St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-02-16


tol, r. l., will preach at the Advent
Christian church, Paddock village, next
Sunday. Subject at 1920 a. m, "The
Important Work of the Universal Ad-
vent Church; at l. As, "The Way to
gain Eternal Life; at $50 p. M, ''The
Incarnation of Our Blessed Lord"
Christians of all other denominations
are especially invited to attend.
At the late teachers meeting at
Barton, a society of teachers, school of
ficers and superintendent was organ
lied and is known as the Orleans Coun-
ty Educational society. 1t will hold Its
first meeting at Barton Landing on
Saturday of next week. Among the
subjects announced is that of GLOW to
teach primary classes" to be presented
by Miss Matte Jenness of st. Johns
bury.
There appears to be some misun-
Outstanding in regard to the early
closing movement. Several merchants
have been closing their stores on
Wednesday evening for a few weeks
past, with the understanding that others
engaged in the same business would do
likewise. Having been disappointed
in this respect, they will open their
stores hereafter, and the poor clerks
will have to face the music.
-"Captain" Kendall, formerly of st.
Johnsbury, an account of whose canoe
voyage with DR.. Neide, starting from
Lake George, was given in August,
reached New Orleans few days ago,
Clean, and there took to the water of
the Allegheny river, getting into the
Ohio at Pittsburg, and thence into the
Mississippi. Their adventures include
some rough experiences with ice, and
fires that destroyed their oars and
sails.
Major E. =. Farr of Thetford writes
us that he expects to go to Dakota
about the last of March to locate his
soldiers homestead. AS quite num-
Der of eX-sOldiers expect sometime to
locate their homesteads, and do not
fully realize how rapidly all desirable
government lands are being taken up,
he thinks there will be quite rush
this spring for that purpose. Several
are going with the Major, prospecting,
and the company can be enlarged in
definitely. Any discount on railroad
fares, etc, will depend on the size of
the party.
An interesting case to be heard by
the United states court at Burlington
the last of this month is that of the
Bradley fertilizer company of Boston
VS.. Hiram II. Cutting of Lunenburg.
The defendant is secretary of the state
board of agriculture, and in that ca
pacity, at a public meeting of the board,
as Bradley claims, passed some adverse
criticisms in the course of a lecture on
manures, on the products of the Brad
ley company. Shortly after the COM
pany, through their attorney, Luke p.
Poland, instituted suit against Cut
ting to recover ten thousand dollars
damages. To extract that amount of
money from the secretary would utter
ly ruin the state board of agriculture.
-"The ST. JohnSbury CaledOnian is
one of those weekly papers which one
never lays down without having read
everything in it. There is vast diff
ference in papers, some manifesting
that careful and thorough editing which
marks the true journalist. The Gale
DOMAIN is one of these" Now a com
pliment or criticism is valuable or
otherwise according to its source. The
above appreciative notice is from the
pen of George A. Marden, editor and
poet, and at present speaker of the
Massachusetts house of representatives
but IA man who considers it higher
honor to edit a newspaper well than to
hold any political Office, as he recently
announced i'll a speech before the Mas
sachusetts Press association. We con-
slider such notice as the above from
such a source the highest compliment.
Personal.
Rev. Geo. n. Weber, who has just
resigned the pastorate of the First
Presbyterian church in Troy, n. Y,
was for several years previous to going
to Troy the professor of intellectual
philosophy in Middlebury college, and
still earlier was the second pastor OF
the South Congregational church in
this place.
The Worcester Spy of last week has
the following respecting our former
townsman principal Fuller, of the
Free Institute, reached home Tuesday
afternoon, and at once entered upon