St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-16
Vermont News.

vermont NEWS.
Samuel E. Mclean of Cabot has re
ceived 5000 back pension and 81 a
month hereafter.
Fifteen farmers on adjoining farms
in Barnard have over 600 turkeys
that will average ten pounds apiece,
dressed.
Mrs. Frank Dart of Perkinsville
committed suicide the 9TH, by taking
Paris green. Mr.. Dart has been dead
about two years.
Herbert Harris of Derby, one of the
boys at the Reform school, ran away
night or two since and though every
effort to trace him was made, his
whereabouts remains undiscovered.
Myra Farnham, the woman from
Troy, n. Y, who came up to Burling-
ton nearly starved to death and caught
delirium tremens, was sentenced to
seventy days in the house of correc-
ton.
The slate manufacturers of POultney
and the towns around there have
adopted schedule of pay by the hour
which reduces the mems earnings, and
the men have struck. The slate bust
ness is dull.
The new $4,000 church of the First
Congregational society of Bellows
Falls was dedicated on the 9TH. DIR.
Withrow of Boston preached the ser
mon. The debt was reduced during
the evening from 81 300 to 5000.
George Hubbard of Montpelier, a
brother of Erastus and Gustavus 5.
Hubbard, died on Tuesday, Nov. 8 at the
insane asylum at BrattlebOro where he
has been some thirty-tive years. His
age was sixty-eight years.
The Rutland shirt company will con
tinue the shirt business formerly car
ried on by the j. NJ. Haven shirt com
pany. Fifty girls will be employed i'll
the shirt department and twenty-five
in the laundry.
The Rutland selectmen are talking
of building an iron bridge over the
railroad tracks on River street. 1t
will be about two hundred feet long
and cost about $4,000, which is to be
paid by the town and the three rail
roads spanned.
A four-y year old philosopher in Rut
land recently, while washing his face,
one morning, asked his mother ''if it
was clean n Receiving an affirmative
reply, he said: 81 guess | will wash
it some more, so | shan't have to to-
morrow morning. Herald.
The house, barn and sheds, together
with some forty tons of hay, belonging
to Matthew GOrham, in Westminster
West, have been destroyed by fire. 1t
is supposed to have been the work of
an incendiary. The loss is estimated
at little over $1,000; partly insured.
Two large barns, together with one
hundred tons of hay, 1000 bushels of
grain, wenty-eight head of cattle and
farming tools, the property of Thomas
Edwards of Cambridge, were consumed
by fire Monday morning, caused by
lightning. Loss $4,000; insured for
$4,000.
We are sorry that the visions of Il
bounty for killing a bear, the album
dance of bears meat and grease, also "A
good skin, INDUCED in by Elijah
Davis and Richard Cheney last Tues
day evening were so ruthlessly dis
PEELED by their discovering that the
supposed cinnamon bear was only a
yearling heifer.- Essex Co. Herald.
While two young men, Clarence and
Forest, sons of John Gilmore of Wood
stock, were out hunting for cartridges,
Clarence coming in front and in range
of Forests gun as he discharged it at a
partridge, received the charge himself.
Ten shots entered his person one
shot entering his lung, two his cheek,
knocking out two teeth, and another
in the top of his head. The most
danger is anticipated from the one
which entered his lung.
MyrOn Amber, who was in Jail at
Hyde Park four weeks on the charge
of embezzlement, was released the 9Th,
after long negotiation with the COM
plainant. He left the Jail about seven
o'clock p. M, went into c. NJ. StrOng's
store, and bought paper of tobacco
and bunch of matches, and went off
on the Centerville road. About nine
o'clock, Smalley's sugar house which
was situated a few rods to the right
of the road, over which Amber must
have passed about eight o'clock, was
disco vered to be on fire. 1t was wholly
consumed with it's contents of sugar
utensils, etc; house and all valued at
5000; uninsured. Suspicion of course
Immediately rested upon Amber, who
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