Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14
Vermont State News.


ihE VI lilt htlOfm school now 0uInDtT
one hundred and twenty-five boys and twelve
girls. The patent clothes-line swindler made
victims of two honest farmers residing near East
Middlebury, the other day. When will people
learn to look out for these sharpers ?. On the
9th instant Minott Grant, of Lincoln, drove into
cradle hole " with a load Of logs and the horses
broke from the sled and ran, one Of them injur-
ing itself so badly as to make 1t necessary to kill
IL. chance for the town to "settle up ...
Since December list over fifty children in Leicester
have been afflicted with diphtheria and scarlet
fever and six Of them have died. ..M Mr. Daniel
Wright, who died in New Haven some years ago,
left with his children this wonderful request. That
they should all meet together so far as consist
emit on each anniversary of his birthday, so long
as there remained two to meet to enjoy good
social visit, to relate to each other pleasing anec-
dotes of their parents, of their own children, of
scenes Of olden times and to confirm their friend
ship with each other.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Mrs. f. A. FRoUDE CARTER, a Dorset lady, gave
a reading in Boston the other evening" and was
highly complimened by the press of that city. m
Two brothers, named Barron, got into an alterca-
ton in Bennington, on the 9TH instant, resulting
in blows, during which one Of them SHE'D stove
gridde at the head of the other which missed him
and hit small child belonging to the same family,
splitting its head open. The child is living, but
will probably die. 1t is not the fact that Will
liam NJ. Evarts has been invited to deliver the ad-
dress at the Bennington Centennial, or that DIR.
Holmes has been asked to furnish the poem.
John Fowler, of North Bennington, hung himself
the other day. He was insane.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
A PATENT has been issued to Colonel Franklin
Fairbanks, of st. Johnsbury, for improved scale
beam for hay scales, and other large weighing
machines. The improvement consists in device
by which the weight is obtained wholly by poises,
and without the use of weights at all 80. Young
Stowe who was arrested at St Johnsbury, re-
Gently, for stealing a pocket-book, has been sent
to the Reform School till the next term of court
Luke Buzzell, for twenty years prominent
citizen of st. Johnsbury left for Canada two weeks
ago, and has not been heard from since His pa
pers have gone to protest, and his creditors are
trying to secure themselves. Buzzell is an &C.
centric man, and his friends are confident he will
return. Just so-there good deal of that same
kind of sc centricity " manifested nowadays
Mr.. Charles X. Hoag, a respectable farmer of
Waterford, has mysteriousy disappeared No
cause for his leaving is known.
CHrTTENDEN COUNTY
GEORGE BARNARD, son of Mrs. L. f. Barnard,
of Burlington, instantly killed by falling
down stairs a few days ago. The Free Press
mentions that the casualties from coasting, in
Winoosld, for one day, were one boy with leg
ha11v brpxnn urith MI oh
long on leg, another with head split open, and
fourth with mouth increased an inch or two in
width, with two wards yet to hear from.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
THE gospel workers met with good success at
their recent meetings in Berkshire and Franklin.
The house and barns of Davis H. Mansfield,
of Montgomery were consumed by fire ON the
18th inst, together with about fifty tons of hay
Mr.. Mansfield kept no stock on the farm, and the
house was unoccupied. -. Governor Fairbanks
has just pardoned Hiram Farrand of Berkshire
who has been in Franklin county Jail since last
June for intoxcation.. Gospel workers have
been at work in St. Adams, and good results have
followed their efforts.
ORANGE COUNTY.
THE bleachery connected with the Bradford
paper mill was crushed by snow the other night
The loss is about five hundred dollars John
Wright's dwelling-house in Bradford was burned
the other night Loss from two to three thou
sand dollars; no insurance.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
THE February term OF the Orleans County Court
has opened The docket numbers two hundred
and thirty-three cases. There are two murder
trials set for this term. Rev. Mr. Acott of
the Barton Landing Congregational church, has
gone pilgrimage to the Holy Land Diph-
iberia prevails in Greensboro, caused-the ply
scians say-by impure water. George Blake,
of Derby Line, was arrested in Sheldon recently,
for horse stealing, and is now in Irasburgh Jail,
Rev. C. b. Thomas, OF Amherst, Mass ac-
cepts call to Gloversvile. "A boy was recently
fined at Newport Center for disturbing prayer
meeting.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
RUTLAND is excited as to her mining prospects
One man there thinks he has found coal another
knows where there is iron, and third has a gold
mine on Bald Mountain, which he visits on the
crust, so that no one may follow his tracks
Specimens sent to Boston and Colorado to be as.
sayed are reported to have been rich. -. The
death warrant of John p Phair was signed by the
Supreme Court, ut Rutland, on Tuesday of last
week Patrick Rourke's house. in West Rut
land was burned the other night Insured fol
eight hundred dollars. Asa Knapp, shoe
maker of Wallingford, aged sixty-seven years
committed suicide, last week Tuesday, by taking
opium He leaves a wife and four children.
W H. Lawton, licentiate, has been engaged t.
supply the Baptist pulpit in Mount Holly the com