St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-07
Vermont News.

The VI. +. church at West Enosburgl
was dedicated on Wednesday.
a S5O,OOO schoolhouse, one of tn,
finest in the state, is being erected ri
Brattlcboro.
The Brattleboro telegraph exchange
now has 100 subscribers, ranking il
size second in the state, next to Bur.
lington.
DR.. Hicks of Green River has in hi,
possession two old relies. One is i
tumbler $50 years old and the other i.
Il book that bears the date I7:22.
Brattleboro has Il quasi resident who
makes his meals mainly on crackers
and sleeps on pile of boards under
the stairs back of the town hall.
The total of Brattleboro taxes this
year is ! .53 on the dollar of the grand
list. Last year it was Sl.13 and with
in ten years it has been up to S2.75.
Two new and elegant Pullman cars,
costing 900 each, and said To be
the most luxurious ever seen in that
section, have been put on to the Cen
trail Vermont line.
The Glen house at West Brattleb0ro.
which was recently burned, was about
Il hundred years old and was occupied
as an inn 10y Rutherford Hayes, grand
father of eX-President Hayes.
The annual reunion of the .Childs
family took place at Wilmington on
the 25th, and a big dinner was furnish
ed at the famous cold spring on Hay
stack mountain.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge and
party dined at White River Junction
on Thursday on the way to the White
Mountains. Lord Coleridge expressed
himself as eminently well pleased with
his reception in this country, and is
charmed by our New England scenery.
Geo. NJ. Clark of Felchville found in
his garden last week glass medal or
badge of the presidential campaign of
1910, in the days of "Tippecanoe and
Tyler too" 1t is about the size of IL
ten cent piece with log cabin and the
words "HarrisOn and Reform blown
in the glass.
At Newport, Thursday, the engine
belonging to the Southeastern road,
which was attached and has been in
charge of Sheriff BOwley was stolen.
An engine from Canada brought sew
eral men who Overpowered the helpers,
hitched on to the detained locomotive
and made rapidly for Canada.
Mrs. Fred Fleury, who lives at
Bolton station, put her children to bed
the other night, and soon after heard
them cry. She went up stairs to as
certain the cause, and dropped a lamp
on the bed, setting the clothes on fire.
The roof of the house was burned off
before the flames could be extin-
guished.
The annual meeting of the State
Teachers association will be held at
i'll October. Prof. Good
rich will read paper upon Latin pro-
and Principal LandOn and
eX-Superintendent Alger will discuss
the question, "Ought the state to sup
port, through its high schools, a col
lege preparatory course 2"
The third gathering of the Fletcher
family union, composed of descendants
of Robert Fletcher, who settled in Con-
cord i'll 1880, was held at Lowell,
Mass, on the 22d, three hundred being
present. Among the addresses was
one made by Col. \. A. Fletcher of
and 6. l.. Fletcher of
Chester was chosen president.
DR.. Hudson, who was fatally shot at
Hoosick Falls, y. Y, on the 23d, by
Charles Osterhout, who charged Hud-
son with indecent conduct toward his
wife, went to Hoosick Falls from Ben
nington about two years ago. He
a Miss Jennie Baker, a beauti-
full young lady of North Bennington,
the adopted daughter of Henry Hall,
son of Governor Hall of Vermont.
Arrangements are being made so that
Vermont veterans may participate in
the excursion to the Shenandoah val
ley. ROund-trip tickets between Bur
lington and New York via Lake Cham
plain and Hudson river steamers will
he sold at 81. From New York, tickets
for the round trip with board are
s3l 40. Those attending will leave
Burlington on Saturday morning, Sept. !
l5.