Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-01-23
VERMONT ITEMS.

An -Frenchman--named "Joe
Hill" was examined before a Justice Of the
Peace, at Lyndon, last week, on charge OF
burning the barns Of Geo Ide, Esq, the
Representative from that town, last fall dur
ing his absence from home. Circumstantial
evidence being sufficient, he was bound over
to the County Court in the sum of S40O.
SMALL Pox IN JOHNSON There have
been quite number Of cases Of small pox in
johnson within the last three or four weeks,
among them the family of Hon. Stephen Dow.
There have been as many as dozen or more
cases. but they are now reduced to few, and
it is thought few days more will place the
subjects all beyond the danger of giving the
disease. Netcsdealer
The Congregational Quarterly for January
contains tables from which we learn that the
number Of Congregational churches in Yer
mont is 1873, of church members l ,59l anC
Of Sabbath Schools 45,547 The largest
Sabbath Schools in the State art At St. Johns
bnry, North, 26S; Peacham. 25O; Rutlanc
West, 222; Hardwick, 22O Norwich, 2l5.
Hon. L. f. Chittenden, of Burlington,
Register of the Treasury, has been obliged to
withdraw for while from the discharge OF
the duties of his office, in CONSCIENCE of pa
ralysis Of his arm, produced by constant use
in writing. Rest and the disuse of his arm
will, in the opinion of.his physician, soon re-
store to health and strength.
At "a special town meeting for Danville,
held at the Town Hall, on Tuesday, Jan. l3,
they voted unanimously to levy a tax of $1,000
on the last Grand List, to pay the s25 boun-
ty to the nine months soldiers. Those who
had voluntarily given other sums, did not ask
the town to remunerate them.
The school-house in District No. 81, New
bury, (the Edwards neignosrhood,) was to-
tally destroyed by fire on Wednesday night,
the 9TH inst, together with all the school
books and furniture. No insurance.
J. A. Salisbury, 1st Lieutenaat of Compa-
ny C, (Rutland) 10th Vermont Volunteers,
has been appointed Captain of Company l..
(St. Albans) in place of Capt. Chandler, pro-
NOTED to the Majority Of the Regiment.
The Directors of the Rutland County Bank
have declared semi-annual dividend Of four
per cent, free from Government tax, payable
on and after the I'd day OF February next.
Henry P. Hickok, President of the Mer-
chants Bank, Burlington, was unanimously
elected a Director of the Bank of Mutual
Redemption, in Boston, at a meeting of the
stockholders on Saturday, Jan. 10.
The Chief Engineer of the Burlington Fire
Department reports the names Of forty-three
members of the Burlington Fire Companies
who have gone into the army,
The Vermont Historical Society will hold
its next Special Meeting at Middlebury, Feb.
18th, 1853, that being the anniversary of the
passage OF the act for the admission of the
the State of Vermont into the Union.
EV|Miss Elinor G. Mead, sister of Larkiu
G. Mead, jr., of Brattleboro', was united in
wedlock to VIM. ID. HoweIls, Esq, Amer-
can Consul at Venice, at the residence of the
American Minister at Paris, on Christmas
Eve.
At the Methodist Preachers meeting in
Brandon last week twenty-five preachers were
in attendance. and the exercises are said to
have been very interesting. The closing ser
mon was preached by Rev. MIR. Smonds, of
Burlington.
On the l3th the Stockholders of the Frank
lin County Bank held their annual meeting,
and elected the old board Of officers. A div-
den of eight per cent. was declared.
Among the deaths at Hammond Hospital,
Point Lookout, Nd, since its establishment,
are the names of l.. Severance, Co. +, 4th
and A. w. Remick, Co. Il, I'd.
A patent waa issued January 9th to Thos.
Harrington and Lewis White of Washington
Co., W.. for improved Wringing Machines.
Solon Albee, late Assistant Professor in
Middlebury College, has been elected Princi-
pal of Dummer Academy, Bradford, Mass.
Rev. o. d. Allis, OF Randolph. is about to
move to West Randolph to take the pastoral
charge Of the Congregational church in that
place.