Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-15
state Matters.


state Matters.
ADDISON COUNTY.
The llomW,paths Of Cbampain Valley,
in connection with few Northern New York
physicians Of this school, meet at Middlebury
to-day, to form a society to DO known as
The Champlan Valley Homeopathic Medi.
cal Society"
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Another effort is to be made to rebuild the
Mount Anthony Observatory at Bennington,
which has been blown down two or three times.
Mr.. Sheldon Taylor, son Of Stephen Taylor,
Of Rupert, after assisting through the day, on
Thursday last, in saving wood with machine,
was instantly stricken with death at evening
lie was about forty years Of age. The cause
Of his death has not transpircd.
bennington has had an enthusiastic meet
ing, and has organized a club for the preserva-
ton Of game and Gsh in this State. II is pro-
posed to stock the ponds with black bass, sal.
mon and muskalonge, and the streams with
trout IL Is further proposed to establish a
deer park. Young deer can be procured from
Pennsylvania at a cost Of $40 per head, on de-
livery.
CALEDONIA COUNTY
Public examinations Of persons desiring TO
teach. will be held May %, and September 2lst
The st. Johnsbury lecture course the past
winter Melted a loss of $4,000, but the profits
one year nco balance this into Sl02.
One night lately, a valuable horse belong
ing to Asa lloycy, OF Waterford, got loose and
helped himsellrom the grain bin and died. Loss
$3.50.
AT the grange meeting at st. Johnsbury
last Saturday, fJurteen or fifteen oranges in
the country were represented, but it was de-
cided best not to form council, but to make
all their purchases through the state agent.
"A petition has gone to the Governor, ask
ing for the pardon Of Cyrus s. lIadey who has
been in jail at st. Johnsbury, for selling liquor
Mr. lladley hegs, and says he will do so no
more. His wife is suffering for the necessares
Of life, and everybody is willing to give her
husband another chance to be decent man.
Mr. lIadley was former resident Of this viii
lage.
cniTTESpEN COUNTY.
r. G Bryant, Of shclburnc, set out, in the
spring Of 1873, two hundred and fifty thousand
fruit trees, and intends to set out in his extern
siye nurseries an equal number this spring
The Free Press mentions the trial Of case
| IN tie county court to recover s25 for the la
Dor Of the plaintiff, in which the cost to the
State was ( 10. 1t adds All in all, it was
a ridiculous and sorrowiul sight to see so much
time, trouhleand expense all thrown away in a
quarrel over small sum. The verdict was for
the plaintiff to recover one cent damages which
we understand the defendant is willing to pay.
But the poor lawyer must live somehow.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Berkshire, on the 9th, refused to bond in
aid Of the Lamolle Valley Junction railroad
Charles Davis, Of Rcbford, was severely
wounded 10 the hand last Thursday, by the
accidental discharge Of revolver which he
was holding by the muzzle.
A man named Henry Spur, haling from
stanbridse Ridge, p. O., committed suicide by
cutting lis throat in the carriage house o
George Barney, at Swanton, on Tuesday even
ing Of last week Tie is thought to have beer
insane.
"A large bay horse, with black name anC
tail, who weighs about one thousand one hun
dred pounds, and is between seven and eigh
years old, was stolen from the barn Of j. II
Hubbard, Of franklin, on the evening of tn,
9TH inst.
The ladies' who visited the rolling mill it
st. Adams, with pledges reported at their las
meeting that they had succeeded in securin.
one hundred and fifteen names to the pledge
and those who visited the railroad shops re
ported one hundred and fifty Names
Seven furnaces are in full blast at the Roll
ing Mill in st. Adams, running day and night
and the green hands " are rolling out on al
average about eighty tons of rail per day. Tn
average daily production of the men who strucl
last winter was about sixty tons.
R. c. Hall, formerly postmaster and gro
Gerry keeper at Swanton junction, proposed t
leave town on Monday morning of last week
without the knowledge of his creditors II
was pursued, oyertaken in Burlington, re
loved If eI,o and oos,s ond LII = -, =,
bis w,v whether reioicino ~ 40, ,,o 80, 80,
oo,
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-Ihe temperance excitement runs high j
bakersfield DaIIy meetings are being holder
ana great progress has already been made. !
committee oil tWenty-iour has been appolnte
70 enforce tue Jaw ana over one hundred oil IN
pest c''l~ehS ana TAX payers have ooilgate
g themselves 10 support them IN their wori
! ABOUT one huhdrel ana hltS nave signed III
4 .ou' abstinence pleuge, Both oil the hote
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LAMoilLE COUNTY.
= The Mount Mansfield House is to be opene
May ist' under the management OF Col N.
heeler, who with has son, Henry A, has ru