Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-06
Vermont site News.


Middebury ON "Wednesday, November goth
JoHS BELL, postmaster Mt ferrisbnrgh for over
seventeen years, has resigned in favor OF Mrs. D.
T.. Coulter, to whom he has sold his business
Al vergennes, the otter day, q two-horse team
ran down a steep hill, striking buggy In which
were Rev. Mr.. Dayfoot snd daughter Both were
thrown out The daughter was seriously and
Mr. Dayfoot quite badly injured. The horse was
killed and the buggy demolished.
Ar Salisbury, recently, while Clinton Eastwood,
n young man Of rare PROMISE and having just
graduate at commercial college in New York.
was hunting, he had the unfortunate luck u lose,
or nearly his entire right hand by the bursting OF
his gun, 1t being overloaded. lie IL in very
critical condition at present
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
AN intelligent tramp appeared in Bennington
last week who could begin ten different languages.
THE new Methodist church at Sandgate was
dedicated the other day The church Ia comfort
able and convenient, capable Of seating from two
hundred and fifty to three hundred persons, well.
furnished, substantial, and cost some $500
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
| joins j. REMINGTON a mechanic at ST. Johns
bury, cut his throat on The night Of the goth ut,
and cannot recover.
MRs WILLIAM STOWE, Of St. Johnsbury was
recently arrested for keeping disorderly house,
but the evidence against her was not very strong
and she was discharged
W q. BARTLETT Of Dinve has been acquitted
on the charge Of shooting Samuel Burneau Of
Walden through the hand. Both parties were
under the influence Of liquor at the time Of the
ARRAY.
LuclUs GILMORE, aged sixty-three years, Of ST.
Johnsbury formerly superintendent of the Pas
sumpsc railroad and brother of the late ex-Goy-
ernor Joseph Gilmore of New Hampshire died
suddenly at Warren, ~ H., the 10Th ult
IL consequence of a defective car truck, seven
loaded cars and saloon car on the Portland 4
Ogdensbufg road thrown from the Pumpkin
Hin trestle St ,Iohnsbury last Friday after
noon. No one injured. The damage to the
trcstle will be repaired Immediately, without in
terruption to travel
CHlTTESDES COUNTY.
THE receipts OF lumber at Burlington in Dc
tober were 10 900 900 feet the largest amount for
the month for three years.
Mis- HAMMOND, the Methodist revivalist, is
holding meetings in Burlington They are largely
attended and much religious interest is becoming
manifest.
THOMAS KELLY arraigned n Burlington
the 18th instant for knocking down a man and
robbing him of his watch and bouad up in
the Of five hundred dollars failing to pro-
cure which he was committed u Jail.
AT st, Mary's Cathedral, in Burlington, We'd
nesday, was celebrated, with imposing ceremonies,
the twenty-ffth anniversary of the conservation
OF the Right Rev. Louis DeGoesbriand as Bishop
of the Roman Catholic diocese of Burlington.
THE Womans Board Of Missions was in session
on Wednesday in Burlington; about four hum
bred ladies were present The proceedings of the
forenoon consisted of the reading of reports and
remarks by Mrs Barnes, Of Boston, and Mrs
Snow, of Burlington
FRANKLIN COUNTY
NINE prisoners in Franklin county Jail will be
taken to the workhouse soon az it is ready.
A WOMAN named Blanchard has been arrested
for completely in the robbery of Gains store at
st Adams.
{ GEORGE GREGORY SMITH, sou of Governor
!. Smith, end his wife leave for Europe Saturday
e from Boston, to be absent two years
Two counterfeit fifty-dollar bills on the Trades
mems National Bank Of New York city, were
passed in St Adams the other day by a stranger
u The stock of boot, and shoes alleged to have
2 been stolen from the store of Piche Parraut Of
= st. Adams the other night, have been recovered
= 1t St Armand, Quebec by the Canadian customs
e officers who seized the goods for differentiation.
l. The so-cied burglary is alleged to have 6een
u was suspected, trick to defr,ud the firms cred
4 tors Parrant is ut st Armand and officers are
In pursuit Of Piche.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
one HUNDRED students reported AT the normal
y school in johnson.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
NEARLY one thousand head OF cattle were
p shipped from Barton station on a recent morning
BARTON boasts of having furnished twenty
4 soldiers for the Revolutionary war and sixteen
e for that OF 1872
, RUTLAND COUNTY.
II T. S. HUNTER, of Hubbaldton, was assaulted in
=, his barn the other evening aud seriously hurt.
IL RUTLAND has fifteen pensioners Of the war Of
y 1912, larger number than any other town in
n the state
= The Central Vermont railroad company will
y loon build new brick passenger depot at Bran
ion, and convert the old passenger building into
a freight depot.
DANIEL DRRvIN Mendon farmer on the 3lst
= nlt., fell from barn loft, landing in the shed
underneath, striking his head sharp stone,
. cutting it severely and severing OF the after
les, which came resulting in his bleeding
death.
:, THE removal of the Howe scale works from
Brandon to Rutland has given new impetus to
=, he growth Of the latter place, where the COM
il, amy have within year erected nine large
=, buildings for their business The new works oc-
IN ;upy about ten acres Of ground just south of the
a village, and they are conveniently situated be-
M tween the tracks OF two railroads. At present
yer three hundred men are employed, and this
a. torce will probably he increased to five hundred
4, before long,
wisDHAM COUNTY.
THE house OF II. c, Lane of Westminster was
recently burglarized to small extent.
=, WEST BRArrLEBoRo has womans village i'm
m provement society, which has recently Illuminated
:. the streets with lamps
), THE Morrisons having failed to put in an APP
N 'earance, the directors OF the Brattleboro and
d Whitehall railroad have awarded the contract to
il Is. d. Harris, as the next lowest bidder for the
Il, construction of the narrow-gauge road to London
II derry, 1t is expected that the contract will be
OF signed on Saturday, when preliminary arrange
ments for building the line will be made and car
red forward as far as practicable this season. 1t
is understood that the gauge will be made three
II feet, instead OF two and without material extra
It charge on the part of the contractor. All oppo-
u .ition and threats of injunction seem to have
~ ceased, and the prospects are quite promising.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
DANIEL BOSWELL, young farmer of Plymouth,
. committed suicide by hanging on the 29th ult.
n. THE stage driver from Woodstock to Rutland
To reports snow two inches deep on the mountain.