St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10

Jamaica did not adopt the town sys-
TEN of schools, as reported.
Burlington is to be connected with
Troy and intermediate places by teIe-
phone this season. ....-- ..'..'
Nottingham votes to rescind her
"March meeting" action ON the town
school and town highway systems
Rev. Merritt Hulburd has been
obliged to stop preaching since his
residence in New York city began.
and his malady is nervous Prostitution,
Col. Albert Clark, late of Boston
Times, is now connected with the tdi-
torial staff of the Boston Advertiser,
having charge of its weekly edition.
The Venetian Blind company, of
Burlington, is doing a large and flour
ishing business, sending their goods
all over the country, their blinds going
to San Francisco and the extreme west
ern states, as well rs all over New Eng
land.
Fremont Stevens of Weston tried to
commit suicide by taking a dose com
! posed of chlerOform. ether and aconite,
a medicine his wife had to use for the
toothache. Medical aid was summon
ed at once and finally succeeded in
bringing him out of its effects.
Sumner Hitchcock, engineer of the
locomotive that jumped the track at
Rupert, died at Salem the LIST, from in
juries received i'll the accident. He
was fifty years old, and is survived by
a widow and two children.
Mrs. Henry f. Reynolds of Rutland
has elOped with one George Lee. Mrs
Reynolds is the mother of several chill
dren, most of whom are adults, and
Lee has left wife but no children.
Ira Sherman, one of the DANNY gang
of desperadoes, has been sentenced to
the house of correction for five years
by the Rutland county court for assault
upon Deputy Sheriff j. c. Williams OF
Dandy, with intent to kill. This makes
four of the Dandy gang that have
been sentenced at the present term OF
court.
Van Ness Spaulding of Barton fol
violation of the liquor law, was CON
victed on % second offences with Il
fine of $500, and costs. and one month
imprisonment. He appealed and bond'
were fixed at $500, for appearance al
county court, which he procured.
Albert Caswell, who had been foI
some time an engineer on the Central
,, Vermont, died at Montpelier Thursday
p morning, of consumption. His last ruI
had been between Montpelier Junction
and Barre, but he was obliged to Civ,
it up on account of ill health. HI
went TO Texas, hoping to recuperate
but failed to get any better, and came
home just in time to die.
E The third annual public shearin.
festival of the Vermont MerinO sheep
= shearing association of Vermont, com
menced at Middle bury on the LIST, anC
3 closed the 3D.. The weather was decid
e edly unfavorable and cold, yet som,
d over 200 were in the pens to be shorn
D A large number of Western and South
= ern sheep breeders were present look
ing after opportunities to purchase.
Charles Fargo, aged twenty -tw,
a years, an emplOye i'll NJ. Tarbell's rab
n factory at Mechanicsville, near Wal
lingfOrd, while at work about machin
cry the LIST, was caught by his clothin!
by a revolving shaft and carried rOunt
it until all the clothing on his bod,
> was torn from him. Then, terribl,
}, bruised from head to foot, he fell t.
the floor unconscious, dripping will
+ blood. A physician dressed his wound
= and he will recover.
: Wallace c. Clement, member o
the firm of Clement & Sons, Rutlan,
capitalists, who made their first none,
in marble, has been buying 500 acre
of land and quarry rights i'll 1000 NOR
J, in Georgia. They will organize thei
company at Atlanta May 10, and Glen
!, ent thinks the marble prospects il
northern Georgia us good as in Yer
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