Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-07-22

known, but supposed to be matches in the
hands Of children.
The Ludlow Wooden Mills manufacture
nine hundred yards Of beaver and doeskin
cloths each month, employing two hundred
hands. improvements have been added du-
ring the past year at an expense of $4,000.
Additions are contemplated which will cause
a further outlay of $4,000.
The st. Adams Foundry Company have
made sales Of the Buckeye Moving Ma
chimes Of their own manufacture this season
to the amount Of about $4,000 So great
has been the demand for them, that the Com
pany has been obliged to send out their teams
to gather up those remaining unsold by their
Agents, to fill present orders
- At the corporation meeting held at Rut-
land Wednesday eve, it was voted to purchase
a steam fire engine, to employ night patrol
men, to protect property from nccndiarics,
and to borrow money to foot the bills, and
also to construct a "proper reservoir From
this we Judge Rutland don't intend to burn
quite up.
A poor Vermont widow decorated a
whole graveyard herself The little ceme-
terry is near Washington, and contains the
remains Of forty Union soldiers, including
those Of her own son. Assisted only by her
children, she wove forty wreaths Of flowers,
and laid one on each mound-Bosioa Jour-
naL
On Tuesday night there arrived at St.
Adams by Express from Montreal, four bar
rels purporting TO be eggs Some mistake
had been made in packing them at Montreal
and each barrel contained beside eggs. thir-
| teen bottles oil of cloves valued at about S.
90, which upon discovery by the officers there
bacame a total loss to the importer
The Free Press says one hundred and
/ fifty thousand gallons of water are pumped
into the reservoir daily now, which is fifty
per cent. more than was pumped and used
daily in May. The water is bestowed libcr-
ally about the streets; the small hose are in
constant use, and the water is an infinite
comfort every way.
The catalogue Of the Classical and Eng
lish Boarding School at Norwich, Just re-
ceiyed, shows a total of fGy-four in atten-
dance in Me winter term and fity-dye in the
summer term The school is specially de-
signed for boys, but "ladies" are admitted
as day scholars. There are three terms in
the school year, and the next begins on the
last Thursday in August.
In Mt Holly during a thunder shower
last Monday evening the lightning struck a
/ large barn belonging to L. b. Hammond
which with smaller barn and shed attached
/ together with their contents, consisting OF
hay lumber, farming tools, &c, were TOTALLY
consumed Loss estimated at $500 Mr. Ham
mond was severity burned in his efforts to res.
cue his property
- The Pews in the new Brick Church il
Milton were sold at auction JAY It'll The
following is the price of some of the highest
bids Hon Joseph Clark, slip at So l22
Miss Marian Ward, slip at $1,000; jed
p Clark, slip at $500; Dr. D. H. Onion
! slip at $500 Mr.. and Mrs. Carey ? Flip
at 5000 the rest going from sl20 to $500
Mr.. CLARK also made the Society present
Of clock which cost nearly 5000, He now
offers to pay one quarter towards $1,000
organ.
The Rutland Herald says The Republi
can convention for the nomination Of county
officers for Bennington county is to be holder
at Arlington on the 18th inst After the con
vention a railroad meeting will be held in tn,
same hall. when Mr. Park will submit to tn,
meeting proposition of parties in New Yorl
to purchase bonds and stock of the Lebanon
Spring Railroad Company from the severa
towns holding the same, and will advise ne
ceptance Of the offer.
The trial Of Charles II. Potter, for bur
/ II. e 1. =.
Williston, few weeks since, came off belor
Judge Hollenbeck at Burlington, Tuesday
Stephen Foster who lived at Potter's at tn
: time Of the burglary, confessed his own guilt
= and turned States evidence against Potter
The court held each in 5000 bonds to appea
before the County Court for trial at the mex
term-Potter for trial, and Foster as a wit
ness
! Butter is now shipped to Boston owe
the Vermont Central, in ice, at cost Of on
cent per pound and is in as good conditio
o when it reaches Boston as when it leaves y
e Adams on Tuesday afternoon. The railroad
have brought a market for butter and chees
to every farmers door, and owing to the clos
+ competition in buying butter has repeated
, been sold at higher prices in St. Adams, tina
in Boston or New York of the same date
while as a general thing butter costs the col
% sumer the same, or if anything a trihc more
in Burlington, than it does in Boston.-Frt
u Press.
The Newport Express says that f. {
d Merrill, of West Charleston is now prepal
: ing to do large business in the manutactul
: of emery homes, knife strops, scythe rifles, an
several kinds Of polish. The mine contain
e ing an inexhaustible supply of the stone
t situated in Westmore, but his works are
. the village Of West Charleston. He has bee
putting in new machinery for saving Il
n homes, and for crushing the stone and siftin
/ the sand. The dust is saved, making I'll
4. very finest polish The homes are sufficient
, fine for the incest razor, while from the di
fereut grades surfaces are manufactured sui
able for all tools, from needles eye to tn
E axe or scythe.
g 49, There are seven Baptist Associations
b. Vermont, containing 10 churches, with q
aggregate membership of $500 There al
95 ministers, 81 of them being without pa
toral charge Several ministers have charl
= of more than one church. The number
baptisms reported during the year was 63'
of these 46 were at Burlington. Only thr
churches report more than two hundred mel
g bers each, viz; Grafton 24O, Townsend %
= and fairfax 2S5. Thirty-nine have less thu
l. so members each. The Oldest are Guilfor
k Sharon, aud Walingford, which were orga
lied in 1880. Sixteen churches received a
n of the Convention to the aggregate amount
70 s2,755. A missionary agent for the State
y also employed.
H. The Annual Cost Of a Nations Liquor.
The New York Examiner has compiled
- curious table, comparing the cost Of liquo
N sold by retail in this country during one yes
y Mr.. Wells, in his report for the fiscal ye
~ ending june 80, 1867 shows that the cost
e liquor to the consumers, that is, the value
the retail liquor trade, as deduced from t