Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-16
Vermont state News.


ADDISON COUNTY
MARovY PHINSEY, of Middlebury was d row.
from his wagon while attending f.. oiil re
Gently, and had his leg broken near III, .iigl.
BENNINGTON COUNTY
WESLEY c. SNOW, a native of Sa =, $50. has
been appointed postmaster at Pala.,a II rida
see. George w. Robinson, Esq, o. .'ina ngtor
Center, asinvented flexible ART hts rnud, "
or covering for collins, which Is intended Ia pro
tect the coffin and its contents from water or in.
sects after burial, to retard decomposition and t.
prevent the escape Of offensive or contagious
gases while bodies remain in the house or re.
ceiving vault, or are conveyed from one section
of the country to another. The factories in Ar
ngton are running night and day as the result
of the exhibition made at the Centennial Exhibi.
ton. One of them is exporting chairs to Spain.
... bennington village has eleven " solid men, -
whose aggregate avoirdupos is 2,i5O or 800 oil
pounds each Charles Clapp, of Bennington,
fireman on the New York express, fell from the
engine as he was oiling it, last week Tuesday,
near Dorset, while 1t was under full Roadway.
Though the spot where he fell was rocky, he mi
raculously escaped with only dislocated ankle
CALEDONIA COUNTY
NATHAN DICKINSON, of Morrisville, night watch
man in Peabodys MILL recently fell through a
scuttle hole and broke his leg . The friends of
j. W. Berry, a workman in the Fairbanks shops
In St Johnsbury, recently did commendable
act when they presented him with purse of
nearly one hundred and fifty dollars, to which
the company added something more Mr. Berry
has recently lose his wife after a long sickness
&c. e. d. Hopkins, of st. Johnsbury, has been
released on bail
cHrTTENDEN COUNTY
SAMUEL TYLER, of Essex Junction, was re-
Gently fined twenty dollars and costs, with thirty
lays in the county Jail, for the illegal selling OF
liquor. letter was received by Burlington
lady day or two since, which had been year
IND two months in the mails The mailbag con.
aiming 1t was lost in the Salinas river California.
March list, 1876 and was not recovered till Apr
9th, 1877. Fortunately the address was still leg.
bic. and the contents Of the letter proved deciph
erable, though the writing, both on the sheet and
nveope, was very faint E. Nick Gordon. Of
huntington. was thrown from buggy recently
nd severely injured about the head . An iroi
,rid:e Is to be built over the Lamoile at Milton
It cost Of about two thousand five hundred dol
1rS. Of the appropriations for harbors ant
ivcIs, amounting to one million one hundred and
wentl -four thousand one hundred dollars. thu
burlington harbor gets fourteen thousand dollars
Swanton harbor two thousand dollars. W
Bruce has cen appointed postmaster at Bolton
vice Dennis Shaw.
ESSEX COUNTY
NATHANIEL BELL, the Oldest man in CRANKY
lied on the 10th instant lie was ninety year,
I'D, and had lived in the town since 1904 900.
Atha Lock- an old man in Bridgewater, was taken
insane on the 9TH instant
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
PATENT has been granted to A. j Gnstin
Superintendent Of the St Adams Iron and Steel
Works, for an apparatus for carrying railroad
rails, and another for carrierrolls for railroad
rails Two men of Swanton, father and son
were recently brought before Justice, charged
with being drunk and disturbing the peace The
father was fined five dollars and costs for being
drunk, and the son was fined ten dollars for fur
nishing the liquor to the old man, together with
the costs of both fines
ORANGE COUNTY.
The Orange County Court docket, June term.
has showing of two hundred and sixty-three
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twenty odd cases over last term
ORLEANS COUNTY.
COVENTRY is not good place for tramps The
other evening tramp strolled into house where
only one woman was present, and ordered her to
get him some supper quck-but she picked up a
stick of wood and told him to march lively, which
advice he followed. The owner of the next house
he entered rolled up his sleeves and vert for him
in way that caused retreat From house No
he was driven by the owner, and at the fourth
house he was pitched out of doors heels over head
Threatening to burn the buildings, he was
promptly seized and committed to Jail Since
last fall, twenty-five thousand bushels of potatoes
have been shipped from North Troy. and seven
teen thousand five hundred dollars left in place of
them. Lead mines have been discovered on the
farm of Wallace Scott of Newport, which, it is
thought, will prove very valuable.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
GENERAL W. w. CIRCUIT delivers the Memorial
Day address at Rutland 300 A four days sale of
marble by the Rutland Marble Company has just
closed, during which some six hundred carloads
we're disposed of to buyers from other states
George Bashaw, Il seven-yearsold Brandon boy,
while playing on the hay-mow recently, wa,
pushed over by a companion, and struck on the
tine of a fork, which penetrated through the back
to the lung. He will recover,
wINDHAM COUNTY.
Henry MERRILL, boy twelve years old. sold
thirty-two dollars and fifty cents worth of Ma,
lowers, at the South Vernon depot, in three
weeks Colonel S. l.. Marsh, of Simonsvill,
soldier of the war of 1872 now In his eight eighth
year, was seriously injured, while driving a spir-
ted horse on Saturday, the 9Th instant The
horse ran with him, throwing him out of the
wagon, breaking his collar bone and some of hi,
ribs, besides iniurng him internally NC II
harris, who carries the daily mail from London
Terry to South Chester, has only lost six trips in
twenty-three wears. Levi 1root, of Jamaica
has been fined twenty five dollars and costs 70,
'ruelty To anmal.. Bellows Fails is talking o
holding great musical festival this summer
Newfane gave cold shoulder to the Brat,leboro
4 Whitehall railroad project, on Monday of las,
week by voting six majority against bonding
The friends of the road will try it again.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
ELDER GEORGE +. LEWIS, pastor of the Re-
formed Methodist church at West Springfield
has an oil painting of General Stark, painted from
life, which, though old and much worn, is still an
excellent likeness and will probably be exhibited
at Bennington's centennial. They tell of a lamb
recently born in West Windsor with one head
three ears, eight legs and two tails ... A sad ac-
cident occurred at Windsor Tuesday of last
week. Nettie, "A little daughter of Harvey Reed,
was returning from school, and stopped to explore
the cellar of a house burned the day before, when
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