St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-24

ST. cyOhnsburp Galeduniar.
1T. Johnsbury, VT, Friday. Feb "a. 1882.
Coral and State Hems.
Weather Record.
At Bingham's drug store, for tn
week ending February -, 1852.
Highest. Lowest
{ Thursday, 43 20
Friday, - II
Saturday, 10 .
Sunday. - Il
Monday. 26 %
Tuesday, - "a
Wednesday. - IL
w. j. Bray is building an addition
20x24 it,, to A. n. Bryant's barn OF
Railroad street.
One phase of this Mormon degra
dation is pretty well set forth in sto
~ on the first page of this weeks issue
Town meeting is close at hand
March is the day. If you want t,
vote, get your name on the check list
-Chas. Greene, lately with II. +
Fletcher & Co., has gone on to the ST
j. q l.. G. road as fireman.
On account of the storm on Tues
day, the Galbraith auction is postpon-
ed until March >.
A freight of the track near So
Windham, Me, on Saturday, delayed
the st. j. 4 l.. c. mail from the east
about three hours.
A sociable, with music, tableaux
etc, will be held at the vestry of the
Church of the Messiah Friday evenin =,
February ~.
C. 5. Dana has sold his place on
Main street to Geo. NJ. Howe, manu-
facturer of the brass and tin scoops at
the scale works.
This last snow was deep enough to
drive away the despair which was al
legged to be taking hold of the lumber
men a few days ago.
john Pratt, an employee of the
foundry, AT the scale works, spilled
some melted ore into his boot, on Mon
day, and burned his foot quite badly
Two young ladies (9) called at
the agency last Saturday night and
wanted liquor. Agent Aldrich gave
them Il talking to, but didn't furnish
them with liquor.
Geo. ID. Randall gives up the Rail
road street post office May LIST Wheth-
CT AN office will lie continued down
there or not is one of the things for the
future to decide.
II. c. Kinney having resigned the
office of Scribe of the Grand Encamp-
ment of Vermont, ID. p. Celley of St.
Johnsbury has been appointed to fill
the vacancy.
- II. G. Kinney's friends in the odd
fellows Lodge remembered him, prior
To his departure for Idaho, with an ele-
giant charm and Rebekah Lodge pre-
scented him with Il fine autograph al
bum.
Herbert Allen has been engaged as
clerk in the postoflce, in place of Fred
Brooks, whose trouble with his eyes
prevents his retaining the position.
Fred has had IA hard time with his
eyes, and they are slow to get strong
again.
The editor of the Burlington Clip
per has been giving some attention to
the average advertising agent. He
shows such a comprehension of this
bane of the modern newspaper as
should entitlc him to an encore. Hit
them again they have no friends this
way.
5. NJ. Pettengill y Co., the New
York advertising agents who were
burned out by the recent fire in the
old World building, have located at
Dob Broadway, and are ready to carry
on business, as heretofore, on AN hon
orable basis.
- The celebrated railroad case, Jas.
X. Langdon ct al. vs. the Vermont and
Canada Railroad Co. ct al, which was
To lie argued before the supreme court
at Montpelier this week, has been post
poned until May, owing to the inabili-
ty of one or two Judges to he present.
Liquor sales in this county for the
month of January aggregated as fol
lows : Burke III gals, Danville Il.
Hardwick ~, Kirby u. Lyndon %.
Peacham 10, st. Johnsbury Big gals.
and - bottles porter amounting to
9St gals. Nearly half of the sales at
Peacham were on account of diphtheria.
Geo. W. BOnett's English Mastiff
pup was either poisoned by some vic
ions scoundrel. or else overfcd. while
at tlt nnultT,- Sbnu- Iast ,,-..I- =, =. So.