Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-01-26
STATE MATTERS.

sS TO so per cord.
IL. A. Gray Of Barton, has trapped thirty
four foxes within FIVE weeks.
"A large union depot is to be erected this
season at White River Junction
"A wooden factory at West Concord has
been sold at auction for $4,000.
During the year 1869 there were but
three deaths in the town of West6eld.
The Passumpsic Railroad pays semi
annual dividend Of three per cent, February
LIST.
Hon. Il. NJ. Aylesworth of East Airing
ton, in a ft of insanity, recently cut his
throat
The January meeting of the " Society of
Natural Sciences" was held at Irasburgh, the
llth inst.
The Jail of Caledonia county is without
an inmate. The jaior talks of advertising
for boarders.
The house and barn Of Spencer c. Smith
at East Clarendon, was burned on Sunday
evening. Loss S2500.
Mitchell, the trunk thief, was sentenced
by the Orange county court to three years
service in the state prison.
Mrs Woodward Of WI odstock has brought
$4,000 claim against fellow named Wal
ter, for damaging her character
Windsor has a first class bgamy case in
which A. l.. Goats will be the star performer
when the sheriff gets hold Of him.
About a thousand Rutland people vast
ed Wednesday afternoon at the depot in the
vain hope Of seeming Prince Arthur.
"A young lady in Cayendish, recently
killed a skunk with a butcher knife She
says the battle is not always to the strong
The taxes raised and to be raised on the
Grand List of the town Of Burke for 1869
will not fall short Of $50 cents on the dol
lar.
The Good Templars Of Pawlet are doing
good work, dram drinking having been al
most totally stopped in the place by their eff
forts.
Mark Chaplin Of Poultney, while recent
ly using horsepower saw, was struck in his
forehead by piece Of wood and probably
fatally injured.
king, Fuller & Co. have 100 men at
work on the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad.
so being at st. Johnsbury and 80 at the other
end of the line.
The State prison at Windsor is decidedly
financial failure, showing deficit for the
past year of s6,297. The prison has IL
brary Of 800 volumes.
The dwelling house of Dir. Grin Ship
man, Of Colchester, was burned to the ground
on Monday night last. Loss about $500
no insurance
The stock has been taken for building a
frst-class hotel at Mddletown, and arrange
ment are being made to secure its completion
by the first Of mex, June.
Mr. Samuel w. Green recently caught
large snowy owl, near Danyille. 1t wa.
almost perfectly white, and measured from
tip totip of wings, nearly five feet.
Darling & Deans soap-stone works at
Perkinsyille were entirely destroyed by fire
on Monday night. The loss is $4,000 and
the insurance amounts TO $4,000.
John F. Rollins has been arrested, charg
ed with the murder of his two months old
child at Swanton, which was found buried il
his cellar. He was married last May.
Sunday, the house of Mr.. Luther Boyn
ton, who has the agency for the sale of liquor
for the town of Ludlow, was entered, and the
funds belonging to the town distracted.
Christopher Johndro was killed last weel
in Kingsley's mill at Salisbury. His coat be
came entangled in the machinery and he wa.
dashed against the top of the room
"A Williamstown dwelling house, nearly
completed, valued at about $4,000, has beef
built from the proceeds of one Norway GA
found in a newspaper about five years ago.
-Brattleboro people are shocked over tn
startling disclosure Of woman of about q
years starving to death in that place, recently
through the neglect of those with whom sh
lived.
Mrs. Samuel H. Bisekmer, of Benning
ton had quite valuable gold watch stole
from her residence, on last week Friday.
was a gift from her deceased husband, AM
dearly priced.
&C. j. Bowker, of st. Johnsbury Centre
has kept from thirty-one to thirty-6ve coars
wool sheep, during the past five years, an,
has sold from them wool and lambs to tn
amount Of 1928.
William w. Weeks, fox hunter
Pawlet, has trapped aud caught in a sprin
trap, sixty-eight foxes, thirty-six skunk
eight coons and ten crows May his shado'
never grow less.
The citizens of Peacham have raise
funds for suitable slab to be erected ov,
the grave of those three unfortunates wi
were frozen to death near that town on Il
4th of March last
In St. Johnsbury there is village Ia
providing that no scholar shall be allowed
stand around in stores, or other public place
during school hours--a provision both nece
sary and wholesome,
The st. Johnsbury Times says part
the men employed in grading the Portland
Ogdensburg Railroad in that town, refused
work on Monday, because their wages h
been reduced from 81 40 to sl.25 per day
H. NJ. Parker, of East Lyndon, has
vented a break for sled runners, which is
connected with the neck yoke as to opera
itself The amount Of break is in exact pr
portion to the amount Of pressure upon t
neck yoke.
Peter Fountain. aWinooski policeman b
been found not guilty Of an "unwarrantal
entry of private dwelling" He went il
Mrs. Abraham Kenfeld's bedroom tn scar
Of a Sheldon lawyer, but as he found hi
the jury decided that he was right in thus
vading the SIRENS nest.
Twenty deaths occurred in Peacham d.
ing the past year, the ages ranging from o
year to "a, the average being 81. In Is
the average age was fraction over go yea
and for the three years past the average
not fallen so low as SO years.
The First National Bank of Danvil
at its recent annual meeting of stockholie
reelected the old Board Of Directors, v
Ora Crosby and Byron j. Lance, of Cab,
Samuel Ingalls,, of Greensboro; Bliss
Davis and Newell Stocker, of Danvil