St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-21
Vermont News.
RUTLAND'S MUSICAL FESTIVAL MEX,
WEEK.

RUTLAND'S MUSICAL FESTIVAL NEXT
WEEK.
The second annual May festival OF
the Rutland musical festival associa,
ton is to be given May 25 to % TIL,
conductor, DR.. Louis Mas, will be
assisted by George A. Mietzke. The
following distinguished soloists have
been engaged Mrs. Gerlitt Smith, So
Mrs. Ella G.. Henderson,, cOntralto
Chas. V. SlOcum, tenor; Avon ID. Sax
on, baritone ID. Nj. Babcock, basso
Leopold Lichtenberg, solo viOlinist
E. NJ. Bagley, solo trumpet Miss AL
ice Aiken, accompanies. The Germa-
MIA orchestra, TWEEN EIGHT performers,
has been engaged for the festival
There will be Il grand chorus of over
two hundred voices. "The Messiah
will be rendered on the closing even
ing. Among the other choral works
will be Max Bruch's "Fair Ellen" and
Gade's romantic cantata, "The Ell
Kings Daughter" The overtures to
"Jubel" and "Rienzi" will he rendered
by the orchestra, also MendelssOhn's
midsummer Nights Dream" music.
Stockbridge will celebrate its cen
tennial anniversary in August.
The reform school at Vergennes has
sixty-nine boys and eighteen girls in it.
The g. A. r. in Vermont now has
eighty posts, with a membership of
1900.
Homer Lyon of SALISBURY caught "A
bear the other day in Il trap set for a
panther.
f. +. Aiken of Rutland, "A senior in
the Yale theological school, will go
into mission work in China soon after
graduation.
Five boys have been suspended from
the Rutland high school for playing
base ball in school hours.
Minister Lothrop of Michigan who
has been appointed to the Russian
court, used to have a brother residing
in Pittsford Vermont, and is known
personally to a number of VermOnters.
The controller of the currency has
declared a first dividend of l24 per
cent. in favor of the creditors of the
First national bank of st. Adams.
Mis-. Samuel Flemming of Lowell re-
Gently fell down stairs and broke one
The Howe scale works at Rutland are
running on full time, with force of
$50 men, and are said to have good
outlook for the summer and fall.
George E. Crowell, publisher of the
"HousehOld," has bought tract of
land near the business centre of Brat
on which he intends to erect
two large brick blocks.
Elliot Howard of Brattle boro, about
"a, was suddenly killed last week. He
was between the cattle which he had
just hitched to a partly loaded cart,
when they started and the wheel pass
ed over his chest.
The Brattleboro high school children
have IL fire drill as part of their regu
lar exercises, the children falling into
line at given stroke of the gong and
out in proper order. Trial
of this method shows that the building
can be cleared in sixty seconds.
John w. Livermore of st. Adams,
is dead, aged AZ. He was an active
of the Merchants Exchange
and pioneer in the elevator system
at that place.
New York has taken at least one
step in advance of Vermont in it's laws
for the protection of fish. The statute
Of Vermont provides for the seizure of
nets found in actual use, or it's eguiva-
ent, whether in the water or on the
banks. The New York law provides
hat nets discovered within a certain
Ii stance of any of the rivers and lakes
Of the state wherein net fishing is pro-
Al bited. can be summarily DESTROYED
~ any one.-[Rutland Herald.