Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-01-05
STATE MATTERS.


manufacture of chidrons carriages, and .oanv
fifty hands are now employed in the worI luz
The new Masonic hall, Brattleboro
dedicated on st. Johns day, Monday, Deem ny
Der, 81. '''"'
"A deer was lately hunted into the villa.
Of Montgomery centre, and there shot. weisI
ing 200 pounds &"
The gobber king Of turkcydom was soi,
and furnished for Christmas at Brattleboro
weighing 81 pounds.
Thus far there have been forty.sovo.
deaths in Woodstock the present year al
the average age has been 81.
"A man by the name ofIIenry, in the Wa.
part of Barnard, fell tree upon his oxen
by accident, killing one Of them.
Since the asylum for insane was siar,oa
at Brattleboro, in 1886, 1887 patients bava
been treated, and 1888 have recovered
-StAlbans has shipped in the wav NJ
freight the past year 2,s75,060 pounds n
butter, 736,02O pounds of cheese, and l09i
boxes of mineral water.
1t is reported that General Baxto,
formerly Of Rutland, and Mr. Yandorba,
now control the Bennington and Rutland
| Railroad.
"A woman smothcred her babe by wr,,.
ping it too closely while riding home from
South Royalton on Saturday. The child was
buried on Tuesday.
The house Of Eugene Wood, with con.
tents was destroyed by fire last Sunday nipb
1t is thought that the fire was occasioned bg
mice playing with matches.
"A man named Mellot Of Pownal va,
killed few days since, by being struck on tbs
head with falling limb, while chopping n
/ the woods.
Henry Culver, in the east part Of Bar.
nard, lately lost pair Of horses worth $500
/ by the breaking down Of the stable in which
they were kept both horses being killed
Albert Whitney aud Richard Smith Of
Tunbridge, have caught 10 foxes and q rae.
coons this winter, and they are hunting for
more.
One Of the buildings Of the Iron Work,
in Burlington is being furnished with mach.
merry for the manufacture Of printing paper
from wood shavings
Hon. George W. Grandoy of Vorgennes
and Dr. Charles Woodhouse Of Rutland, are
the candidates for the office of G.. w. CT
of the Grand Lodge of Vermont.
Timothy Il. Perkins of Barnard has
just killed a calf nine months and a half old
which weighed 1856 pounds. Weight of tai.
low q pounds, and of hide 55 pounds.
"A Mr.. Peck, from Waterbury, is repair.
ing and putting in machinery for the manu-.
iacturc Of farming tools in the building for.
merIy used for wool carding in Wateryille
On the 18th inst, Arthur Fairbanks.
while ehopping in the woods in Waterville.
was struck by falling limb, and when found
was senselcss and half frozen Medical ala
was procured and he is doing well.
4 Mr.. William T. Barnes has contracted
with Sherman Adams a Langdon TO quarry
for a number of years, two hundred thousand
feet Of marble year from their quarry in
4, West Rutland
The new library building at St. Johnsbury
is the most costly public building in the state
with the exception Of the capitol. Together
with the library, is the gift of the Messrs. Fair.
s banks Of that village.
N. II. Austin Of Tunbridgo, has raised
. this year, 900 bushels Of potatoes, on three
, and one-half acres Of ground. He has also
raised three hundred bushels Of corn on three
acres.
"A communication in the Bennington
Banner states that there are fifteen places in
that town where liquor is openly sold besides
any number Of secret holes for the same pur.
pose
-Middebury has been heard from again.
Three stores were broken open in that town
last Thursday night, and the Judicial pulse
beats high with the hope that the rascals may
be caught and brought to justice.
George Robinson Of Hartford, was care.
lessly handling loaded pistol Dec I, when
the pistol discharged, the ball passing through
his body. At last accounts, he was in a very
critical condition.
Burglars attempted to enter the Nation.
al Union bank at Swanton Falls on Tuesday
night, but were frightened away before ac-
eomplishing any thing on the safe. The coun.
ter drawers, however, were robbed Of $3.50
worth of revenue stamps.
Abel Guild, Of Walden, was recently
arrested for violation Of revenue laws. He
was acting as cattle broker and neglected 70
take out license. lie waived examination.
and gave bail Of $500 for appearance to the
United States Court at Burlington, in Feb.
ruary.
Two barns, 30 tons of hay and 300 bush.
els Of grain belonging to Harry Hill, Jr.
Isle LaMott, was set on fire by hog tipping
a pail Of ashes containing Goals Of FIRE on his
back and thus carrying some Goals to a stack
OF straw adjoining the barns which took fire
aud consumed the whole. Insured at 1882.
Sneak thieves are again infesting Put.
ney. On the 18th inst, they entered the
barn OF G. II. White and stole his best har.
ness they also broke into the stove and tin
store of W. Il. Henry, carrying off articles
and what change that CHANGED to be left in
the money drawer. Sunday night they broke
into the depot.
Monday morning last, the building in
Poaltney, occupied by II. II. Willis as a shoe
shop and store, and by John Williams as a
barber-shop, was burned down. 1t is sup
posed that the fire took from a stove-pipe,
Mr.. Willis sets his loss at about two thousand
dolars-insured for twelve hundred. Will
llams loses about one hundred and seventy
five dollars.
). Estey & Co., the organ and melodeon
makers Of Brattleboro have just put forty
new building lots into the market. The Es-
teys have the foundation walls laid for new
melodeon factory 100 feet long, to be one of
three Of the same size which they intend to
erect IN the spring. They now employ two
hundred men, and expect to increase the num-
Der to two hundred and fifty as soon as
they have shops to put them in.
AT the present term of the Caledonia
County Court, it appears that pauper, 10
years old, had been confined for long time
IN dungeon, and kept upon thin cruel, on
account of a refusal to pay his poll and dog