St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-09-11

that good Judgment controls the ad
ministration of military affairs in Yer
mont.
Seventeen persons were received in
to full communion with the Methodist
church at Burlington Sunday.
The Blaine and Logan flag at Island
Pond was pulled down the other night
and torn and disfigured. Intense in
dignation pervades the community.
Henry E. Coffran, a painter and a
dissipated character, made a desperate
attempt at suicide at Montpelier, Fri
day, by drowning. He jumped from
the railroad bridge into deep water.
After being rescued, he promised to go
home, but instead deliberately jumped
into the river again. He was again
rescued and lodged in Jail. He has a
wife and three small children.
Joseph Bartlett of Barton Landing
raised 81 bushels of the Early Sunrise
potatoes on II rods of ground. The
seed weighed pounds; one potato
weighed ? pounds and ounces.
The fourth story of the new college
building at Burlington has been con-
verified during the summer into dOrmi-
tories for the use of the students, and
this work has been done entirely at
the expense of John p. Howard, Esq.
The tramps arrested at ProctOrville,
suspected of the Chester burglary and
committed, have been released, owing
to lack of evidence.
Ludlow has an infant in the shape
of boy, twelve years old, weighing
2454 pounds.
Addison county bee keepers say
that the honey crop will average only
about one half that of Il year ago.
William Bean of South Wheelock
recently picked four thousand and
two kernels of wheat from one stalk
The Orange county veteran soldiers
reunion was held Mt Chelsea, and was
IA success. The next reunion will
be held ut Randolph. Col. John b
Mead was elected commander.
Rev. NJ. C. Stebbins of Springfield
Mass, will be installed as pastor at
Cornwall Sept. "a.
John Ewing, who lives on Clay hill,
at Montpelier, was arrested for intOXi-
cation Friday and after his trial was
again arrested for an assault on his
wife. On the same day he also ere
ated a sensation in his neighbOrhoOd
by swapping a gun at and threatening
some children.
The September term of Washington
county court began at Montpelier
rpa1In,. fnhn ,lAal-nt sDtl-
cases, 90 in chancery. Judge T. p.
RedfieId will preside. The trial of San
ders for the killing of Carr may be
had, in which event the term will
probably last several weeks.
The Messenger says there will be a
large crop of apples at st. Adams, one
half the usual yield of pears and no
plums.
Mrs. H. Clarendon Smith of Sheldon
Springs has drama in preparation, in
which II. Clarendon Smith, who has
been Dion Boucicault's leading man,
will take the principal role.
Middletown's representative-elec
Dyer Leffingwell, is postmaster of his
town, and was elected in disregard Of
the recent constitutional amendment
requiring the additional oath from all
members of the Legislature that they
did not hold any office of trust or profit
under the laws of the United States
Leffingwell's opponents in town have
used in preventing Leffingwell taking
his seat if necessary.
Rutland's graded schools opened on
Monday with corps of twenty-five
teachers.
r. c. Abel, the representative-elec
from West Haven, will be the veteran
of the next general assembly, having
already represented West Haven eigh
times before-in 1859, 1860, 1868, 1869
1874, 1879, 1880 and 1882. He was al
so senator from Rutland county il
1870.
| A demented man, named l.. Wiley
started August 26 from West SheffOrd
p. O., for his home in PrOctOrsville
He has been traced as far as Esse,
Junction, where he was found in the
street, taken to the Central house anC
cared for over night and then started
out on foot, but he has not yet reach
ed home. He is represented to be e;
feeble old man with one stiff knee
Later.-He was found in Georgi;
Tuesday mornieg, and was pitiabl'
object.
Otter Creek at Middlebury elaine,
its annual victim Monday. Franz
Lane, Il son of Rollin Lane of Corn
wall, who was about Is years of age
was in swimming below the falls, at tn
spot where the DonOhue boy wa
drowned year ago. There were fiji
teen or twenty other boys in the waite
at the time. Lane got out beyond hi
depth and was drowned. ALDER
Phelps, about his own age, tried t
save him, but was nearly drowned
himself in the effort.