Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-10-20
Vermont State News.


Two women Of had repu,c were recently nuod
aud feaihcred, In vergcnnes.
REV j. GoADns, y. d. has closed his lahor. in |
Ncrgcnuos, NJ pastor Of the Baptist church
fns barn Of George W IIswctt Of Fast Mid |
dlebury, with it, contents, WAS burned Monday /
morning loss about $500 Insurance $40
Tnr MessIs IIamblin, Of Bridport, lost seven |
teen Of their best sheep out Of a flock Of twenty |
eight, on recent night They were killed By |
dogs.
4 CORRESPONDENT of the Boston journal says
president Hubert Of Middlebury College, has |
never uttered a word in favor Of a rifle team lie
would object to that NJ strongly as to the regatta
system"
CHARLES A. rrrrri, aud Matthew Cheney Of
iernsbursh, went out hunting squirrels on Sunday
the Ri inst and while after a squirrel, Cheney
stumbled and fell III, gun was discharged and
the charge entered rupper's right arm, inhIctlng
u serious wound which may result In the loss Of
the arm
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
WHILE raising the frame Of q Catholic church |
at Arlington. on the 18th. a scantng broke, and |.
several men were seriously Injured by being /
thrown from the timbop
A inrlr SON OF Edward tison vt Bennington |
fell into swollen stream, Monday Of last week. |
mud wa. carried down forty rods, and over two
dams, when he was rescued and resuscitatod,
ON Sunday the 10th inst bishop DE Goes
BRAND laid the cornerstone Of the New Roman
Catholic church at Arlington Tho Stone WIS one
from the ruins Of the cclebr,tcd Abbey Of Ma |
cross, Ireland OWN. To the rapid increase Of
the Romanist population Ia this state, Bishop DE
Goerbriand has decided 70 erect several now
parishes.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
rnI ExiHossman's Mutual Benefit Association
has paid the wife aud daughter Of the late 4 NJ
Cook, Of st Johnsbury one thousand two hun
drcd and sixty-seyeu dollan
ArEAonrRs' INSTITUTE for this county will be
held at St. iohnsbary, by Superintendent Conant, |
on Friday and Saturday October 20h and gOih |
The session will be held at the academy
Tim horse disease har reached st. Iohnsbury, |
though thus far in a much milder form than three |
years ago, when it came Tor the inst time
Many Of the horses affected are used daily, as be
fore, only with more care
PEABODY is getting ready for his winter cam
paisn in the wood business By the close " this |
month, he will have two hundred and fifty men In |
the mill aud the woods lie intends 10 get out
Ave million feet Of lumber and ten thousand cord,
Of wood
joins q. Adams, Of Grotun, ut work with a |
throshing machine, ON Monday Of last week, met
with bad accident lie was cleaning up the |
hoor working clan, etc. in the machine. when
his hand caught In the teeth aud was drawn |
in, taking of a thumb and badly iniuriug the
fingers.
OK saturday the 9TH inst an accident oc-
CURED to James Daniels Of Danyiie. He WIS at
work upon the Fisher trestle, and slipped and fell
distance Of twenty feet upon brace striking |
upon his abdomen and side lie WIS taken home |
and DR. Dursnt was called, who feared that there
might be internal injuries which would prove fatal
but the young man will probably recover
OSE hundred and sevonty-fye hay scales we're
manufactured at the scale works, in st Johns
bury In the week ending October 9TH, being an |
average Of one lie each twenty minutes of the
the working hours. There represent total ca
psciiy Of six hundred and forty-nine tons. In the
same week there were shipped from the factory |
thirteen car load, Of scales amounting to one
hundred and forty tons weight, or nearly eleven |
tons per car.
MHQ HUTCHINSON and wife, the parties charged |
with stealing from FAIRBANKS store in st Johns
bury, aud about whom 50 much stir and talk has |
been made, were admitted to bail by Justice A. j. |
Willard, on Monday of last week, in the SUN OF
two hundred dollars each. u T. Hutchinson, II
cousin Of Milo, became bail, aud it Is understood
he is secured The general impression is that the
liutchinsons got off quite easy and that they will
not he fonnd when the court sits.
cHIrrENpES COUNTY
TUE Wiuooski Lumber Company are shipping
six hundred cords of wood to Burlington rather
than let the railroad company have it at S375 per
cord
THREE heavily loaded freight cars on the Cen
trail Vermont railroad ran OF the track ut Cochcs-
ter, Thursday morning OF last week, delaying the
Montreal express for four hours and slightly in
juriug the track and ears.
JonN MURRAY, of Burlington, about nineteen
years Of age, fell overheard from the steamer
Montreal, one evening last week aud would prob
ably have been drowned but for the assistance
Of 81 J. Bixby and Others, who rescued him
LAST Wednesday evening, piece Of waterproof
cloth Of some twenty yards was stolen from the
store Of j. G Martin & Co, in burlington FIJI
day morning Sheriff Drew was informed of the
theft, and before night worked W the case with
sueh good success ihht patron oil the stolen
cloth was recovered
nIE trestle work Of the Harrington aud lamoille
railroad, over Lee river, IN Jericho, was finished
ON saturday last 1t is about thirty-four feot
high, eight hundred feet in leugth, aud contains
one hundred and eigbty.six thousand two hundred
and eightyssiN toel Of lumber and is admirably
constructed in every respect
InK Queen City Laundry In Burlington was
entered b, burglars Thursday nlgl.t. and a large
amount Of clothing .tulen. Mr.. Charles Finisnn
the prolr,etur. estimates his loss to be at least
500 Forty nne shirts were taken from one nile.