St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-24
Vermont News.

vermont news.
A Bradford man has $500 pounds of
bees honey.
A Bradford man reports oats over
five feet high.
The central Vermont camp meeting
at Mortified opened Monday night.
A man was buried at Colchester Sun
day who is said to have been I02 years
old.
East Middlebury is getting a bad
reputation for drunkenness, disorder
and quarrelling.
The Seventh-Day Adventists will
hold camp meeting at Montpelier,
August 30 to September 4.
A Bellows Falls farmer made, on
the 6th, ITO pounds, on the 9th, ll76,
and on the 10th, l59 pounds of milk.
Eugene Niets of Pawlet, by the ac-
cidental discharge of revolver, carries
a ball in his right leg above the ankle,
A rattlesnake measuring four feet
two inches was killed in the vicinity
of Skitchawaug mountain, Springfield.
The Island house, ut Bellows Falls,
is now open, and Towns hotel, it is
understood, will remain closed for the
present.
The dwelling house of Collamer Per
sons at East Poultney was burned on
the l4th. Loss, $500. The fire caught
from a lamp.
Thomas Butler of Panton has cut
twenty-five acres of oats this season,
which he thinks will yield sixty bushels
to the acre.
Rev. II. r. Titus of the Congrega-
tional church in Wilmington has
brought a snit for Sl0,0OO, for libel
against DR.. Hoon.
The Congregational church at Barton
Landing have, through the efforts of
Rev. NJ. A. Gates, been freed rom debt
amounting to 81 POO.
The Bradford and Newbury society
have voted to hold their ninth annual
fair on Bradford Plains, Thursday and
Friday, September 20 and 81.
A Woodford lad caught several fine
Pickcrel in the lake with a huge piece
of spruce gum for Il bait. Even pickerel
have II taste for chewing gum.
The finance committee of the Ben
ninrtnn monument ossociotion rorort
So 800 raised by subscription and APP
preparation for the monument.
In accordance with the usual custom,
this weeks issue of the Richford
Journal is omitted, and the editor at
tends the camp-meeting at Sheldon.
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Hop picking has begun III Troy a
little earlier than usual, on account OF
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Ell Judsoh' wei known and prom
Inent citlIeh OF richmond, fell from
the scaiIold over tle barn moor, the
Dun anu was '0' 'o"''9' q" no' i"'"ii! ;
ihJ"'e"'
The hundred and sixth anniversary OF
the battle of Bennington was celebrated
the 10th, by three large picnics. Ex-
cursion trains brought large number
oil Vlsltors'
Willie Ryan, aged sixteen, and other
boys were scuf1iing in Richmond the
other night, when in some way young
Ryan was hurt internally. lie is not
expected to live.
Work on the new dam at SwantOn is
being pushed rapidly. Over 100000
/ feet of square timber is being used and
car load of iron. The structure will
cost about 81 200.
The Spiritualists of the state began q
| four-days' camp-meeting ut Queen
city park, Burlington, on Thursday
The opening address was made by Mrs
Fanny ID. Smith, of Brandon.
While boisting a large stone il
the Bellows Falls canal on Sunday
evening, the chain broke and the rock
struck Joseph ROsebush, killing hin
instantly and badly mutilating hi
body.
The BENNINGTON artesian well ha,
been SINK to the deptb of about 90,
feet The drill has recently encoun