St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-11

p. p. Ripley, formerly OF the Orange
county Herald, has perfected and is
having patented "A valuable fire es-
cape.
Col. w. C. Holbrook of New York,
who was colonel of the 9TH Vermont
regiment, will deliver the address at
Cavendish.
Benjamin A. Farr of Cabot, private
in the fourth Vermont regiment, has
been granted pension of 1882 after
contest of many years.
The Baptist church at BrattleborO F.
has voted to call Rev. f. E. Tower of !
Allston, Mass, where he has been pas !
tor for over eleven years.
Ex-Gov. Proctor is to present the |
town of Cavendish fine soldiers mon !
ument on Internationally, when il |
grand celebration is projected.
Governor Barstow has appointed
Hon. Loveland Munson judge of pro-
bate for the Manchester district, vice
Hon. Ranney Howard, deceased.
Martin d. Toby of Calais is reported
as having made 200O pounds of sugar
from 497 trees this spring. II. II. Me
Loud has made only 600 pounds from
500 trees.
Josiah Kibbee of Brookfeld, who
died the other day ut the age of eighty
six, left ten children, twenty seven
grand children and sixteen great
grand children.
A South Royalton man has IA Dutch
COW which has furnished milk and
cream for IL family of eight persons,
| hnS IN ha #
SII9.50 in one year.
1t is rumored that IA party of capital
lists from Philadelphia and Plattsburgh
will build narrow guage road from
Port Kent to Ausable chasm, and
eventually to Keeseville.
j. G. TAYLOR of Brattleboro, Il com
mercial traveller, is negotiating for the
purchase of the Pavilion, Montpelier,
and it is expected that the hotel will
be sold to him. The price is under
stood to be SO, 900.
Miss Fannie Royce of White Creek
Washington county, \. Y, has con-
fessed that she is mother and her
dead child has been found near there.
She charges Bennington doctor with
malpractice. Arrests will he made.
Edison Blanchard of Guilford, was
found dead on the haymow in his barn,
the other night. 1t is supposed that
he went up to get down hay for the
cattle, and was seized with heart dis
ease. He leaves wife and daughter.
j. Battell of Middlebury has bought
| 200 to 800 acres of wild land in
Ripon, Hancock and Granville in a
body, and proposes to enclose Il deel
park, using barbed wire, and stock il
. with fifty deer, at a cost of - per
] head.
The supreme court at Boston has
granted divorce to Ellen \. Waite
daughter of Rev. IL. X. Flagg, former
: ly preacher for the Christian Advent
1 society of Rutland, from the notoriou,
Rev. Arthur \. Waite, also formerly OF
Rutland.
Gen. John w. Phelps. nearly seven
ty years old, historian author of til,
first emancipation proclamation during
e the late war, and anti Masonic candi
| date for the presidency. was married
recently, to Mrs. Anne b. Davis. age,
about thirty, in BrattleborO, by Bishop
Bissell.
Judge Jairus Crossett of DuXbury
e They were set in trench, protected
. by straw and covered by ten inches o
earth leaving il hole for ventilation
There were no heads when put in, bu
came out with fine crisp heads ten inch
= es in diameter.
Il As David Magoon of Washington
:. seveHty-three years old, was riding ol
- Il load of hay toward South Washing
: ton, April 26, one side of the Wagon
l. suddenly setting into IL deep gulley o
It the road he fell and striking on hi
t back and head received some if no
q mortal injuries.
The wife of Capt. 5. f. Durham,
Rutland insurance man, died sud
" denly in Boston Sunday, where sh
II was under medical treatment, her hus
= band being confined to his Rutlan,
= home with rheumatism. Capt. Burn
=, ham is brother of Mary +. Burnhan
u principal of the Northampton school.
" A despatch from sorrento, Fla, an
nounces the death of James NJ. Camp
IL bell, formerly for twenty-five years ed
+, itOr and proprietor of the Manchestc
p Union. He was Il native of Hennikel
\. H., and was siXty-iive years of age
He bought the Union in 1851, and kep
IS it till 1876, when he went to Florida
$ bought a tract of land and began tn
If cultivation of oranges.
IS The new school building at Brattle
- bOro will he of brick, two stories higl
80 with mansard, 90 by I24 feet in size
'r with halls twenty feet wide cXtendin
II through the building. The gramma
department will he on the first tloo
in and the high and intermediate on tn
: second. Spacious library and appara
- tus rooms are also on this floor. In
proved ventilating apparatus will l.
$ introduced, and the building will h
a. heated by steam.
a A young man left northern Vernon
/ a number of years since for Mexico an
-, at the time of his departure he present
VI ed young lady with Il bottle of super
al maple syrup sealed up tight with il
at structiOns to preserve it until his II
turn then they would open it and HAY
feast of buckwheat cakes and map
syrup. In fifteen years he returned
es his former home but his lady frieu
o. had married and resided in Castleto
IN He visited her there and the bottle ";
opened and used as above mentione
W The syrup was as delicious as on ii
al day it was boiled.
General News.
ly Eight fishing arrivals reported