Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-11
Vermont State News.

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Frustrated with diphtheria, and one has died.
JAcoB CRoNK, an old resident Of Ferrisburgh,
died last Friday from the bursting Of blood
vessel
TnE town Of waltham is eighty-t three years DID,
and has never had a church or post-ofice within
Its limits.
The town tax OF watham this year Is three
cents on the dollar on the grand list-the first
town tax for years.
SATURDAY child OF Louis SERVANT, on West
street. Rutland, fell into a tub Of boiling water
and was badly scalded.
THE February term Of the supreme court for
Windham county is to be holden at Brattleboro,
beginning Monday, the 10th.
SOME contemplate mscreant recently chopped |
down fifteen choice apple trees belonging to Elias
Thompson OF Manchester Depot.
f, & |. NJ. KNOWLES, extensive stock raisers at |
New Haven, are winteripg one hundred and eighty
five head Of two-years-old steers.
MEASLES prevail throughout Addison county,
and many cases are serious in their effects, some
patients losing hearing or speech.
on the docket OF the supreme court for Windsor
county, to convene the last Tuesday in this
month, there are thirty -nne cases.
New HAVEN has some aged citizens; there are
seventy who are above seventy years old, twenty
five above eighty, and three above ninety.
THE damages and costs In the noted contro-
versy at vergennes over the ownership OF steer
aggregate about $500 The steer is valued at S35.
The Bridport and Addison detective society
have elected Colonel A. A. Fletcher president and
Tha md In ~, traaa
| amount to 5000
OsTIGNy & DuMos Of Leicester Junction have
taken contract to supply 900 cords Of wood to
| Pittsford Furnace; LOO cords are already cut
| and 800 delivered.
| THE destructive fires which last summer swept
over the timber lands in the vicuty OF West Fer
risburgh have necessitated the cutting over Of
large tracts Of valuable wood and timber.
Two st. Johnsbury boys while coasting across
| the railroad track, were struck by passing en-
CINE, though strange to say, neither OF them was
dangerously hurt It was a marvellous escape
| from death.
A COW belonging to N. f. La Francis OF Rpton,
| which has acted peculiarly and at last died, has
been found to have had large darning-needle in
her heart which had been there long enough to be-
come covered with rust.
CHRISTOPHER TRACY who escaped from Jail at
st. Adams by throwing pepper into the sheriff 3
eyes was recaptured last Friday. He went to
Canada, but the sheriff inveigled him back this
side of the line, when he was arrested.
| DURING the year 1879 the Bellows Falls post
office sold 167 $40 stamps, amounting to So, sos 0S
Number OF envelopes and paper wrappers, 20, $50,
amounting to S60l 49, Number Of postal cards
sold Al, S72 amounting to S47S 73 Total 81 oSS A
The locomotive J. Burdett, attached to the
morning train from Rutland ~ Bellows Falls,
Monday morning met with mishap near Bar
louisville. The axle on the forward drivers broke
and the driving wheels off the track. The
locomotive was pretty badly damaged. freight
locomotive was brought into requistion to finish
the trip Of the train
CAPTAIN STEPHEN McGAFFEY OF Lyndon Cen.
ter died the other day at the age Of eighty. eight
years. Mr.. McGaffey was always prominent in
the management Of town affairs, represented
the town at Montpelier more years in succession
Than any other man who ever lived there, and
was for long series Of years kept in positions Of
trust by his townsmen.
CAPTAIN ALEXANDER ATcHERsoN Of West
, minister, the veteran fox hunter Of Vermont, now
in his sixty ninth year. has caught and collected
more furs Of various kinds this season than in any
Of the more than forty years of his experience
lie has just made sale OF about 5000 worth t.
: Boston firm. The captain appears to be goot
: for another ten years hunt.
On Friday evening, January 3Oth, the house o
philo Barton in North Ferrisburgh was entered b,
burglars and purse containing twelve silver dol
lars, gold locket and chain gold pencil ant
other articles Of value were taken. This occurred
while Mr. Barton was away at neighbors. Thu
entrance was made by prying open window. NJ
clue has as yet been obtained,
WHILE Deputy Sheriff Ferguson OF Riehmon,
was taking three boys to the house Of correction
last week. as the train neared New Haven one o
o the boys slipped his shackles and two OF then
jumped from the moving car. The other wa
| taken TO Rutland. Mr.. Ferguson, after an excit
ing chase captured the fugitves and they ar
, | now In the house Of correction
, THE North Pownal mill, of which A. c. Hough
D | ton OF North Adams, Massachusetts, is principa
y | owner, and the Arnold print works consumers o
the entire production, is to be enlarged and thirt
o new looms added, making four hundred in all. in
e Guiding seventy which Supernten ient j. T. Prizes
j. | has had to add within a short time The mill
d now making 100 900 yards ofprint cloths week
= REV. T. F. Stewart OF South Burlington, Will
, in the act of shutting his barn door. during re
d cent gale, was taken from his feet by the win
!, and carried some eight feet and dashed agains
+ the ground with such force as to inhict half
dozen severe cuts and bruises on his left arm an
g head. At the same time thirteen-foot plan
II was lifted from the ground and carried fifty fee
away before alighting.
ORLEANS county court convened at Irasburg
y the Sd instant, Judge Redfeld presiding. Their
r are two hundred and fifty cases on the docke
over fifty for the jury. The first case, Nelson u
e the Little estate, involving the question Of tn
Is forgery Of note by c. T. Bridgeman Of Hare
wick, the original payee, excited general Interest
i and after a three days legal contest was given
q the jury, who, having deliberated eighteen hour
. were unable to agree, and were discharged Th
J. was the second trial Of the case the jury in tn
= former trial two years ago, also being unable I
d agree. The most important criminal case Is tn
y state Us. Moore, on the forgery OF a note tn
Newport bank
n. THE new pulp mill of the Fall Mountain Papt
Company at Bellows Falls is nearly finished at
% cost OF $3.50 and is attracting general after
/. ton The total head of water is fifty feet Mooi
~ Ames. another large company, will build
is paper mill in the spring on the site OF what cam
At near being the Lowell cotton mills. This mi
il is to be one hundred and thirty feet loni
"a ifty feet wide, with an ell Of one hundred feet
10 length. The main building is to be two stories
A height. The Fall Mountain company will bull
10 an extension OF one hundred feet In length |
=. the spring; also boiler houses and necessary GU
a buildings. A new wooden mill is also projected
,r to employ eventually one hundred and lift
v hands. This will be the outgrowth OF the shodd
manufacturing business there and citizens
~ contribute to aid the enterprise Manufacturer
i. are exempt from taxes for five years. tn
,e three-story brick mandatory Just completed Il
=. the Vermont Farm machine company will be o.
ID cuped soon. Fifty new tenements are desired Il
"a the employees OF the pulp mill.
At THERE will probably be a notable contest ovt
the estate of the late b. f. Goss, president OF tn
IN kaolin works at Monkton. For a year or MOI
previous to his death he had been bereft OF re,
Of son, by what was thought to be softening Of tn
er brain. lie had made various wills and at III
ID time OF his death was thought to be worth nearl
" $50, 900 His heirs were a son, Frank, who ma
n ried the daughter OF well-to-do tanner In We
H. | gennes and one daughter Fannie, who WAS una