Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-17


TnE time Of the Iamoille county fair has beer
changed to September 23d and oath.
TnH Chittenden Eddys, Of Spirit Vale notoriet,
have returned to their old haunts, it is reported
ALEXANDER ELLIOTT a Gaysvile laborer tool
s25 from the pockets Of two Of his fellow-aborer
and left town
The checker match between Colonel Gates ant
H. N. Hyzer Is to take place on Tuesday, the 23t
instant at Burlington
EMILY BusrEAD, who has been sick at Below
Falls with the smallpox, died Thursday night
No new cases are reported
The Waltham post office was entered by burg
lars Tuesday night, the safe blown open and 1927
In stamps and change stolen.
HENRY CUMMINGS Of Manchester was accident
ally killed the other day by his older brother
who was fooling with a shotgun.
ROBERT WILLIAMS OF Clarendon took Pari,
| green last week Sunday and died from the ef
fects OF the poison Monday afternoon
c. c. HoudnToS Of Worcester, Massachusetts
has presented to the First Universalist church Of
vernon fine silver communion service
CHARLES CLARK was arrested at Newport re
NN"''S ''i HtohilnRJ anu gwen one hundred AnC
forty-two days in the House Of Correction.
COLCHESTER woman who got married when
she was eleven years old and had a child year
after, has just run away from her husband
A MAN named Bigelow was arrested at Lyndon
for stealing horse. But after proving that he
had some claim on the animal he was discharged
john THInAuLT, who some time since stole
1var dat Q DIAL
guilty. and has been sentenced to four years in the
House OF Correction
THE other day at Ferrisburgh, tramp as.
sauled an eighteen years-old girl but she escaped
from him. The neighbors tried to catch the
tramp, but could not.
Miss STELLA NICHOLS Of St Johnsbury has
fallen heir to $1,000 but the cashier of the bank
in which it is deposited will not disclose the source
from which the money came
II. B. Colby OF Tunbridge was badly injured
recently. He was breaking colt and fell from
his wagon, struck on the wheel and broke four
ribs, besides in1cting internal injuries.
Mrs. AMAsA JOKES, an estimable lady of Straf.
ford while laboring under a temporary fit OF in.
sanity occasioned by sickness committed suicide
by drowning in a watering trough on Monday
night Of last week.
The Champlain Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany have instituted a large number of suits
against policy-holders on the recent assessment,
all of which, thus far, have been settled upon the
serving of the wrts.
AT Mortified on the Sth instant the royal
Bengal tigress in Forepaugh's menagerie gave
birth to cubs bred from the Asiatic lion George
This is said to be the first cross of this kind ever
known in this country
The Chittenden county farmers association
will hold a fair on the grounds at Essex Junction
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September
Both and October LIST and ID Premiums amount
ing to $500 will be offered
d. W. HAGER and the IIaskins girl, whose
my sterous disappearance " from Brattleboro a
few weeks ago created much unfavorable COM
ment, have both returned. The fosmer rejoined his
family and has gone to work again.
AT st. Adams last week Peter vayo, about eigh-
teen years of age died from the effects of being
struck in the stomach by a stone weighing four
pounds, thrown by young boy named Curtis. 1t
Is supposed the affair was accidental.
The vergennes Veymonter says Mr. James
Do"si"sH VI O"rn"al recently aug from one NIL,
one hundred and eight potatoes, one of the larg-
est weighing two and BALI pounds. The pota-
toes were all perfectly sound and good
GEORGE T. WRIGHT of Jericho, son of George
u. wright oil Burlington, has mysteriously disap-
peared lie was last seen at Essex junction on
the 9th instant, on his way home from Bnrling-
Ton NO cause is assigned for his disappearance.
JOHN LIscoM Of West Brattleboro estimates his
this years crop of peaches, which he is now
marketing, at about two hundred bushels, and
frank Lynde OF the same place has crop which
Is Variously estimated at from two hundred to
'our hundred bushels
lHE law against shooting cartridges and ducks
Is again oil and Addison county sportsmen are
visiting the hunting grounds with excellent sue
cess. Inc game has not Increased as rapidly as