Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25

day. Tell headOng against the steps OF the plat
form and was so injured that he has since died
&C.. Some of the prisoners at Middlebury made n
bold attempt to break Jail on Tuesday Of last
week, but were foiled by the bravery Of John
Whitney, who had been left in charge Of them
aided by two or three Of the better disposed pris
oners. Whitney was struck many times on the
head with clubs in the hands of those who were
trying TO escape, and was considerably injured.
go. Two car loads Of merino sheephave just been
sent from Vergennes to Colorado, and two from
Mddebury to Texas. Focks of choice merinos
have also recently been taken from Addison
county to Wisconsin.
CALEDONIA COUNTY
THE state convention Of Sahbath-schools and
Young Mems Christian Associations will meet in
St. Johnsbury October sth and 9th . In this
county, potatoes, betwixt frost, bugs, rot and
grubs, have Jared hard, but the best kinds are
selling for fifty cents per bushel., John II.
Paddock, of St johnsbury, has found rich sill
yer vein near his copper mine at Lyman, N. H.,
which assays ninety-eight dollars a ton. lie will
commence working the ore at once. ....A Massa-
chusetts man by the name Of Winchester was
arrested at St. Johnsbury on Tuesday of last
week for debt. lie resisted the officer and kicked
him so severely to cause a rupture. The Off
Ger has brought suit against Winchester. u. II
Gaffney, of St. Johnsbury, had his right hand
badly crushed the other day by the falling of a
portion of a chimney on which he was at work.
&C.. Edison Darling and Clarence Munsey were re-
Gently lodged in Jail at St Johnsbury on an old
charge Of burglary. Three men were recently
arrested near Lyndon on charge Of breaking into
the Barnet depot the other night Two Of them
were released. The time of holding the grange
fair at Lyndon Centre has been changed to Wednes-
day, October ID. 81. The Young Ladies Missionary
Society Mt St. Johnsbury raised fifty-three dol
lars for the yellow fever sufferers at late con-
cert and a collection at the North church for the
same purpose amounted to Sl56H.. -. Tom Grit
fin, a St. Johnsbury boy aged eighteen was ar
rested during the late fair for intoxication.
The ceremonies of laying the corner stone of the
new North church in st. Iohnsbury took place
on Monday afternoon, the 10th instant.
cHIrrENDES COUNTY.
THE Burlington lumber firm of Shepard, Morse
& Co, has retired from business and is succeeded
by the Shepard e. Morse Lumber Company
corporation organized under the laws of Massa-
chusetts having n capital of $50, 600. -. The
September term of the Chttenden county court
commenced Tuesday of last week. Bob Inger-
soil is to lecture on Cramps" in Burlington
September 2Sth. go. Burlington has contributed
over 81, 600 to the yellow fever fund
ESSEX COUNTY
j. W. NICHOLS, of Concord, has got fifteen hun
dred and fifty pounds of butter from ten cows so
far this season, three Of them being two-year-od
Jersey heifers. Nichols has hog which now
weighs seven hundred pounds, which is the re-
suit Of sour milk.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
MALIGNANT diphtheria has been epidemic in
portions of ST. Adams, where the drainage and
sewerage are defective, for the past month"; the
cases numbering thirty-five and the deaths seven
go. Customs officers visited the store of George
n. Golf, in Richford, on the 18th, and seized lot
of dress goods etc, to the value OF about one
hundred dollars, supposed to have been struggled
-. The Franklin county court opened at ST. Al
bans, Monday of last week, with only forty-three
cases to be tried. Charles, an eight year-od
son Of Alfred Tatro, of Berkshire Center, met
with what might have been fatal accident
While holding an open jackknfe in his hands the
other day he fell, the full length of the blade
tering the abdomen near the navel. No ser-
Gus results
GRAND ISLE COUNTY
THE Grand Isle Agricultural society will hold
its annual fair, in connection with the State Board
of Agriculture, at Grand Isle, October Sth 9th
and 10th.
ORANGE COUNTY.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Journal from
Thetford makes the remarkable announcement
that Captain Samuel Morey of that town did
construct a boat propelled by steam prior to that
made by Fulton and goes on to give proof of his
assertion. Burglars broke into the South New
bury depot the other night, but obtained very
little plumber, Aunt Chloe Brock, an old lady
of Wells River, over eighty years of age, at
tempted to push open a door recently, when she
slipped her hold and fell backwards upon the
floor and broke her hip bone; she cannot recover
-. Many acres of moving and pasture land in
this county are ruined by grub or muck worm.
On picking the dead grass from spot two feet
square, ninety worms were disclosed.
ORLEANS COUNTY
A CRANE was recently shot near Newport Cen
ter which measured six feet from the tip of wings
ga large part OF mill street in the village of
Troy has fallen by decree of court to Lucius
Robinson, of Newport, and now the residents
are wishing they had looked "a little more closely
to their titles. Lucius Iladlock, of jay, fol
burglary and larceny was indicted by the grand
| jury, and pleading guilty was sentenced to one
| year in the state prison. The North Troy cor
net band was the recipient of a sixty dollar casl
| present from Hon. J. W. Currier and wife re
| Gently We know OF other bands who would en-
| JOY the same sort of performance, The potatC
crop in Orleans county is generally one of thu
most important products they have, but thi
year it is turning out light and poor. The Pat
| iddium wickedly remarks that Jay has her full
share of the honors this year, having membe
| of the Senate, one in the House, and one in the
state prison. =. NJ. f. Hatch, editor OF the Nortl
Troy Palladium, has been indicted for libel, hav
ing published articles rejecting on Judge Red
| field of the Supreme Court, and Emmons Ray
mond, president of the Passumpsic railway. IL
furnished bail in the amount of six hundred dol
lars. =. The Orleans County Medical Society holt
their semi-annual meeting at the Memphrema
cog House In Newport to-day. The Passumr
sic railroad gave its employees free excursion
10 Newport and ride on the lake the other day.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
| HIRAM CHANDLER, an old and esteemed citze
Of Poultney, was thrown from load of lumbe
last Thursday afternoon receiving injuries frOr
which he died in "a short time, lie was seventy
nine and had belonged to the Methodist EpiscC
pal church forty-three years The funeral {
the late Mrs. Joel NJ. Haven, of Rutland wa
largely attended at that place Wednesday, Rev
j. q. Johnson officiating and Ex-Governor Pag
taking charge of the arrangements. Rutland
recent experience in the county court will prol
ably lead 1t to pay more attention to its sew
emge, Barney Vim has just won a suit f.
damage done his premises by the bursting Of til
main garbage sewer in his garden in 1873, gettin
five hundred and nnety-one dollars damage
His mother also has brought suit for broke
leg caused by this imperfect sewer, and PatriC
Lynch lost three children last winter from typho
fever caused by the same means while a Mr.
Kelley has Il claim for fever bred by anOth
village sewer. 80, The Rutland County Assoc
= ton of Congregational Ministers has come OF
strongly against all forms of divorce except thu
5 sanctioned by the Bible.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
DR. JoHN PARKER WARREN, who died at Bra
tleboro the other day, practced medicine
| Windham county for nearly sixty years, lie Il
a manuscript history Of Wardsboro, which
shortly to be published OF his nine sons, fl
served in the war-a part ON the rebel side Al
the rest in the Union army, The Jamaica A
y ricultural Society holds its fair to-day, aud
u | Horace Hubbard delivers the address