unani-
mOIsly confirmed and without delay.
A Ferrisburgh farmer places a mort
gage of $1,000 on a productive farm
and invests the money in buying and
shipping hay. Another Ferrisburgh
farmer, who owned over 600 acres OF
fertile land and did the same thing
has just received his discharge in the
court of bankruptcy.
We learn from the supplement of d
neighboring weekly that one of Her
bert Spencer's greatest works was
''The Origin OF Species" This an
nOuncement is touchingly accompan-
led with a thoughtful woodcut of Her.
bert Spencer leaning upon his hand
trying to remember when he wrote
that great work Brattleboro Pho.
nix.
Gov. Barstow appointed as the state
dental commission James Lewis of Bur.
lington, O. p. Forbush of Montpelier
I l.. T. Lawton OF Rutland, G.. II. Swift o.
Manchester and X. NJ. Chase of Bethel
The law constituting this board was
passed by the recent Legislature, anC
all persons intending to practice den.
tistry in Vermont must be examined by
it.
Hon. Frederick Billings of Wood
stock, with characteristic generosity
has completed and presented to til,
I ronuraUatinnal church Of NTnaI.t,.I
an elegant and finely finished par.