Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-09-12
Vermont State News.


port the other day...N. f. Rider, druggist of
Middlebury, is announced as having failed
Chester Pratt, OF Bridport, has been fined one hun
dred dollars for selling cider
BENNINGTON COUNTY
ONE Christopher McGert has been arrested at
tioosick Falls, N Y. and Jailed Mt Bennington
for passing counterfeit money. Major Valen-
tine shuts down his knitting mill at bennington
after working up manufactured stock, but the
depression does not seem to affect the Fisher
Brothers, who have begun the foundation for
another brick mill, two hundred and forty by one
hundred and twenty feet, in which eight sets Of
English cards, equal to about twenty American,
will be operated and their production Of cassi-
meres doubled
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
DAN LEIGHTON, of Danville was caught in a
bear trap the other day while gathering fruit
He was liberated by a companion, but his leg was
considerably lacerated.
cHIrrENDEN COUNTY.
IT Is stated that another boat will be put on at
once to take the place Of the burned steamer
Montreal, running between Maquam Bay and
Plattsburgh. two-horse team was overturned
into ravine in Burlington, the other night
The occupants of the team, a man and two women,
were fortunate enough to escape unhurt, but one
of the horse> was badly injured and the wagon
was total wreck ...A novel feature Of the
Chittenden county fair was potato race. Seven
straight lines of one hundred yards having been
marked on the track, potatoes were placed along
each at distance OF one yard. The competitors
ran from the standing-point one hundred yards,
picked up the first potato, ran back and put it
into the pail thence back to the second potato,
returned with it in like manner, and so on; the
distance Travelled figuring out some three miles.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
REV, NJ. D. l.. JOHNSON, of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, North Fairfax, has been appointed
general agent of the British and Foreign Bible
Society for the United States Katie Lee, of
Fletcher, had a narrow escape the other day by
installing corrosive sublimate for camphor, and
swallowing portion of it, Thomas Cunning
ham, young man about twenty-five years of
age, belonging in st. Adams was run over by a
freight train on Saturday morning, and was ter
rby mangled He died in short time. Mr.,
James Myers, late business manager of the st
Adams Adrertiser has gone to Kentucky for the
benefit Of his health.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
THE Citizen represents the Ne,cs as struggling
for existence. Stowe has Just enjoyed a
large musical convention E. Alexander Pulling
ton, an old gentleman of Cambridge, had his leg
broken last week-the third time he has met with
such an accident
ORANGE COUNTY
AFRAID BANKS of Corinth, was recently run over
and seriously injured by yoke of oxen attached
to a cart The breaking of the pole OF the stage
between Fast Randolph and Royaton the other
day, caused the frightened passengers to leap
from the coach. Rev. d. J. Griffin, of Jewett
City, Conn., was very seriously injured. He was
taken up nearly nsensible and carried to a house
near by, where he remains in dangerous condi-
| ton. No other persons were injured.
ORLEANS COUNTY
L. C. HUNTER, of Jay was precipitated from
bridge into the stream the other day, by his horse
taking fright. He received two broken bones
Alva Millers jewelry shop in Craftsbury was
entered the other night aud several watches taken
-. james Anderson, of Barton, recently fell from
the high beam of a barn and struck his head on
part of a threshing machine, badly injuring the
| skull. He was in critical state at last accounts
RUTLAND COUNTY
| THE Ketchum nail works ut Fairhaven have
been sold to c. p Harris & Co., who will CONSOLE
date them with the Rutland nail works Five
| persons escaped from the Rutland county jail
Monday night, by saving off the iron bars of one
of the windows. reward Of one hundred dol
lars for the apprehension Of the whole gang or
twenty dollars for any of them, is offered e..
Edward S Piper, who swindled the banks in Rut-
land out of fifteen or twenty thousand dollars by
| forged paper about ten years ago, aud was sem
fenced to eight years in the state prison. died
! Gently at Joliet, ILL.,, under assumed name.
wISDHAM COUNTY.
| Mrs. JAMES RANDALL, of Centreville, was
thrown from wagon recently and suffered Sc
we're injuries. Upward of two hundred and
forty cases are on the Windham county court
docket for the September term One of the most
notable cases will be that of William Airing, of
Mortified, Mass, an accused accomplice in the
noted Deming murder on Bald Mountain some
four years ago. The members of the bar predict
long term and over twenty jury trials. Judge
Dunton, of Rutland, will preside in place of Judge
Barrett, according to mutual agreement between
the two to change circuits 1t cost five thou
sand dollars to take the Windham county veter-
ans to Bennington, saying nothing of the expense
of the two organized militia companies. . The
Vermont Baptist Academy at Saxton's River be-
gan its fall term last Thursday with seventy-fve
students,
WINDSOR COUNTY.
SOMEBODY in Reading, so they say" the other
day killed striped snake, about large as a
mans wrist in the thickest part, in which were
found eighty-two young ones, none of them less
than six inches long. Victor Huxley was
drowned at Hartford week ago Sunday while
bathing, Professor Grimley, who made bal
loon ascension Wednesday from White River
junction. descended in Chelsea, about ten miles
from Bethel. The balloon alighted in tree, en-
tirely demolishing it, Grimley was unframed.
-. on the morning of the 9TH instant the Cen
trial Vermont depot at Royalton was entered by
thieves through the office window. The money
drawers of the United States and Canada Ex-
press Company and the railroad company were
broken open, No valuabes were taken The
mail bag for New York and Boston, deposited in
the depot that morning, was found by Postmaster
Smith on the track south of the depot cut open
and rihed of the New York and Boston letters
There is no clue to the perpetrators.
HoRRlBLE.-The search in the ruins of Hale )
piano factory, in New York, resulted, Monday even
ing, in the finding of two barrels full Of charred
flesh, supposed to represent three bodies, age and
sex unknown Three more persons are reported
, missing.
LAsELL SEMINARY. wide awake schoo
offers for the coming year its usual fine opportu
mites for the general culture of its pupils. 1t
course Of free lecturers includes the names of Geo
+. Pentecost j. l.. Stoddard, Ursula Cushman
Bishop Foster, K. X. Meridith, DIR. Mary Blake
: James T. Fields, and Others equally noted and in
!, teresting, The addition to the building has beel
= postponed till next summer, The overflow o
students will however, be accommodated.
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