Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-03
RNAL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1877,
Vermont state News.


-FOUR children OF J. T. Preston, Of Ferrisburgl,
have died in one week, of dphthera--a sad wish
tation indeed
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
SOMEBODY has figured it up, and says the ex-
penses attending the recent Bennington centennial
celebration amount to little over thirteen thou
sand dollars, The state appropriated two thou
sand dollars, and the balance was raised mainly
by subscription among the people OF the state
George Hosley, formerly of Arlington, Vt, turns
up at Ross, West coast, New Zealand, after being
missing for twenty-one years, and writes home Of
his adventures. lie had started to return TO his
country eight years ago. after accommodating
small fortune in the gold digging, but reports Of
an III Dorado, sixty miles off, drew him away
and the steamer had sailed when he had only dis
covered the rumOr worthless. Starting shortly
afterward with two companions for supposed gold
fields several hundred miles away on the west
coast, their boat was wrecked In terrible gale,
and he alone reached the shore by swimming
badly bruised and bereft of all his provisions,
clothing aud three hundred pounds in gold. In
six weeks two hundred miles from civilization
and living on birds, berries and such, ship sailed
ten miles from the coast, but not noticing the
smoke Of his fire, left him in despair for three
weeks, when small schooner took him off to
IIokitka, the nearest settlement He has been
on the gold field up to the date of his letter,
July %, 1871
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
JoIIN GREEN and John Chesley, of Sheffield,
were arrested recently for careessly running over
and seriously injuring lady at Lyndon Center,
while driving from camp-meeting ...P p. Nor
gan has been arrested ut his mothers In Barnet
and taken to Boston for stealing gold watch and
chain there
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The other evening an elderly gentleman, aged
about seventy years, reached St Adams from
l}rattleboro, and sat down in the waiting room
nearly exhausted. lie was taken 10 the hotel and
assigned a ROOM in which he was found the next
morning dead. On Monday Of last week Charles
Bordo had his feet badly crushed in the railroad
shops at st. Adams In the county court Joseph
Corliss has recovered eight hundred and fifty-fve
dollars and seventy-fve cents, and his cost from
Governor Smith, for injury sustained by his horse
becoming frightened by the defendants saw
age dog
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
TYPHOID fever is reported as raging at Isle La
Note.
ORANGE COUNTY.
A son of W. Durant of Wells River, had his
leg broken by being run over recently Lizzie
Cummings, daughter Of Rev. Henry Cummings,
of STAFFORD, has sailed for South Africa in COM
pany with seven other young ladies, all of whom
are to be empoyedas teachers in n school modelled
after the Mt. IIolyoke Female Seminary.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Miss HADLooK, the young lady who recently
assaulted the editor of the North Troy Palladium,
has been indicted by the grand jury. Hiram
Gray, of South Barton, had his skull fractured
the other day bya stub which fell upon him while
loading logs lie will probably recover. ga
man named Fred Fields, from Barton, Vt, was
put in a lobby at Litteton. n, H., on the night OF
the Goth ult drunk. On visiting him the next
morning. he was found dead, his death resulting,
probably, from a long drunken debauch.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
THE eighth annual meeting of the Vermont
Pharmaceutical Association will hold two days
session in Rutland, commencing October 9th
According to the Rutland Herdid many of the
Montreal excursionsts tried to smuggle goods
over the line on the return. Several women of
wealth and position from a town near Rutland
were caught and had to pay heavy duties, and
one had sixty dollar silk dress coniscated. =.
The drouth has lessened Rutlands water supply
so seriously that town meeting has been called
to consider remedy. Uptown customers are
sometimes unable to draw water, and the fire
men would be helpless in case of fire. The Yer
mont Baptist State Convention holds its fifty
second anniversary at Fairhaven, Wednesday
and Thursday, October ID and 4th Mrs. James
Mcguire, of Rutland, was shot Monday night OF
last week. by an unknown person. The bullet
entered her arm just back Of and above the wrist
passing upward and around and was embedded
in the lower and feshy portion OF the forearm.
Her husband was afterward arrested, but the
crime could not he fixed on him, and he was dis
charged. H. &. Eddy, of Spirit Vale, Chtten-
den, and Stephen q, Baird, who lives in that
vicinity, were brought up recently for assault
with intent to kill on Hiram J. Huntoon, and hi
wife, Mary c. Huntoon.. 1t is stated that the
Smith Gilman elopement case at Rutland was dis
| continued at the instance of the girls father not
because he gave up the fight but because the
girl has come TO her senses, and saws she will
| never have anything to do with her husband
again. The parents are now planning how 10
nave the marriage annulled.
wINDHAM COUNTY
MICHAEL BRowN, a train shfter, was killed at
| Bellows Falls the other morning, while coupling
| cilrs He was about twenty-five years old, and
| leaves no family. j. b. SimondS. of Brattle-
Ooro, was recently injured by being thrown from
| his carriage
WINDSOR COUNTY.
FRED l.. ALLEN, young graduate Of Andover.
son of Dr. 5. j. Allen, of White River junction
was GU Wednesday of last week ordained AS pas
| tor of the First Congregational church at Wal
| pole, n H. Pascha S Merrill, OF South Read
| lng was killed, while chopping alone in the
| woods, the other afternoon, his head being
crushed. Last week Thursday afternoon, just
below Bethel, the express train north closely fol
| lowed by a long excursion train, in rounding q
curve. ran into freight train, which was waiting
| 10 switch upon the siding. The engineer saw it
IN time to nearly stop but the locomotive was
| slightly injured and the passengers Il little shaken
80. Charles f., sou OF Geo K. Chapman, of Wood
stock, had his leg broken in two places by tue
rolling of log from which he had stepped, a
| West Lebanon, few Gays ago He is a student
| in Dartmouth College. Frenchman stole two
| coats, vest and one hundred and fifty dollars
| from the house Of Moses Paine, Of Pomiret where
| he was ut work, last week, while his employer
was away. Tie escaped. In the little village OF
| North Hartland there were more than sixteen
cases OF typhoid fever during September =.
daughter of Chauncy Perry, Of South Pomfret
was run over while crossing the Woodstock trot-
| ting course, September 26th and internal in.