Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-03-03
State Matters.

mas also suDscrlDed SO,JUO Tor the Iamoille
Valley Railroad
49, The third annual fair of the Orleans
County Agricultural Society, will be held on
Tuesday and Wednesday, the 18th and 18th
Of September
- The Brattleborough wooden company
has stopped operations and discharged its
workmon; thirty in number
- Moses Clough Of Orange is the owner
Of goose 80 years old, which has raised an
average Of six goslings a year for So years
When she becomes poultry, she will try somc-
body's teeth.
- The New Haven Mills cheese factory
made in 1865, $4,000 pounds Of cheese.
A IIardwick farmer allowed a drovor
blockaded in recent storm, to turn his cattle
into yard but refused at any price to sell
him hay to feed them. The Newport Express,
with hidden meaning, remarks that this
farmer would probably deny relationship with
the hmou. wickcdcst man in New York"
-- Two gentlemen from Duchess County.
New York, have bought some sixty-fyc pairs
Of oxen in Wardshoro and surrounding towns.
for which they paid from 81 to so per hun
drcd
The Brandon Agricultural Library As
ISOLATION has transferred its hbrary.papers.
money and property to the Brandon Farmers
and Mechanics Club, and the Club has voted
to raise 500 for the purpose Of rcplenishng
The library
- solomon Edison of Wilmington was ar
rested last Monday for bigamy, plead guilty
to the charge, and was put under $500 bonds
failing to procure bondsmeu, was committed
to jail
- Ten prisoners are now confined in the
County jail at Fayetteville
The hotel arrivals in Rutland last week
were $50.
A man who registered his name at the
Central House in Rutland AS Lew Wallace,
hired horse and cutter at the livery stable
OF Geo. Richardson in that place on Sunday,
and is riding yet.
Stephen Muranyile respected citizen
Of Walingiord, fell from load Of wood in
from, of his sled, Friday afternoon The
Sled crushed him into the snow, and the
horses stopped with the loaded sledupon him,
killing him almost instantly. lie leaves a
widow and four small children.
The hotel in Hydeylle is offered to rent
to any good man who will agree to keep it
on temperance principles
All but FIVE owners Of residences in
Pitisiord have their property insured
The Redemptionist Fathers from Balti.
more will, for the next ten or twelve days,
hold mission at West Rutland, for the |
benefit Of the Catholics Of that place.
Work has been resumed upon the new
seminary az Derby Three Derby boys, liv-
ing abroad, have contributed $3.50 each in
aid Of the enterprise.
The Messenger says that St. Adams will
soon lose twelve or fifteen of its young men
who are bound for California
r. 4. Eyarts and George Younger were
fined $50 and costs respectively by Justice
Munger of St. Adams, on Tuesday, for selling
Intoxicating drinks.
Samuel Morse Of Isle La Motto hung
himself in his barn on the 18th, He had
been in a Respondent state Of mind for some
time, and was undoubtedly insane when he
committed the fatal act
On the 18th the school house in the
Martin District, in Newbury, was destroyed
by fire, together with the contents, including
many school books.
--Tilley Burritt Of Ilinesburgh, inhis Oath
year, fell some weeks since and broke his hip.
lie is yet unable to walk, buthc is hale, hear
ty, and joyial as ever.
But forty tubs of butter were brought
to the St. Adams market on Tuesday, owing
to the condition If the roads. Prices from
30 to 40 cents
VIM Fcnwiek, of South Burlington, boy
Of eight years was killed by the falling Of a
shed-roof on Tuesday.
Rev DR.. Parmalee, Of Westford, slipped /.
ION the ice the other day and injured his knee
So as to confue him from pastoral duty for
some time. He is IS years old.
Mr. II A. Peck, Of West Cornwall, |
Shipped to market from Middlobury on Mon.
.day morning calf raised By Jared Foot,
five weeks old, which weighed 252 pounds.
The Banner says that among the recent
occurrences in Bennington is suit brought
against common drinker by q yender Of
.whiskey for some 200 drinks each one of
which will of course make an indictment.
Most of the farmers in Jay are complain
ing of being short Of hay, and very few have
any to sell 1t is worth $50 per ton at the
barn
-Shurtleff & Stevens of Jay have got
about 5000 logs, and have cut over 100000
feet Of clapboards this winter.
The annual Fair of the Addison County
agricultural Society will be held, this year,
ION Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. |
II, Is and l6.
"A man in Bennington last week, in u fit |
|of delirium tremens, escaped from his house
'in his shirt and drawers, and when found was
frozen to death, his body lying across small
stream, in a few inches Of water, and entirely
naked.
1t is said the machine shops Of the Leb- |
anon Springs and Bennington Il Rutland Rail- |
roads have been located by the Company at
No. Bennington, and that one million brick |
have been ordered for their construction.
William Phelps Of Rupert, killed lynx
last week.
"A. NJ. Kelley of Elmore has been nomi-
hated for County Commissioner
w. Matthews has bought and taken pos
session of the Morrisvile House, and George
Hyde of the Eden Pond House
Nelson Cook for violation of the prohib-
tory law, was on Wednesday fined $40 and
costs by Justice Sherman of st. Adams.
The property of farmer in Bennington,
has been attached on breach of promise
case.
"A Lodge of Odd Fellows was organized
at Bennington last Monday evening.
Ward Knapp, East Lyndon, has a hen
which few days ago laid a sound egg shell,
without the usual filling.
The National Bank ofSt. Johnsbury has
purchased the Bank of the Metropolis, Wash
ington, with capital of 100000, paying
premium of $4,000 therefor. This will be
at once added to the stock of the St. Johns
bury Bank making its total stock s450,000. |
The Union meetino-house in the Drew