St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20
Vermont News.


The long drouth is severely felt at
Chester. Springs and streams are very
low and rain is very much needed.
The death of Col. Benjamin p. Ba-
ker, long a prominent business man of
Rutland. at the age of 67, is announced.
AT Reading, Daniel Mahoney, while
aiding in firing a salute in honor of
ClevelandS election, was severely in
jured.
Daniel ellison of Tyson Furnace was
fined one cent and costs for swearing
at neighbOr who was stoning his
horse.
& A. Wilson of Tyson Furnace has
an apple tree that on October 10 was
bearing ripe apples and blossoms at
the same time.
st. John was hing in efiigy at Mid
dlebury. At Fairhaven an efligy of
the prohibition candidate was tarred
and feathered, hung and burned.
Five hundred thirteen bills have
been introduced in the house and one
hundred forty-six in the senate This
is the largest number for many years.
Rev. L. B. Hubbard, formerly editor
of the Ludlow Tribune, has been APP
pointed Il commissioner to the New
Orleans exposition for the state of
Iowa.
From forty to fifty Thousand heads of
cabbage have been raised by five Cas-
tletOn men. From two to three thou
sand barrels of cider have b en- made
in that town.
| Between four and five thousand bar
rels of apples have been loaded from
one dock at Charlotte this season for
New York parties. The ruling price
has been 81 30 per barrel. About 1000
barrels have been shipped tn BOSTON
The store and safe of J. III. Holden,
merchant and postmaster at Middlesex,
was burgiarized the llth, the combina-
ton lock of the safe pried open and
some $3.50 in cash taken besides papers
valuable only to the owner.
On the Dummcrston road. beyond
the asylum retreat stands tree
which bears the name of the Arctic
explorer, DR.. Kane. 1t was carved
there by him, years ago, when he was
the guest of the cold water cure, then
in its palmiest days.
Frank Plumley of Mortified has re-
turned from his campaign work in
Michigan. He has made speeches in
thirty-two towns and seventeen cOun-
: ties and travelled 300 miles in the
state To keep appointments. AT all but
:. two of the places he was the principal
or only speaker, and the aggregate
number of persons in his audience was
over 55 900.
The inmates of the state workhoust
have been presented Bibles by the
Vermont Bible association. They are
bound in leather and on the outside o
=. the cover of each is inscribed, .'Pre
sentel by the Vermont Bible associa
tion," and on the inside is written the
name of the recipient. 1t is proposed
in future to present those committed
to the workhonse copy of the Bible
/ The last census shows that Yer
t monts percentage of native white per
sons above ten years of age is two AM
tOur-tenths per cent, while Connect
cuts percentage is one per cent.
4 Names one and nine-tentls, Massa
: chusetts' seven-tenths of one per cent.
] New Hampshire's one and one tent
d per cent, and Rhode Islands two an,
nine-tenths per cent.
a The supreme court has declined t,
, reopen the case of the First Nationa
bank of BrattleborO against s. NJ
Waite's estate on application of Waite
attorneys. Iii understood that anoth
. er appeal will be made to the .suprem,
> court of Windham county which meet
in February. The situation of TIN
banks affairs is anything but assurin,
to the duped stockholders who wer
last summer promised an early settle
ment.
' The Vermont republicans are perse
cutting the st. John men. They burned
St John i'll effigy mt Middlebury ant
5 turned ont IA calithumpian serenade fo
g the prominent men who supported
him, including Profs. Seelye and Aus
) tin of Middlebury college and Rev )
l.. b. Speare of the Congregations
church. Speare had lived in Main
2 and knew Blaine, which he assigned
e as the reason he couldn't vote for him
: aud his church people say he will hav,
3 to go. Republicans are also circulat
/ ing petitions to the Legislature to pas
, a license law, in order to he revengei
: upon the prohibiionists.
The ouly democrat in the next con
1 gress from the Pacific slope will b
y Henley. from the first district of Cali
= fornia, elected by 50 majority.
e Among the delegates who took al
active part at the Walwnrth Count
= prohibition convention, held at Elk
y horn, Wis, August %, there were fOn
men W no we're among the 1000 tina
voted in $40 for .Inmes L. RirncN