St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-07-13
Vermont News.

BennIngton's arteSlan well has
reached depth of 40 feet.
Benson proposes to celebrate her
Tooth anniversary Aug. 81 and D.
Five bears, old and young, were
killed in Pittsiield and Sherburne in
June.
A CastletOn man has counted the
trees ill that town and finds there are
,3SI.
The Waterbury National bank has
declared Il semi-annual dividend of
four per cent.
A stock company will be formed at
Montpelier to bring Berlin pond water
into the village.
Henry Spaulding of Chester, who
was accidentally shot on the Fourth,
died on Thursday.
The dwelling house of Matthew
Stewart ut ProctorsviIle was burned on
Saturday. Loss $500.
+. w. Smith, who has been station
agent at Ludlow twenty eight years
and ten months, has resigned.
Instead of receiving trade dollars at
eighty-tive cents, the Central Vermont
A fire at Bellows Falls last Wednes
day damaged the paper-mill of Moore,
Arms X Thompson, by fire and water,
SIO,000.
AFRO Edison of Windham, who had
his horse stolen Il week or two ago,
has just found it and the thief at Gard
ner, Mass.
The banks of Burlington will here
after receive trade dollars at their bull
lion value only. The present price for
them is eighty-tive cents.
AT West Randolph, c. c. Sargent, IA
section man, was struck by an engine
last Thursday while standing on the
track, and was badly injured.
Samuel Abbott, IA farmer, accident
ally fatally shot his hired man, Henry
Spaulding, at Chester last Wednesday
morning while shooting at target.
The corporation committee appoint
ed at Middlebury college year ago to
investigate the subject report in favor
of admitting women to the institution.
While the national salute was being
fired at Nergennes, at noon of the 18th,
| the right arm of Charles January, one
of the gunners, was blown off at the
shoulder by premature discharge.
A family of destitute Irish immi-
grants were left at the Essex depot last
week, staying in barns nights and beg
ging for their living. Some of the Irish
residents finally dubbed together and
set them up housekeeping.
Edison HOlden's house at Mt. Holly
took fire, recently, by reflection of the
suns rays from milk cans placed on the
west side of the ell. Fortunately it
was seasonably discovered, after burn
ing through the outside wall.
While Amos Hall of Hinesburgh was
loading some bee hives on his wagon,
in Jericho, his horses became fright
ened by the bees and ran a half mile,
till one of them, Il valuable animal,
broke its leg, having to be shot.
Elihu Douglass, aged eighteen, was
drowned at Waitsiield Tuesday even
ing, July 3. He went in to save Il lad
about the same age who was drowning.
The lad seized him so firmly that he
could not swim and both were browne
The second reunion of the veterans
of the Seventh regiment Vermont vol
unteers will be held in Burlington on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
August %, % and 30. A steamboat
ride and visit to Ausable chasm is pro-
posed for the second day.
The first examination under the new
civil service rules was held ut Burling-
ton Thursday under the personal
supervision of DOrman b. Eaton.
There were seven candidates, four of
whom desired clerkships at Washing
ton and three local appointments.
At Castleton, not long ago, Hyde
WestOver, aged eighty seven, drove
the team, and Joseph Bishop, eighty
one years old, held the pillow to pillow
an acre of land in a day. One of the
horses was twenty and the other nine
teen years old, and the team has been
driven by the same man sixteen years.
Middlebury college conferred the
following honorary degrees A. NJ. to
G. b. +. Moody of the class of 1877, to
A. G. Peck of the class of 1850, and to
II. w. Darling of the class of 1874.
The degree of ID. ID. was conferred on
Rev. 5. w. K. Scott of Fitchburg,
Mass. The degree of PHI. ID. was CON
ferred on Albert 5. Bowles of Norwich,
Conn.
The statement of the business tran
sacted by the Burlington letter carrier
department foI the year ending June
30 is of interest. In the twelvemOnth
there were 592, S07 letters, l66, 347 pos
tai cards and 35l ,947 papers delivered,
and }S3 ,3l9 letters, ! II ,6;}2 postal cards
and S,743 papers collected, making an
aggregate of 500, S25 pieces handled.
or about l4O apiece for each inhabitant.
small cannon exploded ut North
Pownal the 4th, and blew both eyes
out of Willie Cleghorn, Il son of Mr.
CleghOrn, superintendent of a mill
there 1t also broke his arm and jaw
and he will probably die. Joseph Her
bert, twenty years old, had wrist and
Land badly injured. Wells Walker |
had his face and head badly burned |
Clarence Sherman had his face and an
arm filed with powder.
At Bradford wrestling contest oc-
Cured on the Fourth between George
w. Flagg of Braintree, holder of the
championship belt for mixed wrestling,
and II. NJ. Dufur of Marlboro, Mass,
coIlar-and- elbow champion of the
United States, for $500, the champion
ship belt, and one-third of the gate
money. Flagg won the match after an
exciting contest of over two hours. A
match for 1925, between Clafin of
Brookfield and Kennedy of Boston,
was won by Kennedy.
A series of daring burglaries were
perpetrated ut Montpelier Thursday
night. Burglars entered the house of
L. l.. Durant and took STA from his
pants in a sleeping room. At the house
Of NJ. ID. Gilman S42 and gold watch
worth $50; of Hon. Timothy p. Red
field ,rnra taken 80 and a valuable