Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05
Vermont State News.



receipts for the year, four hundred and seventy
two dollars and eighty cents total expenditures,
three hundred and seventy two dollars and twenty
four cents balance in favor Of the treasurer, one
hundred dollars and ffty-six cents. Holden Raw
son, Of whiting raised the past season fifty
bushels of wheat on one acre Of land and -four
hundred and eighty bushels Of oats on eight acres
Of ground. 80 Mr.. A. lIambln Of Bridport, has
caught sixty-two skunks this fall. An odor-
GUS pursuit.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
THE daily gospel meetings Mt Bennington have
been continued by the local ministers since the
departure Of Needham and Cato, and there Is talk
u continuing them through the winter on account
If the large attendance and deep interest 49,.
Because Postmaster Bradley and his bondsmen
failed TO honor the departments eighteen-dollar
sight draft, the Glastonbury post-office has been
discontinued and the mountaineers find their
mail Mt the Bennington office eight miles away.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
JAMES RANSOM, a carpenter ut work in Lyndon,
fell from the first floor to the cellar of the house
on which he was at work the other day, and
broke two ribs. Typhoid fever Ia raging In SUIT
tom two persons have died, and others are lying
at the point OF death Henry T.. Brown has
been lodged in the St Johnsbury Jail for stealing
horse from Rev c. f. Miller, Of Beebe Plain,
and harness from William Miller, Of Craftsbury.
THE cornerstone Of st. Andrews Episcopal
church, at St Johnsburv, was laid last Friday
Bishop Bssell performed the ceremony, assisted
by several Of the clergy
cHrrTESDEN COUNTY.
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injured the other day BY being struck by door
which was suddenly and violently closed by a
kick from a colt. ga Williston man is feeding
for Christmas four thousand geese, two thousand
seven hundred turkeys and one thousand ducks.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
W. A. DowNISG was thrown from his wagon
on Fairfield hill, by the breaking Of an axle, re-
Gently, and sustained quite severe injuries.
Customs officer Walker seized the team of Fran
els Randall of Enosburgh Falls, the other day
for smuggling whiskey and sold it, the horse
bringing thirty-six dollars and the wagon and
harness fifteen dollars Cheap team Joseph
Primo, of Richford, sent his team across the line
to get it away from an officer who was after it for
debt, and it was seized by the Canadian customs
authorities ... A post-office has been established
at South Franklin, with Jonathan g. Emory as
postmaster. 81. The Swanton Courier is making it
unpleasant for one S. A. Adams, of that village,
claiming that he is the proprietor OF vast amount
of obscene literature, which he has been flooding
the country with.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
Hon. IRA HILL, of Isle La Motto, who is in his
eghty-fifth year, has raised during the past sea-
son over two thousand bushels of apples which
netted him one thousand five hundred dollars.
f. A. Holcomb of the same place, raised one
thousand FIVE hundred bushels which netted him
eight hundred dollars.
LAMoILLE COUNTY
DPHTHERiA Is quite prevalent in johnson and
Morrisville
ORLEANS COUNTY.
WILLIE SHIrrEE, Of Coventry, was arrested re-
Gently for assault and battery, and lodged in jail
He has passed two or three years at the Reform
School. "A young daughter Of r. d. Scott, Of
Newport recently fell on the kitchen floor and
broke her arm....A. c. Wheeler, of Newport
Center was knocked by skid the other day, and
severely injured. Conway Darling and his
wife were arrested at Hanover, N. H., last Friday
evening for robbng the store of George II. Ken.
iston in North Craftsbury, November 18th. Good.
found in their possession were identified. Oar
ling escaped from the officers William Hay.
ward, of Westmore attempted suicide the other
day, by hanging, but was discovered befor,
life was extinct and resusctated after severa
hours effort.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
YEARS ago the father of Colonel Ingersol
preached the buest Calvinisin at Pttsford. =. f
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lars and costs for refusing to assist an officer
In Rutland the other day, Frank Proctor wa.
fined FIVE dollars and costs, for intoxication, ant
Napoleon Precor three dollars and costs for breach
of the peace. little contrvance known as
chronometrc governor time-damper has beer
invented and patented by Rev. E. H. Randall OF
Poultney II is constructed upon the principle o
an alarm clock, and enclosed in small metalli,
box, which is attached to a perpendicular roc
placed in close proximity to either stove or fur
mace. The instrument after being wound up 4
connected with the stove-damper, which it can b.
set to open at any hour desired. Three Of tn
Oldest citizens OF Castleton. the total Of who's
ages is two hundred and forty-sx years, wen
butternutting recently and got back safely, bu
another, seventy years old, who climbed an apple
tree TO gather some fruit. fell to the ground
breaking rib, backing an eye, spraining wrist
bruising his hip and straining his shoulder
.... Francis Fuller, of pittsfeld, was arrested las
week Monday, for being too much married, wifi
number one from the state of New York appear
ing against him. She has several children, AM
! 50 has wife number two in Pittsfeld 49,. The mys
terous disappearance of Henry ii Crossman, o
Clarendon. has been explained His body wa
discovered on Thursday afternoon, Novembe
10Th, in the woods There were no signs OF vic
lence. About two rods distant from the bod
the searching party found the dead mans ha
and three-gaon can nearly half full of rum
He leaves wife and seven children.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
THE Batteboro Ph~nir complains OF too muc
tramp in that vicinity. Five or six per night
getting to be the regular dose down that way.
John Lynch, an employe in one of the Below
Falls pulp-nis; was recently fined fifteen dollar
aud costs for knocking down L. W Lowell with
cudgel, because he wouldn't leave the mill whe
Lynch ordered him to. -. John Lord, aged sixt
years, of Rockingham, has been held for trial fC
an attempted outrage upon girl eight years ole
WINDSOR COUNTY
n. j. GRAIN and Thomas II, Noonen were
have walking match ut Springfield, ON Monda
night of this week. for the three-mile champion
ship Of Vermont. =. On the 18th ult. fourtee
persons united with the Methodist church in A
cutneyville . Rev. Mr. Crosby of Woodstocl
didn't like the Governors Thanksgiving proci
nation, and wouldn't read 1t from his pulpi
lie thought the Governor ought not assume To al
point services for the churches Rather particl
lar, should say. Thomas Lynch, of Ba
naId has commenced suit against Wessen NeS
comb for defamation of character, and for fall
imprisonment, setting the damages at five tho
sand dollars Immediately alter the burning
Mr. Newcomb's barns Mr.. Lynch WAS arrested
suspicion Of having set fire To the same, and co
fined in Woodstock Jail three weeks, when
was released