Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-04-22
State Matters,

"A KNorrY PLAcE--Scvonty-tw mar
riagcs were solcmnzed in the village OF Mont
pelier, during the year 1867.
We are informed that the Rev WILLIAM
II. A. BIssELL. ID, has given notice to the
standing committee of the diocese Of Vermont
of his acceptance of the Episcopate to which
he was elected by the special convention on
/ the 18th Of March. We understand that the
conservation of the Bishop elect will probably
take place some time in june, though the day
/ is yet to be fixed.
The Courier says there will be over two
hundred buildings erected in Rutland the pres
ent season, three of which viii cost one hum
bred thousand dollars.
There are about seventy students now in
attendance upon Medical Lectures at Bur-
lington
A letter was received at the Post-oiicc
at White River Junction, on Monday last
directed to " Mr. John Sullivan, nine miles
from Vermont Care Of Mr.. Brooks ON a
farm"
A dark bay mare, seven or eight years
of age. llI hands high, is awaiting an owner
in the hands of Gilbert Tilson, Esq, Of Ran
dolph She was left in the shed Of one OF
the mecting-houscs, the 2Sth ult., and, as She
bears signs of severe usage, it is probable she
was stolen, aud lcll there by the thief
The Burge.. bridge across the Wal
loomsac River. on the Troy a Bennington
Railroad. was entirely destroyed by fire Sat
urday afternoon, thus breaking the connec-
ton recently made between the Troy X Bos-
ton and Bennington 4 Rutland Railroads.
The fire is supposed to have originated from a
spark from passing train.
- 4 son Of Albert Bemis of Caycndsh, .
years of age was missing lately, Il soon after
his body was found in the canal, whore he had
evidently been drowned some two or three
hours.
The citizens of Cralsbury intend TO erect
new academy building. this season, with a
view to support a school the year round.
The Green Mountain Martial Band j.
the title Of a new organization Of the martial
music Of Fairfax and vicinity. The member,
are nicely uniformed and equipped, and arc
prepared to furnish the inspiration of fife and
drum for public occasions
Mr. d. W. Hamsdell of Chelsea, who
has been furnishing farmers with seed Of the
celebrated Norway oats, has sold out ala o.
his seed including $4,000 worth lately pur
chased of G.. f. Smith, and consequently he
can fill no more orders for them this spring
BY invitation of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association of Brandon, Union Chris
tan Convention of members of the Christian
Associations and pastors and delegates of tn,
Evangelical churches Of the counties of Rut
~ land and Addison, will be held at Brandon
on Wednesday and Thursday, the 9th anC
4th DAYS of May next, commencing at ON
o'clock, p. NJ, of the 18th.
T. The people of North Troy are attempt
ing to organize stock company to replace
their burnt hotel Several meetings hay,
been held, and W. G.. Elkins, f. Bickford
j.. p. Gallup and J. Whitcomb chosen
l. committee to procure the necessary subscrip
tons.
The town of Cambridge, with gran,
list Of a little over six thousand four hundred
with little over three hundred voters, claim
to have fifty men worth from $4,000 t.
100000.
During the absence from home of Rev
A. 5. Cooper of Milton, last week, with hi
: family, some one entered his house with falls
e keys, and stole several promissary note'
: amounting to over Sl700, and certificate O
deposit for $1,000. Nothing else in the house
was stolen, and nothing disturbed, showing
that the thief must have had knowledge Of
Mr.. Coopers having the property in the
house, and where it was placed.
A son of Timothy Lyman of West Gloy-
er, lately bagged fourteen crows at one shot.
\ i.aAt rhursiay, aeer snaas ~ eyre~rn~es
IN ". ;. huward's sugar-piace, IN irasburgh
coming within fifteen rods of the sugar house
5 The tracks showed that it must have been
very large one.
Major John Pettes of Windsor, U
, s. Marshal of Vermont twenty years ago
died in Windsor, on the oath ult., aged Is
:, He had lived in that village 6S years
Three SONS and a daughter survive.
n Daniel Goddard of Townshend has mad
4 this spring $50 pounds of maple sugar iron
!, So trees, IS of it from one days run. Thi
!. beats Mr. Foote of Lee, Mass. and his 10
pounds from 240 trees in one day,
l. TuE WooDsrocK RMLRoAD-On Tuesda
IF morning, j. J. II. Randall, as chief engineer
al accompanied by James Brown, Mr.. Evan
lie (the engineer who surveyed the Portland ar
l. Ogdensburgh through New Hampshire) an
l. several other assistants, commenced the SUI
At yey of several routes from Rutland to WOOD
A. stock.
'p - Here is the St. Johnsbury Californian
RS biggest sugar story; MIR. A. d. Hardy
OF Peacham, made in six days, five hundred an
u thirty pounds, $3.50 lbs from the sap of on
i, hundred and six trees" Does Mr.. Hard
N Ego to the head ?"
&c A bear in Dorset, Vermont, draws hi
: rations from the sheep-told of the farmers c
~ the vicinity and successfully evades all Ell
'e forts to carry out their sentence Of DEATH
- = Three hundred cords of pine wood ncl
~ the Colchester lime kilns, were reduced t
e ashes, Thursday, by spark from passin
20 locomotive.
$, - The Chronicle has recorded since Mare
to lst the addition of two hundred and thirt
III persons to the churches of Vermont, of whic
he one hundred and eighty are to Congregations
% churches, thirty to the Baptist and twenty t
I the Methodist churches. In the months {
to January aud February two hundred and thirty
IN four additions were recorded-onc hundre
&c and eighty-six OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
o. Baptist-eighteen Episcopal-seyen MethC
ne dst-Total since last January, four hundre
ID and fourteen.
as When was beef the highest? Probabl
p when the COW jumped over the moon.
Impeachment Proceedings.