St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-06-18
VERMONT NE VS..

A holiness camp meeting to contin-
ne ten days will begin at North
field June 20.
Five thousand dollars has already
been subscribed for horse railroad
in Brattleboro.
Bellows Falls is to have a $500
fire alarm, with six boxes and vari-
Gus connections.
The Vermont Universalist conven-
ton will be held at St. Paul's church
in Rutland in August.
George R Markham of North
Bridgewater recently sold six fall
pigs that weighed ton.
Contracts have been signed for an
electric fire alarm system for Benn-
ington, to be in operation July /.
Two hundred and seventy-tive
hens are sitting on imported pleas
ants eggs at DIR. Webb's Shelburn
farms.
1t is expected that the pay roll Of
the new shoe factory at Burlington
will be between $4,000 and $4,000
weekly.
Miss Lizzie Edwards of Rutland
was very badly hurt last Thursday
by being run into by a bicycle on the
streets.
The indications are that with ia
vorable weather Vermont will have
more summer visitors than ever be-
fore in its history.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. w. Hobart of St.
Boston, contemplate spending the
summer in California.
The citizens of Montpelier have de-
cided to have Fourth Of July Gel
ebra ton and have already raised
more than $11OO of the $1,000 which
the celebration is to cost.
Vermont raised 70, SIS pounds of
tobacco during the census year,
Windham county producing 70, 397
pounds. The crop was worth $7S43
to the 81 planters.
The trial of Lyman @. Clark of
Hartford for the murder of his moth
er-in-law, Mrs. Marston, in NOvem-
Der 1890, is now in progress at
Woodstock before Judge Ross.
There was big excursion to the
Shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre, in
Canada, on Monday, from points on
the Central Vermont Many car
loads of pilgrims" participated.
c. c. Warren of Waterbury, who is
looking for fine pair of gentleman 5
road horses 1872 to 16 hands high,
with some speed, says: Even in
Vermont such teams are not plenty. "
Charles Clement and wife of Rut-
land celebrated the sixtieth anniver-
sary of their wedding on the 18th.
Only members of the family were
present, including two great-grand-
children.
The process of pumping out the
shaft at the copper mine at Wolcott
is DELAYED a week at least by the
bursting of the air chamber of the
pump. A workman 60 feet down
the shaft narrowly escaped death by
the fall of the apparatus.
Commencement exercises at John
son Normal school begin Sunday
next, with sermon by the principals;
on Monday and Tuesday come the
written examina tons; on Wednes-
day the oral examinations and pub
lie speaking by the B class; on
Thursday the graduating exercises,
reunion Of alumni, and band concert.
All alumni and friends of the school
cordially invited.
A company with which L. w. Red
ington, Jewett P. Cain and Gardner
L. Gates are connected will, about
June Is, commence to quarry mar
BILE in Clarendon on land south of
and adjoining the Vermont marble
company's quarry. This company
will be known as the "Clarendon
marble company" The company
will erect mills and carry on there a
general marble business. There are
over six varieties of marble found in
this vein, two Of which have never
been quarried outside of Clarendon.