Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-02-14
STATE MATTERS.

lIf NfINilNifH ltfWoHfff fNlinNlt1 iNt lt.st's
b. the bristol fire at 100000.
Tho pomontcy also states that the young gent
o. Ycrgonnos who was tho fortunate recipient Of
two offers Of marriage from amiabo young mar
ragoablos, last week, is in the most unhappy
state of bctwccnity lie finds himself quito I'M
equal to the task Of deciding which Of the fair
charmors to choose.
Addison County Temperance Society meets at
Mldlcbury, February elst
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
We find an interesting record under tho births
in the bennington Frec Press Of Friday. IL
says;
Births In Bennington Jan os, two sons and
daughter 10 Mr. and Mrs Patrick Cummings.
A passenger coach belonging to the Troy and
BOSTON railroad company, caught fire about "
o'clock Tuesday night and was destroyed The
ear was used to carry passengers from the Vermont
State line TO Eagle Bridge, aud WIS kept at the
bridge each night. 1t was worth about $4,000,
and was insured
II is reported that j /. G. Cook is about to re-
sign his position as Postmaster at Bennington,
aul that y j. Tiffany former editor Of the BAN
mr. appears at present 20 have the inside track in
the race lor tbe place.
CALEDONIA COUNTY
There is move on foot TO provide q new town
in ST. Johnsbury one that will scat in good shape
Oft least one thousand people. The site salready
selected, directly east of the Court House.
A Leap Year sleigh ride Of lorty-Gye couples
went from Sc. J1hnsbnry t. Lyndon Wcines-
day
some wcoks ago thc a,u.'y of Mr. Ball, Sutton,
wefc taken SICK about the same time which
proved Co DC tho result of poison, neeasioncd by
tic use oI water running through lead pipe re-
Gently aii down They are all very sick, the re-
co,cry of Nr. Ball being for some days considered
hopeless.
a young man named Kerr at work in Morse
olapbord and shingIe factory at Newark, W.
whiIcalu-liug boitrolutly gJt clugh tbctwcon
the hcit and shaft aud was feariully mangled.
The chances Of li,c are small One Of his arms
was broken in four places, and he is thought to
be injured internally
The spring term o. the st. JJhnsbury Academy
began last week with cighty-fvc pupils and
promise of enough others 10 make it over one
hundred
widow rer-is Eastman died at the house Of
her daughter, Mrs o. W Baker, at Fairbanks
village on saturday, Jan. 81, ngcd 90 years At
the time % her death She was The Oldest person n
St. joln,lury, aad until very lately had retained
hcr memory csc sight md hearing to remark
able degree
The farmers 90 Caledonia and ad Joining counties,
both ladies and gentlemen will hold public
meeting under the auspices ofthe Patrons Of lIus
budry, at the Avenue Hall, St. Johnsbury, VI
Feb. 22l Wa,hnrtons birthday, at0l O'Clock.
AN
Jamc- Ferguson OF Barnet 100 years and five
months old, died on Sunday Feb 4 lie wa. as
wei as ever the day before, and was about the
house Sunday morning The day be was 100
years I'D, j. $ Kinor,ou took him to st. Johns
bury where De was handsomely received by the
citizens. lie s scotchman, and has been in
thi- country since small boy, and remembers
when St. Johnsbury Plain contained only two
houses.
cuTTsNpEN COUNTY.
The Teachers Institute for Chiuenden County
VIII begin 10 thc Congregational church at Wi
nla.ki, Monday, February 10Th and close the
following Friday
II
bag, conmining about 1000 stamps Of different
denominations, from j. ~ Fletcher Of Westori
rssfx corNrr.
ON Tuesday ol last week, one of the Lyndon
mills lumber mon, named Walter, was killed in
DE East Haven woods he was assisting about
loading logs on a sled As the Sled turned log
running out behind the sled pressed him against
n tree, crushing one Of bis legs lie was taken
ua house, aul the physician thought be would
DO we'll but would probably lose his leg Late
in the evening he was taken bleeding and soon
died
The lumber business of Island Pond Is on the
increase ono company there have already about
100000 feet, and expect % get as much more
They have one hundred and dHy men and seventy
h1rcat work
John Shaw, Of Victory, while numbering Satur-
day was severely injured The particulars We
have n1, lcauel
TsANELN COUNTY
Onht Taur.dsy the Center school house in
Rnhosl,wa- burned to the ground Nearly an
Che school books were burned as were several
cords 1l wood in the shed. The house was quite
old, and the loss is not large. It was we be-
lie'e, uninsured.
Michael. Brace was brutality beaten in St, Al
bans on Sunday last, while intoxicated, by John
Mcdonald and Hugh Hamilton His condition
is considered critical. Mcdonald and Hamilton
have escaped, and the officers are after them.
ORANGE COUNTY
4 sad mortality has occurred in little village
in Bmmuec. Four out Of nine male residents,
q 4 f,.4 L..
three within two months.
- One half mile below Boltonyille, in Newbu-
ry, are two large sand cuts on the NJ. & W. r.
railroad where about 10 hands are engag ed on each
On the 9Th Of last month, John La Montgar was
olorlaken by slide of sand and buried some
three feet beneath it. The others hands escaped
but they saw the dirt coming, left their shov-
els which were buried. On taking a census
which they did Immediately, it was discovered
that one man was missing. Being without a sin
gle shovel, they set TO work vigorously, paving
dirt with their hands until they came to john
who was now a very purple John, but still breath
ing. short time longer, and he would have
been dead, for he was so pressed down that lie
could not move.
A. N. Landers Of Topslam has been arrested
aud placed under 225 dollars bonds, on the charge
of stealing pair of woll-skin robes from VIM, L..
Coriss, in whose family landers had been living.
The robes were found, after long Search enclosed
in an old bed tick, and covered up in the snow
Iandors' wife is now in Canada and it is reported
that he was going after her the present week.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
The engineers have completed the survey Of the
railroad to the summit between Newport and
Newport Centre, and are now making the prelim-
mary examination beyond They find very
feasible route and easy grade thus far. The work