St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-01-05
Vermont News.

A BrattlebOro minister received q
Christmas purse of $500 from his PEG.
pie.
w. L. Leland, provision dealer al
Montpelier, fails owing over $1,000
no assets reported.
The Troy Press says the remains OF
Hon. T. w. Park will be buried in
Greenwood near the grave of his first
wife.
The Marble savings bank of Rut-
lgnd, which is to begin business at
once, has elected Gen. E. II. Ripley
president.
The department encampment, G. A.
r., of Vermont will meet in Benning-
ton, on Thursday and Friday, Februa-
ry Sth and 9th.
Rev. F. w. Bartlett of Mortified
has resigned his rectOrship, and is to
be transferred to the diocese of Cen
trail New York.
West Rutland is to have tele-
phonic connection with the outside
wOrld.-CastletOn and Rutland are
now on speaking terms.
Rev. w. S. Hazen of Mortified
preached the Baccalaureate sermon
before the graduating class of the
Normal school at Randolph
Mrs. Kent Mason, recently arrested
in KeOkuk, Ia, on a charge of larceny,
has been acquitted. She is well known
in Vermont as temperance lecturer.
Fred Williams, one of the victims
of the Hartwellville explosion, went
through every battle with the twenty
seventh Massachusetts in the rebellion.
The Fist National bank of Montpe-
lier has declared dividend of five
per cent and the Montpelier National
bank one of three and one-half per
cent.
The name of John O'Neil on one of
the jugs seized at the Rutland express
office puts Mr.. O'Neil under $1,000
bonds on Il charge of retailing White
hall fluid.
At Waterbury on Saturday, Mrs.
May Prior, who had been married orly
year, attempted suicide by taking 90
grains of opium. She may recover,
but her condition is critical.
The fourteenth annual winter meet
ing of the Vermont Dairymen's Asso-
citation will be held in City Hall, Bur
lingtOn, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, January IL, Is and 10.
Edward S. Sears, formerly of the st.
Adams Advertiser, has resigned his
position as city editor of the Boston
Post, and accepted the position of
railroad editor of the Advertiser.
Pullman car conductor McAllister,
who was so seriously injured by II
] ...ll
ago, is getting on finely. He is in the
same good spirits which he has mani
tested ever since his injury. There
is now every indication of his speedy
recovery.
Samuel Starkweather, butcher,
while driving through the "Dugway,"
a notorious place near Pownal, at 10
o'clock Saturday night, was stopped
by two men who asked him for his
watch and then knocked him from his
sleigh and robbed him of $50 in mon
ey and property valued at $40.
The production of marble in Yer
mont this year is 10000 cubic feet,
valued at over S2,O0O,000. The num-
Der of men employed in the quarries
and mills exceeds 23O0, and it required
10000 cars to carry the marble away. |
Nearly 81 ,00O,000 was paid for the |
labor of wOrkingmen by the quarry
owners.
A New York dispatch of the 9th |
says: man who registered as D. F.
Flanagan of Rutland put up at
COcOster's hotel in 44th street and
Sixth avenue, Tuesday morning, Goth.
At eleven o'clock he was found I'M
conscious in his room with the gas |
turned on. He was taken to the hos
pital, but it is thought he cannot re-
cover. He was neatly dressed and |
had S2l.56 i'll his possession.
AS Henry Fisher, aged twenty two
and unmarried, was driving pair of
unruly horses attached to load of
wood down steep hill in Pownal,
Thursday, he slipped from the load
and fell between the horses. One
horse commenced kicking savagely
and cut Fishers head in several places,
besides breaking most of his ribs and
one arm. The unfortunate man was
rescued unconscious and died in IA few
minutes.
From the recent report of the COM
missioner of pensions, it appears that
there are now on the rolls of the de
partment 81 names of the surviving
widows of revolutionary soldiers and
sailors. Of this number five reside in
Vermont as follows: Esther S. Damon,
Bridgewater Corners. Windsor county;
Louisa GOrham, Castleton, Rutland
county Lucy Morse, East Barnard,
Windsor county; Patty Richardson,
Bethel, Windsor county, and Fanny
Vrudenburgh, Warren, Washington
county.
The natural result of free rum Ben
ningtOn is the scene of IA good many
lawless encounters. Last week Thurs
day number of teams filled with
Yankee and Italian lumbermen drove
into the village, and during the eve
ming some of them procured and drank
a large quantity of liquor. Three of
them subsequently went to sleep in
the livery Office of Sheldon q Morse.
At about two o'clock in the morning
the door of the Office was burst open,
and the three lumbermen were fierce
ly assaulted by six Bennington rOughs.
The strangers were terribly cut and
bruised.
1t seems that the staying of the
Christmas turkey is not altogether
unattended with danger. ID. II. Hew-
lett of Chester was engaged in the de
lightful employment of decapitating
his flock with rifle, last week. and
lent his gun to neighbor for Il shot.
This admirable representative of the
SnOdgrass family, when about to let
fly at one of the noble birds, cOntrived
to shut his eyes after the usual man
ner and neatly pick Mr.. Hewlett in
the right leg. The hall did not pass
through the limb, and the doctors