St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-10-09
Vermont News.

Burglars entered Robbins & Marsh's
hardware store at Chester Depot on
Wednesday night of last week, but
were frightened away by a dog before
they secured anything.
Many cases of the second blowing of
apple blossoms are reported from
Windham county.
There were 400 veterans in line at
the annual parade of the G. A. r..
posts of Windham county and vicinity
on Thursday.
The ladies of the BrattlebOrO relief
corps have initiated movement for
the erection of IA soldiers monument.
II. b. Horton Of BrattleborO has a
sunfiower that measures l59 inches in
diameter and A inches in circumfer
ence.
Mrs. Geo. w. Fuller of BrattlebOro
picked from her garden on Monday OF
last week enough red raspberries for a
supper for six persons.
Typhoid fever is prevalent in White
River valley.
The Barnard panther is being ex-
hibited at fairs in Connecticut.
l.. S. Hayes of Bellows Falls was
thrown from horse and had his collar
bone broken.
Ex-GOv. Hiland Hall is to pass the
winter with his son, Charles Hall, in
Springfield, Mass.
Mark Fisher, son of w. H. II. Fisher
of Rutland, had the misfortune to
| break his arm between the elbow and
wrist.
An animal supposed to be a lynx
has been creating good deal of con
sternation of late among several of tine
farmers who live in Weybridge, neal
the Middlebury line.
The Windham county court, which
was in session at Newfane for three
weeks, cost the state $75 day afte,
the discharge of the grand jury the
first week. Verdicts amounting to less
than $40 have been returned.
j. II. ChattertOn of Rutland recently
harvested 50 bushels of potatoes on 3,
rods. They were the White Star and
Bliss Triumphs varieties, and were fer
tilted with Quinnipiac phosphate al
the rate of 500 lbs. per acre.
uItG JIduiDS SIOlC ii idtlN ClOhf
from the store of Platt s. Allen at
Winooskl, and word was sent to the
sheriff for assistance to arrest them.
BY the time Sheriff Barton reached
WinOoski two of the migratory gen
tlemen had been apprehended, but the
third made his escape.
At Bennington building owned by
| ii. +. Bradford & Co. and occupied by
F. l.. Blake rs general store was
partially burned 10y an incendiary the
other night. Damage to building
$1,000. Blake's stock is valued at
5000; insured for S2500 and is entire
! ly ruined by fire and water.
A house on what is known as the
old Bently place in Ripton was recent
~ burned to the ground. The house
had been unOccupied all summer and
the fire was undoubtedly the work OF
an incendiary.
A st. John and Daniel club has been
formed at St. Adams, with j. c. Web
ster as president.
A St. John and Daniel flag has been
raised in Monkton.
The first quarterly meeting of tn,
Rutland County Medical and Surgical
society will be held in Rutland the
third Wednesday i'll October.
The steamer Vermont was with
drawn from Lake Champlain on Satur
day.
Five hundred tons of steel rails hav,
arrived ut Burlington for the Contra
Vermont road, Of which 400 tons will
be employed i'll relaying the Rutland
division and the remainder in repair
in the main line.
The Mary Fletcher hospital at Bur
lington received 10 patients during
the year ended August | last, of WHOM
; 76 were paying. The hospital COS
1000 and its permanent fun,
amounts to $l35, l20. 1t will be re-Op
ened Nov. 3.
The centennial of the Baptist churcl
at MiddIetown will be observed Oct0
Der | L. The historical sermon will b
preached by the pastor, Rev. 5. II
Davis. and addresses will be deliyere
by Rev. T. H. Archibald, ID. D., G
Addison aud Hon. ID. K. Nicholson ant
Henry Clark of Rutland.
, Dennis Stock weIlsof Fairhaven ha
. I DtCh VI nut
land county court and sentenced t
one years Imprisonment.
Forty three barrels of beer wer
seized and emptied on the ground q
, Burlington on Wednesday of Las
. week.
, IL. b. Dodge of Middlebury has pun
chased the West Randolph hotel an
. will remove there -..
| In Washington County court la;
week, Clark w Sanders, who she
Daniel Carr in Montpelier a few week
ago, was arraigned on an indictmeI
for murder in the first degree. He re
: fused to plead and stood mute, whe
: Judge Redfield ordered plea of nc
tguilty entered in his behalf. His tris
: will take place soon. 1t is understood,
his defence will be insanity.
= Some workmen in an almost inter
Ininable forest in WoodfOrd, Will
3 digging in the earth to make road