Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-07-30
State Matters.
ADDISON COUNTY.

j. X. Crane, the famous Bridport beo.
Keeper, expects to secure 10000 pounds Of
honey from his busy little bees " this season.
Justus Cobb, E-q., has retired from the
Register Printing Company, at Middlebury.
The business is hereafter to be conducted BIZ
Lyman y. Knapp and William j. Fuller,
under the name Of Knapp & Fuller.
On the 18th inst, Orin l.. Beckwith, an en-.
ployec Of Henry Persons & Co., of Fast Mid.
dlebury, was arrested on suspicion Of stealing
from his employers lie acknowledged his
guilt, refunded $l72, and was discharged.
Francis Gee, aged eghty-two years, died in
Mddlobury, July 9ith, with dropsy Of the
heart His suflerings were almost without
parallel, not having lain on bed for eighteen
months, as his limbs required dressing about
twenty times every twenty-four hours. lie
was quiet, peaceable citizen, respected by
those who knew him.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
i Woodlord is 10 celebrate its centennial Z"
on the Goth Of August, although four years
late.
Bennington is 10 have fremen's muster on
the 10th Of August. The prizes will be as
follows Firstprize, $500 second prize, 5000 /;
third prize, 500
The Bnrritt Brothers, Of Manchester, caught
another bear on Friday last This makes the
forty ninth which they have captured, and all
nearly in the same place
The Stark House, at Bennington, was sold
at public auction on Thursday afternoon by
Calvin Park, administrator Of the estate of the
late Lewis Cady, for S2s 600 Calvin Norton
is the purchaser
Messrs. Waterhouse 4 Deuch, at Manchcs-
ter, have had to suspend their factory business
on account Of the loss Of their mill dam, which
was undermined by mudWrtics, who were OBJ
served to be working at it short time before
it gave way.
The Banner, in mentioning the preparation
Of young man to enter college, in the graded
school in that village, notes the fact that the
Rev. f. II. Chaplin, Hon, Horace f. Clark and
q. 5. Robinson, d. D., Of New York, and Hon.
William L. Yaney, of Alabama, were fitted for
college at Bennington.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Snow, who killed Stanton, is reported to be
in bad situation, refusing to cat, and magin-
ing that his victim visits his cell Some think
he will not live To be tried, unless the trial
comes off soon.
Two boys, sons Of Mr.. Raymo and Mr..
Dixon, were drowned in the river at Mclndoe 5
Falls last Thursday. They were playing in an
old boat which sprung a leak and sank.
cuIrrESDEN COUNTY.
The boys Of the Vermont Episcopal Institute
at Burlington, contribute the " Rock Point
Cadet " to the journalism of the State.
The annual fair Of the Chittenden County
Agricultural Society and Champain Valley
Horticultural Society, will be held at Essex
junction, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
September 10Th. 18th and 18th.
FRANKLIN COUNTY
There are about fifty boarders at the Frank
lin House, llighgate Springs, and additional
arrivals daily
/ Mrs Swaziland will continue to keep the
American House in Richiord, which hereafter
will be strictly temperance hotel.
A New Hampshire lady caught a mus
callonge in Georgia Bay, last Saturday, that
weighed thirteen pounds. What Vermont girl
will venture to lunge out, and attempt to cap
ture its peer?
While moving in the hay field on Monday OF
last week, James Smalley, Of Sheldon, suddenly
stopped, placed his hand on his breast and
said, "My heart lie fell to the ground
, dead, before he could be reached.
Morris O'Donnell, of Swanton, an elderly
unmarried man, who has worked for the rail.
read for twenty-three years past, was found
drowned in Mssisquoi Bay last week. lie
leaves property to the amount of about "a 900
The Troy Press says great deal of money
changed hands at the recent nternationa
wrestling match at Troy. John Mcmahon,
father who resides in Bakersfield, Vermont
wagered his farm and three horses agains
, s. 900, put up by eight individuals at Rut
t land. The champions father won, but it wa.
long odds about six to one
. GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
t Miss Longfelow, daughter of the poet, i,
spending few days with friend 10 CRANE
Isle.
1t is said that the apple crop in Grand Isl
T county will he almost an entire failure. Tn
r orchards blossomed very fall, but light frost
f OF something equally injurious, caused tn
6 young fruit to fall prematurely. The prospec
e for plums and pears is much better
p LAMoILLE COUNTY.
Stowe reIoices in about $50 summer guests
b. and the house is filling up rapidly.
# At meeting of the directors of the Fai
s Ground Co., it was voted to change the time .
S holding the next Fair to September 18th an
3, lsth--one week earlier-on account OF III
= time formerly chosen, conflicting with the Fai
9 in Caledonia Co.
+ Those naughty Watervile boys, for who's
!, idle hands Satan finds some mischief still, sue
i as destroying crops of corn, pulling up garde
vegetables, breaking up wagons and runnin
, them into the river, and other things of th
II same stamp, had better mind their ways o
they will bring up in some bad place befor
long. word should be sufficient.
Considerable attention is being attracted t
y the iron ore beds in Emore. They were frs
n worked in 1926. The quality Of this ore, it
J. claimed, surpasses that Of any mine known /
g the world, Various toolsand implements, MOI
J., in existence, prove that it is of very superio
It quality. 1t was so pure that piece Of or
was worked by an ingenious Irish blacksmith
at his forge, into chise of the best quality
u which was for many years in possession q
Hiram Town.
On Tuesday of last week, Chauncey an
Harrison Warner, of Cambridge, paid over
the directors of the Lamolle Valley railroad
D four thousand dollars as free gift. Some fv
years ago when this railroad project was frs
inaugurated, these men said TO the director
that when satisfied that the enterprise was
be a success, they would give the company tw
: thousand dollars each and Tuesday they cam
forward and made good their verbal promise
These Warner brothers are among the largcs
and best farmers in the valley, and are careful
conservative business men. They show b
their acts that they have confidence in the er
terprise, and it is admitted on all hands th0
y they are good judges in matters like this