St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-04-06
Vermont News.

G. G. Butler, late of the Windsor
Journal, died in Atlanta, Ga, the Doth.
Col. n. T. Sprague of Brandon has
started a S200,000 National bank in
Brooklyn. called the Sprague bank.
w. F. Bowman, late of the Van Ness
house, Burlington, has removed to
Newport to manage the Memphrema-
cog house.
George Buchanan of Burlington, who
got ten years sentence, left state
prison the Doth, on Gov. Barstow's
pardon, after serving eight and one
half years.
Col. Hooker, sergeant-at-ar of the
house of representatives, has gone to
Brattleboro for the summer. He will
be candidate for sergeant-at-arm of
the senate in December.
Bishop Simpson, in a letter to Rev.
Merritt Hulburd, announces that Bish-
op Harris will preside at the approach
ing session of the Vermont conference,
and that the time has not been chang
ed
w. Jerome Leland, one of the pro-
prietors of the Sturtevant house, in
New York, died of pneumonia the 29th,
mt the Leland homestead, near Cleve-
land, o. He was born in Landgrove,
VT, in lS4l.
James Baldwin of Brandon, and one
Gill, an old offender, were arrested in
New York tor counterfeiting. Two
thousand counterfeit five cent pieces,
some bogus half dollars and tools for
coming were captured.
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companied by her son, Henry R., has
sailed from New York for Bermuda.
Mr.. Dorr has, since his graduation from
Middlebury college in 1880, been on
the editorial staff of the Springfield
Republican.
The machinery in the shops of the
Southeastern railway at RichfOrd is
now being removed to Farnham. A
large number of the employees, togeth-
er with their families are also going
there, and the entire change will, it is
expected, be completed by the first OF
April.
Suits have been commenced against
several express agents at Rutland fOl
selling liquor, the state claiming that
jugs of liquor delivered by the agents
to parties upon payment of the bill fol
the liquor constituted a sale, for which
agents are personally and individually
liable.
A half witted man named Smith
aged forty-five, was found frozen tC
death between Barre and Orange Sat
urday. He started last Wednesday
afternoon to go from his fathers il
Barre to the house of his aunt in Or
ange, several miles distant, and not ar
irving there, search was made and the
body was found frozen stiff.
Stephen Ayres of Plymouth, while
drawing wood with an OK team, fel
down in front of the oxen, which RAJ
over him, stopping when the sled haC
partly passed over him. He remained
under the sled until IA boy who wa.
with him threw off the load, abou
three-fo urths of cord of wood. 1t i:
thought that he is injured internally Sc
he will not recover.
A peculiar disease made its appear
ance, some weeks ago, in a herd o
yearling heifers on j. III. hutchinson
farm. The first appearance of the dis
ease seems to be a weakness in one o
the eyes, then the fore leg on the same
side becomes swollen and rigid, wher
the victim dies, usually twenty
hours from the time when first taken
Mr.. Hutchinson has had three die
They were apparently in good healtl
when taken.- Jericho Cor.
Papers were signed at st. Adams las
week, transferring a fine piece of st
Adams property to board of manager:
for use as "A free hospital, the gift o
Chauncey Warner of Cambridge. This
is his second benefaction to the town
the first being the Warner Home fol
Destitute children, which is now il
successful operation. Gov. Smith vii
be president of the hospital organiza
ton; E. c. Smith, secretary A. M
Brown, treasurer and DIR. DinsmOrt
and f. c. Smith, trustees of the per
manent fund.
Bradley Barlow, who recently re
moved to Montreal, as alleged to es
cape taxes, has published an explana
ton in refutation of certain charges
He says he changed his residence no
to evade the provisions of the tax Law
or because the town treated him un
fairly, but because large business inter
ests in Canada demanded his cOntin
ued presence there. He says if tn,
courts decide against him in the pend
ing suits he will cheerfully pay hi
r taxes. He makes no reference, how
ever, to the reason for the transfer o
his bank stock and real estate in ST
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