Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-23
Vermont State News.

rents Of nineteen children celebrated their golden
wedding recently
4 MUSICAL association has been organized in
Addison county conducted by teachers, choris-
tiers and home talent, to have president FIVE
vice-presideuis and n secretary.
THR forty-fourth annual convention Of the Delta
Epsilon Fraternity was held with the Middlebury
Chapter last week About thirty delegates from
other colleges were present, representing Hamil-
ton, Union, Syracuse, Marietta, Rutgers, Am
herst, Brown, Madison, Rochester, Michigan
University and other colleges. Charles II. Sears,
Esq, of Utica delivered the address, Rossiter
Johnson Of New York, the poem, and the Ger
mania band, of Boston, furnished the music.
After the literary exercises there grand
banquet at the Addison House.
BENNINGTON COUNTY
| PATRICK WHALoS, Of Bennington, an employe
Of the Bennington aud Rutland railroad suddenly
disappeared after receiving his pay the other day,
taking with him about ninety dollars belonging
to friend, besides leaving some store bills uu-
paid Nothing has since been heard from him
lie leaves wife and two children in destitute
circumstances.
cALEpoNiA COUNTY
DAVID HINpEs, Of West wheelocN has been
jailed for liquor--elling.
BISHOP BissELL recently confirmed eight per-
sons at st. Johnsbury and three at Waterford.
JonNT COLE, a blind pon-oner in Walden, had
his right leg broken in two places below the knee
recently, while in the woods.
WEST BARNEr was visited by little tornado
the other day. barns were unrooied, trees and
fences Frustrated, and other damage done
LANGpoS WEIGH has been bound mp in the sum
Of 81 900 for burglary at the Lyndonville depot
and Lyndon liquor agency Alanson Fletcher
was also hound up in $500 for the same oiTense.
Both men were biilcd
OLIVER srArLDiNG aged fifteen years, of East
St Johnsbury, the other day accidentally re-
ceived terrible cut ON the head from an axe in
the hands Of his brother 1t feared at first
that the injury would prove fatal
CHnTrNpEN COUNTY.
Ir is expected that work the Fletcher hos
} pittl in Burlington will beconpleted this fall.
BURLINGTON s to have u reading.room estab-
lished by the trustees Of the Fletcher Library. 1t
will be located in the Library building.
Henry vAuQUErrE fell from steam tug at
one Of the Burlington docks on Monday and was
drowned. lie was subject to fits, and it is sup
posed he was taken with one and thus fell
overheard
THREE tramps who had been lodging in a barn
, just outside of Burlington city limits ar
ragned the other day under provision in the riot
act forhidding the assembage Of two or more men
: for unlawful purposes, and were convicted and
sentenced to ninety days in the state workhouse.
FRANKLIN COUNTY
, SATURDAY was the fourteenth anniversary Of
I the St Adams raid
REV. f. NJ. PICKLES, evangelist from New
Hampshire, is Mrs lIammond'- successor in the
revival meeting. at Georgia The work is pro-
crossing finely
= THE st. Adams Adceriiscr comes TO usas adaHy
-, now, as well as a semi-weekly. The daily is not
, of very extensive proportions, though it aims To
: be newsy. We doubt the expediency of having
two dailies in st. Albans-we thought the exper-
, iment had been tried and did not prove altogether
= profitable
LAMoILLE COUNTY
AT Stowe recently Henry Warren's boy, twelve
{ years old, fell from fence on his open pocket
n knife, which entered his body near the heart 1t
i was narrow escape
GEORGE Pollock who was acquitted on the
:, charge of embezzement at St Adams, the
other day, was lately released by order of the
assistant judges the charge Of attempting TO
- break jail but was Immediately re-arrested for
:. larceny and will remain in jail some months
: longer.
, ORANGE COUNTY.
: A MAN in Chelsea accuses the crows Of destroy
III ing thirty Bushels of potatoes for him by digging
- them up.
WHILE r. H. Wight Of Randolph was out hunt
i, ing recently at Cornish, y. IL his gun accident
. ally discharged the contents lodging in the leg
:, below The knee, making the ampntation of the
leg necessary. The shock to his System was So
severe that he died soon after the operation.
,r RECENTLY q child Of Charles Slack, of Chelsea,
r got bean into its throat far tnatit i'm pos
sible to remove it without a surgical operation.
a An incsion one inch and half long was made in
the neck and the windppe opened SO that the
; bean was taken ont with Il pair OF lorcels. The
a. child was one year and half old.
f. ORLEANS COUNTY.
E NORTH Troy had Il two hours snow storm on
$ the 10Th
2 THE town of Albany can boast OF over thirty
= cattle brokers who will handle the present season
j, about twenty-five hundred of cattle.
: GEORGE MINER, of Newport, aged thrty-sx
u years, was apprehended the 18th for feloniou.ly
y asslulting his niece Ayira Rogers aged sixteen
CHARLES RYDER, sentenced in the Orlean,
~ County Court for grand larceny, and committed
to prison September, 18Th, 1878, escaped from his
- keeper, John Hull at Windsor the other day,
: while outside the prison wall assisting in stable
= work
Mis- KATE HEATH, ninety -four years of age
walked the entire distance from her home in
Potion, six miles, to North Troy, and returned
=, the same day, day last week She is ths
- daughter of the notorious Colonel Ruiter, who
=, commanded the Indians and English at the burn
4. ing and sacling of Royaton
RUTLAND COUNTY
s. The marble auction sale at Rutland realized
ir $4,000, The amount realized last year was about
D. 10000
IF Four houses have recently been destroyed
IL by fire in Castleton three OF them farm dwellings
re all well insured
IL LARGE flow of cash into the town treasury
l. the result of the recent rum fines in Rutland
IL The rumsellers saw the necessity Of toeing the
II mark nj once.
A sEvENry-Two year-old citizen OF Dandy, who
went with the excursion from Rutland to New
> York, appeared in the jefferson market police
!. court the 10th in u demoraaed condition. and
- informed the Judge that he had seen the ele-
-, plant aud the pesIy critter cost me 81 40
III A NEGRO tramp claiming to be a Providence
is lR blacksmith, stopped horse which woman
M WAS driving lonely rlad at Rutland recently,
n aud ordered her U get oat, but she whipped up
"a over the villain, aud driving to the village
,e sent the officers after him and he arrested
10 Ar Casteton, Monday, John A, Leggett fell
a. with staging on a barn, distance of some
Of twenty feet, and struck his side and back on the
lie edge Of plank, brusing his back and shoulders
H. injurng his spine aud iracturins a couple Of ribs
II lie taken up in an unconscious state, but has
lr since revived and 1t is thought will recover
lie THE Rutland county court adjourned on We'd
r nesday, the last part of the session being mainly
rs taken up with divorce cases, nineteen petition.
r being granted only one OF two OF which were con
- tested The most Important was that of Mrs
a Schohed against L. Schofed proprietor OF tn,
Otter Creek House at Pittsiord The case occupied
Is a day aud hall and showed abuse of the most fla
nj grant kind, such as knocking Mrs Sehoheld down
&c stairs and burning her lace with lighted cigar
Is The county averages thirty divorces year Of
Is population of about forty thousand. The need o
n "A new divorce law Would seem Ia be pressing