Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-12
Vermont State News.

WmLrAMs1owS horses are enjoying an attack
Of epizoot.
WOODEN MILL to have six sets OF machinery, is
to BIO shortly built at North Hartland.
THE change in the official name from winooski
Falls TO Winooski, does not take effect until jan
uary LIST, 1890
THE Passumpsic railroad has raised all It's
bridge-roofs, so that freight brakemen can now
stand up without fear Of being knocked of.
THE first number Of the st. Johnsbury Inder is
to be Issued there on the afternoon of Thanksgiv-
ing Day, but bearing the date Of day later.
The barn floor aud stable floor Of Mr.. M. Mil
ler's barn in West fairlee broke down one day
last week, killing two Of the six cows which were
tied In the stable
The new Crosby Opera House at Brattleboro Is
to be dedicated on the evening Of the Goth, the
Brattleboro orchestra, assisted by outside mu-
sicians, furnishing the music
THE premium list for the second annual meet
ing of the Champlain Valley Poultry Association
at Darlington is now out, and the prospects for
big show are very encouraging
THE December term Of Bennington county court
begins at Bennington December 3D. The docket
contains the titles of one hundred and eighty-six
cases, and the chancery docket twenty eight
SUNDAY OF last week was cheerful day in Ben
nington. On that day occurred suicide, a stab
bling ARRAY, policeman whipped, and runaway,
not to mention minor matters OF several rows at
prominent gin mills.
GEORGE H. Mills and Nelson r. Dowds. seven
teen and twenty-five years DID, have been arrested
nj bna ohar aafa
WATERFOWL, Connecticut, in company with two
women with whom they are now living.
The recent rise in copper has had the effect OF
greatly encouraging the proprietors OF the Ely
copper mines, who now see some way OF getting
back the immense sums which have been en-
ployed in developing the business there.
THE docket of Windsor county court for the
December term contains one hundred and sixty
five civil cases, six divorce and eleven state cases.
The chancery docket numbers forty cases. 1t
is the smallest civil docket since the war
THE elopement fever has broken out again in
Brattleboro. The man has two children and the
woman six. The couple have shown symptoms
OF the disorder several times before The wander
ing sheep were last heard from in Boston.
THE Windsor Journal says that Postmaster
Hatch Of that place has received notice from the
sheriff of Uncas county, Nebraska that Mrs Har-
riet N. Colby, formerly Of Windsor, and who re-
| sided at Bellows Falls for awhile some years
since, was murdered at wilsonville, in tn at
county, on the 14th ult.
A CONNECTICUT detective association has taken
up the case of the missing Ploof child of West
Jay on their own account without any solicitation
halt ..t Al. r.
has been kidnapped or given away by her pa
rents to create sympathy and aid for themselves
in their extreme poverty, rs the neghborng
mountains have been thoroughly searched in vain.
GIDEON LEE OF Chester, George R. Spencer Of
Springfield and Frederick c. Dodge of Bellows
Falls, charged with numbering Alvin C. Foster,
near Keene in May, 1876, pleaded not guilty be-
fore the supreme court at Keene, and claim that
they can prove aibs. Many Keene people be-
lieve that Foster was not murdered at all, but
that he chloroformed himself, after fixing things
so that it would appear that he had been robbed
and murdered He was dissoute man, involved
in debt, and there are circumstances which favor
the theory of suicide.
THE three evenings wrestling tournament com
menced at Hudson, Massachusetts, Thursday
| cNtulliB. Inc Dout WAS DetWeeu NAT HUTCH.
ms and John Bolac the latter advertised as the
champion lightweight wrestler of Vermont
Bolac won the first fall and Hutchins the second
fracturing Bolac's right shoulder. The audience
subscribed $40 for his relief. The third wrestlt
was between Lovejoy and Mcguire, the latter
also Vermonter, and was won by Mcguire. The
result of the contest was two falls for Hutchins
two for Mcguire and none for Lovejoy
THE courts are for the first time called upon t.
define the boundary line between New Hamp
shire and Vermont, in the suit between the tow
Of Hartford and Asa T. Barron's Lyman bridge
company. The damages to be paid by the towr
depends entirely upon the courts decision as u
whether the western boundary of New Hampshire
should be fixed at low water. average or higl
water mark, the damages being $1,000 $3.50 o
S225 accordingly. The decision will affect man.
other cases likely to rise from efforts to lay fire.
highways over the toll-bridges over the Connect
cut river. The case will now 60 to the Decembe
term Of the Windsor county court.