St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-15

DR.. Daniel Dustin, of Craftsbury,
aged eighty five years, died June Sd.
DR.. Dustin has been a practicing ply
stefan in the town for more than fifty
years.
DR.. H. C. Day has a well-preserved
English penny, which was recently dug
up on the battlefield of Bennington. 1t
was coined during the reign of George
H., and bears the date 1888.
Among the internal ornaments of the
new library building of the University
of Vermont will he marble bust of
the late Hon. &c, p. Marsh, the gift of
Mrs. Marsh, and portrait in oil of the
late Prof. Joseph TOrrey.
Henry Woodbury. of North Troy,
aged fifteen years, nephew of Judge
Thompson of Irasburgh, was drowned
Friday evening while driving logs in
the river. His body was found thirty
minutes after, but efforts to resuscitate
were unsuccessful.
The trial of the six young men charg-
ed with assault upon Henry Darrell was
concluded at Woodstock Saturday.
The jury returned verdict of assault
with intent to kill against all the re-
spOndents. A motion will probably be
made to set aside the verdict.
The plans prepared by H. H. Rich
ardsOn of BroOkline, Mass, for the Ii
brary building to be erected for the
University of Vermont, through the
liberality of Hon. Frederick Billings,
have been accepted, and work upon
the building will be begun at once.
DR.. n. c. Lettings died in New York
of chronic Bright's disease on Saturday.
He was born in Burlington March 4,
1924. DR. Lettings was one of the
pioneers of early Californian history,
making voyage as ships surgeon in
1919, and remaining i'll California six
months.
Hon. f. d. Culver of Greenwich, n.
Y, has been invited by President
Buckham to attend the re-dedicatiOn of
the college buildings in Burlington, on
the Goth of June, and to speak on the
dedication of the old college building
in 1924, and of the laying of the corner
stone by Gen. Lafayette. Mr.. Culver
was a member of the college at that
time.
States attorney Howe has investi-
gated the last rape case against ii. w.
Love, in which the assault was alleged
to be upon Loves tifteen-year old
niece, and has found there is no foun-
datiOn for the charge, and a nOlle pro-
seoul will be entered in the case.
Loves witnesses from Kansas. where
the girl formerly lived, have returned.
The case of blackmail is the only case
/ anH that WI II IArnha Ia Il
prove as much of farce as the other
cases.
A special meeting of. the stockholders
of the Vermont and Canada railroad
was held at Bellows Falls on Friday,
and the plan for reorganization, which
has already been assented to by the di-
rectors, was ratified. Resolutions au-
thOriZing a mortgage of its property to
secure notes or bonds of the consOli-
dated railroad of Vermont of the
amount of 81 100000 were passed. Ii
was also voted to release all back rents
due under its lease to the Vermont
Central railroad, dated lS49.
J. Cunningham, aged seventeen, OF
Sharon, an inmate of the Reform SchOO
at NergenneS, undertook to run away
Saturday afternoon. He was pursued
and Overtaken as he reached the creek
The water is quite deep ut this point
and he found, after reaching the mid
die, that he could not hold ont and
turned to come back, but was too mucl
exhausted to reach the shore, and sank
A trusty boy, about his own age, was
in close pursuit, and had also entered
the creek, but, his strength failing, wa.
barely able to return when he fell
helpless. Before aid could reach Gun,
ningham he went down the third anC
last time. The day was very warn
and the deceased ran a good half mil,
before entering the water.