Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15
Vermont State News.


anu D. L. oHiitn anu WIG OF ADDISON, nave JUST
celebrated their golden weddings. . Middlebury
Is agitating the question of macadamizng the
roads leading into the village. The figures de-
monstrate that for period of thirty or forty years
such roads make n large saving and they are in
fnitely better
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
AT North Pownal the other day, Patrick Keefe,
Thomas Kelley and Matthew Medley were injured
by premature explosion Keefe was blown
down cut fifteen feet, his face badly bruised and
one Of his eyes torn out. Kelley also lost an eye,
while Medley was only slightly injured
CALEDONIA COUNTY
ST. JoBNsBURy had not a single fire during the
year 1873. The First National Bank Of st.
Johnsbury paid semi-anpual dividend Of SO per
share on the 10th inst We understand the Mer-
chants National Bank has also declared three
per cent. dividend. Danvile has had small
avalanche. snow slide from the hill south Of
the village crushed In the windows Of house,
filled the rooms and blocked the highway for a
long distance. Smart blacksmithing: Clayton
Harroun. of st. Johnsbury shod twenty-nine
horses all round in one day. A. W. varney, Of
Hartland, besides doing his job work, shod in
December one hundred and fifty horses and
twenty-eight oxen. A section OF the chimney
Of the Baptist church in St Johnsbury, that was
built angling and not supported, kicked out -
on recent Sunday and crashed through the
ceiling into the entry but fortunately no one was
hurt. In Lyndon there are several thousand
bushels Of potatoes for sale few have been
sold for sixty-ive cents but they go slowly at
that figure. Frank La Carloo Of Mclndoes
Falls, has been sent to the House of Correction
for one hundred and forty three days for savagely
assaulting with knife fellow mill hand named
Mooney. There came near being destructive
fire in St. Johnsbury on the Sd instant, caused by
the foolshness OF man in the grist-inill, who
thawed out the water wheel by burning straw
saturated with kerosene. The fire companies
saved the mill and ten thousand bushels Of corn
e. Mrs. J. X. Dole Of Danvle broke two ribs
and injured her back the other day by falling on
to a pail. Rev j. p. Humphrey, for many
years pastor OF the Congregational church at St.
Johnsbury, has resigned, -. Dana Coe OF Burke
has caught forty-six foxes within the last two
years, by trapping. The Vermont State Spr-
itualist Association will hold quarterly conven-
ton at st. Johnsbury, January 18th, 18th and
10Th, at the Avenue House hall
cHIrrENDEN COUNTY
THERE were sixty-eight persons arraigned for
crime in the Burlington court in 1878, against
forty-five in 1877. The fines amounted to S135,
and costs S52765, or the respondents thirty-six
were arraigned for breach of the peace and nine
for petit larceny. The Burlington Manufacture
ing Company have recently closed contract
amounting to about SGO,OO0 with a wealthy man
in Chicago to furnish marble for an elegant resi-
dence to be build in that city the coming season.
The marble will be worked partly in Burlington
and partly at their works at the Illinois State
Penitentiary at Joliet, where they constantly en-
ploy large number ofprisoners on marble work.
...A term of the United States Circuit Court
has just been concluded in Burlington More
cases were disposed of in one day than our state
courts ordinarily grind out in two weeks
George Dearborn of Huntington, aged twenty.
brought his left hand in contact with circular
saw which he was running, January 9th, and it
was LAGER tied that the first three fingers had
to be cut off Mr.. Lewis Talcott OF Williston,
Is wintering two hundred and three cows Is not
this the largest dairy in Vermont? lie runs his
own cheese factory and keeps it going all win
ter. Captain Daniel Lyon was thrown from
sleigh by runaway horse in Burlington the 9th,
and when taken up was insensible.. -. The Bur-
lington people are still in a quandary as to who
shall open their new opera house.
ESSEX COUNTY
A MEETING has been called in Concord to see
what shall be done about the town bonds There
are nine suits against the town and all the
moneyed men are leviug Personal property
has been sent out of town and the farmers are
taking stock from other towns to keep for pay
A majority OF the bondholders have offered to
take fifty per cent. and accrued interest
FRANKLIN COUNTY
GEORGE WHALEN, clerk at the Lake House in
st, Adams, for iquor-selliug, has been sentenced
to pay a fine of 500 and costs. and 60 to the
House OF Correction for one month He appealed
and gave bail in $500. D. c. Curry of Fairfax
has been found guilty oftwenty-three itst offences
at liquor selling, and sentenced to pay fine OF
500 and some S35 in costs He appealed and
gave bail in $3.50 In 1877, according to the re-
port of the Treasurer, S. p. Carpenter, the num-
Der Of depositors in the Rchford Savings Bank
was one hundred and eleven; amount of deposits
S23, Si7; surplus, ST. 1893 In his report for 1875
the figures were; depositors, one hundred and
forty-six; amount on deposit, SOS, $40 49, surplus
50 265 81. "a spruce log has been drawn to A.
o Brainerd's mill in Richford which measured
thirteen hundred feet. During the past season
the long bridge across Mlssisquo Bay, on the
line of the Central Vermont has been thoroughly
rebuilt, new piles and stringers having been put
in for nearly its entire length of one mile.....
There are at least two villages in Vermont, of
considerable size, that have got so far through
the hard times without failure, namely Swan
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agent between St. Adams and Newport who was
suspended on account of alleged immoral conduct,
has been re-instated
LAMOILLE COUNTY,
Miss MARY KNOWLES an evangelist from Farm
ham, 2. O., is winning golden opinions in John
son and awakening much religious interest.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Ely station is the best on the Passumpsic road,
save St. Johnsbury and Newport The receipts
one month were 5000 In December sixteen
carloads OF copper pigs were shipped. The
receipts Of coke per month average six hundred
tons, and will soon be increased to one thousand
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Mr. JouN Cook, OF Charleston, aged eighty
years, dropped dead the other Sunday morning,
while doing chores about the house. There is
now standing in the pasture OF James Is, Calder
wood, in Greensboro, rare curiosity in the line
of maple tree or trees. Two trees start from
the ground seven feet apart one seven inches in
diameter, the other about fourteen inches in di-
ameter; at the height Of sixteen feet they are
perfectly joined together, and become one tree,
which is seventeen inches in diameter and sixty
feet in height Isaac McNeal an aged and
much respected citizen of Barton, was so severely
injured the other day by fall that he received
while assisting in clearing the burning house of
George Rood, that he lived only forty-eight
hours, Charles Peck, OF Newport, has, during
the evenings OF the past two months, knit seven
pair double mittens, two pair gloves and one pair
fringed mittens, two pair socks, three pair wrist
ers and large gents scarf. The Barton Ma
tonal Bank has declared dividend OF four dol
lars on a share, and carried $500 to the surplus
fund This is semi-annual.
RUTLAND COUNTY
THE $40 900 Of water bonds voted by the Bran
don village fire district, for bringing water into
the village, have all been taken by the First Ma
tiOna Bank of that place. Some forty-sx pris-
oners now in the House of Correction four Of
whom are women. A new weekly paper called
the Vermont Era is about To be started at Fair
haven. 1t won't be long before they'll want to
call it the Error. The United States Circuit