St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-11

George Aldrlch has been reap
'pbinted liquor agent by County Com
missioner IIoughton.
Rev. F. l.. Wiley of Laconia, n.
hi, supplied the pulpit of the Free
Baptist church on Sunday.
The Legion of Honor will meet i'll
Browns hall on the first and third
Monday evenings of each month.
There was heavy fog on Monday
morning, which is quite an unusual
Recurrence at this time of the year.
A patent for a flower stand has been
ISSUED to Edwin j. Bennett, T. Giltil-
Ban and A. w. Flanders of Barnet.
w. X. Mems has purchased the
Studio and photograph business of l..
Ei. Burnham of Burlington, one of the
best studios in the state.
The Temple quartette gave fine
Entertainment to fair-sized audience
Iin Music hall on Friday evening. The
.singing of Mile. Nellini was much ad-
<mired.
4 The Musical Herald for May pos
( sesses some local interest from the fact
|t1hat it contains the portrait of Alfred
.DeSeve, who appeared in the lecture
{eOurse last season.
A w. Davis of st. Johnsbury, mail
route agent between RichfOrd and Con
:eord. becomes local agent at White
iRiver Junction, and his place will be
i6lled by X. II. Lee.
4 After the removal of the present
Building, and until the new y. NJ. c.
i a. block is ready for occupancy, it Is
Expected that Browns hall will be used
! For association purposes.
i Tuesday being the birthday ami
1 yersary of Jesse b. r. Gage, twenty
three of his St Johusbury friends one
4 Cor each year Jesse has scen-made him
Ia surprise visit in the evening at his
Dew home in the East village.
The suit of the Bradley Fertilizer
company V. DIR. II. A. Cutting is set
. for trial at the May term of the United
4 States circuit court, which opens next
TUESDAY at Windsor. Ex-Governor
4 Farnham is counsel for DR.. Cutting.
The new postal notes are to he five
4 hnd seven -cighths inches long 10y three
/ and one eighth wide, with Il stub tC
4 each note two inches wide. 1t is to be
4 steel plate engraving in the best
4 style, and to be printed III one color OIL
4 linen paper.
E. b. Merriam y Co. announce, il
i another column, that they will open
a tomorrow, May II, an entire new stool
q of dry goods and small wares. Thi
j department has been neatly fitted up
and the opening day will doubtless at
4 tract many visitors.
4 Rev. Mr. Jenkins, state missionary
4 preached at the Universalist church Ol
. Sunday. lie will supply the pulpit 70
4 the next month, and the services vii
q he held as follows: Morning service a
i 1890, Sunday school immediately fol
4 lowing, and evening service at $50.
The CaIedonidn wishes to propoun
to the assistant Judges of the count
4 court this query : Why not remove til
4 unsightly fence which encloses til
4 courthouse yard ? 1t is neither usefl
nor ornamental, and portion of
81 bordering on the avenue is III dilap
\ dated condition.
One day last week Mrs. A. j. Say
age was thrown 10y loose board breal
ing, upon which she was standing,
q the floor of AN addition being made
the residence mt 30 Mt Pleasant \
bones were broken, but the shock
4 the fall was 81 severe that she is col
fined to her bed in consequence.
AT the meeting of Chamber
post. G.. \. r., ON Friday evenin
4 George r. Crosby. y. p. Bowman, A
81 bert Harris, +. W. Harrington, A.
4 Roberts, f. T. Sandford and J.
Paddock were chosen committee
act in conjunction with the either
committee for the observance of Mem
s. rial-day.
People who can't or don't read t
newspapers get little muddled son
times when they attempt to talk
matters of general interest. T.
Frenchmen were discussing the Tewl
bury affair, when one was overhea
to gravely inform the other that do
to Butler, Mass, they are KILN peol
and tannin' their hides -
On Sunday the astronomical eve
of the year took place. This was
total eclipse of the sun. whose durati
was unusually great, a. the total PHI
lasted nearly six minutes. With
well-known perversity IT interest
astronomical phenomena, says an
change, this eclipse hid itself anne
the islands of the sea and had its pc
of greatest observation in the So
Pacific ocean, at a place where no /;
exists.
The installation of Rev. vii
Rand over the Congregational chu
at Barnet on Wednesday made
third settled pastor of that denOmi