Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-20
Vermont State News.
Addison CnnnfY.

rHE body OF Napoleon wimmette, who was re-
Gently drowned while crossing the lake near Yer
gennes, has been recovered.
ADDISON wrtLEr, an old farmer Of Granville,
recently had thirty-eiglt sheep killed outright
and four bitten beyond recovery by vagrant dogs
Bennington County.
BENSNGToSs debt is two hundred and forty
five thousand dollars on a grand list of two mill
lion dollars
SOME Of Bennngton's saloon keepers have
shown the sort of stuff they are made of by in
ducing a few Of the reformed boys to drink with
them. 1t is expected that the guilty ones will be
punished ms they deserve.
THE other day Manchester man brought up n
pan Of potatoes and set them by the stove, and
was somewhat surprised, II short time afterward
to see sixteen fu-grown potato bugs walk out Of
one Of them which had been followed out and
made snug home for them.
Caledonia County.
ONE hundred and ninety inhabitants Of Lyndon
Center-more than one-ffth of the whole--are
| over sixty years Of age.
THE young Yates boy, who has been thieving
in the vicinity Of st. Johnsbnry, has been con-
signed to quarters in the Reform School
THE sugar-house of George Peabody at Me-
Indoes Falls was visited by some rascals the other
day, who burned up eat and carried away one
hundred pounds Of sugar
The ar-brake air-cylinder on passumpsc en-
CINE exploded at Lyndonville, Thursday Of last
week, and tile force was such that ii lifted the
tender bodily from the track causing delay to
the train Of some five hours.
JONAS Folsom and Fred Wiley, Of WheelocS,
both convicted Of selling liquor and unable to pay
their fines were pardoned by Governor Fairbanks
the 18th instant. Folsom had lain in jail nine
months and Wiley seven months.
Chittenden County.
The county elected a temperance man COM
missioner by majority Of two hundred and
| sixty-one.
A FFTEEN-YEAR-oLD daughter of j. d. Isham,
of Williston, recently eloped with a Frenchman,
but was pursued and reclaimed by the indig-
nant father.
SEVERAL thousand dollars of Burlington city
bonds were sold at auction in Boston, Saturday,
at 1919 to 1919
EDWARD FIELDS, Of Charlotte, met with a sad
accident, last Sabbath evening, while on his way
tn church lie was on horseback, and his horse,
| stepping upon bad place in the road, stumbled,
pitching Mr.. Fields forward on to the ground
lie struck on his shoulder, causing fracture of
| the shoulder blade.
Franklin County.
ST. ALBASs tramp by the name Of j. W
| Wilson has been assigned to the Brattleboro In
sane Asylum account of Irregularities he
has exhibited.
THE recent great snow storm in the West de-
| stroyed four thousand sheep belonging to b. F.
| Rugg of st. Misunderstanding loss of twenty
| thousand dollars.
THE report that Josie Atwe is dead, as the
sixth victim of the Richford malady is not true
she is getting well The others who are sick from
the effects of the poisoned well are doing nicely
and nearly all of them rapidly recovering, except
one, Mr. Herbert Goff, who lies in dangerous
condition, and has small chance of a recovery.
| Lamoille County.
THE " mill1-man of Stowe has made his tactical
| pilgrimage two thousand five hundred and sixty
| three mornings in succession, with only five ex-
ceptions while attending county court as Juror,
and has travelled a distance equalling half the
circumference of the globe
| AMOS VINCENT negro of Cambridge, was
| frozen to death in the woods near WILLIAMSBURG
| Mass the other day lie had committed burg
larry in the village, had left his shoes behind him.
| and being afraid to take the cars in his barefoot
| condition, had started for Pownal by way of the
mountains and, being Obliged to spend the night
there, was frozen to death.
| Orleans County.
NORTH Troy carries on five thousand dollar
poor farm.
A son of George Brewster, of Irasburg, had his
arm broken in three places the other day by its
being caught in some machinery.
Lowell is excited over the elopement of Frank Per-
kins and Sarah Fletcher, the latter having escaped
from her guardian from her chamber window
NORTH Troy business man recently pur-
chased two thousand dollaisin silver at discount
of eight per cent and has been paying it ont the
past two weeks in his business
A MAN in Orleans county fed his one hundred
and fifty hens on unslacked lime with disastrous
results speedy separation arising between their
gallinaceous souls and their bodies.
Four Glover school-boys, who attacked and ex-
PEELED their teacher the other day when he was
furnishing one Of their number were taken before
a justice and their fines and costs for assault
and disturbance amounted to about sixty dol
lars apiece,
Rutland County.
WEST RUTLANDis soon to have masonic lodge
The latest temperance campaign at Poutney
gathered in five hundred topers
VERMoNT's agricultural monthly, j. f. White
publisher, has removed TO Brandon
RUTLAND and Vershre this year elected Irish
Roman Catholics for superintendent Of schools.
joins Cook, recently assaulted in Rutland, i.
in serious condition, and the examination of Ken
nedy and Pecor, the roughs who attacked him, Is
waiting for his recovery.
| A HORSE and wagon was stolen Thursday night
the 18th, from the livery stable of Thomls A
Richardson, of Brandon Scott, a convict, VIII,
escaped at Whitehall the night previous is sus
pected of the theft
Windham County.
BRATrLEBoRo is to build three or four new
blocks this season.
TowNsHEND has voted to transfer its appropria
ton TO the new narrow gauge road.
COUNTY court is in session, with one hundred
and eghty-iive law and nineteen chancery cases.
REV. J. B. BALDWIN, for five years the actinl
pastor Of the church in West Townshend, ha
closed his labors there
NEwFANE votes twenty five thousand dollars Il
the Brattleboro Il Londonderry narrow-guag,
railroad providing the road goes through Fay
etteville.
O. C. Fits, a merchant and lumber dealer o
West Wardsboro has failed Liabilities ffteel
thousand dollars assets not as yet known, bu
very small.
WILLIAM JOHNSON, of Jamaica, has been he'll
in four hundred dollars for outraging Mis-
e Wilder Of Wardsboro, the young woman he wa
courting while out riding with her recently.
a JAMES WEIGH, the aged lIibernian who wa
= found nearly frozen to death mt Guford, In JAM
AIRY, has lost both hands and part of both feet