Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20
Vermont State News.

ADDISON COUNTY.
AN East Middlebury family has lost five Of It's
members by death, within the last fifteen months.
SEVERAL horses in vergennes livery stable
have been poisoned-presumably by some evil
disposed person.
AN unknown woman jumped from canal boat
that was lying at the docks in Bridport last Thurs
day. She was saved from her suicidal attempt by
a bystander. Family troubles caused the act.
THE Saranac Horse Nail Company, which has
been in operation in vergennes for the last two
years, has removed to Pattsburgh N. Y. Forty
five Of the employees go over, and the loss Of these
mechanics and the weekly payroll OF the three
hundred dollars makes 1t serious thing for Yer
gennes-and a corresponding gain to Plattsburgh.
BENNINGTON COUNTY
SIXTEEN tramps we're lodged at the town hotel
in Pownal Center on a recent night.
THERE are twenty five court cases and twenty
five chancery cases upon the docket Of the Deem
Der term Of the Bennington county court
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
TnE famous Roy oxen Of Barnet weighing
fifty-two hundred pounds, and which have taken
numerous premiums at fairs, have been sent to
the Boston market
CHIrrENDEN COUNTY.
THE friends Of G. D. Sherman leader Of the
Sherman band, presented him with an elegant sill
yer cornet deliberately trimmed with gold
Dts,iSG Thursday and Friday twenty boats
came into Burlington laden with something like
two and half millions feet Of lumber-a SUI
ficiently reassuring indication Of the improvement
Of the lumber trade there.
ESSEX COUNTY.
JosHUA SLsBY, Of Lunenburgh, is in bank
ruptcy with claims footing up $3.50.
FRANKLIN COUNTY
THE creditors Of the st. Adams Iron and Steel
Works having made attachment on the property,
the works are shut down for the present
ST.. LUKE's CHURCH (Episcopal) of St. Adams,
have called Rev. Thomas Burgess OF North
Adams, Mass, to the rectorship. lie will begin
his labors there December LIST.
ON last Wednesday afternoon Henry Pelkie,
carpenter at st. Adams, fell from a scaifold and
fractured his hip bone very badly-so much so
indeed that it is doubtful II he fully RECEIVERS
from the injury His family are in destitute cir
cumstances.
MAN named Munroe Ingalls, who started on
the evening of the 1ith to cross the river at East
Richford, was drowned and no trace Of his body
was found until Sunday, when large number of
persons after ten hours search succeeded in find
ing it. ingalls, was forty years old, and leaves a
wife and two children
YOUNG fellow has been swindling folks in
Franklin and Orleans counties by collecting funds
for circulating libraries, each of which he said
contained fifty-two choice books valued at fifty
cents apiece. The only books his subscribers
have received, however, are of the Lakeside
Library" edition, valued at about five cents each.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY
THE ferry scow between Aburgh and Hog
Island, in crossing from the island to Alburgh last
Saturday, was caught in squall and capszed
There were four men on board, but fortunately
they were towing a small boat and they all got in
it and went ashore.
LAMoILI.E COUNTY.
CHARLES W. BEARD, of Watervie, had a mar
row escape from death the otherday, being thrown
from load of hay and considerably injured.
ORLEANS COUNTY
GEORGE GEER, of West Derby,s in durance vile
for beating his wife.
WILLIAM RANSOM, of Craftsbury, shot himself
in the head the other morning, dying instantly.
lie was twenty-six years of age.
A QUARREL on the 1ith at North Troy between
Horace Leach and Chester Albee eliminated
in a fight, in which the former was stabbed.
Leach's wound is thought not to be fatal Abee
has fled, but the officers are in pursuit The cause
of the row was jealousy.
RUTLAND COUNTY
KATE RIx was arrested in Rutland recently fer
drunkenness
THE Rutland daily Times has closed its brief
career. 1t promised well, but there was no chance
for two dailies to live in Rutland
CHAuNCEY AMEs, of Rutland, was arrested for
intoxication on Friday and fined five dollars and
Costs One OF the men who sold him the liquor
was fined forty dollars, one hundred and
twenty days in the workhouse.
wISDHAM COUNTY.
Mrs JANE A. BAILEY resident of Cana
street, Brattleboro, was fatally injured by being
thrown from her carriage in her dooryard Sunday
afternoon, the 10th instant
FRANK L. RICHARDSON, of Brattleboro, accom-
plshed at Springfield, the other night the feat OF
walking two hundred and fifty consecutive miles
inside of seventy-three consecutive hours.
GENERAL KISGsLEy's horse that carried him, as
major of the Twelfth Vermont, through the cele-
brated Gettysburg campaign of 1868, clicked
the bucket " the other night, aged twenty-five
years.
GROUND on the line of the new narrow-gauge
| railroad was formally broken Monday, the towns
OF Jamaica and Newfane holding a sort Of jubilee
over the event At the latter place Mrs. Austin
Orchard, almost an octogenaran, and an aunt OF
President Hayes threw out the first spade full of
| earth
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Mr. AND Mrs. WALDO BARTON, Of Chester, re-
| Gently celebrated their golden wedding with
seventy-five relatives and friends
YOUNG man named Christian had an arm
caught in planer at McIndoes the other day, and
so mangled that amputaton at the elbow joint
was necessary.