St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-29

his bail at the recent term of United
States court at Windsor, and thus es-
capped trial for counterfeiting, is living
at Mansonville, P. O., where it is ru-
mored his family will soon join him.
The old landmarks are fast disap-
bearing from Montpelier, and the old
Caldwell place at the head of State
street, where Gen. Lafayette was en-
tertalned, has recently been demol-
ished to make place for a new business
block.
Lucy Fish Curtis, who died at West
Randolph recently, was nine months
and fourteen DAYS over one hundred
years of age. She had six children
living, the oldest being nearly eighty
years and the youngest fifty-fve years
of age, all of whom attended her flu
neral.
The assignees of the insolvent st.
Adams iron and steel works will ad-
vertlse for July 10 a sale of the person
al property of the company, consisting
OF the ordinary machinery and supplies
of a rail mill, inventOried at about $50.
600. The liabilities are little more
than SI0O,O0O
The workingmen on the Lamoille
Valley Extension railroad. with few ex-
ceptlons, have struck for higher wages.
They have been getting SI.25 per day
and ask Sl.5O, claiming that they have
to lose so much time on account of wet
weather that they make but little more
than enough to pay their board.
Timothy Seymour, French black
smith ut Swanton Junction. was in
stantly killed Monday morning in try
ing to board the early mixed train from
Rouse's Point, which does not stop ut
the Junction. He fell under the wheels
of the passenger car, and his body was
cut in two and the right arm taken off.
Garrett }. Rose, aged twenty-one
years, has been held for examination
at Middlebury, on charge of having at
tempted to poison his mother. Mrs
Amanda Hamley, by putting Paris
green III bottle containing whisky.
lie is also accused of having assaulted
and threatened to take her life if she
exposed him.
The thirtieth annual commencement
of the medical department of the uni
verSity of Vermont was held at the
Howard opera-house Burlington, Mon
day evening. SiXty-eight degrees were
conferred. Rev. f. j. Parry, pastor of
the First Baptist church, delivered an
address. Prof. Samuel G.. Brown de-
livered his address on George p. Marsh
before the university.
The rear of the Connecticut River
Lumber company'S big drive of seven
~ fxr.. ,,t II.
does Monday morning. With the pres
ent pitch of water it will require some
fifty or sixty days to reach the com
pany's mills at Holyoke and Hartford.
They have been obliged to leave about
Il million on the Fifteen Mile falls above
MclndOe's.
The Randolph Normal school closed
its school year last week Thursday.
graduating class of twenty five In
the first course and six in the second.
The average age of these graduates is
twenty years and ten months and the
average number of weeks already
taught is thirty-thrce There have
been 2:S different pupils in attendance
the past year from ten counties and
sixty towns III Vermont. The prospect
for the coming year is excellent
The supreme court met mt Burlington
to hear the report of commissioners in
the Central Vermont VS.. Montpelier
and Wells River road. The commits
siomers decide that the defendant road
he obliged to receive passengers and
and freight from the plaintiff road.
The defendant asked for IA continuance
to prepare exceptions, and the court
adjourned until June %. The case is
the first of the kind that ever arose in
Vermont, and consequently excites
much interest.