St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
Vermont News.

News.
At the port of st. Adams for Septem-
Der, Sl3, S3I .73 were received for duties.
Bennington's artesian well has got
down 900 feet and yet there is no
water.
The number of Vermont pensioners
on the pension roll Just issued Is placed
at 1875.
Oscar Eddy of Wallingford will prob
ably lose a hand us the result of gun
ming accident.
Three hundred tons of steel rails for
the MisSisquoi railroad arrived at Bur
lington on Tuesday.
One hundred loaded freight cars were
sent out of the Central Vermont freight
depot in Burlington on Friday.
Frank Hall of Randolph, eighty
years old, died in the police station at
Manchester, n. H., Thursday night.
The ST. Adams BaptistS are to erect a
parsonage, of the Queen Anne style of
street.
Black diphtheria has made its APP
pearance in the southeastern part of
Alburgh, and is raging with terrible
malignity.
| The Vermont Pharmacists associa-
ton hold their annual meeting in Brat
tleboro Wednesday and Thursday of
this week.
The buildings of the Mary
Fletcher hospital ut Burlington, lately
destroyed by fire, are in process of
reconstruction.
Rutland county contains about $40
pensioners, which, at the same ratio of
payment as Rutland, would aggregate
about S6O,OOO per year.
The Lamoille fair company, which
was in Il rather slim financial condition
before the recent fair, will have Il sur
plus of 5000 or over after settling the
bills
Walter Worthen, freight brakeman,
had his hand crushed while coupling
cars, Friday night, at Essex Junction
He had been on the train but few
days.
The thirty third annual meeting OF
the Vermont homeopathic medical so
ciety will be held ut Montpelier on
Wednesday and Thursday of next
week.
The depot at Morrisville was entered
by burglars Monday, but nothing was
obtained as everything of value was
deposited in the safe, which the thief
was unable to open.
The annual match game of football
between the sophomore and freshman
classes of the university of Vermont
was played on Saturday and resulted
in II victory for the former.
At Roxbury, Mrs. j. p. Warner,
hotel, barn and dwelling house, and
Erastus Spaulding's two barns, fifty
tons of hay and sleighs were burned
Friday. The origin of the fire was in
, cendiary. Loss $1,000.
A twO-year-Old son of Gilbert Lane
of Cornwall was severely burned last
Sunday, by accidentally sitting dowr
+ in kettle of boiling hot water. Tn,
= child is still living, but is considered
in precariOus condition.
Joseph Massey, aged eighty years
, and Ann Fuller, forty years old, boil
of whom lived on the town farm il
e Poultney, recently obtained leave o
!, absence, called upon minister in III
adjoining village and were married.
At Burlington on Tuesday, Isaial
Lanya, who attempted to burn til,
3, Mary Fletcher hospital Aug. 81, wa
= sentenced to ten Years in the stat,
prison and fine of so, the state re
quiring both fine and imprisonment.
, A large party of citizens searche,
u the country around st. Adams, Sunday
:. for Charles X. Turner, late janitor o
the public school building, who ha
G been missing since last Tuesday morn
. ing. Turner is siXty-fve years of age
A general term of the Vermont su
preme court is ordered to he held "A
Montpelier commencing October >:
e There are eighty-Seven cases on TIN
docket twelve of them have bee
heard once but are ordered to be re
argued.
n The managers of the Warner HON
=. farm at st. Adams raised this seasO
from three pecks of seed thirty bushel
of potatoes of the Mohawk variety, ant
the home has raised on its own premi
SEES this year about $50 bushels of pc
c tatOes.
It w. II. Kinson of BrattlebOro, Will
V out hunting with a friend recently, ha
4 about thirty shot accidentally dis
=, charged into his breast by the frien
=. who was approaching in an opposit
u direction. The physicians think Kin
son will recover
II Ziba Mason, aged about sixty years
: formerly of Rochester, committed sui
eide by cutting his throat with IA sho
knife, Monday, in his place of business
= at West BrattleborO, adjacent to hi
y sons house, where he was living. DE
II spondency the cause.
r The Vermont Il Canada railroa
company have filed a petition in til
county court, before Chancellor Royce
, praying that the LangdOn suit againS
the Vermont Central may be discontin
d ued-claiming that the plan Of settle
T. ment recently agreed to will he in
operative until the suit is withdraw
Ronello c. White of East Mailing
u ford recently found eleven teeth Will
"A digging ditch through swale on hi
le land. They are about three incht
At long, one inch square also a sma
> jaw bone filed with other singul;
teeth. Some of them were taken
g New York, and all who saw them sa
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