Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-05

Vermont State News.
TWENTY inches Of snow fell in Brattleboro on
Monday.
AN effort is being made to organize public.
library at Bellows Falls.
wooLEN-MrLL to have six sets OF machinery is
to be shortly built at North Hartland.
THOMAS WEIGH Of West Rutland charged with
committing rape, has been acquitted.
WALKING match for the championship Of
Windham county comes off at Bellows Falls on
the 10Th and 2lst
Mrs Henry Snow OF Pownal has eloped with
neighbor, leaving husband and three children.
Snow is in pursuit
Mrs. AMY WOODWARD, in the ninety-sixth year
Of her age, and one Of the early settlers Of the
town, died in Waterbury last Wednesday
LEON MoSJEoN Of winooski, after falling sew
enty feet from a railroad bridge last Wednesday
night swan ashore as II nothing had happened.
MRs. SUSAN COLLINS of Barton Landing, who Is
eighty-six years old, has read the whole Bible
from Genesis to the end of Revelations in sixty
one days.
VETERAN ToLL-KEEPER BUss OF Bellows Falls
resigns, because he thinks the bridge is unsafe for
heavy teams. and the proprietors neglect to prop
erly repair it.
BIsHoP DE GoEsBRIASD Of Burlington cele-
brated the twenty anniversary of his conse-
Grafton Thursday. He leaves soon on another
visit to Rome.
CALEB wooDcooK, aged seventy-one, who was
committed to Bennington Jail Saturday, for
chicken stealing hung himself Sunday in his cell
while deranged.
The Orange County Agricultural Society will
pay only twenty per cent Of the premiums that
were awarded at the late tair, for the want OF
funds to pay more.
TIMOTHY TiLDES Of Norwich, who has Just
died at the age Of eighty is said to have at
tended Dartmouth commandments for eighty
four consecutive years.
WEALTHY Norwich woman has Just been
married to the man Of her choice after waiting
twenty years for him, and against the determined
opposition Of her relatives.
THE Bellows Falls lecture course will be opened
November Goth by James Parton. He will be fol-
lowed by Mrs. Lvermore, Miss Georgia E Cayvan,
Major Henry c. Dane, Tod Ford and Charles II.
Brainard.
THE Passumpsic railroad is to be made a bonded
road, authorized to receive goods imported into
this country and freight them TO Canada without
the usual particular inspection of the custom
house officers.
AT the recent election OF officers of Company
G, First Vermont Regiment at Bradford, L. W.
Dckey was elected captain, vice J. r. Wilson, re-
signed; Charles Dickey, first lieutenant; J. X.
Squres, second lieutenant.
ANTOINE PIcoRD OF North Hero has been com
mtted to the House of Correction for selling, fur
nishing and giving away liquor. His age, he
says, is seventy-three years, and his fine and
costs calls for twelve hundred and thirty-five
days service.
The patrons store at Barton Landing was bro
ken into Sunday night by some thief. The money
drawer was pried open and its contents $40 in
silver, was stolen therefrom. The building was
entered from the cellar window, then by trap
door to the store room.
A YOUNG man named Willie Hendricks of
Enosburgh Falls narrowly escaped death on a re-
cent night rs he was passing along the highway,
by pistol shot fired by some one near the road
side. The ball passed through the lapels Of bis
coat just over his breast,
THE one-hundred yard running race for purse
Of S25 between c. W. Reagan and W. A. Bing-
ham was run at the fair ground at St. Adams
last week Thursday. The first heat was a tie;
the second and third were won by Reagan. Time
nine and one-fourth seconds.
CONTEMPLATION to that OF murderer Wool
ey's attorney Is circulating Mt Grafton, asking
Governor Proctor that the good name of Vermont
be not furnished by the pardon of this deliberate
fratricde. At the trial the judge reprimanded
the jury for not finding him guilty Of murder in
the first degree.
LAST Wednesday evening Mrs. j. p. Witty
was crossing the street from her house to Harvey
Somers' in Passumpsc village, team driven by
Beverly Dow struck her, knocking her down and
rendering her insensible for upwards OF an hour
Although quite badly hurt she will probably suf-
fer no permanent injury.
Mrs RuTu RIcHMoRE of Bloomington, after
using tobacco for eighty years, gave it up en-
tirely, for the sake of the influence two years ago
when ninety-two years old And though friends
feared it would be an injury to her health, it is
hoped she will be spared to testify for many more
years that with Gods help no one need be slave
to appetite.
INVESTIGATION concerning the missing Pl of
child of West Jay. which was supposed to have
got lost in tue woods or murdered, leads to the
belief that she was kidnapped with her mothers
consent. A boy twelve years old testifies to
having seen well-dressed stranger in MIS-.
Ploofs house before the disappearance, and Mrs.
Ploof herself when put on the stand refused to
give any satisfactory answers
JAMES STEWART and John Hogan, Sunday fore
noon, got into an alteration at Bennington, and,
after disputing awhile came to blows when Stew
art, it is alleged, stabbed Hogan in the throat
with large bladed knife inaicting serious, but
not fatal wound. The controversy was over two
dogs owned by the boys After the stabbing took
place, Stewards father ran him out of town and
the police are now after them.
The frigate Congress and several galleys which
were run into Arnold's bay ON Lake Champlail
by General Arnold during the Revolution, ant
whose hulls could be easily seen at low-wate
mark, have gradually fallen to pieces and beef
driven ashore, until now there remains but few
| fragments Of the bow and ribs Of the old Con
| gress to mark the spot. Several musket balls
grape-shot and iron spikes we're obtained recent
| by party Of relic hunters.
GIDEON LEE Of Chester, George r. Spencer @
| Springfield and Frederick c. Dodge OF Below
Falls, charged with numbering Alvin c. Foste
near Keene, in May, 1876, pleaded not guilty be
fore the supreme court at Keene, and claim tina
they can prove alibis. Many Keene people no,
believe that Foster was not murdered at all, bu
that he chloroformed himself, after fixing thing
| an fhat N xynult that ha had haan