Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-01-05
Vermont state News.


BENNINGTON COUNTY
BARN belonging TO the paper mill Of &. L.
yelling, known as the Hunter 4 Co. mill, and
situated about two miles west Of North Benning-
ton village, was burned last Thursday night
Four horses persisted In the flames The fire is
supposed to be the work Of an inccndary One
reason for this superstition is the fact that the
mill runs all night At twelve O'Clock, when Mr.
G. d Mattson left the mill, everything was all
right, and at two o'clock the fire burst out It Is
hoped that the incendiary.--if there is one-will
be apprehended, and justice have It's course. Mr.
yelling loses team and Mr. Madison and Mr.
William Thomas each, horse Mr. Madison
also loses a buggy sleigh aud harness
cmnrESpEN COUNTY.
Nh. RAirH RonERrs OF shelburne recently
met with a sad and perhaps fatal accident with
some assistants, he had been butchehng and was
drawing the beef To a heavy beam stretched
across the cross-ties Of the barn, when the beam
slipped of and fell, striking Mr. Roberts on the
forehead with great violence. He fell to the floor
insensible and bleeding profusely, aud Tor long
time did not recover his senses
WILLIAM DurAu, young man employed ms
cashier Ia the dry goods establishment Of Mcssrs
Gilmore Durgoyne in Burlington, disappeared
last Wednesday morning, with one hundred and
| eghty-throe dollars Of the firms money. It seems
that MIR. Bnrgoyne being absent, Dupau was lcn
in charge Of the store lie entered on the books
the ono hundred and eighty three dollars as hay-
ing been deposited at the bank and disappeared
as stated. Suspicion being aroused inquiry was
made at the bank aud il was discovered that no
such sum had been deposited sheriff Drew was
at once notified, and it is hoped that Dupau will
be arrested lie was only nineteen years Of age
aud hs fall is a sad one.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
BElKNAr, the St Johnsbury knife blade man.
made ten thousand knife-blades the past year
Mn HESRY COLEMAN, who has contract on
the Portland 4 Ogdensburg railroad in Cam
bridge was shot at twice by n rough, recently.
because he refused 10 employ him last week The
scamp dec,mped, and has not been seen or heard
OF since in that vicinity.
TIM other morning John Miles aud tlorian
Bartlett, Of Lyndon Centre met with seruus nc
cident while .coastng Both were thrown from
the sled but Miles escaped injury, while Bartlett
had an arm broken, awrlst dislocatod rib fmc-
turcd, and was also considerably bruised abont
the face aud head
FRANKLIN COUNTY
Isaac LoNGLEY, Of Montgomery, was fined
three dollars and costs the other day for cruelty
beating his horse.
MISS FLonENcn sn,NNoN, q poor girl, whose
post-offce address is Swanton, WAS the lucky
winner Of sixty dollar silk dres. at krmluston's
sale at st. Adams
oS Christmas night two young ladies named
Brady, OF Bakersfield, came near losing their
lives, from sufIocaton lay gas generated from
kerosene lamp They turned down the lamp, In
] stead NJ al nj ,is 10,
warning to people who ARE in the habit Of turning
down kerosene lamps
LAMoILI.E COUNTY
ON Wednesday afternoon Of last week Harvey
5. Rogers, young man living in Cambridge, went
to his fathers sugar-house and committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head with re-
vover lie WAS found late in the afternoon, lie
having been extinct for some time lie WAS
twenty Year, of age, and it is said that disap-
pontmeut In love was the cause Of the rash act
ORLEANS COUNTY
DR MuoRE, OF North Troy, seventy years old.
had narrow escape from freezing 10 death lie
had been to Mausou,ille to v sit patient, and on
his return, he got his horse down in a snow-drft.
He was so cold that he could not extricate the
horse, aud WAS barely able to crawl N the next
house where he obtained help
onASGE COUNTY
The mills Of the McIndoes Lumber Co.. at Me
lndoes Falls, were burned at four O'Clock on the
morning Of the 3lst ult
RUTLAND COUNTY
T. HAYWARD, of West Rutland has n boy only
thirteen years old who weighs two hundred aud
thirty-eight pounds Young, but . my
Mas. J. fnE died at West Rutland, on Christ
mas day, after giving birth to Il stil-bom child
The womans death is supposed 10 be the result Of .
injuries received from her husband OF her brother.
The matter has been brought Ia light aud will be
Investigated by the authorities
JACK NUKE, of West Rutland went to Castle .
ton, on the 18th inst and while drunk attempted !
to commit rape upon woman. He afterWprd /
escaped into New York, but was arrested aud .
will be turned over to Vermont officers ms soon as
the necessary fornallties have bean gone through
A boLD attempt WAS made to burn Yerders
bakery building, in Rutland, Monday morning
The fire was set in four different places, but was
sNtingushed, with loss of about one thousand
dollars, caused principally hy water The build
ing is occupied by II T.. Yerder y CO., bakers
aud three ianiiiios
MloHAEl lloLAnAN u brakeman on 40 o. a
freight train On the Central Vermont was badly
injured in the railroad yald. ut Rutaud, last Fri
day afternoon. The train was just about starting, /
and he had climbed u the top OF ear, when he !
fell headong between the ears, shrinking hi- |
head tie, aud eating it severely
MANY important discoveries arise from acct /
dent. \ Rutland Young lady recently discoy cred 1
new kind Of bread The port wine bottle stood /
the shelf next the yeast hpttle and she taking /
it for yeast put quite quantity IN her dough I
She then put in the yeast, Hnd the bread when /
baked Il said to have been delicious
wiNDnAM couNrl
Mn RICHARD HALL, aged and respected /
citizen Of Athens while going down stairs for
breakfast few days ago, foil aud WIS taken up
in an unconscious condition, in which he remained
for two days, when he died. lie ws eighty -fonr
years Of age
CHARLES |. Human, manufacturer of leather, l
in Saxtoh's River failed In business on saturday
and on Sunday committed suicide by hanging
He had been constable and AN active business
man. lie was married, aud had one or two chill.
dren He owned part Of the taunery at Center
Rutland, which was burned last winter
WINDSOR COUNTY
The Ludlow prudential committee Of the village
school district have taken from the mills aud
shops all children OF school age aud pat them into
the public schools.
HAmpwicK.lirrelt aud Bnrnhalu previously
announced w. being arrested Saturday, the 18th,
for assauting Miles, the stage driver Ind their
trial the 27th, before Justice Green Bith plead
guilty aud we're fined twenty dollars each aud
costs amnuutuy i'm lrratf ,.t-p D.. yput.--i,