St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-07-06
Vermont News.

Bennington is to have Il camp of
Sons of Veterans.
w. p. Manley of Rutland is about to
open bank in lie Mars, Iowa.
Elisha Cotton of Sherburne. seventy
years old, killed five bears last year
and two this, most of them with an aX.
The Burlington Free Press says that
under its present capable and popular
officers, the First regiment is winning
new laurels.
Howard }. DOnley of Windham.
was drowned at Bristol, n. H., while
bathing. He was twenty years
old and unmarried.
Hannah Wood, an aged lady who
died recently, willed $500 each to the
Congregational Church in West Ran
dolph and Randolph Center.
Saturday night there was slight
frost in the interior of the state along
the line of the Central Vermont. but
not severe enough to do any damage.
The mysterious disappearance of the
baker, Cyrelle ROusellP, and the finding
of his body at Swanton under such I'M
to the general satisfaction. Rum did
it.
A fine piece of newspaper enterprise
was the double number of the Burling-
ton Free Press containing Il full ac-
count of the exercises of relaying the
cornerstone of the university of Yer
mont and the unwilling the statue of
Lafayette.
Timothy O'Brien of North DuXbury
found four valuable cows dead in his
pasture on Friday last. They were
apparently well in the morning.
More are sick, but may recover. The
farmers are much alarmed, fearing
some epidemic.
In the case of Garrett j. Rose,
charged with poisoning his mother,
Mrs. Amanda IIamley, at Middlebury,
June -, 10y putting Paris green in
whisky, the court held that there was
not sufficient evidence to warrant hold
ing him for the grand Jury.
Patrick c. Donahue, sixty-fve years
old, night Waterman in the yard and
employed by the Central Vermont road
for many years, was killed by the cars
in the yard at st. Adams, Friday night
and found dead on the track next
morning. He leaves Il family.
The state insane asylum has bought
the private school with twenty acres
of ground north of their old building
ut Brattleboro and fitted it up in at
tractive style as Il summer house fOI
! the tractable patients. There are az
commodatiOns for sixteen patients.
The prices for wool ut Windsor
! three weeks ago were eighteen cents
for unwashed and twenty eight fol
washed. One of the chief causes al
the depression of the wool market
and its manufactured products is tn,
use of so much shoddy manufactured
from old rags.
Department Commander Valentine
has issued circular which gives til,
fare from New England to Denver, Col.
and return, to those attending tn,
Grand Army national encampmen
next month, as not to exceed SOB, pos
sibly $50. Full and exact information
will soon he given.
+. l.. BOrdo, mail carrier from st
Adams Bay to Highgate, has driver
one horse for the past two years, witt
the exception of twenty-siX days, III
average of twenty-five miles per day
which sums up to $1,000 miles trave
in two years time. The old hors,
bids fair to do much more work yet.
c. p. Gibson, of Brattleboro, proba
bly, has the only horse alive tina
served in the LIST Vermont Cavalry
The brands on his shoulder "U. s..
and &C." for the company are u
plain as when put on. The horse il
apparently not day less than thirt,
years old, and Is still IA good driver.
Some idea of the expense of railroa,
litigation may he formed when it i
known that in the Montpelier ant
! Wells River road case-which wa
comparatively brief and simple-th
taxable costs were over eight hundre'
dollars. The commissioners allOwe'
themselves twenty-five dollars a da.
/ and expenses.
t The following patents have been is
sued to citizens of this State: +.
Gokey, WinOOski, automatic advertis
ing device; NJ. l.. Woodbury., st. Al
bans, compound packing for hot jour
e mails on cars; Nelson Edwards, Jericho
FRACTIONAL connection for bars and slat
in window blinds J. b. Camp, Eas
: Randolph, apparatus for separating
apple seeds from pOmace.
\ The hay crop on old meadows
= light and thin, bat the new seede
grass crop is heavy; the general aver
+ age being little lower than last yea
The bad condition Of the old meadow
Is owing to the drouth of two year
= ago. The grass covers about 10000
acres and a crop of about 1905 ton
:, IS expected. The winter was hard an
there is less old hay than usual on han'
perhaps l50,0OO tons. The apple Gro
I is scarce.