St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-02-19

apron was frozen to her head. To all
appearances she was frozen to death,
but Mr.. Fletcher carried her tn the
house and sent n neighbor post haste.
for medical assistance. The doctor
stayed with the family all night, and
after nine hours work brought Mrs.
Fletcher to c0nsciOuspess. Some hope
is entertained of her recovery, but she
! lies in a very critical condition"
MURpERous ASSAULT. BY a DRUNKEN
-. BRUTE, ~.
At Cavandish. Thursday night, w.
j.. Walker. while drunk, attacked his
neighbor. VIM. L.. Lowell. striking him
on the head with club, knocking him
tsenselesS and in. which condition he
remains with little prospect of recoV-
ering.
FATALLY HURT BY 4 FALLING TREE.
r. IL. Bean of Ripton, while ut work
in the woods, cut spruce tree off n
stump which caught 10y the top on
another tree, swung around and came
down on Bean, doubling him up in n
heap, aud fastening him down with
his head between his feet. 5. Murray
who was. ut work near by, found it u
hard matter 70 eXtricate him. Bean
was badly hurt about the head and
chest and had leg broken above the
ankle. He was insensible and for
some time was Thought to be dead. At
last accounts he was improving, though
his age. nearly 20, makes his recovery
doubtful.
Mr.. and Mrs. Obadiah Hall of West
Randolph celebrated their golden we'd
ding on the Sd inst.
+ Horace Weston of Windsor, diseOv-
cred and shot a lynx in one of his
barns, last Sunday morning. .....
Rev. Mr.. McInnery of Montpelier,
has accepted IA call from the second
Universalist church of Lynn, Mass.
Burtt Hartland's house aud barn, 10
miles north of Woodstock. were burn
ed the 10th loss $4,000, insured for
$4,000.
White Bros, granite dealers of Barre,
are tn establish Il branch ut Rutland if
the town will vote to exempt them
from taxation for five years.
A. w. Mcdonald. late editor of the
Bellows Falls Tran script has been ac-
quilted of obtaining property under
false pretenses.
George Parker of Bethel. last year
made an average of 300 pounds of but
ter from his dairy of high grade Jersey
COWS, au excellent record,
Twelve years ago a Castleton man,
worth as many thousand dollars, went
with his family to Colorado. They
have returned, and he is now driving
asone-horse wagon at dollar day.
Asa T. Barron, the old proprietor of
the hotel at White River Junction and
of the several White Mountain hotels,
is very feeble at his home in New bury-
port, Mass.
An infant belonging to German
family in BrOOksville New Haven)
was scalded to death by the upsetting
of stove on which was "a kettle of
boiling water.
Col. Paine of Fairlee, So years old,
lies unconscious from IA severe shock
of palsy. He is the oldest member of
Mt. Cube lodge of Oxford.
Obadiah Towards farm house at
TOwnshend, together with household
furniture, was burned the 18th, the
family hardly escaping with their lives,
Loss about $1,000, insured for 5000.
The Hon. Merritt Clark of Castleton !
has been one Of the trustees of Castle
ton seminary and the Castletop normal
school fifty years. All associated with
him in the board in 1885 are dead.
Charles Town died at Bellows Falls,
Friday, aged 90. He was an old time
stage driver between there and Boston
and for 20 years proprietor of the
Island House. Twelve years ago he
built Towns hotel, then one of the
best in Vermont. The past ten years
he has been an invalid.
A young Montpelier lad, Richard
Hyde by name, had II narrow escape !
from death by anHsthetics. He took |
ether to have some teeth drawn and |
the effect was such as to alarm the |
physician. Prompt measures were at
once resOrted to and consciousness WAS /
restored.
The wind at UnderhilI Monday |
night was the worst experienced for |
years. Two chimneys were blown oft, !
one barn blown down and another un-
rooted, and gardens and streets are |
strewn all through the village with |
branches of trees. The roads are so |
badly drifted as to be almost impass- /
able.
The new high school building in
BrattlebOro built last year at a cost of .
over S5O,000, was considerably dam
aged by fire and water the llth. The
fire broke out just before noon in a
middle recitation room on the second
floor, there being upward Of 400 chill
dren in the building ut the time, all of ,
whom got out without accident through
the self-possession of Principal Bing-
ham and his assistants. The fire was
caused by the igniting of paper wound
about the h0t-:tir pipes. The damage
is estimated ut about SS20O1 fully in
Sured
The subcommittee on the new state
library building, consisting of Gov.
Pingree ex-Gov. Proctor and State lii
brarian Huse, were in consultation
with Mr.. Richards of Boston, the late
architect of the state house, Architect
FaxOn of Boston, and other architects
md builders, the 18th, ut Montpelier.
n reference to plans for the new libra
y building. The pruhlem is not an
Easy one, to get an adequate structure
or the $4,000 appropriated.
The. roof ON the Barre town hall
block fell in the It'll. The hall was
two years ago and n new roof
nut on, with no supports under il ex-
,ept some rods running across to hold
lac walls together. a heavy weight
IT snow bad accumulated on the roof.
.ansing two of the rods to break and
hen the roof to fall The cost of the
epairs was about $4,000 aud it is ,
bought it will take that much to re-
'air damages.