Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-03-04
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APPOINTMENT Col. Jarnes S. Peck Of Mont
pelier, to be Assistant Adjutant General vice Col
Henry B. Bradley resigned. le Hus. o,
Elmore had voted $4,000 fol the Lamoie Val
ley Railroad. ..4 al s..ns.,r, '.,tf.
The Troy & Boston and Rutland & Bennng-
ton railroads hare settled their difficulties on the
basis of Mr.. Parks proposition. SO let all other
railroads learn that they cannot long defy the pub.
lie interests and public opinion. It is lesson
worth all its great cost,
WHITMoRE 65 CLARK's MINISTRIES AND GRE
CLAN GYMNAsIuM.-Last evening February 2s
Village Hall was wen filled, and the company gave
first class entertainment. Their costumes were
elegant and tasty and the whole performance varied
and interesting. The Manager, Geo. NJ Clark,
stated that he had the largest audience he ever had
here before and, Providence permitting, he should
visit Montpelier yearly. a4 ODD BIZ ni ~
Patents issued February 25, 1868; James H.
Flagg Of Perkinsyine, Vt, for Improvement in
frame for carriage tops. a1s, ID ...I.
Norman Markham of Hancock, VT, assignor to
self and G. G. Robbins of same place. for i'm
provement in hub and axle.
P, A. Whitney of Woodstock, Vt, for improve
ment in drill and counter sink. a Tool .f trs
Il. Z. Worden & II. Wins of Brandon, VT,
for improved spring bed bottom. '''.'i
CHILDREN DRIVEN OUT TO SrEAI4--A good
deal of petty thicving has been going on in Fair
fax for some time, and several attempts made to
enter some of the stores, Three weeks ago Chel-
lis IL Hunts store was entered and about $40 worth
OF goods stolen, since which time watch has been
kept in the store, On the night Of the 10th inst.
the store Sas tried again, and Sheriff Halbert and
others after short chase caught the thieves. They
proved to bealad of seventeen namedMerrittLe earn
ed and his sister, the latter partly dressed boys
clothes, A bunch Of skeleton keys and dirk
knife were found on the boy. On being question:
ed the children answered that their father compelled
them to steal that the keys were made BY their
father, as also was the knife That son of Geo
st. Lewis of that village had usually been with
them; that they had tried to enter every store in
town, butcould get intonone save Chellis & Hunts
and NJ, 0. Evans drug store, where they had stol-
en- eight gallons of spirtuous liquors and some to-
baceo, in company with young st. Lewis The
stolen goods were found secreted (minus the spir-
its) at the dwelling house of Merritt Learned, be-
tween the chamber floors Mr.. Learned and St,
) Louis were placed under bonds of $1,000 each,
and Learned's boy $500, and for want Of bail we're
committed to jail. Itappears by the testimony Of
the father that the girl had always demonstrated
on being ordered to steal, and that ON this occa-
sion she was called from bed, and under severe
threats driven out in spite Of her tears and plead
ings to the contrary. We suspect there are chill
dren in other places in Vermont who are taught
to steal, and from whom dealers and their custom
ers suffer. aN '''l ''H lai latI lili.
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Col. Nathaniel Sherman OF Plainfeld has a colt
one year old last June which weighed Feb. goth
924 lbs. 1t is beauty and Of pure Sherman and
Morrill, blood Mr. Sherman Is so years old in
June, takes care of large stock, prepares his
wood and tells stories to suit the times The Col
onel is pure sherman, and Of course strong re-
publican, ,.. .,.. ..l t'il..'
Pickett, the forger and skedaddler, who was sbo
at Lower Waterford Jan. 22d, but who, instead of
dying as was expc a prophesied, was spirit
ed away by friends, Gas Sas supposed 70 Canada,
took the train for Boston, where he was rear
rested and brought to Wells River for examination
on charge Of purlcining draft and forging epdors-
ment on the same, and he was bound up TO appear
atcounty court, and committed to Chelsea Jail