Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-19
Vermont State News.

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BREs MCGUIRE OF Bennington fell dead Fri
day last. Heart disease was the cause.
THE STAFFORD Republicans will keep reading
room open until after the presidential election.
| A VAUDEVILLE woman has woven over two
thousand yards OF carpeting within the past
two years
| THE Trout river tub factories are turning out
eight thousand tubs per week, or four hundred
thousand annually
| Curtis Brown Of Belvidere has caught three
bears this fall, making in all forty-seven. lie is
the boss hunter Of Lamoile county.
| HANNIBAL KrrTLE, a youngiman at work near
North Troy, recently endeavored to commit SUI
icide by taking cedar oil. The attempt was a
failure
] W. DODGE, wealthy and influential citizen
Of Barton Landing, has left town very suddenly
and secretly. His liability as bondsman for a
certain estate is assigned az the cause.
| wEsr RUTLAND ships ten cars per day Of mar
BILE, and the Western Vermont and Washington
slate companies ship, In the aggregate, ten car
loads Of slate per day, on the average.
| The customs officers at Newport on Wednesday
last seized a good team and quantity OF butter,
|
doing an extensive smuggling business.
THE customs receipts at Newport for the first
week in November were about $1,000. One item
OF this amount was 81 100 duty on forty tons OF
copper ore shipped from the Capleton mines
| THERE are now ninety inmates OF the House
| OF Correction. This is a larger number than the
Institution was designed for, and temporary beds
have been put into the commodious guard room.
| CLAIMING HAzELTIsE, formerly a we-known
| business man at Painfeld, but now residing Mt
Derby, was robbed at Toronto, Ontario, few
nights since, of 500 and gold watch and chain.
| lie was at Toronto on business.
DIR. +. j. POWERS of Franklin recently shot a
red-headed woodpecker which measured two feet
four inches from tip to tip Of wings, and seventeen
inches from point Of bill to end OF tail, and its
tongue when extended measured eight inches
| ALBERT MEAcHAM, who was arrested some
four or five years ago and sent to Jail for break
ing into a store at Morrisvie, and subsequently
broke Jail and fled the state was arrested last
week Monday in Fletcher, and taken back to Jail.
| A NEW thing in the Episcopal diocese OF Yer
mont will be festival OF parish chors at ver-
| gennes, January Sth, under the direction OF Pro-
lessor S. b. Whitney Of Boston, The object is
to improve the choirs and raise the character of
| church music.
| YOUNG man Of Ascutneyville, who married
a strapping big French woman, recently found it
best to behave himself This female Hercules
gave her vagabond husband thorough shaking
and threw him out into the yard, then packed his
trunk and threw it out after him.
AT Grafton the floor Of one Of Charles Ward's
apple bins gave way few days since and about
five hundred bushels Of apples went into the river
His neighbors like sweet cider and don't like to
see things wasted, so they turned out en- masse,
and soon put his apples on dry land well washed
and all right.
| On Sunday afternoon son Of c. w. Chappell
Of East Richford loaded an old gun with powder
and went to play. The gun burst and fragment
| hit him in the left eye. 1t was extracted by
| physician. The fragment measured three-fourths
OF an inch long by one-fourth wide Passing a
little to one side Of the eye it caused the eye to
| run out.
The fall examinations of teachers by the town
school superintendent in full blast this month,
and as there are several women town superintend-
ents of schools in Addison county there is con-
siderable discussion over whether, II woman is
eligible to that office, why not to the Office Of Sc
lectman and other elective town Offices legal voters
only being eligible to town offices
MRS. EDWIN FRENCH Of Londonderry recently
fell down her WELL and her cries brought out onl y
| the dog, which she told to 60 and fetch help
| The animal appeared to understand her, for he
Immediately bounded off to where her husband
was at work, and by his singular actions con-
| WINGED him that there was something wrong at
| home. The woman was rescued much exhausted.
MR. +. o. BENNETT, who recently resigned the
| Office OF postmaster at West Charleston, denies
| that he did so account of an investigation Of
| the affairs OF the office. An examination was
made by Special Agent George II. Bgelow which
| completely exonerated Mr.. Bennett from some
| charges that had been made. and the department
| advised him to retain the office and sent him on
new bonds This he declined to do, however, and
relinquished the position,
The preliminary hearing in the case OF Joseph
b. Woods and Alma r. Smith, charged with the
murder of Luman A. Smith at Williston on Thurs
day, October 23i, closed on Thursday of last
week, resulting in the respondents being held on
charge of murder in the first degree The offense
is not baiable and the prisoners we're handed over
to the custody of the sheriff. There being no
grand jury at the next April term of the court
they have trial till the next September term
JOSEPH SMITH OF Bratteboro, seventeen months
ago, while eating a chowder fancied that he had
swallowed fish bone. There has been a sort Of
tickling pain in his throat since; but physc-
ans examining him could find nothing there. lie
coughed necessarily, so that his friends thought
he was going into consumption But the other
day he had an unusually violent fit OF coughing,
and finally spit out a bone seven-eighths OF an
inch long and three-eighths of an inch wide, thin
and broad like blade. SO that it had lain up close
to his throat. The pain Immediately ceased and
he has stopped coughing
On Wednesday night, the 9Th instant, the pri-
mary school at Windsor was broken into, and the
books and part OF the furniture destroyed. On
Friday night following the same school-house was
again entered, books torn up the clock olsen.
boweled furniture broken and ink strewn over
the floor. As no trouble had appeared in the
school the authorities could find no clue to the
perpetrators, and the whole affair is wrapped in
mystery. Last Wednesday night the operation
was again repeated, and the books a third time
torn About half the school patrons Protes-
tants, and the Indignation of the people is rapidly
eliminating.
| At Bristol forty years ago bear killed Oh
, "Hog's Back mountain was brought down t.
the village and propped up on the public square
/ where the bounty money was laid out for New
. England rum. The hunters formed ring srount
! the bear and passed the rum around in paten
t pals and drank it from tin cups This year, wber
a bear was killed upon the mountain, States At
I torney slade appeared upon the public square
whereupon the leading hotel-keeper and on'
druggist left their patent pals and cups and fled
Q from treat to which over one hundred witnesses
4 had been subpenaed. Two months have passed
/. the landlord quietly returns home, and the drug
g gist takes in partner and publicly announces
Q that they shall neither keep nor sell liquor o
4 any kind whatever"
, The following is programme OF the educatona
$ rally to be held in Bennington on Friday and Sat
a urday OF this week. There will be lectures OIL
y the evening OF Friday by Hon Edward Co
nant, state superintendent OF education, and Col
i onel John b. Mead, state superintendent OF agri
> culture. The morning session begins at min
= o'clock. The matters to be presented are Meth
+ DDS of Teaching" in the morning, and in the al
y ternoon, "Class exercises" "School organiza