St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-07

branches a currant bush and null
berry tree. Both these bushes have
borne fruit this season. The plants
are supposed to have come from seeds
left there by birds or squirrels. They
get their support from decOmpOsed
leaves and moss.
c. l.. Fisher of Brattleboro shows
some fine potatoes of the Early Rose
and Beauty of Hebron varieties. From
bushel of Early Rose as seed he got
forty-one bushels in his crop and from
one and one-half bushels of Beauty OF
Hebrons the yield was fifty bushels
Three of the former put on the scales
weigh three pounds and ten ounces,
three of the latter exactly three pounds.
The National bank at Rutland. the
Herald feels called upon to say, has
been thoroughly investigated, and va
rious measures in the way of strength
ening its securities and condition have
been quietly effected of late, under the
personal advice and suggestion of Bank
Examiner Hendee, who left town the
10Th, evidently well pleased with the
situation. No trouble whatever is an
t1cipated.
A Rutland correspondent says that
the famous ''dry shave" case of Cox
against Superintendent Eayres is again
set for trial by jury in the Rutland
county court, where it has already
been tried twice, but the supreme
court on exceptions has reversed the
judgment and ordered new trials. The
first verdict was against Cox, but the
second one was for about $500 damages
in his favor.
Rutland has applied for free deliv-
cry system, the city complying with
the law which requires that the gross
receipts of an office must amount to
100000 and upwards per year, or the
population must exceed twenty thous-
and before the system can be establish
ed. A special agent will be sent there,
and if other requirements are found
satisfactory, free delivery service will
be ordered.
Peter Smith of Burlington sOwed
some pea seed on the 18th of April, and
on the 18th of June the peas were ready
for the table. Mr.. Smith saved and
dried some of the peas, and sOwed
them again on the 2lst day of July.
On the 23d of AuguSt-,just thirty-three
days from the time of sowIng-he
gathered Il fine and well-developed
mess, the pods being large and round
and the peas of unusual size and very
sweet.
A suit has been brought against Gov.
j. b. Page by Samuel +. Villas of Platts-
burgh, n. Y, upon an old Judgment
for about S5O,0O0 obtained in 1880.
against John b. Page, Peter Butler
and George b. Chase. The claim is a
disputed one, and yet to he heard in
the court of appeals of New York. The
litigation has been pending since 1854,
and the claim is IL lien upon the Mont
real and Plattsburgh railroad if it is
finally established.
The grand list of Vermont for the
present year is SI69, 022 ,7S4, against
! l67 ,733,0;2 last year. The valuation
of real estate this year is Sl04, 594 GA !;
last year it was $I06, 372 ,S97. The
valuation of personal property this
year is $40 ,5S6, BIO last year it was
SD, S90,735. The gain in the grand
list this year over last year is ! ,269,-
952. The valuation of real estate has
decreased ! 500, 223, and the valuation
of personal property has increased
- ,695, SIS.
James Diggins of Bellows Falls has
dug the greatest curiosity in the way
of IL potato that has been seen in those
Diggins. 1t had grown in part like an
old tunnel, conforming exactly to it in
shape within the tin, but above no
great stretch of Imagination was re-
quired to convert it into the semblance
of an animal looking over the edge,
possessed with perfect face and hav-
ing caudal appendage, while the rim
of the tunnel, split each side of the
mouth, would answer for tusks of the
imaginary wild boar.
At Burlington's musical festival,
ROSSini's "Stabat Mater" and Sullivan's
oratOriO of the "Prodigal Son" will
form the principal works to be given,
besides selections from 'GOunod's ora
torio of "RedcmptiOn." Among the
famous singers and musicians engaged
are Miss Fanny Kellogg, soprano Miss
Ita WEIGH, cOntralto; Mr.. Wait, tenor;
Mr.. BabcOck, bassO; Mrs. Martha
Dana Sheppard, pianist, and the Bee
thoven club, c. n. Allen, us orchestra.
Rehearsals of the chorus, about $50 in
will begin in September, I'M
der the direction of y. ii. Thompson.
At Hyde Park on Friday morning,
Edmund w. Sumner, son of Adams
c. Sumner of Brooklyn, n. Y, shot |
Sigbert Rogers through the heart with |
Il pistol, the latter dying instantly. |
Both are young men of about eighteen,
and were warmly attached to each |
other. They were together in the res
idence of Mrs. G. O. Rogers, either |
playing with or examining pistols, and |
was known of the affair until |
Sumner rushed out, exclaiming that he |
had shot Rogers. On learning that the |
latter was dead, Sumner became almost |
and was put under the
influence of morphine.
a tramp printer, calling himself C.
II. Brown, has worked on the SwantOn
Courier for two months. Monday of
last week he disappeared, taking sew
eral articles belonging to the office.
He was tracked and run down by the
editor that evening after fording rivers
and doubling through Vermont forests.
On trial he was sentenced to the work
house for three months and costs,
making six months. 1t now transpires
that the fellow is c. S. Packard, son of
DR.. Packard of Westfeld, Mass, and
IS wanted by the Springfield city mar
shall for burglary. He has already
served Il term in the Massachusetts
house of correction.
At last st. Adams is to have a public
nall. DIR. Waugh is converting Union
block on Main street into IA hall with
seating capacity of six hundred and
l stage 20 by % feet, having six
;hanges of scenery painted by George
Evans, who was scenery painter at
Nallack's, in New York city, for many
years. DIR. Waugh has leased the hall
% j. j. Pratt MANAGER of CaDital hall