Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-29
Vermont State News.


GRAFTON man has cow that tips the beam
at sixteen hundred and thirty pounds.
JAMES OWENS, the well-known wrestler, died in
Fairfield, Friday morning, Of heart disease.
tbs nomination by the president Of N. B. SAT-
ford rs postmaster at White River Junction has
Been confirmed
DEPOSITS Of iron ore have been found near st.
Albans, which are said to yield about sixty-three
per cent Of pure iron.
The late legislature lasted sixty-nine days. and
the state treasurer paid out as its cost $685. 425 or
nearly $1,000 day.
AN only daughter OF Daniel Harvey OF Barnet,
aged two and one-half years, died the 10th, from
the effects Of scald.
NRw ORLEANS dispatch says: &c, l.. Adams
Of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, has committed suicide
at his lodgings here with poison"
CHESTER EASTMAN, a young man OF Morgan,
had his right hand cut off last week while at work
in the steam saw mill at the Center; he had only
been in the mill about week.
GEORGE HOWE OF Brattleboro has been en-
ployed by General Walker. superintendent Of the
census, to make investigation and report on the
poor laws Of Great Britain, as compared with
| those Of this country.
LEWIS JrLLsoN Of Evansville is great sufferer
from what is supposed to be consumption. lie re-
Gently coughed up what those who saw them
called two live creatures having the form Of
worms They were about three inches long and
large as big fish worm.
THE United States senate has confirmed the
| nominations Of the following vermonters: Evelyn
| P. Mussey, consul at Maize; Amont Barnes, con
sui at Curacao; Asa o. Adds, commissioner fol
the settlement OF French and American claims
| William A. Perry, postmaster at Barre.
| ON Tuesday, December 21st, son OF Johr
Chambano, living in French Village" near Es
sex Junction, was playing with a pistol when II
discharged, the ball entering the bowels o
another little boy, standing close by, thirteen
years old. lie was alive at last accounts but hi.
physician thinks he cannot recover.
| john McCASNoN, little son Of Barney Nc
Cannon, of Essex, aged seven years, was rui
over by team loaded with wood as he was go
ing home from school on Tuesday afternoon
December Dist One Of the horses struck the lit
tie fellow, knocking him down, and before h,
| could get away the sled caught him and tn
whole load passed over his body. He lived eigh
hours. Strange to say, only one rib was broken
death ensuing from internal injuries
THE New London and Northern officials hav
decided to give Brattleboro fine new passenge
and freight depot, as well as new engine an
car-houses wood.shed and their appurtenances
Some Of the buildings, it is said, will be erecte
on the Allin lot, about quarter of mile belo,
their present site, and owned by the railroad CON
pany, thus leaving more spacious plot for tn
building OF the passenger and freight depots
Work on the grounds will probably begin With
few weeks.
THE Champlain granite and marble company
organized last summer under the laws of Vel
mont, with headquarters at vergennes, have ha
a gang of men busy the entire summer construct
ing docks, roads, derricks and out-buildings, ii
Guiding a clearinghouse for the employees, an
have opened the quarry to the bedrock and mad
few shipments before the close Of navigation
Granite experts pronounce it Of superior quality
Ex-Governor Redfield Proctor is president, and !
W. Coe, treasurer.
THE treasurer's books and the records of tn
Masonic lodges at Mddebury have thus far sir
gularly escaped destruction by fire In 1916
fire destroyed a block in which they were located
and although the original charter was burned
the records and treasurer's books were saved
1875 fire again destroyed the lodge rooms BIT
these records were saved, and this year by tn
burning of Stewards block their lodge-room wa
again destroyed, and these records and treasurer
books dating from 1894 we're again rescued.