Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02
Vermont state News.



MIR j. b. CoNKEy Of Orwell tapped thirty
maple trees the other day, boiled down the twenty
pailfus Of sap obtained, and gave sugar part,
in the evening. =. forefathers Day was cele-
brated at Mddebury on the Dist ult by the his
torical society. Mrs. Stockwe had her ankle
badly crushed at Chipmans Point recently, by
getting it caught in II coil Of rope Amputatoi
was necessary.
| CALEDONIA COUNTY
Ir Is reported that the Merchants Nationa
Bank, Of ST. lohnsbury will declare Il three pc
cent dividend this month John Beede, foi
merly of lrasburgh, was found dead at the side o
| the road in Danvile, the other day It is SUI
| posed that he froze to death. -. The example u
| the court in locking the doors Of the court roon
and excluding all except those who had RICH
there, when an improper and indecent cam
| mp for trial, was very sensible one, and ough
| to he pretty generally followed, ,Marcellu.
Colby was found guilty Of adultery at the late
| term Of court and will 90 to prison Tire
| men Of Lyndon-Ionos, Dougherty and Devaney
were recently fined about twenty-seven dollar
| each for getting into drunken rowa,,.At re
cent donation party in West Barnet Rev JOIN
| Bole received one hundred and twenty-seven dol
| lars in cash. with other valuable gifts llenr
4. Keyser got five years in prison from the count,
court for stealing horse .. The Preewill Bap.
| tist society Of St Iohnsbury have extended cal
to G. S. Frost, Of the Theological school, Lew
iston, Me.
cHrrESDEN COUNTY.
| THE Merchants National Bank, Of Burlington
| have declared n semi-annua dividend Of three
and three-fourths per cent. on the capital stock
| payable to stockholders aud after January
1873. A man named Joy had his pocket picked
OF fifteen dollars while looking Mt the recent fire
| in Burlington .. Sixty-three persons stand pro
pounded for admission 10 the two Congregational
| churches in Burlington, Mt the coming commu
MON. OF these thirty-fve will be added to til,
Winoosd avenue, and twenty-eight to the Col
| ege street church
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
PETER WHALEN, Of St. Adams was called to
the door of his boalin. -.lodse tae o.her evening
and stabbed by Andy O'Dly, who was ntox-
Gated The wounds are not dangerous. O'Day
was arrested and held for examination. The in
| iured party is said to be peaceful young man
49,. Mary Jemery, OF st. Adams, for keeping dis
reputable house, has been bound over in the sun
of three hundred dollars. II. Barber, o.
| Swanton, was thrown from wagon Wednesday
of last week. and striking ON his head was Sc
verey il not fatally injured 1t is feared hi,
skull fractured by the fall. Joseph lie
long recently fined ten dollars and costs al
st. Adams for obtaining liquor of the town agent
under false pretences. At recent justice triaI
in st. Adams r W. McGettrick and Sheriff Hal
bert had slight misunderstanding, the for
mer using some hard words Peace was finally
restored, and the aggressor apoogized to the
magistrate for disregardng his authority.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Mrs. GREEN, Of Newbury, recently fell upon
the icy walk and broke her hip badly. Dimicb
Cutting of Fairlee shot himself with revolver
the 18th ut., at the house Of his brother Gardner
the ball entering his stomach Little hopes oi
| his recovery.
| RUTLAND COUNTY.
l.. b. CLoGsToN, of Fairhaven, the inventor OF
the Clogston patent gang for saving stone, is ais,
the inventor of lathe for turning marble and
other stone, which for novelty strength and util.
ity far SURPRISES anything which has yet been de-
vised for that purpose. Mr.. L. r. Green is tn,
champion partridge shooter Of Rutland, havinl
killed one hundred and thirty-seven birds thi'
fall, sixty-three of them in sixty-iye shots tho
largest number bagged in one day being nine.
WINDSOR COUNTY
A rHREE-yKAR-oID daughter of H. j White
of Cavendish had leg broken recently by tn,
tipping of a sled about which she was at play.
Two young men ~ of Ludlow, were recently
fined fifteen dollars each and costs, for insulting
young ladies while passing through a bridge
Henry Medcalf, Of Bridgewater aged ten years
was instantly killed the other day by being strucl
| on the head with log. ... The ReDUb'icdH %