St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-01-15
Vermont News.

one for every 300 inhabitants.
The late George A. futile had au
insurance of $1,000 on his life, in the
Etna.
Fred G. futile of Rutland drank a
quantity of embalming fluid recently,
in mistake for cider. He is recovering.
NJ. A. Ballard of Gaysville tapped
thirteen trees the other day, and made
about IL lbs. of sugar.
Buel Harrington, aged 10 years, was
drowned i'll crossing the ice on Ben
toms pond at Bennington.
The Fletcher Free Library at Burl-
ingtOn is open again. Miss Sarah c..
Hagar is to be the librarian.
Montpelier had no fires in 1894, but
she had rows enough to make the ca
lamity calendar average enough.
Thirty-one persons united with the
Congregational church in Sharon,
Sunday, Jan. 4th; % by profession
and 3 by letter.
The Mortified savings bank has
voted the usual semi-annual dividend
of two per cent. The amount of de-
posts is over $500, 900.
to the house of correction in Rutland
for sixty days for intOXication and dis
turbing public meeting in the town
hall.
James NJ. Foss, many years master
mechanic OF the Central Vermont road
and lately also assistant general sn-
perintendent has been appointed gen
eral superintendent. w. J. Robertson
takes his place.
A nine-year old St. Adams boy
named Blondin, while quarreling with
ii fourteen year-old playmate named
Bousquet, in the Elm street school
yard Wednesday, stabbed him in the
temple with a jack knife, infiicting a
serious wound. Blondin was arrested.
A petition is being circulated, pray
ing the Bennington battle monument
association not to adopt the design
recently adopted 10y the committee on
design, 1t is the desire of many of the
citizens of the town to have tall
monument erected.
Patrick Maroney of Charlestown,
n. H., about 30 years old, while at
work on the Connecticut river rail
road bridge at Windsor, fell into the
river and was drowned. He leaves Il
wife. The body has not yet been re-
covered. ..-...
Albert Comstock of South Burling-
ton, high bailitf for Chittenden county,
was found by Sheriff Barton the other
night at the foot of the bank east of
the Burlington postOtfice, to which
place lie had been rolled while drunk
In city court he was fined S. and
costs.- Times.
The Central Vermont X. II. CO.
have done Il sensible thing in calling
attention to the law relating to lOafing
around depots and in station yards,
and the jumping on and off trains.
Both are liable to IA fine and the man
ayers have ordered the station agents
to enter complaint and stop the evil
West Randolph Herald.
The Norman Williams public library
of Woodstock has just received ii
unique gift in the shape of set of
scrap books made 10y The late Lester
A. Miller. The Woodstock Standard
says the books--four large volumes
are IA repository of everything of local
history and biography that has APP
peared in the Standard for halt il cen
fury.
One of Sherman Myers boys in BEN
ninSton WAS tOoling with Il pistol
chamber in which there was car
fridge. He wanted to get the car
fridge out and hammered it with IA
jack knife. 1t exploded, took Il chip
off one his fingers, caromed on the
arm of a rocking chair struck another
of the children, but luckily did little
harm.
The fight in Orleans county has
started the people of Chelsea, and
they propose having II railway built
there rs soon as possible. a narrow
gauge road running To South Royal
ton, thirteen miles away, is talked of,
but the majority of the people favor
the offer of some sum of money to the
Central Vermont railroad managers if
they will build through from Barre.
For some time past the sheep trade
has been abnormally dull, but there
are good reasons To expect that it will
begin To pick up again after the annu-
al meeting next week, as extensive
buyers from abroad are always present
at the ANIMAL meetings. The local
wool market, it is to be noted, has
been quite active for the past two or
three weeks. Midtllebury Cor.
A sad and really pathetic story is
told of the little daughter of Rutland
man lately deceased, who still main
tains that papa" lives, and can only
be comforted by the presence of large
picture of her father, to which she
brings various little offerings and all
her little sorrows and complaints. She
rarely sleeps unless the framed sem
blance of her "dear papa" is placed at
the foot Of her crib.