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

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Col. Hooker, at present sergeant-at-
arms of the House, is announced as a
candidate for the secretaryship of the
Senate. He is backed by Senator Ed
munds and other senators who are OPP
posed to Mr.. Gorham's candidacy.
Rev. Henry A. Rodgers of Montpelier
has accepted IA call to become pastor of
a Baptist church in Worcester, Mass.
and will begin his duties the first Sun
day in January. He has been located
for nearly five years at Montpelier.
L. NJ. Flagg, native of Windham
county, who has been in Italy for some
four years, engaged i'll the study of vo-
cal music, recently made his debut in
opera with such success, that he has
been engaged to sing in grand opera,
at Pistori, Italy.
Charles LadeuX of Checkerberry
| (Milton) received recently from the
pension department, $500, back pen
sion making about $1,000 that has gone
to Checkerberry in the last five years as
back pension and pay, besides an an
ual income of about $1,000.
A firm from COoperstown. n. Y.
have bought tract of swamp ash tim
Der in MonktOn and are shipping hop
poles by railroad to various points in
Massachusetts and New York. The
poles are cut % feet in length and
average p inches at the butt.
In the year 1881 the whole number
of marriages in the state was 2,763,
and of divorces los. The ratio of di-
vorces to marriages is | to l6.5. Since
1873, when the divorces were 1917, the
divorces for each year respectively
have been 1916, 100, l26 and l6S.
Bridget Kennedy of Rutland, charged
with dealing i'll rum, was found guilty
Thursday of 295 otfenses, the penalty
for which is Il fine of 5000 and one
month imprisonment. If Bridget can
not pay her fine or get bail, she may
spend half century at the house of
correction.
The Bennington county ministerial
association in session at Rev. DIR. Wick
hams at Manchester, on Dec 5th,
passed unanimous vote of approval
of their opposition to the late proposed
constitutional amendment, because of
its discrimination in favor of native
wine and cider.
A child was recently born to Mr..
and Mrs. Frank LathrOp of Dorset,
which received its first dressing a the
hands of its great grandmother. This
same child has living, besides its par
ents, one grandfather, two grandmoth-
ers, two great grandfathers, and two
great grandmothers.
Mrs. Nesbit, aged 20 years, of Dux-
bury, cut her throat with ii razor on
the 9th. No cause can be assigned as
she was in usual health, and no mental
arrangement was observed. She lived
with her daughter, Mrs. Samuel Foster,
i'll DuXbury. This makes four suicides
i'll that vicinity since last June.
Thursday afternoon, Mrs. Bailey OF
East Fairfield left her two children, one
two years of age and the other about
five, alone in Il crib, while she went out
for il few minutes. During her absence
the children played with the fire and
the oldest one was burned to death, the
other one being so badly injured that ii
cannot live.
With the close of the present official
year General VIM. f. Lewis. town
clerk of Norwich, will have served the
town i'll that capacity for forty years
j continuously. For many years he has
also filled the Office of town treasurer.
During the same time he has also rep
resented the town in the Legislature
for six years.
Mrs. Bridget Kennedy was convicted
at Rutland of 295 second offences oi
retailing Intoxicating liquor, could
neither procure bail in the sum neces-
| SopV nr1nr 70 annual NOR nov a fiOa
and costs, and so has gone to the house
of correction. The fine and costs ag-
gregate about $1,000 and Mrs. Ken
nedy's term i'll the house of correction
will therefore be nearly fifty years.
Almon Meaker, the child murderer,
whose sentence has been mitigated, is
said to be working industriously at
Windsor, trimming sOles for shoes
His mother, who is to hang on the last
Friday of next March, still feigns mad
ness, is quiet and violent by turns and
begs piteOusly at intervals that her life
be spared. She will he the first woman
hanged in the state. Almon seems to
care little about her fate.
The wife of DIR. Bailey, of NORTH
POwnal, who has practiced medicine
here for several years, has suffered
poor health for some time from I'M
known causes. 1t is now said that hel
husband administered Opiates, keeping
heI in a stupor for days together. She
: became very much emaciated, and
some of the villagers called upon hin
and advised him to leave the place
He therefore left for parts unknown.
Monkton has IA sensation in the sud.
den and mysterious disappearance O
. young graduate of the Burlington
medical school, who was rapidly ac.
quiring an excellent practice at Monk
ton Ridge. The other night the young
doctor dropped his valise from tn,
bedroom window of his boarding nous,
and stole away to unknown regions
No cause is known for his sudden de
parture, though people say there's :
woman in the case.
The little village of Waterville Is
greatly excited over the singular con
ditiOn of IA dead body recently eXhum-
ed there. Several men were engaged
in removing the bodies of an ageC
couple, who had been dead some TWEEN
ty-three years. The body of the hus
band was found in the usual condition
; nothing being left of it but the crumb
ling bones. When they tried to rails,
the coffin of the wife, however, it.
great weight for Il time resisted al
their efforts. At last it was brought Il
the surface by the united strength o
five men, and being opened disclosed
the body in a state of petritication
perfectly preserved, but turned to {
dark mahogany color, almost black
Every feature was like marble; not {
line or expression of the face but what
was perpetuated in stone. 1t is esti-
: mated that the weight of the body mus
: have been about five hundred pounds.