Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-03
Vermont State News.

THERE were nine hundred and ninety-nine
scales made at Fairbanks shops last week.
OWEN GRANT and Oliver Rowe of Barton Land
ing have been bound over for selling diseased beef
MALIGNANT form of diphtheria has made its
appearance in the northwestern part of Franklin.
BRAKEMAN named Bachelor had his hand
badly crushed last Wednesday morning while
coupling cars at Essex.
THE Burlington & I.aroille railroad at North
Underhi is sinking into the mud, and passen-
gers have to be carried around.
EUGENE BALDWIN OF Stanstead, Quebec, was
arrested at Derby Line for being concerned in
smuggling wool, which was seized last summer.
CASE of restitution is reported in Stowe, in
which a mother is said to be insane because of the
need of the necessares of life for herself and two
little boys.
DEACON HOMER CLARK OF Charlotte died sud-
denly of apopexy and the shock to his daughter
Mary was SO great that she became Frustrated and
survived but few hours.
PETER GABAREE of Westfield was thrown from
his wagon the other day, and seriously and per
haps fatally injured. He is thirty-fve years old
and has a wife and six children.
Mr. SHERWOOD SAWYER Of Sudbury worked all
day recently, and in the evening went out of
doors and returned to the house and dropped
dead with his hand on the door latch
In hole near lily pond at White River juno
ton have been found eighteen ivory handled
knives, seventeen silver-plated spoons, sixty-sx
plated forks and three dessert spoons
COUNTERFEIT five dollar notes on the National
state bank of Troy, New York, are being extern
sively circulated in Orleans county. 1t Is pro-
nounced by experts to be Photographic, and is OF
course difficult to detect.
ON Monday a brakeman on the Central Yer
mont named Mccarthy was caught between the
platform of depot and moving train and badly
jammed, but probably not fatally He was taken
to his home In White River Junction.
The changes going on in the population Of the
rural districts OF Vermont are slow but sweeping
In single locality about five miles from Burng-
ton can be counted twenty deserted farm houses,
or the remains Of what were once such
RufUs CAss, about fifty years old, was killed
on Monday by falling from the top of four-story
mill being erected by the Bellows Falls Canal
Company. lie came from Lowell Massachusetts,
and was formerly from Tilton, New Hampshire
CENTRAL Vermont brakeman named Kelly
was struck by bridge near Essex Junction last
week Wednesday lie was on hay car, which
is two feet higher than an ordinary car. When
the train stopped at Williston he was found dead
lying on the top of the car.
MAN named James o Neil, aged about tN enty
years, from Keene, employed by the Fall Noun
tain Paper Company at Bellows Falls, was caught
In La1t HI. Il.
him against the machinery forcibly enough to
fracture his skull causing death in about twenty
four hours. His body was taken to Keene for
burial
MIDDLE-AGED man named Shumway Of
Readsboro, after dispute with his wife, deliber-
ately, In the presence OF his family, took fatal
dose OF Paris green and died in few hours. Ills
wife entreated him not to do it, and he repented
OF his rash act shortly afterward, when 1t was too
late lie was formerly member OF the Vermont
Cavalry, and was prisoner at Andersonville.
LAST Friday young son of Albert Gradeau, an
empoye of the St, Adams foundry, had all the
fingers of his left hand cut off close to the third
joint in planer. His father had just finished a
piece OF work and shipped the belt, when the boy
pushed his hand along on the smooth bed, while
his father was not looking, and the knife In the
bed WAS still revolving rapidly that he did not
see Its motion. 1t caught his fingers, OF conrse
and made quick work
LYMAN LovEJoy, arespected citizen OF Weston
was killed the other day lie was riding on log
raised upon cart-axe when the oxen began 10
run and he jumped the wheel striking and knock
ing him down and passing over one ankle lie
got up and walked a quarter OF mi,s to a house.
from which he was carried TO his home a distance
Of about mile and half When questioned he
sad he was not much hurt. lie lived about two
hour after the accident