Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-02-19
Vermont State News.
ADDISON COUNTY.

ADDISON COUNTY.
MAXWELL, the temperance lecturer speaks a.
Bristol on the 2Sth Joseph Howard OF Rpton
has been fined s1OS2 for stealing pair Of rub
bers.. Much sickness prevails in Middlebury;
the epidemic OF pneumonia mas Frustrated quite a
number.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
ENocH SuAurY Of McIndoes has been lodged in
the Haverhill IN. H. Jail for obtaining money by
false pretense. .Diphtheria still prevails at
Peacham Hollow, and the school has been re-
duced from thirty scholars to seven. On We'd
nesday Of last week, Dr. Hosea Farr Of Danville
fell through hole in his scaffold floor and dis
located his shoulder. The grandmother Of
George Il. Eaton OF Danvie, a member Of the
last legislature, will be one hundred years old II
she lives until next September. Fred Benchley,
OF st. Johnsbnry, stuck large-sized knife nearly
through his left hand the other day, cutting
nerve and making quite bad wound. A young
man named Frank + Pierce, says the st. Johns
bury Caledonidn, hired q team-mare and buggy
of Jerry Drew Of that place, October 10th, 1873
and disposed of it to J. C. Cummings Of South
Paris, Maine. Mr.. Drew learned Of It's where.
abcuts the other day, and secured It,, Rev. Mr..
Austin, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church
at st Johnsbury, has got himself into hot water
by signing the bail bond Of A. Il, Stokes, noto-
rious abortionist Of that village.
oHrTTENDES COUNTY.
STRAKoscH has consented 70 change the selec-
tons for his two nights of the grand opera in Bur
lington, by substituting the familiar operas of
" Lucia" and "I Trovatore for the less famil-
lar ones OF "Mignon" and Carmen" .....A
ton IN ha1nuunr 10 nkar 1,
train just above the Lime Kiln, Colchester, the
18th, and both horses were killed An unusual
phenomenon Mt Burlington has been the preva-
lence Of a dense fog during several days, 80 dense,
in fact, that objects were hardly dstinguishable
a rod or two distant The vapor came from the
broad lake through cracks in the ice. Postmas-
ter Derby, Of Burlington, has just been reap
pointed for the coming four years.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A FRENcHMAN named DeMarrer was struck by
an engine near East Berkshire the ether morning.
while walking on the track, and had an arm
broken. There are at least half a dozen cand-
dates for the office OF Bakersfield town clerk rem
dered vacant by the death of General S. b, Hazel
tine who held the office since August, 1s21...
Mrs. Jonathan Northrop Of Sheldon has pre-
purpose of purchasing a bell to be placed in the
Brigham Academy. Mrs. Thomas Bevins, of
Fairfax, was recently severely burned with lard
80. Annie, little daughter of contractor Gallup,
of Swanton, accidently took swallow Of creosote
Thursday, which nearly proved fatal. The little
one is in a fair way of recovery. Saturday
evening Richard Iahey, of st. Adams was ar
rested on the charge of forging the name of a
railroad fireman named Cunningham to the in
dorsement OF pay voucher for S45, on which he
drew the money from the treasurer Lahey was
taken to Jail, and is to have hearing on Thursday.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
JosErH REvIER of Troy has been found guilty
of attempting to murder his wife inf 1871 and SEN
fenced to five years in the state prison. =. Mrs.
Nathan Norton, an aged lady Of Glover, fell from
her bed one day last week, receiving injuries
which resulted in her death.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
THERE was a funeral in Fairhaven, on each of
the ten days ending the 9th. They were mostly
of elderly people, and of no settled type of disease.
80. The Vermont Era, weekly paper of Fair
haven, with the issue of its fifth number an
nounces a change of proprietors. Mrs. Ham
mond, the evangelist is at work in Pittsford now.
-. The most extensive marble firm in Vermont
is that of the Rutland marble company. They
run three large quarries and two marble mills in
Rutland and one in Salem, n. Y. The three mills
contains sixty-eight gangs of saws that cut mil
lions Of feet Of marble year; the company en-
poys four hundred men, and owns sand deposit
in Castleton from which is shipped six hundred
car loads of sand to the mills in Rutland and