St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-03
Vermont News.

Waterbury claims that its citizens go
to Montpelier and are led astray Rum
is too free, 4 correspondent thinks, at
the capital.
The Standard Marble company has
been organized with capital of $780,
600 to work the quarry on a. J. Mead's
f"r,., =, W.. D,,+I"..I
Joel Tucker and wife of Plymouth,
while on Il prOtracted spree recently,
set fire to their house and the woman
was probably fatally burned.
David Reyes, an old resident of
West Topsham, was found dead in the
road. 1t is supposed he was thrown
ont of his sleigh and died suddenly of
heart disease.
Robert, an eleven years old son of
John Manly of Dorset, was kicked in
the head by a horse, crushing i'll the
front part Of his head. Little hope is
entertained of his recovery.
The rake factory burned at Brook
field last week was next to the largest
manufacturing establishment there,
was doing good business and had Il
large stock of lumber on hand.
Ludlow Tribune: "The Green Noun
tain Freeman advcrtises for "a boy to
learn the printers trade accus-
toned to the care of cattle Evidently
the assistant editors of that sheet are
a hard lot to manage"
Harry, aged nineteen years, son OF
George H. Howard of Athens, COM
mitted suicide the 9th in his fathers
house by shooting himself through the
head and died Immediately. No cause
for the act is assigned.
About thirty men have been dis
charged from the railroad shops ut st
| Adams, besides Il number of section
men. The reduction III force is made
| because the state of the work in the
shops and elsewhere on the road
demands curtailment of expenses.
The dyke recently completed by
Hon. William NJ. Evarts, Windsor,
making lake on his meadow of over i
hundred acres of water from five t.
twenty feet deep, broke out recently
washing away some fifty feet of the
embankment and causing loss o
81 600.
Chelsea, with AGO inhabitants, ha.
I IL persons who receive pensions from
the government. The average is on,
in 35 of the inhabitants. This is til,
largest average of any town in tn,
county. Nearly one-half of them ar,
widows of soldiers. Washington ha
being one in lS5. The average in tn,
county is one in 90.
Thomas II. Cave of Montpelier is til,
pOssessOr of Il curiosity in the shape O
a coin which was taken at Jerusalem
from point more than hundred fee
below the surface of the earth and clos'
to the walls of the temple. The coli
is of black bronze, in good condition
weighing one hundred and forty
Troy grains, being an inch and one
sixteenth in diameter.
John Stewart of johnson now claim
to be first cousin of the New HOrl
widow and Judge Hilton for SOM
of the fortune. He is in the hand
of Lawyer l.. +. Chittenden, wh'
managed the raid of Matthew Stew
art of Proctorville, and has already
started his suit.
The Trenor w. Park home for desti
tute women and children at Benning
ton has been organized with these Off
GERS: President, Gen. John G.. Nc
CullOugh; vice-president, Frederic
b. Jennings; secretary and treasurer
George W. Harmon. Mr.. Park left tia
home its building and 300 acres q
grounds. which cost $4,000 outside q
the elaborate improvements, anon
! which is the highest single jet fountai
I i'll existence. His heirs will carry on
his plans for the endowment of the in
n stitutiOn.
D Miss Martin, of South RoyaltOn,
: years old, while walking home about
j o'clock Saturday evening, was violen