Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-28
Vermont State News.


" ". MAHsHi OF fihncOck, mas forty merlnO
sheep which averaged little over twelve and
one-half pounds per head OF washed wool. A
Weybrdge man recently shot seventeen musk
rats in one hour and fifteen minutes. Milo L.
Day has been appointed postmaster at East Mid
dlebury.
BENNINGTON COUNTY
AT an adjourned meeting OF the Bennington
Battle Monument Association three members were
added to vermont's centennial commission. The
board Of directors have called meeting Of the
centennial commission at bennington, Wednes-
day, April 4th, at ten o'clock, A. NJ. The question
before the assembly will be how much money
can be raised for the celebration purposes. The
programme afterwards will be made according to
financial aid extended Albert Waite, a we'll
to-do farmer Of Dorset, committed suicide on
Thursday Of last week lie is reported to have
been Respondent about his financial condition,
though he was worth twenty thousand dollars.
CALEDONIA COUNTY
In Sutton, with population of nine hundred
and twenty persons, there are one hundred and
eight persons over sixty years Of age, fity-four
over seventy, thirteen over eighty, one ninety
three, and one nnety-four years Of age....A
spruce tree recently cut in Groton had fifteen
hundred feet Of lumber in it.
cHlTTENDEN COUNTY.
DANIEL RowLEY while crossing the ice last
week Thursday, on his way home from Burling-
ton, broke through with his team, and had some
difficulty in rescuing them. =. The estimated cost
Of the new water works at Burlington is fifty
thousand dollars. The total expenses Of the pres
ent system are seventeen thousand eight hundred
and niuety-four dollars per year. and the receipts
about nineteen thousand dollars. An egg has
been on exhibition in Burlington which is claimed
to be the largest in Vermont 1t weighs six and
one-fourth ounces, and measures eight inches
round, and is four and one-half inches long. 1t
was laid by New York hen.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
THE little daughter Of Ira A. Smith, Of East
Berkshire, while sliding down hill, some time ago,
met by some boys carrying board, which
struck her in the face and seriously injured her
About twenty small pieces Of bone have already
been taken from the wound which refuses to
heal. ... Tatro, the IIighgate murderer will be
tried at the coming April term OF the Franklin
county court. He il still confined in St Adams
Jail. The town OF Sheldon voted to have no
liquor agent. ga calf born in Richford, last
week, has six legs, all of which it uses in walk
ing, and is thrifty and healthy.
ORANGE COUNTY
LODGE Of Good Templars, numbering twenty
five members, has been formed at Ely 1t is
called the Smith Ely Lodge being named for the
venerable president Of the copper company.
ORLEANS COUNTY
Two North Troy custom house officers lately
seized fifteen tons of hay, three horses, a large
quantity Of grain, three sleighs, three lumber
wagons, an cart and lot Of other property,
for non-payment of duties. Two young men
have gone from North Troy to the Black Hills, to
seek fortune -. Barton is to have an iron
foundry. The Palladium claims that North
Troy had an earthquake shock ON the Goth inst
....H. b. Hanson, landlord OF the Derby Line
hotel, being financially embarrassed has called
meeting Of his creditors Lyman Hopkins,
thirty-eight years old committed suicide at the
house of o. B. Ramsey, in Barton, where him
self, wife and child were temporarily stopping by
cutting his throat with common pocket-knife.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
The Baptist Society OF Rutland have secured
the original Georgia Cabin Singers for series of
concerts. The town of Rutland has paid G
A. Meitzke three hundred dollars for damages
sustained from defect in the highway.
wISpuAM COUNTY
Mrs AsAHEL BOYD, of Wilmington, was re-
Gently injured by being thrown over a bank some
fifty feet high. james Fisk, of Brattleboro, is
now patentng peculiar match box, about the
size of pint pail. The matches are put into a
box in cards, and securely covered from rats and
other causes of friction. By touching spring,
they are thrown out of the box one by one into
a side receptacle
WINDSOR COUNTY
THE famous Burrows stand tavern at Yer
non, formerly valued at thirty thousand dollars,
was sold at auction on Saturday, to Tyler John
sou, of Guilford, for ten thousand four hundred
dollars. Albert Brown, cashier Of the First Ma
tional Bank at Springfield is a defaulter to the
amount of thirty thousand dollars, having it is
said used in Wall street speculatons securities
which had been left with him for safe keeping.
besides being guilty of other Irregularities. The
directors think the bank will lose but little, if
anything
BRApFoRD-Our reform club is hourishing,