St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-01-29
Vermont News.
THE NEW BILLINGS LIBRARY.

THE NEW BILLINGS LIBRARY.
The new Billings library of Vermont
University at Burlington will be dedi-
Gated at commencement in June. 1t is
of LongmeadOw stone, los feet long,
40 by 60feet wide, and contains read
ing-room As by A. The main book
room is 60 by Al. The capacity of the
building is 100000 volumes, the Uni
versity library now containing about
81, 600 volumes. The librarians room
is i'll the centre of the building, and
there are also several rooms for special
studies in the building.
THE STATE LIBRARY.
The Argus says that the commission
ers to erect IA state library building are
bnsy with the examination of plans,
bat have reached no decision as yet
and are not agreed about the best
thing to be done. Contrary to the gen
eral impression, the act of the legisla-
ture authorizing the construction of
new accommodations for the state Ii
brars does not necessarily contemplate
the erection Of separate building, but
allows the commissioners to make an
addition. to the state house if they
think hest Ex-Gov. Proctor thinks
that the thing to be done is to add
wings of Barre granite to both ends of
the capital, while Gov. Pingree and
Mr.. Huse favor the erection of an indie
pendent building just east of the state
house and on line with it, and prob
ably this latter thing is what will be
done eventually.
About $4,000 has been subscribed
for in the stock of the new Rutland
bank.
A Derby man recently felled a maple
tree that made 10 cords of 20 inch
wood.
Lucius Bigelow denies the report
that he is to edit a democratic paper in
Rutland.
Ri Rev. Bishop Bissell has recover
ed from his illness so that he rides out,
but lie is still unable to assume the du-
ties of his position.
Asa S. Jones of Windsor died Jan.
Is, aged 81 years. He was engaged in
cotton manufacturing during the whole
of his business life.
George II. Bigelow, late postoffice
inspector, is in bad condition from soft
ening of the brain He has been taken
to the Mary Fletcher hospital.
T. II. Thorpe, editor and part owner
of the Middlebury Register, will sue
coed Edward Johnson on TIE Burling-
ton Free Press February /.
The Rutland Review says that Speak
er Batchelder is one of the rising men
of the state who is not afraid to speak
his mind. 1t is of such timber our
governor should be made.
There were twenty different kinds
of fertilizers sold in Vermont last year.
State chemist a. Fl. Sabin's analysis
shows the Bay State phosphate to con-
tain more phesphoric acid than any
other.
The Springfield Republican annOun-
ces that Robert A. Perkins, the former
publisher of the Woodstock Post, and
for several years past member of the
Republican staff, has accepted call to
the Rutland Herald.
A. w. Mcdonald Of Bellows Falls,
late editor of the suspended Rocking
ham Transcript, has been held for his
appearance ut the March term of the
county court on the charge of fraudu-
lently mertgaging his office furniture
ana hNluftS.
A Washington correspondent writes
that Mr.. Edmunds' signature is drOlleI
than the hieroglyphics of Mr.. Spinner
''The Vermont senator makes a well
defined e. then comes a tape worm
with cholera morbus then an IS which
completes the monsters agonizcd tail.
Mary J. Powers sues c. f. Richard
son, of the Berwick house, Rutland
under the civil damage act to recover
3d. 900 for the death of her husband,
who, while drunk last March with Ii
quOr bought from Richardson's bar
Jumped 80 feet from the third story OF
the block in which he lived, receiving
injuries from which he died.
The St. Adams Messenger says "Au
ingenious Nermonter named BiXby is
the inventor of Il method OF prOmul-
| eating the daily weather predictions
sent out from Washington by means
of whistles from locomotive engines
and steam mills. Thus one whistle
would Indicate prediction of fail
weather, two of foul, three of fair
changing to foul, etc. As the locome-
| tive passed through Il town the engi-
neer would sound the proper signal
and then it would be repeated by the
steam mills, and thus the people of /;
wide area would know what kind Ot
weather the signal service had pre-
| dicted for the day" This system went
into effect in West Randolph Monday