Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-05-05

tdIltiuls VI ThlNA Nis bOnnsnuTE,
was struck by board caught on revolving
saw, recently in saw mill, and hurled
through hole in the floor rs feet down into
the water He will recover, although badly
hurt
Simon Wilkinson, Of Weston, has alb
seconded with $4,000 Hehas heretofore been
supposed to be strictly honest.
The bulkhead Of the Middlebury Mfg
Cos flume gave away, during the frcshct last
week, and cannot be replaced for sometime.
Part Of the dam across the river at Paper
mill bridge, was carried of by the tremendous
pressure.
Il II. Cooper, station agent at Island
Pond, has been promoted to Assistant Super
inteudcnt Of the g. T. h. from Portland to
Richmond, ?. Q.
The butter-market at Richmond on Mon
day last was quiet. Two hundred tubs Of
butter were sold at prices ranging from 80 to
40 cents a pound.
Twelve carloads of Canadians passed
through St. Adams recently, being the largest
number since the exodus commenced
Seventeen convicts have within few
weeks arrived at the State Prison in Windsor.
with sentences varying from six months to
the life term. One, Horace II. Plumley. is
under sentence of death. There are this week.
elghiy-two persons in condnemcnt-thre fe-
males
Newport has a population Of GOO, ac-
cording to recent census.
Two men who were driving logs on the
." Fifteen Miles Falls" in the vicinity Of
Barnet, were drowned last Sunday. Their
boat has been found but not the bodies Of tho
men
The st. Johnsbury Caledoaiaa is inform
ed that there is q farmer in that vicinity who
has all his last years butter on hand-be.
tween one and two tons-for which he wa.
offered last winter fifty-two cents per pound
lie asked f0y-fye, and-kecps his butter
which will soon be ct for wagons grease
Rutland has Ladies Temperance As.
ISOLATION, which is doing good work
In the Richmond butter market yestcr.
day, $50 tubs We're sold at prices raugin,
from 33 to 81 cents per pound
The Teachers Institute for Bennington
county is TO be held at East Dorset May itl
and 18th
"A new brick block Of six stores capacity
on the lower floor, is about to be erected il
st. Johnsbury
The Teachers Institute for Addison
county is to be held at Orwell, May 18th anc
10Th.
Mr.. VIM. Cox died at West Fairlee OF
the It'll ultr aged 81 years His father wa
one Of the illustrious patriots who threw tn,
tea overheard in Boston Harbor
Matthew Conner, gardener of D. G. Lins
ley Esq, Of Burlington, has grown in ho
beds this spring full sized and ripe cucum
bers.
Excursion trains were run from Keeno
n. H., and Winchendon, Mass, to view tn,
late high water at Bellows Falls Abou
1000 persons visited the place on these trains
AT the recent meeting held for election
Of Council Of Censors in Pcacham, a commit
tee appointed for the purpose raised $3.50
for the erection Of a soldiers monument
Stephen h. Buttles Of Rutland, recent
| y turned in lathe 81 bed posts in one hour
Mr. and Mrs James Barrett, of Rut
land, celebrated the 5Oth anniversary Of theii
wedding on the evening Of the 29th ut.-
/ They came to Rutland from Concord, Mass
fifty years ago, the journey then occupyin,
three days
The Teachers Institute for Windso
county is to be held at Ludlow, on the III
and Sth of May.
An elm tree, supposed to be betwce
200 aad 800 years old, was recently cut Of
the Fuller farm in Royalton. The trunk wa
perfectly straight and sound, and measure
seven feet in diameter two feet from tn
ground aud three feet in diameter at sixt
feet from the ground at which point the fir.
branches started out. The tree furnishC
over thjrty-six cords running measure of si1
teen inch wood, and employed one man neal
ly fifteen days to fell amt work it up.
"A correspondent Of the Rutland Heyala
writing to that journal says; How sad t
think that we are never again to see thos
familiar initials F. H. W"
" At rest Is the active Brain
That busy hand De- still;
I And his native state will search ia vain
FOR another hs place to hn.n
Rev. p. II. White left sketches of ever
clergyman in his denomination in the Stat
as well of nearly every other promiuel
man, all carefully and Systematically arran.
cd.