Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-06-15
STATE MATTERS.


packages Of butter were shipped from the New
Haven depot IN Monday, weighing four thousand
five hundred and cighty-six pounds. Only four
teen hundred pounds Of butter, at % cents, were
shipped from North Forrisburgh station On Mon.
dny last.-B. f. Goss ESD. of Vergennes, has
lemon tree that has produced lemons Of excellent
quality.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Horace Fairbanks, ESQ, Of st. Johnsbury, has
nearly completed, at cost of about fifty thousand
dollars, an elegant library building, which he in
tends, when it is filled and its contents are ar
ranged and catalogued, to give 10 the town for
the public use The list of books have been made
up, and the orders for their purchase placed in
the hands Of the trade in Boston and London and
in the course Of the next three months it is ox-
pcctcd that the library will be collected, arranged,
and ready for use. Connected with the library
is rcading-room in which will he kept choice
collection Of domestic and foreign newspapers and
periodicals The present orders are understood
to amount to about eight thousand yolumes.-At
the drawing Of a building in Lyndon Centre, few
days since, there were 2j yoke of oxen, the small
est Of which weighed 3 800 lbs. and the largest
1900 lbs, nearly all dark red, and it was not
thought to he any great day for oxen King, Full
Ter q Co., have raised the daily wages Of the Ia
b)rers on the p. q o. r. r., to $50.
LAaomLE COUNTY.
Mr. Eugene llutchins, Of Wocott came near
losing his life recently, by bank Of earth caying
in upon him.--Stowe has been having a " tar and
feathers case. 4 married man by the name of
Poor accused Of improper intimacy with young
woman living with him, was taken by a number
Of neIghbors stripped Of his clothing, given
coat Of tar and feathers and then treated to a
ride on a rail. The matter was brought before
the Grand jury Of Lamoile county, and several
bills we're found and the indicted parties arrested
and committed, but were Immediately bailed out
1t is stated that Poor Immediately sold out his
property and left the State.
ORLEANS COUNTY
The annual meeting Of the Orleans County
Medical Society was holden at the Memphrema
cog House on the lst inst. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year George Hin
man, President l.. W Adgte, Vice President
/ j. NJ Currier Secretary and Treasurcr.-The
Newport Express interviewed a party Of Fenans
that passed through there last week On their re-
turn from the front" They were out of ra-
tions and money, aud were severe in their de-
nuncations Of their officers, General O'Noi in
particular They said they were promised an
easy time a pleasant journey into the heart Of
Canada and fine openings there. They thought
they had had enough of it, and should not again
be caught in such a scrape.-Dr. j. NJ Winslow,
Of Bloomington, has been appointed postmaster
in phcc OF Charles Wheeler, resigned The wool
clip in Bloomington is being secured unusually
early this season, and much that would other
wise be scattered amongst the bushes in sheep
pastures will by-and-by be passed over to the
SPECTATORS for ready cash.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
There are now about one hundred men at work
on the Lamoile Valley Railroad near llghgate
Centre Henry and Joseph CASHMERE of High
gate, recently caught fish in the Missi~luo
that weighed thirty pounds
culrrENDES COUNTY
In Richmond market Monday, $50 boxes Of
cheese brought from to - cents per pound, the
latter price for nice new milk 100 tubs of
butter were sold for from % to 20 cents. Farm
ers say that their grass is suffering for want Of
rain and that there must be a short hay crop 90
Oliver Place, aged IL, son of Austin Place living
in the south eastern part Of Hinesburgh shot
himself through the head, June ith dying in
stantiy-Mr Abraham NARROW, of Underhill,
/ had hearing before Commissioner j. NJ Smalley
| in the District Court room, in Burlington, June
| 9TH, and was held in $500 bonds 70 appear for
trial at the July term of the United States Dis
] trta WtpNaor -. d, no nharrr
of a breach of the neutrality law during the last
| Fenian nd-The lumber mills at Burlington
are running night and day, and this trade is now
quite brisk throughout the State. One Of the
largest lumber marts in the State, the largest on
the Vermont Central nroad below Burlington,
is Bethel, where the business has developed rap
idly within few years, and whence many con-
sumers in Providence, New Bedford, Hartford,
Middletown, Northampton, etc, draw their sup
| ply.-A son Of NJ S Storrs, of Burlington, ac-
cidenally shot himself on Thursday The Aler-
chants National Bank of Burlington has become
consolidated with the FIRST National of the same
city, By electing the same directors, though both
banking houses will be kept open. A new ma
tional bank, with capital ranging from 800
600 to $500, 600 is projected by F. NJ Van Sick
len, Lawrence Barnes, 5. Gates and others.
ORANGE COUNTY.
1t is stated that Mr. Calvin Andrews, of Chel-
sea, was arrested recently. for alleged cruelty to
a fatherless lad named Richardson, for whom he
is guardian.-rhe Bradford Opinion says that
The report upon the woman suffrage question
in Yershre stands thus The paper has been
presented to 1884, III do not wish to vote six
would not sign their names, and two large dis
tricts have not been heard from. The ladies OF
Nershire will need more light upon this subject
before they will realize how much they have been
, down -trodden and abused. As Mr.. and Mrs
Geo W. Wilbur of Brookfield, were returning
! to their home, from West Randolph, on the eve
ming of June Bird, with horse and carriage, while
crossing a bridge, over stream near the resi-
denoe Of Barna Blanchard in Brookfed, some
scamp suddenly seized his horse by the bits, and
backed him with the carriage of the side OF the
bridge, and horse, carriage and Mr.. Wilbur and
wife, fell some ten feet into the water below
, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur both received severe though
il is thought not fatal injuries. The horse will
probably die, and the carriage was badly broken
= Mr. Wilbur is confident who the person is, and
his motive and it is hoped he may be punished
as be deseryes.-A dog belonging to A. G. Mos
ley of Tunbrdge, commenced frothing at thu
mouth some ten days ago and appeared so strange
ly that Mr. Mosley shut him up in the barn
: where he continued his stnnge conduct until he
was found dead on Saturday morning last. 1t i
, hoped he failed to inilict any wounds.-A MAJ
living in Vershre recently threw a stick of wood
at his wife and broke her arm, while intoxicated
- GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
y About fifteen hundred tons of hay have beer
g pressed and shipped from Alburgh since last De
c cember. Pretty well for town containing onl.
3 about l5,O 900 acres of land.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
At a town meeting held in Rutland on Mon