St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-02-23

of Bennington, who was recently IN
iured while cOasting and afterwards
reported dead, is alive and doing well.
B. D. Hopkins has been nominated
by the president as postmaster at st.
Adams, and B. J. Derby as postmaster
at Burlington. Both hold these offices
at the present time.
Charles X. Williams of Rutland has
attached the capital stock of the Yer
mont and Canada railroad in suit for
$1,000, on their guaranty of certain
Vermont Central bonds.
The three years old daughter of
Oliver Cameron, of Buffers Island, fell
into kettle of boiling soap on Tues
day night, and was SO terribly burned
that she died the next morning.
The death is announced of Lafayett
Ranney, prominent New York ply
stefan. DR.. Ranney was brother of
Congressman Ambrose A. Ranney of
Boston and both were born in Vermont.
Mrs. Chester Miller of st. Adams,
who was hurt in the railroad accident
near Flint, Mich, was on her way, with
young child, to visit her people at
the west. Her husband was in St.
Adams at the time.
Charles Mason arrived at Island
Pond short time ago, having travelled
on foot from Massachusetts and worn
off six toes in the operation. That is,
his feet were frozen, rendering the
amputation of his toes necessary.
William H. Farrell of Pownal, a
brakeman on the Boston, HOOsac Tun-
mel and Western railroad, was crushed
to death at Mechanicsville Sunday
night while Stacking an engine to a
caboose, another engine having pushed
the cabOOse against him.
Silas Waite arrived ut BrattlebOrO
Monday night from the house of cor
rectiOn to be present at the hearing oil
the First national banks case against
his insolvent estate. Waite is looking
finely, and is accompanied 10y his coun-
sci and IA United States marshal.
Senator Edmunds will on the ad-
iournment of congress go to the sOutl
where his wife and daughter are Wis
iting, and then cross to the Pacific
coast bv the way of New Mexico, anC
from thence 90 to Oregon, and return
home in the fall by the Northern Pa
citic.
William II. Hathaway, l3 years old
a son of Timothy Hathaway of Bur
lington, VT, while attempting to cross
the lake on the ice to Plattsburg, n
| Y. % miles from there, Saturday, wa
frozen to death three miles from Platts
burg. His body was taken home Mon
day night.
A new national bank is being organ
lied at Rutland, most of the persons
Interested being stockholders i'll the
Rutland trust company. The bank il
to start with cash capital of 500,
600, which has been subscribed, ant
will have about the same officers as thu
trust company.
John H. Dutton, an old bachelor
lives all alone in Sherburne, does hi
own cooking is general shoemaker
harnessmaker, carpenter, makes hi
own clothes and eXpends his SPAR
moments i'll piecing up bedquilts, IN
last and boss quilt containing l5,H'
pieces inches square.
The report of the Vermont fish com
! missioners shows that there have beer
put into the waters of the state sine
1873 | ,O6O, 900 salmon eggs, g, 900 land
locked salmon, 40 wall-eyed pike
10 900 Oswego bass, $40 rock bass, %
d. Potomac bass, |, 175, 900 shad, 80 whit
fish, 100 smeIt, $50 yellow perch.
A young man named Samuel Martil
of Poultney was taken on Friday t.
the insane asylum at BrattleborC
About a year ago he was struck upo
; the head by his father, and has sine
shown signs of insanity. When put i
the village lookup Thursday night
several knives and Il loaded seven
shooter were found upon his person.
! A disgraceful family row occurre
in DuXhury, in which the father an
mother, son and two grOwn-u
> daughters were beating each othe
. with clubs and fire poker, but mOstl
, with the fists of the young man, VIII
pounded the face of his father till
4 looked like a last years rotten potato
, This Young champions name is Henr
y S. SOmerville, the son of Samuel Son
J. erville. The sheriff made arrests.
}, 1t will not surprise anybody to lear
= that the latest Canadian crank q
}, weather prophecy, Virgins, has deciC
I. ed to retire at once from the almanS
II business. Nennor stepped down an
e out some little time since, and it
quite fortunate for the world at lars
that the list of prophets began so fl
down the alphabet. The letter V HI
been exhausted and the letter w failt
IL at the first guess. There are now on
Is Y u to be heard from and then I'll
II chapter of Canadian Conundrums vi
d probably be closed Free Press.
t. The troubles of Il West Ferrisburs
n divorced couple are creating what the
u call a local sensation. For two yea
y there has been endless gossip abO
. the married life of X. p. Satley and i
wife Jennie, and it has not abated sin
!, the divorce was granted, Jennie havlI
~ held defiant and single possession
J her husbands mOrtgaged farm. II
u other day Satley, with his hired ma
waded through the snow to fill an ic
house on the farm, but his divorce
~ spouse came down on the pair with
loaded pistol and drove them, beggil
! her not to shoot, from the premise
Satley went to the states attorney
house at StarksbOrO to get warra
for the arrest of Mrs. Satley. 1t Is
! singular coincidence that each of the
10 unfortunate people has been thri
Ii married, and lost one partner by dea
Il and two Inv divorce