St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-08-21


union at East Middlebury on the 2Sth
and Doth.
Newman Weeks of Rutland and ST.
las Mason of Hartwellville were chosen
vice presidents of the New England
Spiritualist association at Lake Pleas
ant on Monday.
Leon w. Bonnet, injured in the
railroad yard at Newport few days
since, died from blood poisoning on
Tuesday. He leaves widow and
child. Three hundred and twenty
dollars was subscribed for his family
by citizens and railroad employees.
The camp meeting of the Burlington
district of the NJ. Z. church opened
ten days session at Spring grove
camp grounds Tuesday night, Presid-
ing Elder J. w. Bennett in charge.
NJ. p. Spaulding, formerly assistant
paymaster of the West Shore railroad
ut Amsterdam, n. Y, and late of Bur
lington, has been arrested on n charge
of stealing $1,000 from the company
there over year ago.
The corner stone of st. Charles
Catholic church at Bellows Falls was
laid and blessed Saturday by Bishop
DeGoesbriand of the diocese of Bur
lington, assisted by other clergymen.
The 10th anniversary of the battle
of Bennington was celebrated on Sat-
urday by three societies G.. A.
r., the Father Mathew Total Absti-
nence society and local organization
dubbed the r. A. Us. 1t was the best
anniversary procession since the cen
tennial year.
An Episcopal mission has been es-
tablished at Westmore.
John Norton, of Barton Landing, re-
Gently found II swarm of wild bees, with
$50 pounds of honey.
1t is very dry in the western part of
the county. In Addison, farmers are
driving cattle two and three miles to
water and the pasturage is so scant
that it is necessary to fodder stock.
Z. II. StOughton post, G. A. r., of
Bellows Falls cautions all eX-soldiers,
sailors and prisoners of war against II.
c. II. Lewis, former member as be-
ing a fraud, obtaining funds from COM
rades under false pretences.
A Vergennes correspondent says
In this and adjoining towns, hay, win
ter wheat, rye and oats are light
crop. estimated at twO-thirds. Early
potatoes are nearly failure. Beans
are literally cultivated in this section
and are good crop. Corn is light,
owing to the cold dry season. Apples
and pears are light. Late potatoes are
promising. Rains have been very I'M
even this season. In towns north and
adjoining Addison county and in Chit
tenden county, rain has been abundant
and all crops are good.
The forthcoming report of the super
visors of the insane will show that on
the first day of August, 1884, there
were 437 patients in the asylum at
BrattlebOrO, $50 males and 1913 fe-
males; and of these 1873 were private,
1872 state, and 172 room patients.
A suit for $4,000 has been begun
against Col. Geo. A. Merrill of Rutland
by Edward McGraw of Valley Falls,
n. Y, who was recently bitten very
severely by vicious dog belonging to
Col. Merrill. The vicious dogs should
go.
The legal hitch to the operations ut
tllt oulli lh1tOl at 81. AibtlliS HiH
been removed, and the manufacture of
shirts will be again resumed.
An application is to be made in the
next legislature for the removal of the
shire of Windham county to Brattle
bOrO.
Mrs. Stephen Wyman of Chester
hanged herself on Wednesday of last
week. Insanity was the cause.
The large new skating rink ut Nor
risville was opened on Monday even
ing.
The Bennington Banner says the APP
pie and pear crop promises very we'll.
The trees are loaded and the fruit is of
good size.
The Rutland Herald thus summari-
yes the condition of the crops in that
vicinity: Hay, smaller yield but bet
ter quality than last year rye and oats
headed well, but short in straw corn,
backward but promising; fruit, suffer
ed severely from June trosts in some
sections.
Otter Creek is the lowest for several
years, and the mills on that stream can
hardly run.
There will be Il tent meeting at North
Cambridge commencing August %, and
hold over the following Sabbath.
E. A. Shattuck of West Randolph
has sold Lambert mare to New York
parties for $500.
r. f. Bentley of Ripton gets pen
sion of ten dollars a month, with about
$1,000 back pay.
The Green Mountain pulp company's
new mill ut Huntington's Falls (Wey-
BRIDGE will be in operation in six or
eight weeks, and will produce ut least
$50 tons of pulp a week. The product
of the mill now in operation is all tax
Ell by II Fitchburg (Mass.,) concern.
Recently, child four years old ot
John Aher in Brattleboro, was playing
with some children with matches,
which took fire, setting fire to the
Aher child's doll, which communicated
the blaze to the child's clothes. The
mother endeavored to eXtinguish the
flames, but the burns proved fatal, and
the child died the next day.
Calais has the largest brass band in
| Vermont. The organization is com
| posed of thirty five members.
SperiaI ,Hofires.