St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-09-25
Vermont News.

The receipts of the state fair amount
ed to something over SS000-enOugh
to pay expenses, premiums and inter
est, and leave ii surplus of about $1,000.
Rev. Almon Benson, who recently
died at his home in Centre Harbor, n.
Y, was born in Jericho, in 1910.
The duties collected at the port of
st. Albans up to the 18th amounted to
over 100000.
The total enrolment of the Burling-
ton schools was 965 at their opening.
The capital stock has all been sub
scribed, and all other necessary az
engagements made, for new national
bank at Windsor.
The new school building at White
River junction has been completed at
Il cost, for the grounds and buildings,
of about SlS,0O0. 1t is of the
Queen Anne style of architecture.
The Y. NJ. C. A. of Brattleboro will
occupy their new rooms early in OctO-
Der. They are on the first floor, the
reading room fronting on Main street
and the parlor being in the rear, con-
nected by folding doors. Col. Julius
j. Estey is president of the association
and A. NJ. Ingham is the secretary.
1t now appears that the result of the
vote for sheriff in Bennington county
was tie, and consequently there is no
election on the face of the returns.
The secretary of state says that he
made a mistake in copying the vote OF
Pownal, giving Mccall, the republican
candidate, ten more votes than the
certificate from that town shows he
had. The matter now goes before the
legislature for settlement, the cOnstitu-
ton providing that the general assem-
bly, shall elect one of the two men hav
ing an equal number of votes.
The fiftyninth annual state conven-
ton of the Baptist churches is being
held at Bennington yesterday and to-
day. The annual sermon was preach
ed last evening by Geo. S. Pratt of St.
Adams.
DR.. III. II. Whitcomb, one of the
most successful physicians in the state
of Vermont, died Sept. is at his home
in South Royalton.
Senator Morrill, delivered the annual
address at the Orleans county fair at
Barton yesterday.
Prof. Allen of Providence will make
a balloon ascension at the Windsor
county fair at Woodstock next Thurs
day.
A bill will be introduced at the COM
ing legislative session changing the
name of Lewis college, Mortified,
back to Norwich university. The in
stitution has now about % students.
West Randolph is to have a course
of eight lectures and concerts the com
ing season, commencing Nov. Z, for the
benefit of the village reading rooms.
Among the lecturers and companies
engaged are the following: VIM. Par
sons, Prof. J. w. Patterson, Robert j..
Burdette, John l. Marshall, the Weber
quartette and the Nashville students.
As an indication of the granite bust
ness done at Barre, it is said that there
are about twelve teams drawing gran
tie, going twice day. Frequently
their loads are so large as to require
from twelve to twenty horses to draw
them.
w. II. Alexander of BrattlebOro
says he has lived to be 10 to find a
June frost a godsend, compelling him
to plant his squashes over so late in
the season that the vines escaped the
bugs and gave him the first full yield
in a lifetime. His product this season
was eight tons of squashes, twenty
bushels of peas in the pod and five
bushels of beans from one acre of land.
1t is expected that the state conven-
ion of Young Mems Christian Associ-