St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-09
Personal Items.

Judge Albion w. Tourgee's latest
lecture is entitled "The Mission of the
Dude"
Rev. Charles A. Reese was installed
as pastor of the Baptist church in Rut-
land Oct. 81.
Rev. G. j. Abbot, pastor of the Free
Baptist church at Oakland, Me-, was
found dead in bed Saturday morning.
Charles Thompson, an old and we'll
known citizen of st. Adams, died
Friday, after "A short illness of pnue-
mOnia, aged seventy-one years.
Cyrus Sargent, Il wealthy farmer of
Bloomington, Wis, was killed by an
accident Oct. %. He was native of
Ludlow, VT, and went to Wisconsin
in 1852.
Congressman Stewart will probably
occupy the old John Quincy Adams
house at Washington this winter. 1t
belonged to Bradley Barlow before his
late crash.
James E. Goodwin has been appoint
ed assistant superintendent of the Con
necticut River railroad, the appoint
ment taking effect November /, with
headquarters at Bellows Falls.
At the election of officers of the
National WOman's Christian tenn
perance union at Detroit, Mich, Satur-
day, Mrs. Frances E. Willard was
unanimously reelected president.
Armisted Burt, one of the oldest and
most learned lawyers in South Caro-
lima, died suddenly while alone in his
Office at Abbeville the 3lst. He was Il
member of congress from 1854 to 1850.
Matthew Hale, native of Vermont
and graduate of the Burlington Uni
versity, has been nominated by the
republicans of the Albany judicial dis
trict, for the Office of judge of the
supreme court.
Rev. Samuel w. Boardman, ID. D.,
formerly professor of Middlebury col
loge, and later for many years pastor
at Auburn, n. Y, was on Oct. 25th, in
stalled pastor of the Presbyterian
church of Stanhope, n. j.
Colonel Robert A. Hutchlns, former
ly of Vermont, and son of the late
Major Ephraim Hutchins of Concord,
n. H., recently died at Los Angeles,
| Cal. Colonel Hutchins was a Union
U OlllCl vi hlctlhNtlph III biiC IalNt W al
John p. Howard, Esq, who never
wearies in well doing, has made prop
esitiOn to the parishiOners of st.
| Paul's to replace the present rectOry
with new building in keeping, in re-
spect to architecture and finish, with
| the beautiful church buildings Bur
! lingtOn Free Press.
General Sherman has completed the
settlement of official matters incident
| to his retirement from command of the
army, and has gone to Philadelphia to
visit his daughter for a few days.
From that city he will go to New York,
where he will also make a short stay
proceeding then to his old home in St
Louis.
The most brilliant wedding Rutland
has seen for years and the social event
of the season was the marriage
Wednesday night, of Guy H. Reynolds,
only son of j. B. Reynolds, to Miss
Pauline NJ. McDaniels, youngest daugh-
ter of Mrs. V. A. Gaskill. The presents
included costly diamonds and Il $1,000
check.
The monument to the memory of the
late Chief Justice Pierpoint, obtained
by subscriptions of the bar of the state
is now nearly completed. 1t is o
Barre granite and its height is twenty
two feet. The inscription on one side
is to ''JOhn PierpOint,n followed by
the dates of his birth and death, anC
on the opposite side, Erected 10y
the Bar of Vermont" The entire cost
will be about 800.
1
annoyed lately by ill-founded reports
to the effect that he has abandoned his
banking business, and will henceforth
devote himself exclusively to literary
pursuits. "This is just now calculated
to injure me-" he said recently to q
correspondent. ~ have, in fact, aban-
dOned writing to go into business, be
cause | could not make Il living fol
myself and family by mere brainwork.'
John w. Hobart has been appointed
General Manager of the Central Yer
mont railroad company, and will have
charge of the details of the various de-
partments of the load and its leased
lines. He assumed the duties of hi.
position on November |. Mr.. Hobart''
connection with the road has extended
through period of some tlirty-tivt
years, he having begun his railroad
career with the Inauguration of the
road itself
Ubert l.. Pettingill died suddenly a
his residence on Wyoming avenue
Melrose, Sunday afternoon, from F.;
stroke of apopleXy. Mr.. Pettingill was
seventy-one years old and Il prominent
citizen of his town. He was one o.
the original "forty miners" and, re-
turning from California in 1852, estab-
lished the advertising agency which
has since become so well known. IL,
had been connected with this bushes.