St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-07
Vermont News.


on account of ill-health.
Rev. S. II. Emery, pastor of the Bel
lows Falls Baptist church, has accept ,
ed call to Salem, Mass.
Henry Billings of West Windsor fell {
from the high beams of his barn, break {
ing an arm and rib. ,
A little two year old child of George
Round, of WallingfOrd, fell into tub
of hot water and was scalded to death.
Aided by thirty-two physicians,
Rutland is enabled to boast of the
finest cemeteries in Vermont.
The Congregationalists of Whining
ton raised the debt on their new church
at the dedication.
Over eleven tons of poultry were
shipped from Mortified last week,
more than eight tons being sent by L.
A. Kimball.
Congressman John w. Stewards
family will not go to Washington to
live this season, as the delicate state
of Mrs. Stewards health forbids it.
The first gold ingot from|TAe Ply
mouth mine is worth 81 ,92l. 1t was
made from the October clearing up, |
and the November product is expected
to he larger.
A Pittsfield teacher thrashed boy, |
suit was brought against her, and a
iurv decided that she did the proper
thing in bringing the boy to time by
means of the rod.
Rev. George C. Thomas, pastor of the
Tinmouth Methodist church, died OF
pneumonia, after two days illness.
Rev. Leavitt Bartlett, a native of
Coventry, has received the appoint
ment of home missionary superlnten-
dent of New Mexico and Arizona.
Oscar Atwood, principal of the Rut-
land high school has been obliged by
i'll health to relinquish his duties for
the present.
Mrs. Lavinia Lincoln of Chelsea died
on the 23d inst, aged ninety years.
She had committed many of Isaac
Watts HYMNS and could correctly
specify the particular version of the
psalm the famous writer had aimed to
interpret.
Win Sweat, while attempting to
Jump from IL moving train at Newport
Center, the 2lst, received quite severe
collar bone. 1t is thought that he will
recover.
The extensive barn and Outbuildings
, of George Campbell, breeder of blOoded
sheen, were burned at Westminster,
Friday, night, with their contents, in
GLIDING sixty-fOur valuable sheep.
Loss Sl0,0O0.
The mail carrier from Pownal Center
entered church during Thanksgiving
service and shouted, POSTMASTER,
t what shall | do with this mail 7" A
= smile was visible on the p. Ms face.
d. w. Shepard has found three feet
under the ground ut BrattlebOrO, a long
: round stone, presumably an Indian
y club. 1t is of peculiar kind of stone,
- but common i'll that vicinity.
| While Gilman l.. Grant of Stock k
II t"'ia "''o UiPPUu' NOI IN SICfI ii HdufoI
= us to throw him under the load, and he
t was crushed to death. He was fifty
= eight years old.
Il C. l.. Kinds and wife of Chester
). went to Cambridgeport to spend
= Thanksgiving and when they returned
i discovered that their nephew, Howard
;. Kinds, who had lived with them the
Il past two months, was missing will
t between 800 and $500 left in the
!. house.
Three days ago there came a man
y some twenty five years old into Rich,
i mOnd. He has stayed in the woods
near Jonathan Fay's three nights and
has built a little brush fire. He has
= not been known to get any provisions
II to eat and is dressed with cotton pants
+, ragged shirt and old coat. He il
u doubtless insane.
. While Erdix Bacon, middle-aged
I farmer of Chelsea, was leading home a
, heifer the heifer turned upon him
hooked him severely over the right eye
and then running dragged him along
the frozen ground, scraping the skin
and hair from the scalp for a space of
three inches or more. When found
directly after he was insensible, and
scarcely recovered his senses during
the day.
! Chas. Il. Ennis, colored barber OF
\ st. Adams, was found dead Wednesday
, morning at the north end of the rail
road paint shop. He left home appar-
? emily in his usual health to go to his
. shop, and it is supposed he fell in fit,
, or with heart disease, and died at once
! Ennis had been addicted to drink, and
!, IA bottle containing choral was found
o on him.
5 p. Gilrain's little girl, aged about
five years, was killed at Rutland Nov.
9th. She, together with several other
5 children, was playing about mortar
: box resting against fence. In some
way the box was overturned and fell
t upon the little girl, crushing her to the
= earth.
) Taylor J. Farmer, a blacksmith, liv-
| ing just north of Rutland, died sudden
, ly at the Central house Nov. 9th.
l Farmer had been drinking heavily for
: some days. He went to the Central
d. house livery stable and asked for a
2 team to take him home. While it was
, being hitched up he dropped down in
I a bunk close by. When the team was
, ready he was called, but no reply be-
l ing received he was approached and
discovered to be dead. He was about
; thirty-tive years of age.
1t appears that young Sherwin, who
: left BrattlebOrO so mysteriOusly about
three weeks ago and was last heard
from in Springfield, wrote to a Boston
man that he was on his way to Augusta,
Ga, where he expected to engage in
business. 1t is said that he had been
unsuccessful in some small speculation
in Boston, involving an obligation
which he was at the time unable to
meet.
Frederick Billings has increased his
gift to the university of Vermont at
Burlington for library building from
S75, 200 to 100000. The foundation
is already laid. NOrcross Bros. will
put up building of Longmeadow sand