St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-06-19
Vermont News.

Dogs have recently killed 30 valu-
able sheep for J. w. LOveland of Nor
wich. Dog funerals should be plenty
down that way.
At Bennington on Friday night
party of Odd Fellows surprised bur
glars working upon the safe of the first
national bank. The thieves. escaped.
Roland DeCamp, boy of Bellows
Falls, decamped with Il section boss's
watch and tried to sell it for p cents.
He was captured and released on
account of his youth.
Miss Nellie Aplin of East Putney was
very badly injured by being thrown
from wagon. She lay unconscious
for ii long time, but hopes are enter
tanned of her recovery.
The drug and fancy goods store of
DR.. w. g. Church, ut MiddleseX, was
burned Saturday. The stock, valued
at $4,000 or more, was ruined. The
damage to the building is about 5000.
The new Middlebury college cata
logue shows 1888 graduates since 1900,
of whom GIG are living. Five hundred
and nine graduates became clergymen,
and 100 non graduates have received
honorary degrees.
Not all the candidates nominated by
the mass temperance convention in
Addison county care for that kind of
Endorsement. w. f. Dunshee, candi
date for sheriff, and E. A. DOud for
senator, have declined.
In Rutland, Sunday, James Murphy's
barn was burned. Not insured. The
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remainder of the house badly damaged
by fire and water. The house and
furniture were insured for $1,000.
The Congregational convention at
St. Adams appointed Rev. c. S. Smith,
President Buckham of the university
of Vermont and Frederick Billings "A
committee on divorce reform. The
convention will meet at Bellows Falls
next year.
Peter b. Brigham left $50, 900 in 1877
to the town of Bakersfield, for schools,
and the greater part of his estate to go
in % years, with the accum Nations. to
found the Brigham hospital at Boston.
! The hospital fund already exceeds
| ; 900, 900, and it has Is years more to
run.
Recently, one of the severest hail
storms ever witnessed in the section,
passed over Windsor village from west
to east, cutting down garden vege-
tables, breaking glass in some in
stances, and doing other damage to the
highway. Some of the hail stones
picked up after the storm measured
three inches in circumference.
Slas Mitchell of East Fairfield, en-
ployed on a st. J. & L. C. construction
train, was badly hurt on Friday, re-
ceiving a compound fracture of the leg.
A surgeon was summOnd to amputate
the limb, on the suppOsitiOn that such
a course was necessary. On arrival
there, however, the doctor deemed it
best to wait while in the hope of saw
ing the leg.
The loss by the Springfield flood
seems to have been considerably ex-
aggerated when it was reckOned at
$4,000. The Reporter gives a long
column of individual losses estimated
by the property owners, and the total
only reaches $4,000. The list contains
only two losses of $1,000. The damage
to roads may not have been Overstated
at $4,000, as they are torn out and
bridges are gone in all directions from
the village. However, S25,000 will
repair good deal of quilted road.
The 18th commencement of the Uni
versity of Vermont will be held at
Burlington, beginning Sunday, the 22d
with the baccalaureate sermon at :
o'clock by the president and the ami
versary of the Young Mems Christian
association at 7.30. Monday, at : ID
IN, medical college commencement
address by Prot: King; Tuesday, a
m, annual meeting of the Phi Beta
Kappa society, 10, meeting of alumni
p. NJ, meeting of medical alumni as
ISOLATION, 3, celebration of the Phi Bet;
Kappa society, Grafton by d. H. Cham
berlain of New York city; Wednesday
III a. NJ, orations of graduating clas