Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-11-05
state Matters.


master at stannord, vice Allen s. liatien, re.
signed.
About 1000 900 feet Of lumber has been cut
At Darlng's mill. South Kyegaic, during the
years 1872 and 1873.
A company Of young men, and few young
adio., from Barnet and vicinity, are about
starting for California, most Of them to become
permanent settlers Of the State.
Cant. Walter Wright, the Oldest citizen Of
St. Johnsbury, dicdat the Centre on Thursday,
October 23l. Mr.. Wright was good citizen,
and had been, since he was young man,
prominent member Of the Masonic fraternity.
Bifue, the young Frcnchman who was nc.
cidentaly shot through the body last week
Wednesday, it is thought, will recover from
HE wound The ball entered near the pit of
the stomach, and was extracted from hi. back
Asahel Burlington, ESQ, aged eighty.two
years. has held the Office OF town clerk in Burke
for nenrly fifty years ard has been elected
6lty.one times the first time to GIL the vacancy
Of DR.. Dickorman, who moved out Of town.
Mr.. b. was also town treasurer Tor over forty
years, justice Of the peace forty years trustee
thirty and postmaster twenty five years Mr.
Darlington was father Of Mr. l. L. Burriug.
ton, formerly Principal Of Goddard Seminary.
cuIrrENDEN COUNTY.
The mill. Of the various lumber concerns in
Burlington, are now running on threequarters
time This is not an unusual step, for il has
been their practice 10 two or three previous
seasons.
Mr. Thomas Hill, Of West Charlotte, had
some twenty sheep killed and wounded by dogs,
on Wednesday Of last week This makes the
third time 10 three years that he has been
sufferer from lcrocious canincs
On Saturday night well dressed man about
thirty years Old, called at the house Of n.
lockwood, in St. George and asked lodging
Tor the night Mr. Lockwood not liking hi.
looks refused 70 accommodate him Sunday
morning on going to bis barn, he found bis
s,rrcl mare missing. az well as nn old harness.
ie has no doubt the animal was stolen hy his
visitor saturday night, and has traced him on
the highway about a mile north
Lucins White, q well-io.do farmer, residing
in E.-ex. was taken suddenly 10 Friday NOON.
IN a store in Burlington. and was carried to
the stanton House, wherealter suffering severe
pain in the region Of the bowels, for which
there seemed 20 be no relief, be died Saturday
night about II O'Clock \ past moriem di-.
closed that the cause Of his fatal illness was
liberation and pcrIoration Of the intestines, an
unusual disease lii~age WAS s. years
The express robbery at Burlington, a few
night, ago, turns out to he case OF .elfas
.ault on the part Of lockwood, the messenger
The Investigations Of the expires. company
made this 50 evident that lockwood finally
confessed and restored the stolen money. $3.50,
md M prosecution will follow Iii. self in.
driei blow broke ms no>c. f. Is pretty easy
O. sec how the temptation as.ailed him. when
che fact is made known that De WIS striving 90
support himself. wife aud child, ON thirty
dollars % month
Mr. Br1wnell, Of Colchester, lel bis horse
hiched a; Days store, at Colchester Centre.
Monday evening on going out be discovered
that hi, horse with an open booted buggy
coon skin robe and common horse blanket,
we're missing Upon searching, track. or the
horse were traced for q short distance north
after that no clue to the property could he
found The police authorize. were notified
and are on the alert for the thief and BIZ. booiy
The horse is described as being Of chestnut
color, white strip 10 the face, five years old,
high hirs ard thin in Aesh
FRANKLIN ooUN1r.
Mrs Chappell a lady nearly ninety years Of
age, living in IIighgate, made her own garden
last spring, even spading it herself, and raised
therein tjmato weighing one pound and xix
ounces.
Ga October a2l, " II. McAllstcr, E-q..
Deputy Of the Patrons Of llushandry, organized
a Grange Of the Patrons Of IIusmndry 10
Bakersfield, with membership Of forty
twenty-five gentlemen and eighteen ladies'.
The Giobs says the employees in the shops Of
the Central Vermont railroad, at Rutland. win
be- employed on nine-tenths instead Of foil time.
and that this course is taken % avoid the dis
charge of any Of their employees at the opening
of winter.
Every woman ia ST. Adams has from one to
one hundred yards Of print A shop keeper
put cut placard, the other day, advertising
prints at ten cents yard another uhered them
for nine. and third and fourth competitor
announced that they would sell for eight and
all ST. Alhaus went shopping, and returned
laden.
The fire which has been burning nearly all
summer in Swanton and vicinity, was ugain
aroused by the strong wind Of last Saturday
and swept everything before it, burning two
miiesin width and extending about three miles
N Ballard. valuable timber ut of one
hundred and fifty acres is entirely ruined and
some farms are without rod OF Ieuce.
GRANp ISLE COUNTY.
A lad in Chester, fifteen years Of age, stole
several thousand dollars from his father few
days ago, and ran away, but was caught at
Fall> Bellows
A. \. Merchant, Of Burlington, is about to
add another To hi- list of newspapers II is to
called the Grand Isle County Recorder and is
to be published at North Hero. The first unm-
her will he issued Saturday, November -
DR.. Abraham Harding, Of South Hero, has
practsed medicine in Vermont for tity-h'e
years with the exception Of nine years spent in
Canada. lie was for five years the physician
of the British North American Land Company
but left the Province on the breaking out OF
the revolution Of 1898, on account # his re-
publican sentiments.
LANoILLE COUNTY.
On Friday night of week before hast the
house Of Merritt Ellsworth in Cambridge. DC
cupied by Edgar Ellsworth, was entered by
burglars while the family were absent. The
next morning the dog was found dead near the
house and tho doors broken open but il APP
pears that the money and valuabes were not
found.
Albert Meacham and Noble Webster. i'm
prisoned in llydepark Jail, last spring, for
theft, found life therein t. be monotonous, and
80 concluded to break the monotony by taking
French leave" They made a saw with Il
case knife and cut the iron CRATES so nearly un
that they easily best them around and stepped
out The Jail is rather a flimsy affair.
great failure has occurred in New York,
which reaches to and affects the people OF