Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-04-28
c. RANNEY Secretary.

Consolidated Rli'ray 10 lake Cbqmpiqin.-
Mr.. Davenport Of Mlddlosex, from tie Joint
Standing Committee on Railways, reported. IN
the Senate yesterday, bll for consolidating the
Fltchburg Cheshire, and Burlington Railroad
Corporations making one railroad corporation
from Boston TO Lake Champlain.- Boston atlas
2ls'.
Railroad .lrcidem-On Tuesday evening. as
the night train north on the Western VI =. K.
was passing through SALISBURY. it came 10 con
tact with rock which had slid on to the track
The engine was damaged to the amount Of about
one thousand dollars. The engineer and irom II
after giving the signal to stop, leaped from the
engine, and ID Is to this fortunate circumstance
that they undoubtedly owe the preservation Of
their lives. The train in consequence did not
reach this place ull six o'clock Wednesday
morning.-Rd'and Hcrald
Dartmouth Cothgc.-lhe following Is pro-
gramme Of the exercises Of the next commence
ment season az Hanover which will be July %.
~ and y. Tuesday, July 26 Rev. r. $. Sforrs.
jr, of Brooklyn, n. v, viii address the Theo-
logical Society; Wednesday forenoon, July q,
1 Hon Ogden Hoffman, of n. y, the PHI Beta
Kappa; afternoon, Hon. Rufus Choate viii de-
liver eulogy on Daniel Webster, in place ofthe
usual exercises.
/ More Vermont Cdite-Mr. Nathaniel Samp-
son, Of this town, started for Brighton Market
Tuesday, with ten oxen from his own stables,
whose aggregate weight was 1921 lbs. On
Monday, AIR Lyman q. Bliss sold a uair of
working oxen to 20 70 Springfield Mass, for
$500. They weighed about 1000 lbs Brat.
Eagle.
Last week two gallons of liquor found their
way into our village, from over the lne."-
| Three coyles got together to welcome these en-
olems OF former days. Soon they became talk
atlye, then Jolly then quarrelsume, and finally
furious. Down came the officers of the law. and
captured the drinkers and the drinkee. One
found bis senses on the following morning. told
where he obtained the liquor, and was liberated.
The other TWO remained two days and three nights
lSunday inteTening) and then willingly dlsclos
ed the lurking place Of the liquor.
The amount Of liquor selling, and liquor drink
ing IN this village Is greatly lessened. The sale
OF liquor Is nearly annihiated. and the new law
has prevented more liquor selling in this town
within the last six weeks than the former law in
two years. Many who opposed the law in Feb
ruary, now are ITS friends. We speak what we
know, and testify what all see to be true that the
law Is doing all the good that could be reasona
ply expected OF h.-N Adams Messenger 2lst.
On Saturday last, between two and three bar
rels Of liquor were seized in the possession OF
n. White, Of this town. The trial was had yes.
terday, before Justice Persons. The liquor was
condemned, and the owner fined S20.-Buiing-
ton Free Press, 22nd.
Severe accident Mr. Peck, Of Oxford. n.
H., while engaged saving lumber with circu-
lar saw, last Wednesday, accidentally fell in
such manner as to bring his leg in contact with
the saw, by which it was instantly cut of Just
above the knee. He BLEED proiusely, and some
fears were entertained that he would not live
BradfOrd Ing.
On Sunday morning, in New York, Mr. Rus
sell Jarvis, well known as the editor of the Phi
ladephia Ledger, breathed his last He was a
native OF Boston, graduate of Dartmouth Col
lege, New Hampshire, and at the time of his
death about sixty-three years of age. lie was
a man of decided ability and determined person
al independence. Mr.. Jarvis lost his wife and
two children by the burning of the steamboat
Lexington, IN Long Island Sound, on the night
of the 18th Of January 1910.
Counterfeit Fire Dollar Notes ON the Winsted
Bank, Winsted, Conn, are in circulation They
look well, but do not resemble the genuine.