Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-20
Vermont State News.

| week In Brattleboro
POTATO bug as large as a June bug has been
found in vergennes.
son Of Ira 7. Day Of Bloomington fell from
q load OF hay and broke bis collar bone
ALL the mills along the river in Fairhaven have
had to stop work on account Of low water.
PRESIDENT HUBERT Of Middlebury College will
deliver the address at the Rutland county fair.
v. r. GRIswoLp, Felcbville merchant, Is
afflicted with one hundred and eighty-one boils
Two men In Addison recently cut down with
scytbes seventeen acres Of oats in seventeen hours
SON Of Frank Morse OF jacksonville has had
his collar bone broken by falling from load
Of hay.
LAST Wednesday Barton boy fell from a
steamer on Lake Memphremagog and was
drowned.
ABOUT one-fourth of the assessment levied BY
the Champain Mutual Fire Insurance Company
has been paid.
DURING heavy thunder shower last Thursday
lightning struck L. X. Baileys barn in Rchford
Damage slight,
HATTIE MERRILL at Burlington has been given
thirty days in jail, and fined $40 for being COM
mon prostitute.
EARLE WILLARD Of West Dummerston was re-
Gently fatally injured by tree falling on him
while chopping.
The long litigation over the winooski cotton
mill has been satisfactorily adjusted and all the
| suits discontinued
| j. b. KELLEY of Brandon recently had both
legs broken by the falling of band stand which
he was helping to erect.
nov named Harley LaCross was run over
and instantly killed by a gravel train at Enos-
burgh on Wednesday last.
The trade in Spanish merino sheep is mprov-
ing and four carloads were shipped at Middle
bury In one week recently
| cATAMouNT has been seen In the swamp
west OF Bristol. but beyond frightening several
persons has done no damage.
CHARLES M. WHEELER Of Bratteboro was
thrown from carriage by runaway horse on
Saturday and severely injured.
| FARMERS in the towns along Lake Champlain
are complaining OF drouth, and say the lake has
not been so low for many years.
y. T. DRAPER Of New York has presented to the
Episcopal society Of Brattleboro costly brass
| corona for the chancel OF the church.
|
den county court contains one hundred and eighty
five law and forty-seven chancery cases.
THE block Of marble mentioned last week
weighed twenty-four thousand pounds instead Of
two thousand four hundred, as we had it.
Mr.. LARRY HALLrHAS, an employe at Booths
mill In Burlington, lost one finger and severely in
| jured two others by buzz saw last Thursday.
MARK LrvRRMoRE Of jamaica, the drover who
| disappeared a few weeks SINCE has returned
| Steps have been taken to put him in insolvency.
TWENTY-FIVE men working for the Columbian
marble company in Rutland have struck for re-
duction Of their laboring time from ten and half
hours day to ten.
CAsTLEroN physicians organizing medical
clinic for every Saturday afternoon, where poor
people can receive advice and have surgical opera
| tons performed free.
WHILE engaged in taking up water pipes in
Rutland last Friday, two workmen were buried in
the ditch by the caving in Of the walls. They
were taken out without injury.
JAMES MULcAHEY, a switchman at the Burling-
ton drawbridge, recently rescued drunken man
who had fallen through the draw. Shortly after
ward he rescued boy from drowning.
THE view from the top Of Globe Mountain in
Londonderry is described as magnifcently grand.
IL Is twenty-eght hundred feet above the sea, and
9e,ea.e.n "u"u''u ''e' "'''e '"e 'ii'"se Vi 0ou'h
A SMALL steam yacht capable OF carrying about
twelve persons has been placed upon the Connec-
hcut liver by George W. Cook, and runs very
| nicely between Bellows Falls and Charlestown,
New Hampshire.
CASE OF suicide occurred at the House OF Cor
rectlon last wednesday. H. J. Lessor, Rutland
convict WAS discovered by one OF tho prisoners
p"r'aiiy susPenuea W roPe arouno HIS neck
from nook In MS CELL DEAD
JOHN DONOVAN Of Bellows Falls, an employe Of
the Fall Mountain Paper Company, had one OF
MS hands badly mangled on tuesday OF last week
by one oil the large knives oil the cutting-machlne
falling on It, splitting 1t nearly the whole length.
Hon GEORGE W. HESDEE, receiver OF the Ma
tonal Bank Of Poultney, expects to pay the credi-
tors of the bank dividend Of twenty-fve per cent
about the first of September, to be followed by
Others as fast as the assets can be converted
into cash.
The site OF the old Revere House in Brattle-
boro has been purchased by Major II. X. Chase
for $4,000 brick three-story business block is
10 De put up, the nrst noOr 10 contain the feOple
National Bank and one store, the second floor
ohiees' and the third hoor hall
Mr. ID. T. MULLEN, his wife and Miss Murphy
of Troy, New York, were last Thursday evening
precpitated through bridge in West Rutland in
consequence Of the planks having been torn up
for repairs, and no light displayed Mrs Mullen
had three ribs broken, and the others were So
verely bruised.
THE steam tug Hancock sunk at Willsboro Point
Wednesday night OF last week. No lives were
lost She had large Canada raft in tow and
was at anchor owing to heavy sea, which Is
supposed to have swept over and sunk her. 1t
is not damaged except in the upper works, which
were stove in by the waves.
M,pp1rpuRy cow fell from A ledge one hmm.
dred and three feet In height and it was fifty mine
| feet perpendicular descent before she struck at
| ALL when she rolled down the remaining forty
| four feet That COW is now alive and In q fair
| way Of recovery, she having suffered the loss Of
| only one horn and broken hip.
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