Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-08
Vermont State News.


PorAToEs are selling in the western part OF the
state for twenty cents bushel.
G. A. AUSTIN Of Burlington was knocked down
by team on Sunday evening and considerably
bruised.
WILLIE PARKER Of Ely was fatally hurt on
Friday by falling from car running into the local
copper mine.
RIPE black raspberries, OF the second crop for
the season. were picked in Charlotte last Friday
by d. W. Hazard
REV. II. S. DAVIS OF Wendell Massachusetts
has been secured for one year by the West vii
lage tBratteboro) Baptists.
THERE have been over forty cases Of measles at the
Home for Destitute Children in Burlington, and
the disease has commenced lively run in the
public schools.
REv. Mr. PuoH, the Farhaven Welsh minis
ter, has been arrested for beating his wife with
stove-cover litter, and nfcting dangerous
wound on her head
ARGUMENTS in the Burdett-Estey patent suit at
Brattleboro were concluded Thursday evening,
and the result Of Master Stewards accounting is
looked for this month.
GEORGE NJ BUTCHER, the temperance lecturer,
claims that the charges of fraud and hypocrisy
brought against him are false, and originated
with the liquor interest.
THERE has been trouble in the management of
the Charleston post-offce, and Postmaster Ben
nett has resigned. Special Agent George II.
Bigelow has been investigating the case.
THE effort to enforce the prohbitory law is
causing hegira OF prominent liquor dealers to
sts Al. A
dealers have been indicted In Rutland county
alone
THE regular October term of the United States
circuit court and district court commences at
Rutland this week This is grand jury term,
and considerable important business will be dis
posed Of
SOME Of those summoned a. witnesses in the
| liquor suits in Windham comfy were summoned
the second time for not obeying the first sum-
mons and were fined Si5 each and costs, amount
ing to about S25 each.
The Western Vermont Musical Association will
| hold grand musical convention at Rutland, Oc-
tober 7th, sth, 9th and 10th. The association
have engaged S. A. Ellis OF Lawrence, Massachu-
sets, to conduct the music.
| In the Rutland railroad machine shop, last
week, Patrick Lynch had his jaw dislocated lie
was engaged in helping to remove ash pan
from locomotive, when the pan dropped sud
denly, striking an iron bar which few up and hit
Lynch, causing the dislocation.
| SOME unknown disease has attacked the dairy
cows of Colonel G. D. Gates Of Cambridge and
seven died within three days. The stomach Of
one of the cows has been sent to Boston to be an
| alyzpd Paris ia ad tn ha fha uaf
of death, as the COWS had broken into a field
where it had been used.
As Miss Carrie Blinn of Burlington was driving
| down College street Wednesday morning whee
came off the buggy, the horse ran and threw Miss
Bnn violently to the ground, inncting severe in
juries. The horse finally brought up against 8
train of cars at the foot of the street, injurinl
himself and making total wreck OF the buggy
In the Franklin county court, Nelson Osborne
for completely in the Farrar burglary, was sen
fenced to the House of Correction for eighteen
months, and Tony" Brace to State Prison fol
two years Peter Rye for burglary, got eighteeI
| months in the House of Correction; and Henri,
| Church, for stealing clothes at the st. Alban
| depot, got two years in the same institution. lk
Prince for stealing hat and other articles go
one hundred days. Brown and Fadden had beer
previously sentenced to the House of Correction
for one year, and eighteen months, respectively.
Ex-SHERIFr l. NJ TRIP of Middlebury ha
commenced suit through his counsel agains
Dunsbach, who offered the reward OF $500 for tn
arrest of Latrmouille, the Cohoes murderer, re
Gently executed at Albany, to recover the who'll
amount Of the reward, to which he claims h
is justly entitled. His claim is based on tn
ground that 1t was through his kilograms wbic
he sent TO Captain Weidman OF Cohoes, NeS
York, and in turn sent to officer Smith Of Por
Henry, which resulted in his arrest. Consider
able dissatisfaction has been expressed in regar'
to the division of the reward money
THE furry OF excitement created by the recen
local liquor prosecutions in Brattleboro and tn
consequent heavy filming Of indicted hotel an
saloon keepers, eliminates in vigorous prote;
, of business men and others. The decision wa
, reached To close all the hotels and bars on tn
10Th instant, and prevent absolutely the receip
sale or drink of spirituous liquors within tn
county. This determination reached afte
mature deliberation and an extended discussio
by leading citizens, and is likely to extend t
other Vermont communities, with the view t
eradicate the present prohibitory law and secui
ing an acceptable license law.
, Oh Saturday night St Adams policeman sa
, eight men prowling around the depot. He notfe
them to leave, but soon after he found them agai
with dark lanterns around loaded freight cars
Z the south end of the yard At balf-past ten i
found them again, and on being discovered the
started for the fields One OF them halted an
fired and the officer returned the fire, but withol
effect. lie followed them up and captured OIL
Of them. One of them in leaving dropped h
+, overcoat, in which was found revolver. II
captured man taken before justice, an
i, gave his name as Frank Howard. lie was sci
n to the House of Correction for one hundred an
A ten days.
I IN the town of Starksboro resides a coup
Q named Hoskins, who during the administration
: President Lincoln became the parents OF thr'
g boys at one birth President Lincoln, upon hea
I. ing of the circumstance, named them as follow
" Abraham Lincoln, Simon Cameron and Gdet
% Welles. The three babes have now grown to ma
hood and are strong, healthy men. The paren
= have several other children born some time befo
= the trpets aud others that born after ther
l. The mother has sister who has given birth to tw
? several times, to three children at another tin
x and four at another, the two latter makiI
D. seven children within seventeen months. A pa
Il only of these children survived the first year