St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-06-06
COUNTY COURT.
A Short and Uninteresfine Session

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grand and petit jury were then sworn
in consisting of the following men:
GRAND JURORS.
Burke, Wendell Silsby
Danville, John Sias.
Groton, Isaac n. Hall.
Hardwick, c. L. Wheeler.
Kirby, Chandler c. Walter
Newark, Solomon S. Roberts.
Ryegate, Pringle Gibson.
ST. Johnsbury, c. A. Sylvester.
Sheffield, Aaron Gray.
Stannard, T. c. Batchelder.
Sutton, David Ruggles.
Walden, A. A. Perry.
Waterford, Frank W. Brown
Wheelock, George E. Green.
Talismen, Daniel Carpenter, B. S.
Dow, B. F. Rollins, George Ranney.
PETIT JURORS.
Barnet, VIM. Morrison, Amos K
Somers; Burke, Adelbert L. Aldrich,
Mortimer D. Coe; Danville, George
Pettingill; Hardwick, ]. M. Col
lier, w. l. Leonard; Kirby, Charles
Lowell; Lyndon, William P.
Houghton, Philemon g. Hartwell; !;
Newark, Myron L. Smith; Peacham,
Ira J. Jennison, Charles F. Kenner-
son; Ryegate, James E. Crown, Lu-
ther S. Manchester; st. Johnsbury,
w. w. Sprague; Sheffield, Lester
A. Brown; Stannard, Homer
Sawtell; Sutton, Warner E.
Ross, Francis c. Curtis; Wal
den, c. G. harrington, Frank Smith;
Waterford, Charles A. Brown, Byron
r. Smith; Wheelock, Vim. H. Jones.
After admirable charges to both
juries the court appointed Judge
Isaac N. Hall of Groton foreman of
the grand jury and they retired to
consider their cases.
The docket was called and these
cases continued: Harvey Foster VS..
Thomas Ward; S. & H. Orcutt,
apis. VS.. Mary Pettigrew; S. L.
Moore VS.. F. D. Hill, apt; First Ma
tional bank VS.. D. H., 7. G., and A.
M. Beattie; First National bank VS..
Thomas 6. and David M. Beattie
Esther Riley VS.. William Bedard !;
Thomas Flood and wife VS.. James
Gilman James F. Bishop VS.. William
Switser; Ralph P. Arnold by Otis c.
Arnold, next friend VS. A A Paine
ct al; E. Roy VS.. E. ]. Bonett, apt.
The first case taken up was Char
lotte Sanborn VS.. John T. Cole, Bates
& May for the plaintiff and ]. P.
Lamson of Cabot for the defendant
This was a case which has been in
court for two years and was in ref
erence to the payment of certain
notes. The jury retired for verdict
Wednesday afternoon, and remained
out two hours. Through their fore
man, w. P. Houghton, a verdict was
rendered the plaintiff of $472. 35 and
| costs.
The case of the marlborough
wooden ware company VS.. H. H.
Miller and Trustee was opened and
| then continued until Thursday morn
ing. This is a general assumpsit
case, G. w. CahoOn for plaintiff and
| Bates & May for the defendant. The
plaintiff company furnished the de-
fendant with butter tubs, buckets,
etc, and sue for $1,000 damages.
The defendant introduced an offset
for bill of services rendered, amount
ing to $4,000, and denies the substance
of the writ
The trial of this case was resumed
again this morning. The other cases
set for trial are John Caswell and
wife VS.. John Webster and Aaron
Twombly, apts.; Samuel Morrison
VS.. Warren Esterbrooks, apt; John
H. Dunning VS.. George w. Meserve
ct ais, apis. The jury cases will be
finished this week and the grand
jury will probably report tomorrow.
AT THE ACADEMY.
The Lyndon association nine were
defeated by the Academy team Sat
urday, by score of 16 to II. The
nine have won every game this sea-
son and all hope for victory at the
Dartmouth game next Saturday.-A
tournament is in progress in the ten
mis- club.-L. w. Rowell gives a re-
ceptiOn to the senior class tomorrow
evening.-The senior reception last
Friday evening passed off successful
ly.-Stevens, 'SS, who has been tax
ing a post graduate course this
spring, has left schoo1.-The middle
class have elected the following COM
mittee to decorate Music hall for the
graduating exercises: w. Merrill,
Brooks, Hastings, Misses Putney,
Fairbanks, Braley and Young.-The
senior class have decided to furnish
No 7 of the Academy as committee
and reception room for a class me-
morial.-An exhibition in declama-
tion will be given on the evening of
June II, by the following members
of the middle class, Sykes, Harris,
Hubert, Sprague, Misses Nevers,
johnson, Morse and Young.-Last
Friday afternoon the contestants for
commencement honors by competi-
ton read their pieces before the fac
ulty. There were IA competitors, of
whom the successful ones were Ed
win E. Furber, Bridgewater; Joseph
A. Goodrich, East Hardwick; EllenN
Ely, st. Johnsbury; S. May Baker,
harrington Falls, Me; Eva A.
Boright, Richford.
Y. NJ. c. A. NOTES.
The Junior nine beat the Union
Blues Saturday 9 to 6. Each club
have now won one game and the
rubber will be played Saturday.-At
the quarterly business meeting Sat
urday evening very encouraging re-
ports were given and So raised for
the sick fund. The secretary gave