Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-05
Vermont State News.



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BENNINGTON COUNTY.
FACTORY PoIST man has invented flying |
machine. St. Patrick's day is to be celebrated |
at Bennington, the ceremonies to be concluded In |
the evening by a lecture on "The Illustrious
Irishrnen Of the Century" by John Boyle Reilly,
editor Of the Boston Pilot
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
THE man Winchester. who resisted st. Johns |
bury officers last September and preached one OF
them by kicking him, has sued the officers for
false imprisonment Charles Pitman was ar
rested at st. Johnsbury for liquor selling few
days ago, and fined $50 and costs-in default Of
which he was committed to Jail. The Hastings
property at Miles Pond has all been sold to MIR.
L. Downer Hazen. This property consists Of a
large lumber mill, with paner, shingle and clap
board machine, two coal kilns, a store, eight
dwelling-houses, a large barn. a blacksmith shop,
etc. and eight hundred acres OF timber and other
lands For all this property Mr.. Hazen pays but
5000, which is considered very low price even
for these times. Thirty degrees below at
st. Johusbury on the oath ult st. Johnsburys
almshouse had fifteen inmates the past year, snp-
ported by the town, and two hundred and twenty
one tramps were kept overnight.
cHTTTESDEN COUNTY
LITTLE daughter, some three years old, Of
Peter Girard, OF Burlington, was so badly scalded
the other day as to cause her death servant
left her alone in room on the floor Of which was
pail OF hot water, into which the child fell back.
wards. -. According to letters received at the Wi
nooski post-ofice there are one hundred and eight
ways Of spelling the name OF that town Two
ndret md nj oh ~ trap oil ftad
last year in their official capacity, Now that
Burlington has an Opera House the entertain
ments are pouring in "Uncle Toms Cabin"
Amy stones Company and Gmore's Band are
all announced as appearing there very soon. e..
The Free Pres, is apparently much exercised
about the ballet " incidentally introduced - in the
Burlington opera. The RcUieto says one ticket
Spectator who bought ten tickets for each night
OF the Burlington opera sold them the first night
at loss Of 80, but made SIT 30 the second night
80. Burlington has swell engine company, the
Ethan Allen, and the members are fitting up
suite OF rooms in gorgeous style, the furniture
alone costing over $1,000
FRANKLIN COUNTY
RicHFoRD has the Western fever, and quite a
number Of her people are going to Kansas. &C.
| Severance, a freight conductor the Central
road, has been discharged for carelessness.
Enosburgh Falls holds musical convention this
week There have been five deaths from diph-
| liberia at Swanton Junction, but the disease is
now abatng. In the town of Hghgate last year,
there sxty-six deaths and seventy-one
births. There were twenty deaths from
diphthera.
LAMoILLE COUNTY,
| ELLA A. MILLS, johnson young woman OF
no
years in a Manchester IN. II mill, and the other
day she lifted 81, 800 mortgage on her fathers
| farm and gave him life lease OF the property.
80. The Normal School at johnson has opened its
spring term with over one hundred students.
The present principal, Mr.. Crippen, is to be re-
tanned for period of five years.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
| A BRAKEMAN named Hutchinson, employed on
the Passumpsc road, in attempting to get on the
train at the wood shed in Salem. the 22d ult.,
slipped and was run over by the cars, which
crushed one leg badly that he died shortly
after. lie leaves wife and two children. ...
| Newport has musical convention the 18th,
| 18th and Goth insts The veneer factory at
| Newport is turning out six thousand strawberry
boxes day. They are made from what has
| heretofore been considered waste stuff. John
Pocket, a Newport Center Frenchman, was ar
rested one day last week, on complaint of the
| town grand juror, for cruelty to his horses. He
was tried before jury which failed to agree.
Coventry is to have a bobbn factory.
RUTLAND COUNTY
RuTLAND's town administration for the past
year is reported as very credtable. All known
claims have been settled except few cases for
injuries on the highways and amount 50. 421 10;
orders drawn in settlement of old Indebtedness
$500 -; total, s3,94l45. The decrease in the in
debtednose Of the town for the year amounts to
S1l $40 81. One Fisher, OF Plymouth, has been
fined the enormous sum of one dollar and costs
| for cruelty to animals. In the town Of Rutland
during 1878, there were eighty-seven marriages.
two hundred and ninety three births and one hun.
bred and thirty -four deaths e. The Billings slate
and marble company of Castleton, has recently
been organized with capital Of $50, 900. SO. A
new quarry has been opened on the line OF the
property owned by II. G. Hughes of Fairhaven,
by company OF five, called the " Great Western
Slate Company" John Humphrey, the head
manager, was the first Welshman who began
work in the slate business in Vermont in 1916
The color Of the slate is unading green, and it is
to be shipped to Europe. .Fairhaven's town re-
port shows reduction OF about $1,000 in liabil-
tiles during the past year. An Indebtedness of
81, 800 yet remains.
| wISDHAM COUNTY.
Mr.. W. S. MONTGOMERY, OF Townshend, a
negro boy whom Colonel Dutton brought from
the South after the and who worked his way
through academy and college, graduated at Dart
mouth last summer, has just been appointed pro
lessor OF ancient and modern languages with a
in, IT,,t.. D.,
Miss. =. The Brattleboro auditors report shows
the amount OF uncollected taxes for 1857, S..
5l5 The auditors have appended to their repor,
a list OF the delinquent tax payers for the years
above named. The general list is S2l 600 The
cost Of highways and bridges during the past
year has been about 5000 per mile. The towns
liabilities February LIST were SIS, 0i5... new
Brattleboro corporation has been organized under
the general laws OF the state by the name of the
Self Organist Manufacturing Company" The
originators OF the enterprise Messrs. j. Estey
& Co.. and they own and control all the capital
stock. The business of the company will be man
ufacturing and selling automatic self-acting
musical instruments. Guilford's poor cost for
1878, 81, oil, highways 81 81, town officers S37l
miscellaneous 81, 1853. e. "A fellow giving his name
as Lucius L. Wells, NJ D., and claiming to hail
from Athens, Vt, has been arrested in Boston for
attempting swinde broker out of 81, 600
Nv. II. Alexander and wife, of Brattleboro,
celebrated their golden wedding on Monday. &C..
A school in Londonderry ran through full term
this winter with but one scholar
WINDSOR COUNTY.
FRANK WAITE, in the employ Of W. Leighton,
White River junction, appropriated gold
watch and $3.50 from his employer and left lie
was arrested at West Randolph and bound over
in the sum OF $3.50 to appear before the county
court, in default OF which lie was taken to Jail.
| MARsHrIELD.-Grand rush OF business at Put
mans. The iyee counter takes well and is
well patronized, they do say. Customers can get
more goods for one dollar than at any other place,
and sell their produce for the market price al
ways, etc, etc. on Monday Of last week the
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