St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-27
VERnONT NEWS.
A Big Timber Sale.

The Rutland Herald announces that
the Flynn, Hatch & Pearson syndicate
of Burlington, which owns about 5000
acres of land situated in the towns OF
Manchester, Sunderland, Stratton and
Windhall, has sold the land to the Inter-
national Paper Company, one of the
largest paper syndicates in the United
States. The purchase also includes the
Bacon tract of 5000 acres and the
Montague tract of several thousand
more acres. The tract included in the
purchase is about Is miles long and
several miles wide.
The body of man 80 years old sup
posed to be George H. Cook, canvasser
for Vermont Progress and Resource"
was found dead in store doorway at
Rutland Saturday morning. Probable
cause heart disease.
The medical faculty at the University
at Burlington passed resolutions en-
bodying their resignation, Saturday, to
be delivered to President NJ H. Buckham.
This department will now be reorgan-
ICED and perhaps absorbed into the Uni
versity as one of the regular depart
ments.
The progress of the enlistment for the
43d regiment at Fort Ethan Allen is
progressing quite rapidly now that re-
cruiting parties are being sent i'll from
other states. 1t is understood that al
ter two battalions are formed there they
will be ordered to California, where the
other battalion will be formed AS soon
as the list battalion is formed the men
now in the barr9oks will be placed in
tents and the I'd battalion formed in the
barracks. The men are drilled several
times day, and have been supplied with
Krag Jorgensen rifles. The canteen has
been reopened.
H. ]. Davenport, of Brattleboro, has
accepted the principalship of the high
school at Lincoln, Neb., declining pro-
essorship in the state agricultural col
lege of Kansas.
w. B. Gates, supervisor of the census
for Vermont. went to Boston recently to
meet the assistant director of the census
and the other supervisors of the New
England states for a conference on mat
tiers pertaining to the 10Th United States
census.
Wallace N. Batchelder of Chester, in
acknow ledgement of his services in con-
nection with the Rough Riders, has
received the appointment as first lieuten.
ant in the 10th Regiment, U. S Volun-
teers, now being organized. The regi-
ment, when fully equipped, will be sent
to the Philippines.
Winston Churchill. whose story,
Richard Carvel," has been one of the
most widely read books of the year, has
recently purchased home at Windsor
where he will at once resume work on a
historical novel which he has in hand.
In 1888 Vermont produced more slate
than any other state save Pennsylvania
The production this year is expected to
show a considerable increase over that
of last. The reopening of the Mortified
quarries will add something.
William H. Cary, IT., son-in-law of Dr.
D. P. Webster of Brattleboro, has left for
Cieniuegos, Cuba, where he will have
charge OF the home office on a sugar
plantation of 10000 acres owned by
New York capitalists.
The record was broken at the county
Jail at Montpelier week before last and q
greater number Of prisoners were taken
care of in the Jail than has ever been in
the structure since it was built. The
number was 25.
The Union slate quarry, one of the
largest in North6eld, has been leased 70,