St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-28

] hN-~ rAD'' WV iiNl NIulNlis
The wife and daughter of Senator
Edmunds have sailed for Nassau.
! The president has nominated John
l.. Knight to be postmaster at Bran
don.
Otis H., promising Ben. Franklin
horse, was sold ut Fair Haven a few
days ago, for $500 to Boston parties.
The Wells river paper mill has been
sold to F. Deming and d. w. Learned
for 5000.
F. E. Kathan of Rutland, grocer, is
in insolvency. Liabilities probably
$1,000; assets about 800.
There were over 400 entries and
800 birds in the poultry exhibition
which closed at Brattleboro recently.
A reduction in wages of 10 per cent.
has been made on all the quarries and
mills at West Rutland.
Howard and Leavitt's store in Crafts
bnry was burned the 18th. Loss Sl0,-
900; insured for $4,000.
C. c. Warren's tannery at Water
bury was burned on Saturday night.
Loss, S25, 600: insurance, $4,000.
The 18th annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the state is held at
Bennington January 30.
NorcrOss Bros. of Worcester have
contracted to build the Billings library
at Burlington for 100000. 1t will he
of LOngmeadOw sandstone.
A pleasant event at South RoyaltOn,
the 10Th, was the marriage of c. II.
| Woodward, the well known hotel pro-
prietor, and Miss Kate, daughter of
Hon. Dudley c. Denison.
Montpelier village has voted to issue
bonds to the amount of S50,O00 to
bring water down from Berlin pond
! for TIE convenience of the villagers.
The Burlington WOODEN company
banqueted the city fire department on
the 10Th, as testimonial to its eflicien-
cy.
Henry Persons of East Middlebury,
sustained fracture of his collar bone
and other injuries by being thrown
from his carriage.
Mrs. George w. Bond of West Tops
ham committed suicide by drowning
herself in ii small brook near her home
the 18th. She had been in poor health
for some time.
Benz. Dodge of Lowell, aged %
years, was arrested at Bellows Falls
for forging IL bill of goods at one of the
stores. He was committed to Jail for
trial. lie is wanted in Orange county
for other crimes.
Ransom S. Humphrey, superintend
ent of the Columbian marble quarry
was killed Saturday forenoon while
Stacking cars on the quarry switch,
near Sutherland Falls. He leaves Il
wife and three children.
1t is reported that Mr.. Shedrick, who
owns the land mt " Belden'S Falls, "
! (Middlebury) on which a deposit of
valuable marble has been found, has
agreed to sell the property to Bos-
ton capitalists for S50,00O. MI
Shedrick was previously poor man,
The Lamoille county grand jury III.
dicted several rumsellers, who turned
around and presented evidence against
the foreman, Druggist l.. b. Sherwin,
on which his fellow jurors indicted
him, and he paid his fine along with
the regular offenders.
Gen. Sherman is much missed in
Washington society, and especially in
the circle of confidential friends that
used to meet at his house in an inform
nj way on Wednesday evenings. Here
his wit and humOr were unbOunded
and almost everybody felt the kindly
flashing of his tongue.
Davis & Rogers of Paris, KY, were
i'll Rutland the 18th, loading, for ship
ment south, herd of 6;} head of regis
tered and high grade Jersey cattle
which they had selected from the fine
herds of Messrs. Griswold, Berge
Cults, Smith and others in the town.
of Orwell and Shoreham.
+. \. Bissel of East Shoreham ha.
shipped from Rutland for San Francis
co, Cal, fifty-three of the choicest
Spanish or American merino rams ant
ewes that can he found among tn,
many fine tlocks in Vermont. Tn,
) sheep will he carried to San Francisco
where they will take the steamer TO
New South Wales.
Readsboro, Nottingham and Jack
sOnville are excited about mad dog
which has bitten Il number of othe
dogs that have since gone mad. Sew
eral persons have also been bitten
All the dogs in the communities arr
kept shut up and muZzled.
The blind man, George Pippin, VIII,
has for years showed wonderful ingenu
: ity in handling freight, tending switch
etc, at Shelburne station, is dead. Ill
had been blind from bOyhood, and TIN
skill he displayed at various kinds q
work, including upholstering, whicI
he followed us IL trade for some time
D was simply marvellous.
e A Stamford merchant has bee
caught by new fraud. A drumme
called and asked the privilege of leav
ing a show case containing good va
: riety of soap. AT the end of the yea
: he would call and get pay for whs
= soap had been sold. The merchan
signed Il contract to that effect, but 4
the end of 30 days another man al
peared with the contract which had
!, clause in fine print calling for paymeu
i'll 30 days.
Representative Dudley c. Haskell ,
Kansas died i'll Washington, after
lingering illness. He was born
Springfield, VT, in 1912; took
e special course at Yale college, and ell
r, gagged in mercantile pursuits. II
: went to Kansas in 1855, and after serN
ing as Il member and speaker of I'll
state house of representatives., he ";
elected to congress for three terms ;
republican.
james Powell, while hunting
O Fairhaven, cooked both barrels of h
At gun, intending to shoot the contents
, one barrel ut a rabbit. Both barre