Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29
Vermont State News.

RUTLAND is about iuaugurnting the district tel
ephone system.
GROUND has just been broken for new veneer
factory at Newport.
Mrs. HAMMOND, the revivaist, began work at
Essex last Saturday.
BURLINGTON Jail now has only seven inmates,
the smallest number for years.
LEVI HouGHroN, an old citizen of Lyndon, fell
dead in his door yard last week
Mrs. =. W. CLARK of Bratteboro slipped on
frosty doorstep and broke an arm
ST. ALBASs has voted $1,000 for dredging the
reservoir and $500 for the fire department.
Work has been commenced on the extension
at the north end of Burlington breakwater.
JosEPH AFFAIR of wnooski has a six-years old
boy who weighs one hundred and FIVE pounds.
LAD named Henry Merritt of Woodstock
broke a leg badly while scuiIling the other day.
r. C. CoLBURN of Fair Haven lost a thumb
and two fingers in buzz saw the other evening.
st. Johnsbury Inder, published by A. b. Howe,
Of Thetford.
LORENZO ELLIS OF Bethel has COW that has
given premature birth to n dead calf having two
perfect heads.
BURGLARS took about $40 in money from the
honse of c. L. Bingham, of Morrsville, while his
family were absent.
lioRArio RYAN, OF East Berkshire, section
hand on the Missisquoi road, recently had a leg
broken by the falling of gate.
THE house of correction IL crowded with inmates
there being eightysx. The reform school at Yer
gennes has one hundred and twenty-five.
A CASE Of mother-in-law occurred in Richford
recently, which resulted in husband being driv-
en- out Of doors and belabored with a stick Of
wood
A PANTHER is creating some excitement in the
south part of Wilmington. 1t has been seen sew
eral times, but the hunters have not been able to
see it at good range yet.
JONI LORD of Union Village ninety
years old has husSed two hundred bushels OF corn
this season and is still at work. He gives his
earnings to the missionaries.
G. +. RICHARDSON of the Berwick House, Rut-
land, has been fined $40 and sentenced to one
month in the House of Correction for second
offence of liquor selling. Appealed.
Mrs. LEWIS CoBB has woven one thousand two
hundred and sixty eight yards of carpetng in the
last six years on hand loom, and three years of
the time had dairy of eight cows.
Miss MARTHA GLEASON of McIndoes Falls ex-
poets to go as a missionary to Turkey under
the auspices of the American Board This will
make five foreign missionaries from Caledonia
county this fall
Ex-Governor SMITHS carriage was capszed
on Main street Ia st. Adams last Wednesday
afternoon and Mrs. Smith considerably
bruised. Her daughter, daughter-n-law and the
driver, who also in the carriage, escaped I'M
hurt.
FRED GowES, an employe of the Fall Mountain
Paper Company at Bellows Falls had several OF
his ribs broken and otherwise injured by having
a tub of mortar fall on him This is the third
accident of a similar kind inside of week at that
place.
fLAGG of Braintree, the wrestler is to wrestle
Dufur, the champion soon, for the championship
of America Flagg rejects all invitations to prac.
tlce, and proposes To rest his success on the sci
ence which bore him through the army of the
Potomac as its champion.
have the manufacturers Of Bennington village had
so good a business as this year. The knitting
mills ale all sold out of stock, and have order.
enough ahead to include all that they can make
until they commence on their stock for another
year.
A WOMAN in Bellows Falls whose husband, a
laborer, more than year ago was disabled by al
accident for over eight months, has with her own
hands during the past year done the work for and
mainly supported her family, husband and one
child, and laid by from her earnings for future
use $50.
ONE morning about year ago, Wells Green o
East Bethel discovered that, during the night
his house and barn had been disdgured by sun
dry daubs of black paint. Mr.. Green has sine,
| repainted his house, and ON a recent morning |
| was found to have been disfgured "A second time
| The neighbors turned out aud so IN removed mos
| of the paint.
The grand jury has indicted Fred w. Dodge o
Bellows Falls. George Il. Spencer of Springfield
and Gideon Lee of Chelsea, for the murder o
Alvin c. Foster in Keene, New Hampshire, Ma,
23d, 1876. These parties were in Keene at tn
| time of the murder, and have from time to tim
\ uloppcu WoIu utrt anu lutIt WHICH HAS leu Y
their indictment.
TUESDAY afternoon of last week T. X. Scott wa
painting one Camp Stewards block, when tn
staging gave way and he fell some twenty five o
thirty feet and was severely injured. lie held o
to the caves trough for a while and fellow-worl
man partially held him, but both let 20 and h
fell end over end, striking upon his head an
shoulders. His recovery is uncertain
A FOREST fire started in the town of Ferri
burgh recently in the locality known as "Portel
borough" A strong north wind was increased I
gale, which drove the fire across stretch
country in a sontherly course for miles, and tn
inhabitants hurrledly moved their valuabes alon
the line OF its path. 1t has already burned ov,
Ave hundred acres and is still spreading
A SPAN of horses, with carryal containin
Hon. A. =. Bonney, wife aud daughter, ran ava
last Thursday afternoon in Belvidere. To chez
their mad course he refined them against ire
fence in front of the High street church The o
cupants were thrown out; Mr.. Bonney was bad
bruised and the ladies slightly injured, One
the horses was 50 badly injured AS to require b
ing killed
LAST Thursday afternoon, as Messrs Theophil
, Trout and Z. A. Prouty, lawyers, were ran
, from Irasburgh to Newport, and when within hs
mile of the village, their wagon was run in
by a two horse team belonging to L. S, Dorman,
ready clothing runner. II seems that D.
mans wagon ran over "a log in the road two
three inches in hight. lie felt a slight jar, b
the bolt holding the evener and whifetrses ga
way, and the horses ran some rods and separat
from the wagon, 1t running off the road al
throwing Dorman ten feet into the bushes. r
horses ran over fifty rods and one of them alght
: in the rear OF Grout's buggy, the other among t
, wheels. throwing them down and demolishing t
, wagon. Every spoke was broken out OF thr
" wheels. No one was seriously hurt.
4 Miss ABBIE WRIGHT. the American lady W
was killed in Switzerland in July, by the ov
A turning OF carriage, was born at Bradfo
q where she resided until few years ago, In I
!. capacity OF housekeeper for her brother. HC
n Hubbard Wright, Appointment local politician W
:, in early life had been raftsman on the c,
A necticut river Another brother, who went
. New York to "aeek his fortune" became pre-
= lent OF the Bank Note Engraving Company, a
at his death she inherited his large estate. S
:. was travelling with party OF New York frien
y | and thu acridant occurred hacauaa of thu kick