Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-02
Vermont State News.


bulnns tnhrlea r.. farker ana IaSchal MaXneld
city clerk, General J. II. Lucia; common council,
Amos wetherbee, N. J. McCuen, William Sheriff.
city sheriff, Stephen Bates constable @. =. o.
Kimball; listers, G. Y. o. Kimbal, j. G. Hindes,
J. ID. Smith. The funded debt OF the city is
$4,000; the receipts last year were s12,27i, and
the expenses S12, 2l2 -. Governor Stewart
block at Middlebury is to be torn down, and a
new building erected in it, place.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
The recent meeting Of the Bennington graded
school district called out the largest vote ever
| cast. The result was the reelection OF the old
board OF officers The district Ia in debt 1875 900,
decrease Of 81, 900 during the past year School
expenses were SO, 900; over six hundred scholars
were enrolled. Harrison Haynes a well-to-do
farmer Of North Bennington, died suddenly Of
heart disease the other night. IIoratio Knapp
OF Woodford broke his leg last week, for the
second time within year. On the night Of the
2Sth ult., the engraving room of the Bennington
marble works was entered and an expensive monu-
ment for N Hawkins Of SALISBURY, nearly com
pleted, was mutated and ruined with a sledge
hammer. John Canedy, a rowing stone-mason,
was caught in the act, and now awaits examina-
ton. After the arrest Canedy claimed that two
Others were concerned No cause can be assigned.
Damage $500. Measles are prevalent in Ben
nington and Windham counties. About eighty
men are employed in the rock cut on the Boston,
iioosac Tunnel and Western railroad at North
| Pownal. About two hundred and fifty yards OF
rock Is excavated daily A Burlegh steam drill
| is kept at work night and day This cut is one
fourth of a mile long; the average depth is twenty
| five feet
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
JoHS GLENN, at st. Johnsbury, has been fined
s14 for intoxcation. "A letter recently received
at the St. Johnsbury post-oice tells of the murder
of Dennis Hight and wife, at Port Townshend
Washington Territory. Hight was formerly Of
Albany, this state. The Fairbanks Company
have just finished up beautiful platform scale
for the Marquis OF Lorne, the new Governor Gen.
eral OF Canada. at his order The scale is what |.
known as a platform No. IL, and is elegantly
painted and embeshed, bearing the coat of arm,
of both Canada and the States, with round pillar
nckel-plated beam, weights, etc. ..,H. II. Miller
of Lyndon has invented an air-tight butter tub
CHTrEsDES COUNTY.
THE steamer Herald is undergoing extensive re-
pairs at Burlington As soon as the lake open,
she will ply the ferry, and later will be run t.
| Port Henry the same as last season,...A needle
and thread eighteen inches in length, were re
Gently pulled ont of the body Of a wear and a hal
| old child of Edward Chase. Of Essex function
County court convened Mt Burlippton ON Tuesday
Fiftv-three cases are act for tho inrv at tho nres
ent term, and twenty-seven for the court.
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prison Miss Emma Maude perl,ins daughte
OF Rev. o. Perkins. of West Concord. has beer
chosen valedictorian of the class OF 10 in yassa
College. Pourhkeepsie Ny Her sister Mis-
Florence C. Perkins had the same honor in tn,
class of 1875 Il il the only instance in which tw,
sisters have received this appointment.
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WON was eu'oos'''i oesonu eAPeoe"io"' on
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'-s"s VI .,'o J''on"'s was "i'.Aeu 'ea'u'e
.he convention ms net proceeus amounted
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no" instruments i"o na'es' sens"''on III Jay
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mas oo",e upon 'ne own 80 mere was marrow
ose"pe i'o'' 'o'''o'e "oeiuehl NJ ooNehtry, vi
o'"'f "'s"'' ofoNen ran 'n'e" Tue mon.re'
oAp'ess 'io" ''e .''oN' anu cars eonI'in'hg ni'.
passengers were thrown down the BANK sinsu
ar'y enough no one was seriously injured
RUTLAND COUNTY
EAST PoULrNEY has sixty-six cases of measles
eight in one family. William and Jane Bailey
a colored couple, who live about mile from Fair
haven Center, had quarrel, the other day, whic
ended by the husband and wife going off in differ
ent directions and leaving three children to sarve
The situation OF the abandoned children was no
discovered until two days later when the younges
child was found dead on its face between the be
and stove, while the remaining children were i
a pershing state from cold and starvation. Mrs.
Bailey was pursued and arrested, but her hu'
oahu hts not YET peen found Inc recent tern
VI ''e Hutl"nu county cour' was Tue SHORTEST sine
1904 '''ine hu'i"nu county COURT recently
seS''o" s'in'eu sA u'vorceS ana "nnu'ed on
mar'iase eon'fac''''' 'hutIanu Is 10 nave he'
opera mouse AT last T. f. RICHARDSON having &c
ciueu 10 ouiiu one
"iNpi'AM COUNTY
| An eAe"rs'oh party leit peio"s faiis ior hat
sas on tuesday by rail-, the rates Tor hrst-clas
passage rouhu Trip oeing only a little over y"
49, Bellows rams mas oeen the manner town 10
Sieighins TINS winter. Inc record Is one hundre
ana iour DAYS ana no APPS A hve-year-old so
~ W. wheeler OF "hitlngham mad his lie
broken oy oeihg run over Dy a colt IN the yard
EDWARD Cooley OF uniiiord mas run away
81 Louis with eloo belonging TO his mother-ir
law. 'brattieooro had seventy-hve inches
borough who died recently on her ninety-nnt
birthday, was the last of the first settlers of tn
town, and the last OF n large family. -. She ha
lived in Marlborough ninety-two years. Jac
Williams and John Sullivan, formerly of Hart
ford, Conn, working on the narrow gauge raj
road at Jamaica, quarreled recently, and Sulliva
received blow from "A club which caused hi
death Williams has been arrested.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
A FEW DAYS since a. Orrn Luce. switchmap
yas engagad In nakin,, nm a train at Vbita Riva