St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25
Vermont News.


packages of sugar, aggregating u, $50
pounds.
VIM. \. Russell gives new organ to
the Bellows Falls Congregational
church.
Rev. 5. II. Emery, Baptist, of Bel
lows Falls, has accepted call to Leo
minister, Mass.
Charles |. Eddy and George A. Brown
are to be the speakers ut Bellows Falls
on Memorial-day.
II. f. Taylor, chief mastering officer,
has organized Grand Army post at
Chester with - members.
Bennington is to have new knit
ting mill which will begin operations
about the middle of July.
1t is probable that II. w. Love of
Rutland will bring several suits for Ii
bel and false Imprisonment.
The Brattleboro sewing machine
company now employs between 10 and
30 men and turns out 20 machines Il
day.
The grand list of Burlington is about
S63,OOO, Il decrease of S6.OOO. on ac-
count of the withdrawal of corporation
property.
"Bohette," the opening story of the
jane Wide Awake. is from the pen of
Miss Mary Edmunds, daughter of Sen
ator Edmunds.
\ Castleton man has cultivated his
garden thirty years without enriching
it particle. But il is not thriving
garden, however.
Il
authorized the Clement National bank
of Rutland to begin business with
capital of SlOO,0OO.
James Mitchell of Burlington, who
resigned the Office of county commits
Sioner of Chittenden county, has been
appointed city liquor agent by his sue
CeSSOr.
In the United States court at Wind
sOr, Thursday, the ease of solomon NJ.
Field of Newport, accused of passing
counterfeit money, was continued to
May - for trial.
\ trunk telephone line to connect
Rutland and the larger Vermont towns
with keene, Springfield, Hartford and
other cities, is now building between
BrattleborO and Keene.
Frederick Billings of Woodstock and
New York has lately erected il hand
some brick church in the Montana
town on the Northern Pacific railroad
which is named after him.
Senator Morrill,, who has Just cele-
brated his seventy-third birthday, at
the expiration of his present term will
have served thirty years in Congress-
n ~ i,rl,t
the Senate.
o. c. Bailey of Illinois is in Brattle-
boro making preparations to re-organ
ize the anti Masonic party of Vermont.
state convention is to he held ut
Montpelier on the 9TH and 9th of June
for this purpose.
Col. X. Haskins of BrattIeboro has
raised quite large sum among the
lawyers of Windham county for the
monument to he erected in memory of
the late Judge Pierpoint by the Yer
mont bar association.
Much Inconvenience is caused to
workmen of the Howe Scale company
of Rutland, on account of the company
being behind in the payment of their
employees. More than two months
The grand list of Brattleboro shows
an increase. The total is S:.662, 632
against S;},5I3,997 last year. But last
year there was S34,3S of railroad
property which comes out under the
new law this year. On the same basis,
therefore, the increase is SlS3,O73.
The following are the new officers of
the Montreal and Vermont Junction
railroad: j. 5. Brigham, president; J.
Gregory Smith, vice-president A. II.
GilmOur, secretary and treasurer: j.
Gregory Smith and Jed Clark, man
aging directors, and j. \. ID. Hatch,
auditor.
While sorting paper stock in the
State Line mill of the Stark Paper Co.
of North Bennington, Hattie Hall found
three new rings, one containing soil
taire diamond valued at SI23. The
other two, while containing no dia-
monds, evidently had at some time,
and doubtless their settings will be
found.
Owing to a fatal defect in the war
rant, the criminal complaint against
II. w. Love for blackmal and on which
he was arrested. will he noIle pressed
Probably another complaint will be
sworn ont against him on the same
charge. This Will dispose also of the
habeas corpus proceedings pending be-
fore Judge Neazey.
The new college chapel of the uni |
verSity of Vermont. which was formal |
ly opened last week, is to he distinctly
Il memorial chapel, containing memo |
RE r., a a
the college and memorial tablets to
students who fell in the war and to the /.
benefactorS of the institution. The I
chapel will be dedicated next fall.
The following is a list of proposed
Vermont fairs for lsS3: Dog River |
Valley, Northtield. Sept. 25-27 Mad /.
River Valley, Waitsfeld, Sept. p 20
Worlds, Tunbridgc, Oct. 81; Rutland |
County, Rutland, Sept. 81; State
Fair. Burlington. Sept. IO-I4: Union |
Exhibition society, st. Adams, Sept. |
81; Franklin County, August - 81. |
Good Cheer, the bright little month
ly published at Greenfield, Mass. bv .
II. ID. Watson, at the low price of fifty .
cents a year, brings ont an excellent .
May number. 1t contains interesting
and instructive articles upon American .
artists and writing for the press: a de-
lightful little natural history sketch bv
Ernest Ingersoll; story for boys by
W. .. StOddard; one for older readers
10y Mrs. NJ. p. Handy; the third and
last installment of the lively serial
"The House Opposite - a story for
very little,ones by Ada Carleton Stod-