St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25

-Forepaugh's circus and menageri
81 will exhibit at st. Johnsbury July 80.
The Index has at this late da!
81 NJ ade the discovery that it is Music in
81 head of Lecture hall.
People will enjoy the cantata mex
s D eek much better if they will first re
81 view the book of Esther.
81 A desirable house at the corner o
Il Spring and Winter streets is to be sole
q At auction. See advertisement.
Rev II. A. Russell of Cabot preach
s ID at the North church on Sunday il
with Rev. II. w. Jones.
a Report comes from Rutland tina
n David Kinsman, formerly of this place
Is thought to he fatally i'll of blood
81 poison.
The st. Johnsbury District Preach
& ers' Meeting association hold tire,
+ days meeting at Albany, commencing
June y.
f. F. Brown found wallet will
& pver one hundred dollars on his coun
Ter Tuesday morning, and it wasn't hi'
3 Wallet either.
The building committee of the NJ
f J.. church advertise in another column
for sealed proposals for repairing and
& rebuilding the church.
As next Wednesday, Memorial
Hay, is a legal holiday, correspondents
|will please send their communications
S 80 far as possible, on Tuesday.
Assistant Judges of the County
/Court Can't the unsightly fence
ilround the Courthouse yard be re
moved before Memorial-day ?
Rev. +. W. Culver contributes a
column sketch of the life aud tribute to
the memory of the late Rev. +. ). Locke
to the last issue of the Christian Mes
senger.
"a
At the meeting of the gene raj syn
cd of the Reformed Presbyterian
81 Church of North America, at Philadel-
phia, Rev. j. II. Kendall of South Rye
gate was chosen assistant clerk.
Thieves relieved the clothes lines
of part of their burden at the residence
of W. w. Sprague on Cliff street Mon
+ day night. Housekeepers will do well
to take in their clothes q nights.
Monday and Tuesday were cold
and showery, as, also, is to-day, Thurs
day. The showers, with the pleasant
+ weather of Sunday and Wednesday
have given the grass and foliage =
{ great impetus.
Fletcher y Flint are making great
Improvements i'll their store, internall
3 and externally. The block has beer
repainted, Il piazza added to the ives
side, new steps i'll front, and the entir,
front of the first floor is converted int,
two immense plate glass windows.
As an indication of the demand t,
hear Cough, the lecture committe,
Il estimated that the sale of transfer
seats for the lecture would amount t,
S25. Instead, the receipts from thi
81 source were about 500, and more seat
8 could have been sold if they had bee
q available.
The rubbish on the vacant lot Il
Il 'the corner of Main and Prospect street
is being removed, and it j. the iuten
q ton to utilize it for the season for pun
& poses of cultivation, notwithstanding
some wild speculations as to the pun
pose for which it has been said it wa
to be devoted.
At the annual village meeting
January, it was voted tn adjourn
meet at the Town hall ON the fOurt
Monday in May, 2Sth inst, at seve
& o'clock p. m, to see what action Ill
village will take in regard to raisin
money to defray the expenses of IL
village and paying the liabilities.
Rev. Lawrence Phelps was di
missed by council from the pastora
of the Congregational church at BartC
on Wednesday, at his request. Tn
was Mr.. Phelps first passionate. I
has done valuable work there the fly
years he has been settled and Il
church and people deeply regret h
leaving.
The Worcester Free institute,
which Rev. Homer T. Fuller is prime
pal, is now completing its tifteen
year of actual work, for, though foun,
ed in 1865, it received its first class
pupils in lS65. Committees of Il
trustees and faculty have prepared
plan for enlargement, the estimate
cost of which will he S25O. 900.
The Burlington Free Press, in
account ol the 'iotoh "hd IRE, say
"All the old shanties at and arouI
Peabody station are destroyed, to Il
advantage. it is said, of the st. John
bury Savings bank, which has be
carrying an insurance of $1,000 on tn,
To secure itself against loss upon
claim it holds against Dick Peabot
the forger."
Stephen Chase of Topsham
closely verging on centenarian, bel