Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-30
state News.

TuE ST. AlnANs BRIGADE BAND hold n fai
this week
THERE were eghty-two marriages in Burling
ton last year.
TwENry-THREE prisoners are now confined II
Burlington Jail
WNDES has two school-marms in school
house with eight pupils.
THE Baptist church at vergennes received nine
new members, the Goth.
SIX persons united with the West Rupert Bap-
tst church on a recent Sunday.
CALEDONIA county took in over two thousand
dollars, last year, in liquor fines.
EBEN PAUL, Of Groton, aged seventy-fve years,
had paralytc shock the other day.
A NEW Reform Club hall has been opened with
appropriate exercises, in st Adams.
THE total loss by fire in Burlington last year
was only about five thousand dollars.
FREIGHT traffic over the Central Vermont, to
and from the West is reported heavy
PETER MEDoR, Of Swanton, was recently fined
twenty dollars and costs for liquor-seling
NEARLY five thousand dollars were spent at the
Burlington city agency last year for liquor.
THE Congregational church in Glover was to
install Rev c. B. Thomas on the oath instant.
FRANK GILMAN. at White River Junction the
other day, was fined twenty dollars for assault
ANDREW PADDOCK. AN insane person of Pow
nal, was sent to Hartford, Conn, few weeks since
q. EDWARD MORGAN has been appointed post
master at Bellows Falls, in place Of Col. X. Hyde
REV n W ScorT and wife, of Glover, cele-
brated their golden wedding yesterday, the Goth.
LorTIE SMITH, aged twelve years, of West Con-
cord, recently severely injured while coasting.
Coon sixteen-inch wood is selling in Chelsea at
four dollars per cord; four-foot wood at three
dollars
AN erring citizen Of Londonderry paid twelve
dollars for borrowing paper of tobacco from
store.
THE man winmette, who was thrown from
urecipice in Middebury last week. il likely to
recover
THE oldest inmate of Burlington poor-house has
been there eighteen years, and is ninety-three
years old.
A DAUGHTER of George Daniels, of Woodbury.,
died recently, from taking corrosive sublimate
by mistake
A MURPHY temperance club has been formed
in East Arlington, with quite II goodly number
of members.
A MAN named Tracy was arrested in st. Al
bans the other night for stealing wood from the
railroad yard.
f. II STONE has been re-nominated for county
commissioner by the Caledonia county temper
ance convention.
ERAsTus CHAMBERLAIN, of Forestdae. had his
right hand badly lacerated by a circular saw the
other afternoon
FRANK DUDLEY, ESQ, Of Burlington, was
thrown from his team Saturday, and severely in
jured about the head
GRAND ISLE oyster supper for the benefit of
Rev W. C. Oliver, is said to have netted one hun
dred and sixty dollars
CHESTER is to have public contestby the schol-
ars of the different schools in town, in reading,
spelling and declarations.
PATRICK FOSTER, of Rutland, while unloading
iron rails fell from the car, fracturing two ribs,
and getting severe cut on the temple.
RILEY, a wrestler of considerable notoriety, had
ashoulder broken at Hydepark, the 3D. while
wrestling with J. J. Robbins, of Wolcott
formerly of Wilmington, has been settled over
the Universalist church at West Concord.
THE Orange county fair is to be held at Brad.
ford on September oath 25th and 26th and purses
are open to the competition of the world.
In one day, recently, the Rutland savings bank
received nineteen thousand dollars in deposits
the largest ever known before in the same time
Vruvor,'e oan,ann;nI day Tor ,ooun. o,,
March 18th, the one hundredth anniversary of
the meeting ofthe first state legislature at Windsor
F. D. BARTON, of Waltham, Addison county
has purchased about fifty head of Jerseys of all
ages, intending to breed them for sale and
dairy purposes.
FRENCH gentleman living ut Casteton is the
father of seven children, all of whom are married
grandfather to fifty-six Others and great-grand-
father to two more
HORSE belonging to Bliss Haskell of St
Johnsbury, was driven from that place to Barton
village, distance of thirty miles, in one hour
and ffty-five Minutes
DowN in Addison county good cows are selling
at from twenty to twenty-six dollars and farmers
who cut large surface of meadow last season are
stocking up for the winter,
An exchange says that Pixley Woodland and his
wife who live near Benson, have been fined re-
Gently for cruelty in whipping and abusing
young lad who lives with them,
THE Cdledonidn understands that Father Bots
sonnault, the priest of St. Johnsbury, has made
preparations to erect building on the site of the
old Catholic cemetery, for college,
LUTHER KrTTREDGE, of st. Johnsbury, was re-
tI,c 81.
his horse taking fright, and severely injured
about the head, being pic ;ed up insensible.
AN exchange says Vermont girl has Just been
discovered eleven years old, with changeable
eyes, In pleasant weather they are bright blue
and in wet and windy weather they change to red
AT Derby Line the other day, young man
named Palister of Compton, p, O., was instantly
killed by being caught in engine in q steam
saw-mill His head and one arm were severed
from his body.
THE marriage of four sisters in Pawet on the
same day is alluded to by the Worcester Press Oh
purpose to bring in the remark that "their Paw
let them do it, That is what we call pressing
hard for pun.
WOODSTOCK has village debt of only four hun
dred and fifty dollars, and the tax voted at town
meeting TO pay the running expenses Of the cur
rent year and the Indebtedness was only ten mill
the grand list.
Ar Rutland, the other day Miss BERTHE lie
Franc was successful in her second walking feat
Her attempt was To walk ffty-two miles in twelve
hours, and she did it, with fourteen minutes am
ffty-one seconds To spare.
CHARLES II KNAPP, OF St Johnsbury, has beer
arrested for bigamy, Knapp's story is that h.
has lonnd out that his second wife was a married
women when he married her, some three year
ago, and of course this released him.
Mrs. ALLEN HOWARD, aged seven,y-three years
OF Londonderry has woven over three hundred
yards OF carpetng aud one hundred yards o
flannel the past year on an old-iashioned loom
besides doing her regular homework
RUTLAND is just bethinking herself that Waite
Cotton, native Of that village, was the first per
son to make known the presence Of gold in Cali
fornia aud that he also started the first news
paper there besides building the first school-house
Mrs JoHs LIBERTY, of Vergennes, has been s.,
severely poisoned by the use Of coloring matter
in dyeing clothing that she l. not expected to re
cover. Her physician finds that the yitrol an,
other poisonous ingredients have been absorbed
into her system
JEREMIAH LEACH Jr, about twenty years old