Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-01-06
State Matters.

The Middlcbury Natonal Dank mas &C.
clared a dividend Of five per cent, free OF
government tax, payable after the LIST Of
January.
Mr.. Alden Wheeler Of Charleston broke
his thigh recently, for the second time, and
win be crippled for life.
Mr.. j. p. Douglass Of Middlcbury for.
wardcd 500 bushels Of barley TO market last
week IL was the first lot, says the Register,
ever sent from that station.
--S27 80 a ton was paid forhay belonging
to Elmoro Daily Of Coventry The Saadcrd
thinks this price is unprecedented in that
town
The SANDER suit Of John Trip vs.. c. Is.
Leland, which has excited considerable at
tention in Barton, has finally been decided in
favor Of the plaintiff with 81 damages
AT meeting Of the citizens Of Rutland
Yesterday, the town voted 70 aid IN the build
ing of the Portland and Rutland Railroad,
I, the amount Of three hundred thousand dol
lars.
The Barton Standard says that there
have been six deaths in lrasburgh within a
month unusual mortality for a town Of less
than 200 inhabitants and in which no partic.
uIar disease is prevailing
On Saturday night barn belonging to
Mrs. Mitchell Of Fairfield was burned 1t is
said to have been the work Of an incendiary.
NO insurance. Eight tons Of hay were con.
sumedrond two oxen and four cows persisted
FOO che flames.
MIR Samuel Brooks, station agent at
Brooksyile, being aroused on the night Of the
18th inst. by the cries OF some person, found
after a search woman, apparently insane
almost frozen in an old cellar. She was cared
Tor by the overseer Of the poor, but can give
no account Of herself
sheep killing by dog, is generally sup
posed to be- a summer pastime, but at Bothcl
e few nights ago, flock belonging 20 Myrou
and james c. Burnett was attacked while
confined Zoo a barn, and 81 were bitten several
of them fatally
"A movement is on foot to start a French
paper ia Nergenues With the number OF
Franchmen ia that region such an uudertak.
ing ought TO succeed.
AT st. Adams on Tuesday. grass butter
sold at 40 to 10, though the latter was an
outside figure, and hay butter went for 80 to
Is, with poorer grades as low as 80. Ship
mcnt 400 tubs
The buildng at Island Pond occupied
BY De- Don and Geo. Robnson's drug stor,
and Mr.. Scales grocery and clothing store,
was burned on the morning of the 25th inst
Goods mostly saved.
Hon Isaac Parker and his wife. Ara.
bella Caht) --i~L.-.-1 DIV Golden woddino
last Thursday They are the first aud only
married couple who have lived together in
Coventry fifty years.
The shipments by freight from the ST,
Adams depot during the past year reduced
TO dollars and cents stand something as fol-
lows Il lO2 boxes Of water at S45O equal
.S63,4j9i 9i8,270 lbs. Of cheese at l2c pei
pound "a low estimated equal sll3,79240
and 2,6O6 $50 bs. Of butter at 40c per pound
IA low estimated equal sl,042,75200-mak-
Ing grand total from these productions Of
sl,22O003.40
Customs officer Rand of Newport seizeC
lot Of cattle at St. Johnsbury on Monday
belonging to james Young. Cause, allege
differentiation.
One morning last week, NJ Miles oil
St. Johnsbury Centre, found a part of plug
Of chewing tobacco in hiSf9n.. pill. Suppos
ing it to have been droppg Sc bianself, he al
FIRST proposed to use it NV nooh closer in
specton he found the cud -, , with 4 whit,
powder, which, upon examination proved t,
be stryehuine.
The merchants and business men of Bel
lows Falls have adopted rule to close thci
stores at 5 o'clock in the evening, excep
Saturday evenings, TO take effect on and afte
Jan /, 1869, and 10 continue til April Is
next
Our next President is now said to be Of
Vermont extraction. Among the proprietor
to whom the town Of Norwich was chartered
in 1861 was Adoniram Grant brother o.
the great grandfather Of Ulysses.
MIR j. s. Spauldiug, of Barre Academy
was presented with O superb silver service o
six pieces, by Christmas tree.
We are glad to know that the boys a
the Reform School had their " Christmas,
if they didn't their liberty. Some of tn,
Christian ladies Of Waterbury who teacl
their Sabbath School, decorated fine tree
and each poor boy was made to feel that Their
were still kind hearts that could take an in
terest in his welfare.
"A railroad workman named Cunningham
was frozen TO death in trying TO walk tror
Montpelier to Middlesex, on Saturday night
The town Of PittsGeld owes nothing t
the United States surplus fund, or any Tow
debt, according TO the report made to tn
State Treasurer, on the 81 day Of March
1869
On Thursday evening man in Rutlan
Il. aHl 4 4
commit suicide by repeatedly throwing him
self on the railroad track near Landon's stort
SO that the trains might pass over him, bu
the locomotive knocked him of the track.
Simon Peck's house, on theroad betwee
St. Johnsbury and Danville, was broken int
for the second time on Tuesday night last
the burglar entering by front window, an
stealing 500, from a chest Mr. Peck tracl
ed the man away from the house, and pickle
up S53 Of the missing money, which tn
thief had dropped in climbing over fenc
Zen G. w. Grandy left Vergennes O
Saturday for Washington, to carry the elc
toral vote of Vermont as Messenger of tn
Vermont Electors.
"A couple were married in Westfel
week before last whose united ages amounte
to 33 years, The bridegroom was 10 an
tho bride Ia
christmas presents at the Discipl,
Church in Rupert, ranged froma " doll baby
to $500 piano.
In Sandgate, Jerome and Jacob Wheele
and Villa and Henry Wyman, each paid Il
State $40 and costs of prosecution, for Il
privilege of taking things lately that didr
belong to them.
The citizens of the town of ClarendC
have voted to celebrate the Tooth anniyersaI
Of the settlement of the town during the pre-
ent winter.
There is 10 be Christian Convention
Fairhaven on the 18th and 18th Of Januar
A. r. Field is surveying route fro
Westminster west, for the VT. and MAJ
Railroad, to avoid the turn in the road