Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-10
Vermont State News.


TnT Hon. Stewart T.. Woodfor1 M No,,, y,
has accepted the invitation to deliver tho ,dag.'
at Arlington Cemetery May 3Oth, on the occas,o,,
oil the decoration OF the graves Of Union soldiers
900. The house Of John Joyce, of Manchester ,.a.
burned last week Tuesday morning Most Of tho
furniture was saved. Amos Goodwin N stroraa
individual who goes by the name Of "Wild
Amos, has recently returned to woodford ono
Of his strange freaks in his early life was 10 soil
girl whomhe had courted for two years "a bcantv
for forty dollars simply because the other feIios
wanted her "wuss than he did.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Mr. NATHANIEL =. DEAN Of St Johnsbnry NH.
died recently, on his seventy-siNth birthdav hod
been employed by the MessrS. Falrbanls in ,ho,,
scale shops for iorty-three years But one man.
Mr. Francis Bingham has seen a longer term ~,
service. The Fdym0 says that Emily. A dauob.
terof Elias Cheney, Of s. Johnsbury. was esco,,o1
10 Bmttlcborro insane asylum recently. bv IN
Stokes There is something mysterious about ,bo
affair, as Mr.. Cheney and wife were away fro,,
home having left the girl to keep house alone
and the neighbors say she il not 80 cray AZ some
that haven't gone there yet Mr.. g. T.. Burpbar
Of lyndonyille, lately engineer on the passutnp.ic
has become pastor Of The Methodist church n,
Walden, and commenced his labors there las,
sunday. A. B. Norris is rebuilding his bobldp
factory at Norrisyille, recently burned
cHiTTENDEN COUNTY.
I'm city Of Burlington b. moving in the mattero
a grand celebration Of the next Fourth Of Julv
and If burlington undertakes it, Of course it viii
/ be success. As James Wakefield was driving
ont near liinesburgh bridge recently, he heard A
| splash In the water, got out and found musca.
longe with his snout on the sand unable TO get of
/ lie killed it with the bait end Of his whip The
fish was four feet long and weighed twenty
pounds Iumph' rather ashy. Navigation on
Lake Champlain Is opened. o.. It Is said that sin
gle firm in Canada will ship seven million feet Of
lumber through Lake Champlain the coming sum.
mer. OIL. The senior and junior classes Of Burling.
ton University have engaged the hand Of the H.,
regiment OF Now York, Felix Eben, leader. 10
furnish The music for commencement. Tho
Burlington branch Of the brotherhood of proiee-
ton aud Industry is numbered among the thine.
that were. Smith Wright, Of Winiston, has tle
reputation Of having the largest poultry yard in
the united States he has three thousand fonr
hundred geese, six hundred ducks and nearly five
hundred turkeys In bis yard consuming fort,
bushels Of corn daily..... Fish Commissioner IA.
munds started from Ruuand, the other day. with
quantity of and-locked salmon, designed for
waters n she northeast rart Of the state but upon
reaching burlington ne discovered that nearly one.
third OF them had died, and To save ihe remainder
DE deposited them ia the Winoosd river.
rRtSKLN corNrY
fuE latest lnosburgh Falls enterprise b.
new church Of free rcligiunists . Tie Vermont
National and First National Banks Of st. Alban.
and the National MON Bank Of swanton have
just purchased Sargent thermometer locks for
their vaults and the same will De put on imme
diatey The Italian apprehended at st. Adams
for firing Mrs Weeks buildings, is thought 10 be-
a fre-bug OF a dangerous character generally
He answers The description of 70 man who wa.
confined for five months in the lrasburgh Jail for
burning a barn at that place Professor George
Il. Choate, Of swauton, killed one II his fuu-bood
dark Bmhma hens the other day. which weighed
ten and ono-haif pounds when dressed and ready
for cooking Oue night last week. Ned Wat
kius Young man 10 Montgomery returning
home from a prolonged spree TO his father
house and being rcpro,cd ior his conduct took a
pistol aud rushed ont oi the house. Ills folks
followed 20 got il away from him, but before they
could do so he fired Fortunately. however, hi.
aim was poor and the hall only passed through
his arm,
ORLEANS corSrY.
rHor T. HAuuiSeroN Is dubbed Che Ccuten.
niai writing master He is eighty years old and
still handles pen we'll and teaches others sue
eessiuly lie is now teaching in lrasburgh
Lake Memphremagog has been covered with Bee
for more than siN months. D.. Ia tie town OF Cow
entry the other day, road was sho, eled through
snow from four 10 six feet deep distance oil
forty rods and the next morning the road wa,
strcwn with frogs and lizards, there probably be
ing two bushels at least It is a mystery wher,
they came from one theory Is that a nest wher,
they were wintoIing was stirred up some, how
ever, think there was a shower Of frogs the nigh
before, as It nined quite heavily Dr. Taget
a young and talented physician living in Derby
dropped dead In bis chair last week Tuesday
Apopexy is supposed to be the cause... . II
Lowell on the morning Of the ID instant, the sasl
and blind factory Of Edwin Kiunedy, with dwell
ing house attached, was burned. The loss l. tw,
thousand dollars to four thousand dollars, in.ur
anec, two thousand dollars
RrrL,ND COUNTY
InEnE will De O centennial department con
nected with the Rutland county fair. Rutland
Jail has eighteen inmates The climate there must
be- favorable Tor iailbinls . A harm belonging "a
Walter Metcalf Of rairha,en, WAS burned last
week Sunday night Two horses persisted in the
flames, and third was so badly burned that II
will probably die The total loss is about nine
hundred dollars md ihe insurance five hundred
dollar
wiNpuAM COUNTY.
Inme West Halifax men propose to experiment,
10 the raising u poppIe- for the manufacture Of
opium Il Is said that nothing Of a similar char
actcr has No stirred mp the people Of Bmttleboro
a. the present Temperance reform movement.
which has been nightly agitated by the pop
ular reformers, Messrs oscood and Drew, Of Con-
cord \ II. The spacious town hall has been
found too small o. accommodate the masses who
nightly attend the meetings, most Of whom have
signed the pledge ON Tuesday evening OF last
week, engine company No. 4. numbering about q
hundred men, mostly mechanics, marched to the
hall In body, headed by the Fuller drum corps
and signed the pledge swelling the list to nearly
one thousand five hundred Wednesday evening
two similar organizations did likewise A man
about fifty year old, named Thomas Woods, WAS
found dead in his bed at Cambhdgeport last week
Wednesday. lie has been employed a number Of
years in the wooden mill in that place and has re-
Gently exhibited signs Of heart disease which at
last caused his death
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Mn. WILLIAM NJ EyARrs has gone up to his
country place at Windsor, where lie purposes to
spend the next fortnight in diligent work ON his
centennial Grafton. Professor Daniel Dorches-
ter, OF Catholicism u.s. Democracy" fame, will
supply the Springfield Methodist church the com
ing season. The people Of South Reading are
raising money to establish free library. God.
w. Stmtton formerly Of Greenfield, Mass, and
an old California miner who year ago disooy-
cred a silver deposit nj Nottingham, which net
ted eighty dollars to the ton, has bought with