Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-06-24


The Caledonian deyo.es two column, a..
a quarter to brief notices Of building AID p
pairing now going on in St Johnsbury. 50
thiriy-fye buildings many Of which are Tsr
nice, are under way.
The Addison County Cour, adjouHea
on Monday after an interesting session. }
verdict Of $4,000 was rendered against t
Rutland and Burlington Railroad for inu
ing cattle in transportation.
We learn that conductor Webster, q
ported to US as fatally injured on the Cent?
road the other day, is recovering, and that
is cousin, instead of brother, TO eonducl
Webster lately killed at Bethel.
A State Fenian Convention was held
Burlington, on Saturday--sitting with clss
doors. In the evening public meeting =
held, which was addressed by several dis.
guished members OF the order, who declar
emphatically that the time for icork had Goa
The rush to the mineral springs in sss
don, is unprecedented. The hotel aud hrs
houses are running over with applicants i6lr
commodations. AT one farmhouse where s
persons can be accommodated there have b,a
l25 applications
The Oldest resident of Georgia Abe
Clahin, died there june sth, having LIVED %
Georgia eighty-one years he was eglF
three at his death. lie was one of the r.
men left resident there who did service in t.
war Of 1872 His wife survives him, al d
age of eighty-fye years, and several childra
An engineer on a freight train On b
Vermont Central Railroad, named Wetss
was fatally injured Wednesday Afternoon
his head striking bridge, at Bolton, VI b
was looking back on the train at the hs
He is a brother to the engineer lately h'a
by the collision of freight and pass'iss
train on the same road.
The store of Smith Wright tforng
A. b. Simonds' store) at Williston, wa
tered on Sunday night, and goods to
amount of about $1,000 abstraeted. y
rogues were tracked distance of two ME
north Of the village, but further there "
no trace of them. The goods were SUBJ
quently found secreted in the cellar o.
hS'oiiNAn RhdillN 4 oNNtlf
- The Rutland Herald is in receipt a'
letter from prominent citizen of the 70.
who spent the last winter in the MsiSB
valley. lie says ga mortal never was ~
der to get back once more into glorious
New England than am. would not cl,ii
one hundred acres of Vermont for the W
Mississippi valley south of the Ohio u !"
compelled to live on it,
To-day was the liveliest day yet ID ],
market, since the opening of the season, Z
butter was brought in in large qaa1.u.
The whole amount brought in and 'nI
was 1929 tubs, we believe, and priees
from 80 to 32 cents, with some lots ~
But 80 cents was the average price =.
new cheese was brought in, and elgA' =
shipped. Price from 10 to IA cents
Adams Daily Transcript, 18Th iH''' -.
Howe Wheeler, of Calais, was w N
old last December, and his wife VIII
next month, and they have lived toge'u"
years. They have eight living chidrsp
oldest aged 20 years and the yonnse''
AZ grandchildren and As great-grapD'
dren, making remarkable family lam
In the house next to the one in wn'v ~
aged couple live, resides lady, MrS' v"
who is six days older than Mr.. Whee'''
THE books of subscription to 'n' rs
noble Valley Railroad will be oP1eSl
June 22d to July 10th inclusive as lS .rb
AT Hendee 4 Lewis store, M9rl I,",h
Brigham & Waterman's Office, nySoTIa
L. NJ. Knights store, johnson Il; f. Ibid
office, Wolcoit Post Office, South bar p',,
ID. d. Weads store, Sheldon, and ri hag
Halls office, Swanton. The projee' u
ing this road seems to be pushed for""
a yigor deserving success.