St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-03-13
Vermont News.

,ther gift of $1,000 to the Vermont
Seminary.
Mrs Ann Page of Felchville, about
80, jumped from window and killed .
herself while insane.
The wages that will he paid farm |
in Rutland county this season |
will average from S25 to $50 month. |
Rev. j. r. Bartlett has purchased the |
Vermont Christian Messenger, of which |
he has for several years been editor.
Maj. Grout has purchased in Illinois
two stations, three brood mares, and !
two other horses of the Percheron
stock for his farm in Newport.
Rev. II. II. Holmes of South Royal
ton has received a call to the pastorate
of the Congregational church at Orleans
Mass.
In the United States court at Bur
lington, VIM. j. Lambert, the mail
rObber, was sentenced to one year in
the house of correction.
Abbie NJ. Hemenway, compiler and
publisher of the Vermont Historical
Gazetteer, had her collar bone broken
by collision with team ut Ludlow,
ilt llLt w illittlli was lbN II
clerk of Ludlow for forty years his
son for twenty years; and now his
daughter, Miss Sarah SpatfOrd, has
been elected to the office.
The Woodstock Age says that
gentlemanly appearing stock buyer
from Texas has swindlcd farmers i'll
Royalton and vicinity out of about
500, 900.
Heman Gaylor of Newport Center
has gone to Rutland on account of
drinking too much and abusing his
wife and horse; he will stop there 400
days, which will give him time to
mediate.
The new $4,000 building, which
John ?. Howard has built for the
medical department of the Vermont
university at Burlington, was dedica-
ted Friday. Lawyer Henry Ballard
made the presentation speech and
President Buckham accepted the gift.
The Howe scale company has funded
its Indebtedness to the National bank
of Rutland, and has given three notes
for 1896 900, secured by a second
mortgage on their works and Inachin-
cry. This with the prior mortgage
amounts to S47l 900.
Henry Zeno, in the employ of Sid
ney Gillett at the steam mill at Hunt
! ington, while at work around the saw
last week Wednesday, slipped and
threw his arm against the saw while III
motion, and it was nearly severed
from his body. He died Sunday.
DR.. J. A. Mead, who bought the
Dates 0@Se h 1HJadH u% ~ ~, o. M VI, ia
possession March |, refuses to take a
deed, claiming that he supposed he
was buying more land in the rear than
was sold by the assignee.
Rutland elected Isabella NJ. Brown
town clerk. She has kept the records
for more than 20 years, and during
most of that time no man could secure
an election to the Office who would not
pledge himself to give Miss Brown the
work and the fees
Hon. Jonas n. Smith, who died il
Addison, Feb. %, aged - years, was
for many years one of the leading mel
of Addison, where he held many Offices
of trust. He was twice chosen TO rep
resent the town in the state legislature
and was twice elected assistant Judge
of the county court
The severest penalty melted out to d
| liquor dealer for long time was that
imposed on J. w. Daley in Burlington
He was found guilty of twenty five
second offences and fined, as the law
requires, twenty dollars for each of
fence, OF five hundred dollars in all
and sentenced to the house of cOrrec-
ton for thirty days. Daley appealed
and furnished bail in 5000
Francis Richardson has rented the
Spaulding hotel at Barton and taken
possession. Mr.. Richardson proposes
to open "A stage route i'll connection with
this and his Willoughby Lake House
in the summer travel season, running
a coach over to Pages landing, where
the little lake steamer will take pas
sengeTs through to the other end oil
the lake. The Monitor bespeaks a
good patronage for Mr.. Richardson,
but cautions him against rumselling,
as Spaulding did.
While Silas c.. Parkhill of Cornwall
was telling tree in Il swamp, it sud
denly swayed around, striking another
tree near by. One of the splinters
flew, hitting him in the face Just below
the eye, penetrating the flesh and re-
moving the eye. DR.. VI. ID. Smith of
| MIddlebuTy was called and succeeded
in soon removing the splinter, which
was about the size of his little finger,
/ and replaced the eye. The operation
was very painful, and lockjaw was
| feared at one time, but Mr.. Parkhill is
now comfortable.
In All associated press report recent
iy appeared dispatch from Brattle-
bOrO to the effect that Hon. Levi I'm
| derwOod of Burlington had sued Cen
eral w. w. Henry for large amount.
/ 1t is perhaps needless to say that the
sending of this dispatch was an act of
folly on the part of somebody, who
ought to know better. Mr.. Underwood
WAS several years ago adjudged insane
and General Henry was appointed his
guardian by the probate court. Nr.
Underwood could bring no suit what
. ever except through next friend, and
no such suit has any legal existence. -
Rutland Herald.
A POSTMASTER RUNS AWAY.
A government agent came to invest
igate Bennington post office affairs
Monday, Postmaster Ti1any's bonds
men having notified the department of
desire to be released While the in
vestigatiOn was progressing Tiffany
hired horse and cutter and left for
parts unknown, being tracked to Hoo
sick, n. Y. He took with him his
available funds. This proceeding Gre
ated profound sensation, Tiffany
having possessed public confidence to
a large degree. He had held positions
of trust, and was "A notary public He
had been Incorporate of late The
bonds are for $4,000 and are signed
by William II. and Edward Bradford.