Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-02-02
STATE MATTERS.

jesse jenkins, Of Cornth, last week
killed pig just eight months old that dressed
3I5 pounds. " /, II 81
"A young man named Prescott, Vershire,
aged II years. was killed on the 22d inst,
while sliding down hill. o
Five hundred barrels Of cider we're made
in Stowe the past fall. Was it oil for vine
gar and al boiled apple sauce 2"
The young men of Brattleboro have in
vtcd six of the Amherst colledge professors
to deliver a course Of lectures in that place. '
The Commissioners for the town Of Enos-
burrh have q majority Of the grand list signed
in favor Of bonding in aid Of the Missisquoi
Railroad
The house and barn of Messrs. Ross x
Abbey Of Underhill, we're consumed by fire
few nights since. Loss about 500, and in
sured for s400
There is little doubt but Commodore
Vanderbilt will assume control Of the Ben
nington aud Rutland and Lebanon Springs
Railroads the 10th of next mouth.
The Empire Car Wheel Company, of
Troy, arc vigorously prosecuting the work of
rc-oponing the iron mine at the eastern part
An copement was recently prevented in
Rutland by the worthy father, who led the
Young lady back into the house, and assisted
the oxpcctant groom 10 an undigni lied depar-
tire.
Lady w. Gore 0uslcy, an English
pcoress is on a visit to Burlington. She was
the daughter Of Ex.Goy. Van Ness Of YER
mont, and hasn't visited her early home for
thirty years.
Some twenty letters were recently found
scattered in the road in St. Johnsbury on
| Railroad street. They were chiefly letters
directed to the business men of that street,
and we're unopened How they came there is
a mystery
Amos J. Greene Of Sheldon, while vest
ward bound recently on the Central Pacihc
railroad, stepped from the car as 1t was
standing on a trestle, fell through a distance
Of 90 feet aud was killed. He leaves wife
aud child at Sheldon
The Directors of the Fair Haven q Lake
Shore Railroad aud the friends Of the road
living on the lincare requested to meet in
Fair Haven, on Tuesday, February 9Th, 1870,
at 10 o'clock a. NJ, to devise ways and means
to secure the construction Of the road.
The dam across the Connecticut river at
Bellows Falls shows signs of giving way, SOW
zeal Of the timbers at the south end having
been carried away By the recent high water.
The dam has been built about 10 years, and
has a right to the indrmities Of old age.
MIR. Robert Carbee Of Lunenburg. had
his leg broken by log rolling upon him while
10 the woods recently He lay in the woods
alone from TWO O'Clock until dark, when his
oxen returned home, and a search revealed
him in the helpless state above alluded to,
The hotel at Est Cornth was burned
4 to the ground last Friday morning. Most Of
the furniture was saved, and the barn was
kept from burning by tearing out the shed
which connected it with the house. Loss
about 81 200 Insured in the VT. Mutual
for s700 Cause, a defective chimney
The store aud post-offiie at Stamford,
kept by Winchell & Sanford, was broken open
on Sunday night and robbed Of all the letters,
money, boots and Shoes aud some clothing.
The robbers were tracked to North Adams.
They rihud all the letters and left them, with
some unmatched boots. near the reservoir in
Clarksburg.
Alexis St Martin, well known to all
medical students as the man whose side was
so wounded by cannon bali as TO reveal to
science for the first time the actual working
r OF the stomach, is now resident Of Cayen-
dish. The experiments performed By physi-
clans on his digestive organs have given his
name a singular immortality.
"A couple were married in Barton, Tues
4 l.t-t md n. for rids
n accompanied by two other couples One of
the other couples caught it, aud had it so Sc
verely that they were married at the Lyndon
House on Wednesday. Strong symptoms
were manifested in the third party, and We'd
nesday evening they were inquiring for a
clergyman, but had not quito come up to the
point.
n -Jlmas Amman, an eccentric old man, Of
Bristol w. has recently lost his house and
! all his property by fire. Gle was never mar
rled bit has depended for society upon books,
on which he has spent all the money he could
spare afccr feeding and clothing himself.
- Having lost in his library all that he cares
for, the Old m n has been hunting for a cave
in the m)lntan where he can live, disdaining
to become a charge on the town.
AT the funeral Of Miss Hattie s. Put
nam, at Chester, last Sabbath six young la.
dies appropriately dressed for the occasion
acted as pallbearers, and sung a dirge ove1
the remains OF their departed friend at the
y, grave, whence they returned to the residenc,
Of the mourning parents, aud sung another
" beautiful and impressive selection Such ;
" scene was never before witnessed in that 10
: cality, and was peculiarly affecting
The case of starvation at Brattleborc
proves far more aggravated than at first re.
:. ported. The woman was taken sick and
!, starved nearly to death at the house Of hel
= ialr-sster, when another sister came to re
90 monstrate and was turned out of doors. The
: seectmen then interiered, and carried the al
nj most dead woman to u neighbours house, where
n she died the next day A scanty bean die
~ vas all that had been afforded her for NAM
~ weeks.
,e We learn from the Free Press that Mon
day morning, Roderiek Baldwin of Monkton
d, awoke to the fact that some one during tn,
!" light, had stolen his pocket book containing
~ S474. Deputy Sheriff Skiff, took the matter
" II hand, aud traced the theft to man name,
u Peter Colt, in the employ Of Mr.. Baldwin
- Colt returned the money. He was examined
= 1st5ro Justice Gage of Monkton, aud in dc
~ fault of $1,000 BAIL was taken to Middlebur
u Jail to await his trial at the next term Of tn
= County Court.
- The following are the statistics Of tn
I. Dwell cheese factory for 1869: Averag
number of cows 800. Number of pounds q
cheese produced 9O,607, showing an averag
w IF 46-l00 pounds of milk for one pound Q
h cheese. Cash receipts for sale olcheese sl4
Nv O533, an average Of gross receipts per COW
in $40 $500 Besides the above there vii
''' &c funds to pay fair per cent on the capita
an stock of the company. largo ner cent. @