St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-31
Vermont News.

The potato fields throughout Orleans
county have been struck by rust.
The potato crop of Vermont bids fair
to excel that of any season for the past
twenty years.
The two mills of O. & A. H. Buck of
Johnson cut annually some 1000, 200
feet of lumber.
The Seventh Vermont regiment held
their reunion at Burlington on Tuesday
and Wednesday.
The Morrisville band will furnish the
music for the Lamoille county fair,
Sept. p and %.
BrattleborO will contribute three
quartettes to the Episcopal choir festi-
val at Bellows Falls.
Smith Hunt of Barton has eighty-five
swarms of bees that have produced
this season 900 pounds of honey.
A subscription paper is in circulation
for the building of church ut Green's
bOro Bend, with $500 already signed.
The Reformcr says BrattlebOro has
spent So, 100 in fifteen years in cart
ing dirt on the streets and then carting
it out.
The ninth annual meeting of the
Women's Christian Temperance union
will be held at West Randolph, Sept.
20 and 81.
Mrs. Samuel 5. Judd of Windsor
has raised twelve canarics-more than
half of them singers one pair
this season.
The September term of the Wind
ham county court begins at Newfnne,
September u. The docket is not as
large as usual.
The BrattlebOrO bailitfs have order
ed telephone fire alarm, putting one
instrument in the engine house and one
at the chief engineers house.
The Brattleboro Reformer, since its
enlargement and appearance in eight
page form, is one of the largest and
best weekly papers in Vermont.
1t is said that thirty four and three
quarters inches of rain fell in Brattle-
boro from Jan. to the present time.
Only one inch of it fell in january.
In addition to that made by hotel
keepers and individuals, the three St.
Albans dealers dispose of fifty gallons
of ice-cream week during the season.
A Bennington man has taken out a
patent on boat centrebOard made in
sections, which, when not in use, NAV
be drawn up side by side and held in
a case.
A freight train last week made the
run from Montpelier Junction to Essex
Junction, a distance of thirty-three
miles, including six stops, in fifty five
minutes.
A Bellows Falls merchant advertised
to present Il fine colored Autograph of
a handsome dog to all persons purchas-
ing spool cotton or other goods on GER
tain days.
Kendall Il Ladd of Windsor have |
been awarded letters patent, dated
Aug. II, 1883, for tube which facili- |
tates the insertion of the wick in kero-
sene oil burners.
The Glen house at West Brattleboro,
occupied by a. }. Hooker for hotel
and A. X. Jones as store, was burned |
on the 22d, at Il loss from $4,000 to |
$4,000; insured.
A new town by the name of "Kings- |
ley" in honor of n. p. Kingsley of
Rutland, has been surveyed and plot
ted out in the southern part of Ply
mouth county, Iowa.
A skull, bearing bullet mark, and |
two skeletons have been unearthed at
the old battlefield of Bennington.
They are thought to have been the re-
mains of American soldiers.
Andrew Ross, cashier of the National
bank of Vergennes, was thrown from
N,lt l,.
tanned severe scalp wound and
slight conclusion of the brain.
A large, new barn, belonging to Eu-
gene Judson of Arlington, was struck
by lightning and burned, containing
several tons of hay and 1000 bushels
Of oats, besides other property; no in
surance.
A party of thirty sent ont by the
Fresh-air fund - ten mothers and
twenty children, besides six infants so
small that they do not count-are being
by the heirs of TrCnor w.
Park at Bennington.
Oliver Holt, seventy years old, was
run over and killed on the iron bridge
near Hartland, on the morning of the
I'D. One foot was cut off, and he was
fearfully mangled.
In Addison county the apple crop
will not average over fifty per cent of
last years crop. At Hinesburgh, Chit
tenden county, the probability is that
there will not lie 1000 barrels of cider
made, as there was last year.
Hemenway, who was shot by Rock
wood ut Bennington recently, has been
placed under $1,000 bonds for his APP
perance before the grand jury, and
s4OO to keep the peace. lockwood
probably will not be arrested.
The old Advent church at Rutland
mas been sold for ! 800 to \. l.. Davis,
who will have it moved off and con-
Terted into a tenement building. The
church has purchased a lot and will
put up a new building at once.
One day last week there were three
unerals and four interments at Bellows
Falls, which is probably without prece
lent in the history of the village, and
/ further singular circumstance was
hat the dead were all twin children.
Educational meetings are to be held
~ State Superintendent Dart as fol-
ows: East Berkshire, Sept. 4, Shell :
lon, Sept. ), Franklin, Sept. q, Bakers
ield, Sept. Z, Alburgh Centre, Sept. J.
,wanton, Sept. IL, Milton, Sept. l3 and
4.
The raspberry season closed on the ,
LIST. The shipments from North Troy
tation have varied from six to I04