Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-02-03
Vermont State News.


-REv. Stillman Morgan, Of Bristol, is criticized
for injudiciously marrying couples who ought not
to he married Among others II il said he united
in wedock couple aged respectively, bridegroom
twenty-five and bride twelve.
BENNINGTON COUNTY
-Diptheria has broken ont anew in Readsboro,
and several eases Of malignant type arc reported
L. n. Stearns, prominent merchant and citizen
died Of II on the 10Th, aged thirty years and his
mother, wife OF John ~ stearns, followed him on
the 18th, after an Illness Of four or five days
oALEDoSN COUNTY
The Fairbanks Scale Company Is executing
large order for scales, Just received, direct from
Russia
cHrrrENprN COUNTY
a trottlng association has been formed at
Burlington, with II II Howe a. president, and
81 800 has been raised to be trottcd for on the Ice
next month
a survey has commenced on the Burlington
Iamoille railway Of direct route from the
north crossing in Essex TO Jericho, by which Il Is
expected that mile Of track can be saved. The
route will run by Essex junction instead Of Essex
Center
--Winoosh can 60 to the head on manufacture
ing It's wooden mill alone employs over five hun
dred and twenty operatives In all nearly nine
hundred people find employment throughout the
year, and receive, collectively, about $4,000 per
month.
EssEx COUNTY
The little boy who lost both his feet BIS the
cans some days ago at Island Pond, is getting
along well one Of the stumps is healed and the
other nearly TO-
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
a small sheet. seven By nino, called the Yen
t1re, is published ut bakersfield, Vt It L. edited
and printed by C l. ovitt, young man OF six
teen years
A young man named Lestoumeau, Of Rich
ford fell into the gearing Of Catlins saw mill last
week, and received such severe injuries as to nc
cessitate amputation OF his right arm near the
shoulder.
The St. Adams 1drerfiser will be issued, on
and after February LIST, a. an Erening instead Of
a Morning paper, and 1t will be reduced in size
from It's present sheet Of twenty-four by
thirty-six 10 twenty-five by thity-two inches.
Subscribers who have renewed their subscriptions,
with the expectation that the Adrertiser would
continue TO be issued as a Morning paper Of the
same size as hitherto, II dissatisfied, can have
their money returned on application at that office
LAMoiLLE COUNTY.
An effort is to be made TO establish a daily
mail from johnson to vaterville and Lowell
Work in the copper mines ut wolcott con
tinuc' and the prospects are much better than has
been expected.
ORANGE COUNTY
Considerable excitement prevails concerning
the death Of Mrs. Hogan who lived in the edge Of
Chelsea near Tunbridge. Her husband claims
that on returning from the school house whittier |
he had been to carry his children on last Friday |
morning. he found that she had committed suicide |
by hanging. He took the body down and moved |
it to another part Of the house before calling any |
assistance The head was found to be consdera- |
bly, bruised, and many other circumstances have |
caused grave suspicious as to the manner Of her |
death. The funeral occurred on Sunday, the |
body being placed in the tomb
--Newbury Seminary still lives, and is about to |
commence its Spring term with the most tlattering
prospects. Extensive repairs have recently been |
made upon the Seminary building and also upon |
the boarding house new library has been COM
menced and several hundred volumes have al
ready been secured by way Of donation cabi-
net room has been fitted up and several deposits
made.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
MIR Burbank, Of Coventry, is to put up steam
starch factory at West Albany next summer
Mrs. Timothy Conway, Of Coventry, died on
the 10Th ut from the effects of fall upon the ice
on the I'd. On that day she went TO Newport with
her husband and leaving their team at the Baptist
church shed she was walking from the shed to the
street when she slipped and fell upon the ice
She was aware that some bones were broken, but
anxious Ia reach home she was helped into the |
sleigh and came home. Medical aid was sum
moned and II was found that the thigh bone was
broken and it was feared internal injuries received
She survived nine days when modification took |
place and death soon ensued.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Rutland has not had as much snow as now
for many years
Rutland has rascals mean enough to steal
chairs from the church.
John Z. Phair, says the Rutland Globe has
overcome his fit Of starvation, and now takes his
meals regularly
The selectmen Of Rutland have offered re-
ward for the discovery Of the parties who furnished
to death between Rutland and Sutherland Falls,
on January 10th.
A friend Of the Eddy Brothers, Mr. T. 2, |
Miller Of New York, challenges DIR. Beard to
make good his statement that the Eddy's are
frauds, and proposes TO wager one thousand dol |
lars that the DIR. can't do it,
The legislature having refused to do anything |
for the slate interest in the matter OF regulating
freight trains, the Rutland and Washington |
Counties Producers Association now considers |
the leading question before il, not whether the
slate business can thrive, but whether it can
exist" The association has appointed a COM
mittee to confer with tho Central Vermont rail
road authorities in regard to the question OF rates
wISDHAM COUNTY.
The population Of Brattleboro during the past
year has decreased thirty-one, while the number
Of families has increased forty-two.
Mr.. d. T. Gushing, OF Cambridgeport, bought
pair of steers Of Il. IL Hall Of Athens, in Jan
uary, 1874 which weighed at that time sixteen
hundred pounds lie has kept them one year,
aud on the 18th OF last month they weighed two
thousand eight hundred and sixty pounds, being
gain OF twelve hundred and sixty pounds in one
year.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
A severe water famine prevails in Woodstock
Csierns are empty, wells dry, and the streams ex
tremely low.
Washington Chambcrlin, an old resident OF
Bethel, was found dead in bed the 2ist instant
lie was Mt the village the afternoon before. Age
seventy years.
The yctesrn stagcdriver Of Vermont is William
Billings, OF Woodstock, who has pursued that oc-
cupation in different parts OF Windsor county
since lS2O-a period Of forty six years.