Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-08-25
Vermont state News.

drowned while bathing at Middebury, Monday Of
last week
TIM New Haven campmccting is postponed one |
week, and will commence August 3ist and close
September stlr The postponement Il owing to
the present condition Of the ground and the extern
Give Improvements being made thereon
TuE following serious accident ia reported to
have happened to young lady In Fast Granville,
on the 10Th Of August She was married TO man
sisty-two years Of age said man being so hard mp
that he had TO borrow snit Of clothes Of his
brother-n-aw in which To get married and his
father-in'aw gave him peck Of beans, with
which to pay the marriage fee.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
TmE st. Johnsbnry granite company, which /
started only few years ago, now has more or
ders than it can attend to, and within very short
time has sold over 500 900 worth Of stone to 90 .
West
TnE stockholders Of the Merchants National
bank, Of st. Johnsbury have paid in their first in
stallment, fifty per cent Of their subscriptions,
amounting to $4,000 The bonds have been
sent TO Washington and business is expected TO
commence September LIST.
In G. W WOODWARD, Of st. Johnsbury, who
was arrested few weeks since for selling Hos
letters bitters, has removed his drug store to .
North Danyille, where he hopes to find authori-
ties that are not so beuighted but that they can
distinguish the difference between patent and ar
dent spirits.
CHARLES HAHyEys barn, At West Waterford, |
was burned las, Thursday before day break |
There was not much hay in IT, It was insured in |
the Vermont Mutual for 500 Cause Of fire I'M
known, hut supposed To have been set, acciden- |
tally or otherwise, by tramp. as one was seen In |
the neighborhood the evening before.
oHTrESpEN COUNTY
VICTORIA Woodruff, who has made more |
noise in the world than at least any other woman .
living, lectures in Burlington this evening.
The work Of removing the yaluahles from the |
wreck Of the Champlain has been going on
steadily since the accident occurred aud is now
nearly completed. The twelve men engaged in
this work will probably frish Il this week After
the valuahles which can be removed are taken off,
the remainder Of the wreck will be sold OF burned
IT Ia reported that Young Howard, who shot
laNlarsh in Milton, Is in Colorado and that he
has written to his folks that he was homesclS, and
wanted to come home As his father has since
sold his team rented his farm and left town, peo-
pie think he has gone to keep his "hopofu son
.
wound
Tar heaviest Taxpayers Of Burlington besides
the railroads. are Lawrence Barnes, who pay. /
81, 2i Shepard, Hall & Davis, 81, 20d 90;
John +. Howard, Ss9269, Geo T. Edmunds,
s69s %; O. A. Burton, sj0ISi; B. S. Nichols,
1894 IA; VIM. T.. Strong, sG7O6si Kiburn &
Gates, s6A72; Blodgett q SON sGGiO9; \. W. |
Allen, s577s5i and Henry r. Hckok sGi34i
TmE widow OF Harmon Was burn, about
thirty years Of age, who keeps a boarding house !
in Burlington, attempted to kill herself about +
midnight, ON Thursday last, by taking large |
desc Of powdered opium. Physicians were called |
in, who used all known antidotes In their power
| to save her life; but she died about two clock
Friday afternoon She was in tolerable circum-
stances and no reason known for this attempt to
take her own life, except that she had been in IN
health for some time past
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The st. Adams Messenger unkndly says. The
bass and pickerel in Lake George think Of calling
meeting to formally express their gratitude to
Seth Green for seventy thousand young trout
which he planted there The trout are nearly all
gone and every little while hungry pickerel
puts his head out Of the water to see II Seth is
coming with more.
The business portion Of swanton narrowly e.
capped great fire the other evening Mr. T. L.
| Ransom, owner Of Of the restaurants, went
/ home about eight +. NJ supposing he had ex,in-
guished all the lights, but it appears he left
kerosene lamp burning, which he had turned
down. The lamp was ON the side Of the window,
/ and being turned down low, the oil came out and
run over the lamp till it finally ignited, and set
the easement on fire. A gentleman who lived |
near by discovered it, aud put the fire out with
| pail water.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
Oris STElAIiSs, Of johnson, is building factory |
for the purpose Of making the famous Moulton
tubing 1t is on the site of the old one which was
burned a few years since.
THE August term of the supreme court was
held in IIydlpark last week, Sheriff ChaIee pre-
siding and Clerk Kenield assisting No cases
being ready for trial, the Judges did not attend so
the Sheriff opened and closed the court
Ar the New York mills, ulis,, the 18th, A. W.
Griswold. Esq, Of Malvern Farms, Morsyile,
sold his noted herd Of cattle rs follows -Four bulls
for $3.50 and thirty females for S50,650; total |
for the herd, $4,000. They are principally of the
" Princess family. Four Of the animals, regis |
tered as pure boods, sold for about SliO
ORANGE COUNTY
LAST week Tuesday, the dead body OF "A man
was found in the town Of Newbury, in the water
just below Dodge's Falls The body was evidently
that Of man well advanced In years, had been
in the water several days, and was badly decom-
posed. There was nothing found on 1t by which
| 1t could be identified.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Gro. KiNG, of Holland, recently tried to re-
1 Ill. r.. l..
taking it up by the muzzle and pulling 1t towards
him The experiment was moi a success, as the
contents Of the gnnwere discharged into his neck
His recovery is regarded as doubtinl
RurLAND COUNTY
W. C. CmrrES, OF West Rutland Ia. been al,-
pointed principal OF the State Normal School at
johnson.
OLIVER BORDEN, of West Rutland, was badly
beaten by roughs, recently, and his recovery is
very doubtful.
GEN. II. II B,xrER has just completed, in his
new block, at Rutland, hall for public purposes
said to be the best in the state
Az exchange announces that the women of Rut-
land are armng and becoming expert Shots the law
being Intellectual for protection against tramps'
MONDAY evening Of last week, the barn Of Mar
. VIM ilNts III paiN bi llllelou
called Sugar Hollow, was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground, with hay and other things.
Loss about $500.
|. Az insane Rutland bo0kasent named Bugbec,
has become 50 violent in his treatment Of his fam
/ lily and others, that he has been taken to jail
His muscular strength Is great that it took four
/ men To hold him.
. wiEDnAM COUNTY.
+ Mis- DoSAHuE, Of Jacksonville, and FIVE
children, were recently poisoned from eating the
, milk OF n diseased COW. Prompt medical aid
saved the lives Of all except the youngest child
year and half old, which died after thirty hours
. sickness
> WINDSOR COUNTY
THE general arIning against tramps through the
country is well attested In Chester, where some
sixty revolvers have been sold within two OF three
weeks
, Mis- ELLES FHESCH, Of IIartland took dose
/ of poison recently. She remained In very crit
I ical condition for number Of days, but is i'm
+ proving ut the present time II Is supposed that
she intended In commit suicide.
TINS is what frenchnan named Carpenter did
\ nj the hirh bridge on the Woodstock railroad