Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-02-17
State Matters.

slade trees.
A meeting TO elect directors for the
Nisssquoi valley railroad Is called to meet at
d. Frontier hotel in Troy on Feb. 49, The
bionds Of the road are wide awake.
The Good Tempars Of Barton, have
Noted to dsbond and sell their furniture.
"A Frenchman was instantly killed in
Barton while at work in the woods by stub
Rlling upon his head and smashing the skull
fockingly.
Mr. / Robinson, Of Westmorc, in order
d release lodged tree, cut saplug, which
stlit and injured him 10 the face so severely
q to render it difficult to reach home.
Robert S. Young, farm hand in the
cnploy Of G. Il Bush of Shoreham, disap-
pared thence very suddenly in November,
al at the same time Mr. Bush found him
| sslf robbed Of $3.50 in United States bonds
Young was arrested at Troy, and held ten
dys afterward at Whitehall and kept four
az and again in Troy where twenty days
htention had the same final result of dis
aarge Young went to New York, and
sund that he had jumped from the frying.
ptn into the fire Tor a detective (who was
leu enough at first to try elairyoyant about
| n got into Young's confidence, and found
abere the bonds were buried The spot.
bout 20 miles from Shoreham, was visited,
' a. bonds dug up, and Young will be tried in
Vermont
The whole amount of feet Of lumber re-
oeiycd at Burlington during 1868 was about
onc hundred and twenty millions, making the
| foa business Of the city for that year up
pBrl. Of three millions of dollars, or an in-
n a.c nearly one millondolars over | 1867.
Prof Alonzo Jackman Of the Norwich
un ,e rs, olaims that he originated the idea
o. Am ocean telegraph, and in proof Of this
rpubshes an article from his pen published
ia the Vermont Mercury in 1916.
The smallpox eases in Castloton are
| APPROVING, and the authorities think it safe
to visit the place on business.
Henry Ball, Of Ferrisburgh had a mar
| ros escape from drowning tho other day
| VII De attempting to drive across a crack in
| ths ice on the way from Long Point to Port
Henry, n. Y 5. Ball, Esq, ofFerrisburgh,
sn A. b Thorp, Of Minnesota, were in the
Ne Oh with him. When feeling the ice be-
ginning to give way, he jumped from the
aeigh and went through, but finally succeed
| ed in getting out. The horse aud load bare
' " escaped.
THE Agricultural Society Of Caledonia
cobnty, in view Of the growing necessity for
the preservation of forest trees, have ordered
tia the committee on premiums include that
| sd jeot 10 their list Of awards
William Pickett, of Danvile, broke his
| lei ia two places below the knee, while play
I'd y scualing. Rather severe play.
Geo Hartman and Thomas Shea, Of
| Lyndon, in drunken spree lately, stole a
| hof Ne. had a ride, and the next day Hartman
pail ll9l, and Shea Slj40 for the (in
has les prospect Of a trial for horse stealing
AT the recent sale ofpews in the Congre-
| rat onal church, in ST. Adams, S2,956 was
real iled for premiums and assessments on
SIX y-nine pews
The st. Adams Hotel company at their
lats annual meeting unanimously decided to
sen all the property Of the company to pay
| iia debts.
John Mitchell was arrested on the 9Th
lbs D., for breaking into Joseph Stems store
in l'ratteboro He had entered the store
hlswn open the safe, and was discovered while
at mptng to put out the fire in the safe
caps ed by the explosion. Failing to find
5000 bail he was committed to the Newfane
| jai for trial.
9}UrTER.--Sr ALBANs. Feb 9--Prees
ranged to-day from 30 to 43 cents, good
Winter lots going for about 3j, and good fall
made from 40 to 49, The shipment was
49, tubs
A special meeting Of the Vermont His
tofcal Society, to be held at Burlington
sohetime in February is talked Of we under
Stand
4-Vermont was the birthplace Of five Sem
ators and ten Representatives Of the present
Congress.
The engineer of the southern night ex-
pres train discovered house on fire in Roy
alton, Saturday night, set the whistle scream
ing and stopped the train, while the passen-
ger and train hands extinguished the fire and
saved three women, its only inmates from be-
ing burned alive.
IAN individual from the rural districts
dead 10 considerable extent lately in
Burlington, on the strength of being " con-
nected with the press" On inquiry it was
asertained that he tended cider mill.
Mr.. John Merrill of Bradford, has a
COW which has furnished milk since last April
aaficent to make 222 pounds of butter,
worth at least 500, besides all the milk re-
qured by family of five persons, and calf
which was sold for sl2.
Henry Magoon, % years old, is the tall
| est man in Washr gtol, he being 8 feet !
inches high, in his ocking feet and weigh
| ing over 200 lbs. There is fair prospect
| Of his being good sized man when he grows
W.
Mrs. Abal Chamberlain, of Newbury
woke in the night of the 80 ult. feeling UNI
well, took some medicine said she felt re.
lieved, and died in6tteen minutes afterwards
She was as well as usual the day before.
On Friday morning, Jan, 80, while a
| boy was drawing a child, three years of age,
son of Edwin llapgood of Lowell, Mass.
tbrmerly of North Troy,) along the brink OF
Concord river, be slipped and fell, and the
caild was thrown over the bank into the riv
or and drowned. The body was not found
fol an hour or more after the accident occur
rel.
"A fine trotting track has been scraped
| upon the river at North Troy, and there is
plenty of sporting nearly every day.
A serious accident came near taking
place on the railroad, near Barton last week,
By car running of the track on bridge
Il stopped just before it reached the edge
Evans and Fosters have built boz
!actory at the new village of Evans Mills
u is two stories high, and is to go by water
Last week, Richard Humphrey, younl
man in the employ of the Eagle Slate Com
| Pany, of Hydeyille, lost his hand by being
caught in the gearing Of some machinery,
B. n Steyensopen the " Stevens House
b Rutland next week.
The Benson Agricultural Library Asso
ciaton have voted to sell the books (abou
rs volumos) at public auction.
The district of Vermont is the only one