Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-07-09
State Matters.
nENNINaToN COUNTY.

burned on Thursday morning, about two o.
clock. Mr.. Towsley and family were all alb.
sent, and when tho fire was discovered it was
too late to save anything, though the alarm
called together quite a crowd. The house was
insured The origin Of the fire is matter Of
conjecture.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Elisha May, Of st. Johnsbury, on returning
home few days ago, arrived just 10 time at
the bridge near Paddock village to save his lit
tie boy, four years old, from drowning in the
pond.
The safe Of the Passumpsc Savings Bank t.,
which is kept in the hardware store of David
Boynton, at st. Johnsbury, was broken into
last Wednesday night, and about $50 secured
by the burglars Decidedly large outlay for
a very small return.
Joseph Magoons farm buildings, situated
one and one-half miles cast Of Ilardwick, con
sisting of dwelling house, barn and sheds, were
burned on the aitornon Of the Both ult The
house was unoccupied. All the buildings were
old, and were occupied till very recently. Re
specting the origin Of tho fire but little is
known. The family washing was done at the
house in the forenoon, and II is pr obable that
the FIRE was occasioncd by fire being left, which
in some way communicated with the buildings
The loss is mostly covered by insurance.
cuiTTENDEN COUNTY.
Surgeon Peck reports five cases Of sunstroke
in the LIST Regiment Mt Burlington on Friday
All rapidly recovered.
The bars were all closed in Burlington on
the Fourth, and there was but a solitary ar
rest for intoxieation that day
The annual exhibition of the Vermont Epis.
copal Institute, at Burlington, took place on
Monday evening, and the exercises. passed Oft
very crediiably to all concerned.
James W Miner, Deputy United States
Commissioner Of Fish and Fisheries, arrived in
Burlington Saturday morning, and with his
assistant, Mr. Mason, at once proceeded to the
farm Of George H. Reynolds and stocked the
Winooski river at that poiu. with IS 600 shad
from the Matching house at IIadley Falls, Mas
sachusetts
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
The State Board Of Agriculture will hold
two days fruit meeting in Grand Isle county,
Ton one Of the isands,) in October 1t is ex-
pecied that there will be a large attendance
not only by the farmers Of the county alone,
but by the fruit growers Of franklin and Chit
tenden counties. Time and place and program
me will be announced in good time.
LANofILE COUNTY.
The lodge Of Odd Fellows at St. Johnsbury
bad very enjoyable picnic in Niles Grove,
near Morrisvile, last week Thursday, to which
goodly number Of the people Of the latter place
were invited, and which all enjoyed fully.
ORANGE COUNTY.
At a meeting Of the stockholders Of the new
National Bank at Chelsea, Elihu Hyde, Garon
Davis, John B. Bacon, Foster Grow, and a.
n. King, were elected directors The directors
appointed Elihu Hyde President, and John
Clark, Of 81. Johnsbury, Casbier.
Norman Green, an employee Of Salisbury
Co, at Randolph, got caught in some Of the
machinery in the mill, on Wednesday last, in
such a manner as 10 crush one Of his legs in a
terrible manner. The physicians are endeay-
oring to save the limb, but it is thought am
putntion will have 10 be resorted to. Green is
young man Of good character, and his cir
cumstances are such as to demand the sympathy
Of all
\ new covered bridge across the stream at
the Centre village in Tunbridge is built at
cost Of nearly 81 900. It will be ready for
travel in few days The old one has been
dangerous for long time, and while Mr..
Noyes, one Of the Chelsea teamsters, was
crossing with n heavy load it gave way, and
though the bridge didn't fall, it probably would
had he not rushed his team of the bridge with
ali speed
ORLEANS COUNTY.
The forest worm has appeared in Westfed
and is stripping the trees.
A Derby lad named Grout, twelve years old
son Of Mrs Charles Chamberlin Of lrasburgh,
while amusing himself in throwing cartridge
against a rock, it exploded, the ball hitting him
in the right eye and destroying it.
The Southeastern railway, which forms a
new and direct railroad route from Newport,
Vt, to Montreal, via tie Missisquoi and Clyde
Rivers Railroad and its connecting lines, will
be opened for public travel on Thursday next
The dwelling house Of j Q. A. Wheeler, Of
Troy, was burned on the Goth nit. lie was
absent in the field ut the time and Mrs Wheel.
er had gone to a uoighbor's. The FIRE had made
such Roadway when they discovered it that no
Efforts could save It, Bat very few articles Of
clothing even were saved. The household
furniture, provisions, clothing, and in fact
nearly everything was burned. This is a
heavy loss for Mr. Wheeler. The buildings
were comparatively new, and good set of
farm buildings Insurance $500, in the Yer
mont Mutual
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Dandy ships 10000 bushels of charcoal per
week.
Mr.. A. IL. Tuttlo has sold one third interest
in the Rutland Herald to l.. w Redington, of
Washington, n. Y.
The grand list of Poultney for 1873 shows
that there are thirty-one men in the town, sub
ject to taxation, by the name Of Jones There
ore fifteen Smiths on the grand list, but only
one John Smith
The famous summer resort, IIyde's hotel,
at Sudbury, is full Of city boarders and those
stopping temporarily. Thus this celebrated
hosiery descends from father TO son for two
generations, and still its fame is undated
W. N. Oliver, of Rutland, has the contract
for the Chapman monument, to be wrought Of
marble, at cost of 5000, and to be completed
on the first of September next. The people of
Tinmouth will remove the remains of Judge
Chapman from the present resting place to the
new cemetery and prepare the grounds for the
erection of the monument. The unwilling of
the mnoument will take place early in Septem-
Der, probably during the session of the Rut-
land County Court.
wINDHAN COUNTY.
On the evening Of July 4th, James Crosicr,
of Halifax, shot and killed his son-in-law,
William Smith, during drunken alteration,
The two had been spending the day at Green
River Village in Guilford, had partaken plen-
tifully Of the ardent, and on their return home,
in the course Of dispute, from words came
blows. Smith knocked his iather.in-aw down,
pounded him severely, and threw him out OF
doors. The old man was badly bruised and