St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16

law, and pending the passage of an act
to appoint an honorary sparrow board,
tn prepare and distribute poisoned
wheat aud give advice.
A E. Kent of San Francisco. of the
class of '53, has given the college $780,
900, which the faculty decide shall be
used in erecting a chemical laboratory,
which will be commenced in the spring
and finished in the fall. With this
and the Sloan laboratory, Yale will be
second to no college in the country in
the prosecution of chemical and physic-
al science.
At Newport, r. L., the heavy sea of
Saturday and Sunday was God-send
to the poor of the city. Two hundred
bushels of mammoth beach clans,
some weighing over III pounds each,
came on shore on the beach. Crowds
are busily engaged in gathering the
unexpected result of Virgins alleged
tidal wave. The CLANS weigh an av-
erage of one pound-the largest ever
seen.
George G. 1de, prominent business
man of Claremont, n. H., for many
years treasurer and manager of the
ClaremOnt Manufacturing company
connected with the company for more
than thirty years, and well known
to paper makers and publishers all
over the country, and who represented
the town in the legislature several
times, died at his residence Monday
morning, aged sixty-twO years.
I
Ex-GOv. William Sprague of Rhode
Island was married Thursday night il
StauntOn, to Mrs. Dora Inez Calvert Of
Greenbriar county, West Virginia
There was some difficulty in obtaining
a license, neither party being actua
residents of StauntOn, and the govern.
or was considerably perplexed for some
time before the necessary papers wer,
procured. The bride is IL native o
Connecticut, but has been living il
West Virginia fourteen years.
1t is feared that Mr.. Lilley, the age,
lawyer who was assaulted by Dorse,
in the latter's house last week, will no
live. Mr.. Lilley is seventy-five year
of age. He has been robust and is
large man, but he was badly kicked il
the abdomen, and is growing weaker
Judge Lilley intends to prosecute Dor
sey for brutal assault as soon as he i
able. Lilley says that Dorsey attack
ed him without warning while he wa
sitting in a low chair hemmed in b.
two tables.
Colonel Charles c. Pearson of Con
cord, n. H., proprietor of the PeOpl
and New Hampshire Patriot, died i
New York city Tuesday morning, age
fOrtytwO. The deceased graduated a
Dartmouth college in the class of 1865
and founded the People and Patriot i
1868. He was a member of the staff {
Governor Weston in 1871, and stat
printer in 1874. He was the only son c
Hon. John A. Pearson of Concord, an
one of the best known newspaper me
in the state.
The will of the late Henry Seybert ,
Philadelphia gives almost his entir
estate, amounting to over mi
lion dollars, to educational an
charitable Institutions The tots
number of requests is seventy mine
amounting to S246,000, the largest {
f which is SI20,000 to the University {
Pennsylvania for the endowment of
chair of mental and moral philOsOph
and the endowment of IL ward in tn
wing for chronic diseases. In accord
ance with IA wish expressed in the vii
, Mr.. Seybert's body was cremate
at the Lemoyne furnace at Wash
ington, Pa.
Henry w. Putnam's artesian well q
Bennington has reached a depth {
300 feet and is now working throug
"A vein of fine marble.
G. w. Cleveland's house and bar
at Chelsea were burned Saturday al
ternoon, the fire being caused by de
fective chimney loss $500, insul
ance $1,000.
: Thirty persons united with tn
Richmond Congregational church o
Sunday largely the result of the la
bors of Mr.. Whittier, the evangelis
= the past winter.
Whiskey in bottle that had cor
tanned bed-bug poison has killed
North Troy farmer, Nicholas Course
fifty-twO years old. The people tai
of prosecuting the man who sold til
whiskey.
? The total debt of Bennington, as no
| funded, is as follows: $4,000, pc
} cent. semi-annual railroad bonds du
; in 1897 Sill 900, per cent. bond
? 5000 payable annually January U.
deposit fund, SI2,752.05 total funde
t debt, S235, 1920 taxes uncOllecteC
5 S3, 100000; balance on net debt abou
, S233,000.
The long law suit betwee
! Aaron n. King of Tunbridge and Wn
j. Tarbell of South Royalton to deter
mine the ownership of a piece of Ian
"a by 80 feet, situated in South ROya
ton, was last week decided at the 81
preme court in Windsor county
! favor of the plaintive King, after a
expenditure of thousands of dollars.