St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-18
VERMONT NEWS.
DaStardIy Crime.

Robert Nulty, keeper of a public
house in Burlington, was arrested
Tuesday on charge of ravishing a
14-year-old girl of Shelburn who was
left alone in his hotel as a guest
Monday night. Nulty waived exam
nation and was held in 1000 bail
| hardly expected, that he will receive
the punishment his crime deserves.
RufIand's Music Festival.
The annual festival of the Rutland
| festival association will be held on
the 9th, 10th and 18th of May. Carl
Zerrahn and George A. Mietzke will
be the conductors. The orchestra is
selected from Theodore Thomas
and the Metropolitan opera house
orchestras. The sopranos will be
Miss Emma Juch and Nine. Therese
Herbert Forester. The contralto
will be Miss Helene Won Doenhoff.
The tenors will be Signor Jules Perot-
ii, and James H. Ricketson. Signor
Campanari, baritone, D. M. Bah
cock, basso, and a trained chorus of
some two hundred home singers will
furnish the vocal part. Miss Adele
Aus der Ohe, and Victor Herbert
will be the leading instrumentalists.
There will be six concerts, one each
afternoon and evening. Thursday
and Saturday afternoons will be de
voted to symphony concerts. Thurs
day evening the oratorio of Elijah
will be given.
Law Enforced in Bennington.
The enforcement of the liquor law
at Bennington and the seizure of liq-
uors, accompanied with the imposi
ton of heavy fines, has caused the
hotel proprietors to combine and all
the notes.-the Putnam House, the
Stark House, the Elm Tree House
and the Centennial-have been closed
up and the guests turned out of
doors. Even permanent boarders
have been refused board and travellers
have been unable to get anything to
eat but crackers and cheese in the
town. The hotel men declare they
will remain closed until a more liber-
al spirit is exhibited toward them.
They insist that they cannot run
their hotels unless they can furnish
both meat and drink.
There is prospect that work will
be resumed at the Bennington wool
en- mills.
States Attorney Cudworth of
Windham county called upon Land
lord Cobb of the American House at
Bratt1eboro last week with % wit
nesses prepared to prove / so offences
of liquor selling. The respondent de-
cided to plead guilty of 40 offences,
which he did, when he was fined $3.50
with $1O.O1 costs. The states at
torney's share was $3.50.
The Central Vermont railroad has
succeeded in getting an injunction to
restrain the Barre Railroad Co. from
crossing at grade on Depot Square,
thereby preventing the connection of
the Montpelier branch and the branch
to the quarries; but the Barre Rail
road Co. propose to make fight, as
the company has paid all land dam
ages and moved all but one or two
buildings.
Two noted customers of the Yer
mont maple sugar exchange this
season are President Harrison by
proxy and Rose Terry Cooke by per
sonal order. The exchange is becom
ing famous in all parts of the country
and consumers who desire fine art1-
Gle direct from the Green Mountain
state are multiplying on every hand
The exchange up to Wednesday last
week had received 81 ,346 pounds of
cake sugar, 26, 2S3 pounds of pail
sugar, and 416S gallons of syrup