St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-01-08

main longer and stayed Until morning
Upon reaching home the reaction OF
the stimulants he had taken brough
| on, it is supposed, remOrse and shame
and the remembrance of the death o
an only brother, which occurred just ;
year ago, probably added to his de
preston. 1t is thought the. step wa
decided upon before leaving the hous'
for the store, as he put his ARM
around his mothers neck and kissed
her good by before leaving. After
reaching the store, he shot himsel
through the head, near the right tenn
pie. The unfortunate young man died
during the night.
The national bank of Rutland is go
ing into voluntary insolvency.
John G. Tasker, As, employed in the
WOODEN mill at Ludlow, fell dead re
Gently.
Hon. Prosper Merrill of Woodstock
has gone to Florida to spend the win
ter.
Eben Kemp of RoyaitOn was killed
Saturday in the woods, by a falling
| tree.
James A. Shedd of Burlington has
married the widow of his friend, Gen
eral George P. Foster.
George A. futile, leading citizen
of Rutland and founder of the Rutland
Herald, died there Sunday, aged 60.
Forty years ago New Years day, vi
Diets that had blossOmed in the open
air were picked in central Vermont.
A white maple tree was found bud
| IaA paaAy fn hlnSSn,n on tho iUar road
| from Newport to Bloomington recent
ly.
The Fall Mountain paper company
of Bellows Falls made each of Their
employees Christmas present of two
suits of working clothes.
The number of recorded deaths in
the town of Bennington, for 1884, was
eighty one. The average age at death
was about fifty years.
Mark Ward, formerly of Putney,
now of kimball, Dakota, is one of the
candidates for speaker of the Dakota
house of representatives.
Rev. VIM. Sewall of South Royalton
has received Il unanimous invitation
from the First Congregational society
of Durham, Conn.
The wife of DR.. B. H. Haynes OF
Rutland fractured her right arm be-
tween the wrist and elbow, breaking
both bones, while skating at the rink.
Albert Emerson of Barton has caught
twenty hawks, thirteen owls, and sew
eral other birds in one steel trap dur
ing the past five months.
Carl Ladd of POwnal, while butch
ering IA hog was bitten on his hand by
the animal and serious results are fear
ed. The member swelled to twice its
natural size.
The Brattleboro milkmen have re-
duced their price to five cents quart
to correspond with their new wine
measure and averted the threatened
milk war.
Joseph Gum, brakeman on the
Grand Trunk railroad, was instantly
killed near Island Pond. He was
stringing the alarm liue aud fell be-
tween the cars.
ID. g. Barney's woodworking estab-
lishment ut Arlington, was totally de-
strOyed by fire. The fire caught from
the engine room. Loss 10000; small
insurance.
Merwin Adams of Halifax, 20 years
old, was fatally injured on Thursday
afternoon by large stone falling on
his head while he was engaged in
cleaning out spring.
John Reed Pember, for many years
past stenOgrapher in the courts, has
been appointed county clerk for Wind
sor county, succeeding George B.
French of Woodstock, who goes West.
The faculty of the University of Yer
mont is increased 10y two-Wm. A.
Deering as secretery of the faculty and
curator of buildings, and John w.
Votey, "a, as instructor in civil engi-
neering.
The village of Proctor formerly
Sutherland Falls) was organized on
Tuesday under the charter granted by
the last Legislature. ExGov. Proc
tor, for whom the village is nam
ed, was elected president.
Z. A. Markham has sold the Barnard
panther to Col. j. B. Mead, who will
take him to the New Orleans expOsi-
ton this winter, aud will place him in
the state cabinet at Montpelier upon
his return in the spring.
John Stephenson and Frank Perkins
of Lowell, by the breaking of a neck
yoke, were run over by a 300 lbs.
road roller and severely injured. 1t is
said they both looked like pancakes
when found.-[ Monitor.
This town is not going to be recon
ciled to the decision of the locating
committee" this year nor next, nor till
the legislature refuses more than once
to set us into Caledonia county, and
"don't you forget it, Greensboro
Cor. of Monitor.
The senators for Washington county
have held an examination for the APP
pointment of two cadets to Norwich
University in accordance with the act
of the legislature. The successful APP
plicants were Henry S. Denny and
Luther b. Johnson, both of Mortified.
Patrick Lahey, treasurer of the Faith
er Mathew society at bennington alb
seconded with $500 of their funds.
George Miller, manager of the tele-
phone exchange, formerly of North
Adams, Mass. has also left town, TAX
ing, it is said, over 500 of the com
pany's funds.
g. p. Cosger of Georgia has what he
calls Il good COW. The last two weeks
in December there were made from her
milk alone IA pounds of nice cheese
and e pounds of butter. The milk was
set for butter "a hours, then skinned
and kept in cool place for weeks
time, then made into cheese. The
COW, "TOpsy," is coming in the LIST of
March.
Rutland banking institutions pay
semi-annual dividends as follows:
Rutland County National, per cent
Baxter National bank, 81 per cent
Killington National, 3 per cent; Glenn
ent National, per cent; State Trust
2 Mr. cent Rutland Sauinns