Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-12-01
Vermont State News.
ADDISON COUNTY.

'crmOht Sthle vows.
ADDISON COUNTY
TKN thousand pounds Of cheese from sudbury
factory were shipped, last week, at Leicester
Junction.
The fall term Of Niddlebury College closed on
Tuesday Of last wcoh. aud a vacation Of six weeks
follows. The spring term commences on Thurs
day, January 9Th
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
A MIST u young thieves was discovered In a
cave In the woods near Pownal. a few days ago.
and two Of the mscals--Ous Haley, sixteen, aud
Joseph Sawyer eighteen years Of agc-haye been
arrested Two othors escaped Several recent rob
berries have been traced to them by the discovery.
CALEDONIA COUNTY
ST.. JoiNsmRy held y town meeting on the 18th
ult., and voted tax u one hundred cents on the
dollar TO defny current expenses aud apply on the
debt
MosEs PAREER and wife, Of Walingiord, eighty
and seventy years old respectively have parted,
he paying hereght hundred dollars in money, and
the furniture Of the house Mrs Parker is u
second wife. aud they have lived together twenty
five years. Mr. Parker Is going to live with his
sou-in-aw, Hastings, " Monroe, y H. and she
goes West
SIMON PICK, who lives on the road between st.
Johusbury and DAnylle, was taken with sudden
blindness on Monday Of last week lie had been
drawing mp fire wood from the woods, aud while
after load, blindness came upon him 80 that he
could not see his team. lie got upon his sled and
his horse took him 10 the house but he could not
see anything that night or the next day.
nm little neighborhood growing up around
Groton pond, cast Of Peabodys, is growing fast
Three years ago 1t was an uninhabtcd forest, not
tree bein! cut Now hundreds Of acres are
cleared, and the trees have been manufactured
into valuable lumber 4 new school district has
been formed there. They have got up a library
association, hold prayer-meetings, aud are really
bent on building up au Intelligent, virtuous and
enterprising community
/ ions CAnRicK, Of Gruton, died very suddenly
| in Lyndon, at the house Of Simeon Cotton, one
week ago last Friday lie had not been quito well
for some weeks past though he was in a condition
to keep about his business Thursday evening,
he came up on the train from West Dlnyilio.
where he had been visiting brother, and not
feeling as well as usual, declined to eat any sup
per lie had u severe pain in the stomach, and
towards midnight it proved very severe, aud med
teal aid was summoned, but nothing could be done
for him beyond administering pain killing medi-
cine His trouble was perioration OF the stomach.
cmlrrESDES COUNTY
/ TN Burlington Clipper says there are now Just
foriy-four in Chitenden county jail It must be
an attractive place.
JoHN McGnEGoR, Of Essex Junction, will accept
Jane. wyle's recent challenge 10 a match game
/ Of checkers for two hundred dollars side By
the urm. of the challenge all draw games will
/ count rs victories for McGregor
ESSEN COUNTY
| DrNSis MAnoNY, OF Island Pond got drunk
and sat down ON the railroad track, the other day
lie was struck by an engine, and injured so that
| he died the next morning.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
/ SERIES Of religious meetings Is being held at
| Franklin, and several conversions are reported
HEuAN WngE1ocK, Of Bakersfield, had his leg
broken in two places, recently by the slipping Of
a log that he was loading
SERGEANT WILL CoNGn shot large blue
heron at Alburgh, recently, which measured seven
and onc-half feet from tip to tip
ASoriER addition to the brealSwa,er at AIaquam
Bay is to be built Immediately The cribs will DO
built at Buffers Island, aud be lowed down
Mr. ASHLEY NEWELL, Of West Enosburgh, re-
Gently slaughtered an eve sheep which yielded
thirty five pounds Of tallow and seventy five
pounds of dressed meat.
HALEY SrrnmNs, a Frenchman of St Adams,
was arrested on Wednesday night Of last week,
orbrcakins into Murphy restaurant The booty
secured few cigars aud some liquor lie
was taken before Justice Gilman and fined five
dollars and costs, aud in default Of payment he
was remauded to jail
j NJ BURT, who suddenly disappeared from
Eno.burgh, two months since, has returned aud
denies the story OF a servant girl leaving with
him and also his being eight thousand dollars in
arrears, and says that the reason Of his leaving
was that man whom he was owing pressed him
for payment, and he concluded to leave and let
his creditors settle his estate
LAMomIE COUNTY.
D. X. ADAMS, chair manufacturer, OF Morris
VILE, has gone into bankruptcy.
P STANTON, Of johnson, has beeu appointed
road master Of the l.amoe VALLEY railroad
oN saturday. the 18th ult, Mr. Foster, the hotel
keeper at Morrsyille presented several shootists
with a hen, to bO shot, at Que hundred rods The
grand total was one hundred and forty-fy shots,
and the hen still lives
BYRON o CHENEY, the married. man who re-
Gently eloped from North Troy with a girl Of four
teen WAS arrested at llydel,ark, ON the 10Th ut
but before the arrival Of the officer from Troy
capias writs were served on him at the instance o
Morristown and Ilyd park merchants When III,
officers arrived from Troy, with warrant charg
ing him with adultery the Hydepark authontie,
refused to surrender him. claiming thattho c,pha
wrts took precedence
ORANGE COUNTY.
THE West Randolph Hroid has been enlarge,
and improved 1t has adopted the quaro form
WIN RoiERs, of To shan, recently lost hons
valued at $50 10y its getting hung by the halte
in the stable
THlmr is a good prospect that the Low lapc
mill at Bradford, will soon be started up by Messrs
Hurlburt and Sanborn
, Ar West Randolph, on the I'D ult, boy Slid
> ing ON hand-sled ran into Luther Goodal,
throwing him down and breaking his shoulder
CHARLIE HOWE, of East Randolph, broke int
: Fowlers grist mill the 18th ut., and stole
watch, tobacco aud money. lie was arreste,
confessed and was put in Jail.
4 ORLEANS COUNTY
Two children named Walker, died Of the sml
pox, at North Troy, on the 10Th nit.
JAMES SHANNON, OF Salem u boy seyentec
o years Old, has been bound up and committed
i jail for taking letters from the post-oill;e, openn
/ and destroying them. lie destroyed one so
a post-oice order.
Q RUTLAND COUNTY.
A son Of Michael Troy Of WollA, some eisl
. years OF age, WIS recently kicked by horse, an
!. seriously injured. The skull was severely fr,
:, tured, and it il very doubtful II he RECEIVERS.
e Anew days ago, the Sutherland falls Mlrb
e Company raised from their quarry block Of ma
a Bile one hundred and eighteen feet long, six fe
IS three inches deep, aud four feet two inches wild
weighing about two hundred and sevvnt,-uii
, tons
wtSDHAM COUNTY
5. Ar Bnttleb)ro last wednesday aftem -.
while switching in the railroad yard A. NJ Fem
Il freight conductor on the southern division
u the Central Vermont railroad, slipped ani {,
u under the ears and was instantly killed. Ast
~ about twenty -four years. lilo WAS unmarried