Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-21
Vermont State News.


| ADDiSON tOlkTls
The slaughter Of dogs has commenced In Fer
risburgh--so says an exchange--and from ter
cents to one dollar is paid for their hides Rob
ert W tliemenway, prominent citizen Of Bird
port, died on the 9Th instant For many years h,
was successful civil engineer being engaged In
the construction Of several important lines at III,
West, but has Of late turned his attention TO agr
| culture.
BENNINGTON COUNTY
An unsuccessful attempt was made, the Other
day, to rob the post-ofllce and depot ut Pownal
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
ACCORDING to an obituary" published In a
recent Star, L. Is. Partridge, of Danville, has fed
the state, after proving himself to he first-cass
fraud by forging etc.
oHrrrENDEN COUNTY.
The colored people Of Burlington are arranging
fora Good Tempars' lodge ofther own. worthy
enterprise and we hope it may prove successful.
''''Ihere is line Of stages running between
Burlington and Port Kent e.. The town liquor
agents of Chittenden county disposed Of ten thou
sand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars and
thrty-seven cents worth Of "spirtous medicine e"
last year, which would give twenty-eight cents
and fraction to each person in the county.
what tale OF affection that announcement doth
unfold! Mrs. A. {. WEIGH, of Williston was
found dead in her bed last week Tuesday morn
ing. She retired in her usual health Cause,
heart disease. The fishermen on Saginaw Bay,
Lake Champlain have erected a good-sized town
OF shanties Tar out on the ice. The dwellings are
Of thin wood, lined with thick building paper, and
are placed on runners, so as 10 be movable from
place to place. The slab city also boasts a hotel
The shanties dot the surface Of the bay in all d.
rections, and about thousand persons inhabit
them
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
lT is probable that the owners of the lots in the
swanton burnt district will unite in putting IN
fire-proof brick block . The citizens OF West
Enosburgh have raised nearly two thousand dol
lars by subscription to aid c. f. Ovitt & Son in
rebuilding their mill, recently burned as. M.
Hubert, of Swanton, was thrown from load of
nay on the 18th instant, and received severe in
ternal injuries
LAMofLLE COUNTY
oN Monday of last week, about noon the house
Of S. & S. L. Hemenway, situated in the north
part OF Waterville, near Belvidere village, was
burned to the ground. No insurance Simeon
Hunt of Johnson, recently divorced from his wife
""s sueu oainuel Stanton, rOadmaster on the
Portland & Ogdensburg road, for being instru-
mental in breaking up his family, and claims
three thousand dollars damages
ORANGE COUNTY.
5. X. BERRY of Bradford, fell while driving
team last week Tuesday, and badly fractured
his leg
ORLEANS COUNTY
ANOTHER sort of swindler has been operating
IN Orleans county lately and this time his best
hold is on spool-silk He warrants the spools to
contain one hundred yards, but they contain only
thirty-seven yards Something is generally wrong
when the best ~ goods are offered at astonish-
ingly low prices. Alfred Cotton, Of Irasburgh,
who was put into Jail while ago on the charge
of shooting one jameson, has been released, as
jameson is in California, and no one appeared
against the prisoner. George Wilson, lately ar
rested in Sheldon for horse stealing has been SEN
fenced by the court at lrasburgh to three years in
the state prison. Bulls and Rollins, the youth
full gentlemen who forged paper on the Newport
Bank a few months since, have been disposed Of
Rollins goes to Windsor for three years. and Bull
lis goes back to his bail and is in obscurity.
RUTLAND COUNTY