St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-12-22
Vermont News,

Mrs. Abigail 5. Livingston, relict OF
the late Horace Livingston, died at St
Alhans, aged eighty three.
James Kennedy of Rutland, husband
of the woman just convicted of 295 of
lenses of liquor selling, is arrested on
a similar charge.
Scarlet fever has broken out at Bel
lows Falls and the St. Agnes ladies
school has closed, three or four pupils
having the disease.
Albert FleebOttee, aged twenty-five.
was caught by bridge while trying to
board moving train at Ludlow, Sat
urday, and was killed.
George NJ. Kidder, an old and we'll
known resident of SwantOn, died
Thursday afternoon, the 18th, at the
advanced age of eighty-seven years.
1t is understood that the contract for
building the Burlington and North
eastern railroad will be signed this
week. The road will cost in the vicini-
ty of S3O0,000, more or less.
Willie Dennis, at work with thresh-
ing machine ut c. F. Robinson's at
South Hero, had his right arm drawn
into the cylinder and so mangled and
crushed that it had to be amputated.
Rev. A. NJ. Freeman has rendered his
resignation of the Free Will Baptist
church at North Tunbridge, to take eff
feet at the close of his ministerial wear.
He has been settled there for five
years.
There are seventy switches, or chang
es of tracks, i'll the yards at Essex
,InnrtInn and
passenger trains there at the same
time, to say nothing of the various
freights.
Joseph Flanders pleads guilty to
stealing two horses from Chester S.
Elmer of FeTisburg and is sentenced
to two years in the state-prisOn. Jo-
seph Washburnc, who planned the
stealing, is still at large in Canada.
Henry Sheldon of Bennington found
among some oysters lin IL shelD which
he had received, one to which was fast
ened clay tobacco pipe with stem
an inch long. Probably the pipe had
been dropped by Il fisherman into a bed
of oysters. a longer stem has been
attached to the pipe, and the question
now arises how to dispose of the oyster
without opening the shell.-[Troy
Press.
The GAINESVILLE (Wis.) Recorder of
Nov. - contains an account of the
wedding anniversary of Hon. and Mrs.
}. l.. Dickson of that place, who were
formerly residents of this state-Mrs.
Dickson being Il daughter of James
Stevens of Danville; and Mr.. Dickson
also being native of Caledonia coun-
ty. They were among the early set
tiers of GAINESVILLE.
A portion of the appropriations of
S5OOO for the state prison will be used
tC build barn and piggery, and to re-
place the old wooden doors of the pris-
on cells with iron grated doors of mod
ern style, which will admit more light
to the cells, and so arranged that the
door of each tier of cells can be locked
and unlocked simultaneously by a lev
er worked at one end. Each convict
now has to be locked in and let out of
his cell separately by a turnkey"
which takes considerable time. On
Sundays, when the prisoners are al
lowed to read in their cells, it is neces-
sary to furnish kerosene lamps to ena-
bic them to read.
One of our best known tOwnsmen.
Noble b. Flanagan, died Sunday. Mr..
Flanagan was a native of Hinesburgh,
where he was born July 10, 1872. He
was thus seventy years and five months
of age at the time of his death. In
1857 he was elected sheriff of Chitten-
den county and thereupon took up his
residence in this city and has ever since
lived here. He held the office of sher-
if for eight years and made a most
creditable record as a prompt, fearless
and faithful officer. An achievement
which made him famous was the hunt
ing down and bringing to Justice John
Ward, the murderer of Mrs. Griswold |
"a piece of detective work that was
really remarkable Burlington Free
Press.
Two WoOdfOrd men, while walking |
on mountain road, thought they heard |
noises at little distance in |
the woods. Creeping nearer they dis
groaning and snOrting
sounds, and concluding that it must be
a ghost they took to their heels and
made the best of their way down the
BY the time they had
reached the borders of civilization,
heir terror of the supernatural had
and they determined to go
Jack and see what sort of creature