Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-07-31
Vermont State News.


sum OF $500 for stealing watch and a pair OF
boots last March. q. At the Methodist Episcopal
church at Vergennes, on recent Sunday the
pastor, Rev. II. N. Munger, received twenty
adults into the church on probation, and bap-
tized five children
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Hon T. W. PARK and family, OF Bennington
are taking six weeks drive through Vermont
with their own team. The stereoscope manu-
factory of H. c. White at North Bennington was
entered by thieves the other night, and a guam
tity of carpenters tools taken. Part of the
tools and a quantity of velvet were aiterward
found secreted under the building. costly gla-
zier's diamond is missing. Daley, the STAIN
ford murderer, has been committed TO jail to
await the action Of the grand jury in January
next The chief witness, Nellie Grant, was COM
mitted in default of 500 bail Joel Chase, aged
about thirty-fve, has been arrested for attempted
rape upon Mrs. Miller, an aged colored woman
while the latter was engaged in picking berries in
the field near Bennington last Monday. Chase
was partly intoxicated lie denies the Charge.
CALEDONIA COUNTY
THE catalogue Of st. Johnsbury Academy shows
an aggregate Of three hundred and fourteen stu
post-ofIice war A petition is in circulation for
the removal of the present incumbent Fran
els Duprea Of Newark, has been fined $50 and
costs for furnishing smuggIed liquor to certain
parties He was committed to Jail in default Of
payment w. II. Nelson, music dealer of st.
Johnsbury, has gone into bankruptcy, with sew
eral thousand dollars Indebtedness and very
slender assets
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
On n recent Sunday morning Mr.. and Mrs. II.
C. McNall, of Fairfax, Mrs. d. Moore, of Wi
nooski and three sons Of S. McNall Of Colchester,
attempted to take ride on the lake, but the
heavy wind capsized them when only a short dis
lance out, and all would have been drowned but
for the heroic conduct of Elory McNall, who
stripped off his clothing and swan to shallow
water, where he picked upan oar and returned to
| his friends, who had chung to the gunwale Of the
boat, until they could seize one end of the oar,
when he drew them to the shore in safety. &c.
| William Deavitt, noted character in Burlington,
| jumped from second story window the other
day while drunk, and battered his head and face
considerably.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
c. s. McALLIsrER, OF West Enosburgh, has
| presented the Methodist society of that place
with a lot of land as a site for new church. 80.
Sheriff Halbert had his suspicious aroused, OF
the 22d, that four of the prisoners in St Alban:
| Jail were planning to escape. An investigation
revealed the necessary tools secreted in the cells
and the prisoners had begun their work by saw
ing through board petition in the main room
| They put in places of security, and the little
| plan didn't work, The house of Daniel Harper
in Rchford was struck by lightning last week, and
| considerable damage done in the way of tearing
up boards etc. Frank Morrison, Central Yer
mont fireman, was severely burned while on hi,
engine the oath, in the Swanton yard As he
opened the door of the fre-box, the flames ant
gas that had gathered kicked back" burning
his face and arms in horrible manner, and SINCE
ing his beard and hair TO his cap. He was takei
| to his home in st. Adams. The miles run by
the passenger and freight trains Of the Contra
Vermont railroad, each twenty-four hours, foo
| up over six thousand. st, Adams has formed
greenback club The next Methodist Epis
copal conference is to be held at Swanton A
Richford, recently Rev. P. N. Granger, Presid
ing Elder of the st. Adams district, baptize,
twelve persons, four by sprinkling and eight BY
immersion.
| LAMoILLE COUNTY.
SEVERAL potato fields may be seen in the La
noble valley, in which, owing to the ravages o
the beetle, nothing is left but the bare stalks.
ORANGE COUNTY.
A NUMBER of young men of Wells River ar
thinking seriously of migrating to Florida thi
fall to engage in gardening and fruit culture.
7. NJ. Taylor, of Post Mills, had his store broker
into the 20th by thieves, who took a watch, sew
eral suits of clothing and other articles. The.
then broke open his barn, stealing his horse ant
carriage.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
DISPATCHES from North Troy say there wer
several washouts on the Southwestern road las
week, and trains were considerably delayed.
Wilker Knights, of Coventry, ninety-two years Q
age, has this season hoed and taken care of al
acre of corn entirely alone, and done considerabl
other work...A good work is in progress a
Westfield and Troy The pastor baptized ten q
Westield, on a recent Sunday, and received lively
To full membership few Sundays ago he bal
TIED twenty eight at Troy
RUTLAND COUNTY.
THE Rutland Inquirer has been enlarged to a
eight-coumn sheet. Over SD, 900 OF the ne
five per cent water bonds of the village of Ru
land have been disposed Of George f. GRAY,
was badly injured in Rutland the other evening
while trying to stop his horse, which had bee
frightened by a passing train. cheeky ind
vidual of the genus tramp recently broke into I'll
liealdyile depot during the early part ofthe nigh
helped himself to ticket, which he stamped
due FORM and when the midnight train passed
signaed it with the station masters red lanteI
and rode to Burlington. Mrs. Laura johnson
about twenty years old, who was very respectab
connected, and who has been successful teache
hung herself at East Waingford the other da
in barn.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
THE Philadelphia Bulletin gets off a joke at Il
expense OF Brattleboro, as follows: " Edison HI
invented a machine for condensing the noise
the elevated railways Of New York, running
down pipe to the Battery, loading it on IL
Sound steamboats, and dumping it near Brattl
boro, VT Great man, that Edison. The Brattl
boro people expect to can the noise and sell it f
, Fourth of July celebrations. The survey of Il
Bratteboro & Whitehall railroad is progressir
rapidly, an unexpectedly favorable route hayir
} been found, Everything indicates that the lii
will prove eveu more feasible than was antic
pated, and that its cost of construction will ia
! within original estimates The survey will |
} completed by the first Of August, and as 500
thereafter rs possible the specifications will
ready for the bids of contractors, .. The ne
building OF the Vermont Academy at Saxton
River will be ready for occupancy by fall. II
Old Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, N
%, at Bellows Falls, is to be Reconstructed in
short time.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
BETHEL had severe gale and hail storm ii
2lst and considerable damage was done. Mr.
c. A. sperry and Mr.. Colburn were thrown fro
: buggy the other day in North Pomfret, and $
yerely injured. A mad dog was killed in Gu
, chez the other day .... South Royalton has
slight attack of gold fever but no serious result
are feared =. The Unversalists have their annu
state meeting at Woodstock, August GOTH 81
and 22d.. An old lady named Dawson, livir
, in Ludlow was severely bitten by savage dc
the other day 81. Two brothers, Putnam by nam
both over seventy years of age, got into a row
Springfield last week. and pounded each other
faces quite freely, Complaint was made and bot
were fined,
Our Own Artist.
The cause of Mr.. Woods failure to come to h
? summer home at the usual time is thus pleasant
given by the Springfield Republican. " Mr. I v
A Wood, of New York, one of the foremost fgu
g painters OF the country, is spending some time
Q the city painting portraits; his principal wor
r which furnished the motive for his coming beiI