Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-05
Vermont State News.


+. NELSON JOHNSON has been acquitted at
Highgate Of the charge Of arson.
AN adjourned session OF the Orleans county
court convened at Irasburg yesterday.
JOE JEFFERSON is to play Rip Van Wrinkle at
Burlington again on the 10th Of May.
GOVERNOR SMITH has just imported from France
two thousand-dollar stallion and two mares
Mrs. SALLY srocKwELL Of West Brattleboro
has just celebrated her one hundred and first
birthday.
Mrs IlULDA ROBERTSON Of Bethel reached the
mature age of one hundred and one years on Fri
day of last week.
GENERAL CIRCUIT is to be the orator at st. Johns
bury on Decoration Day, and Henry Clark is to
speak at Bennington
The winters snow fall at Brattleboro was just
one hundred inches according to a trustworthy
! local weather reporter.
Hon LUKE p POLAND was thrown from a car
rage at Wells River Saturday, receiving severe
but not dangerous hurt
Mrs JOSEPH MARTIN of westfeld, Orleans
county, died last week at the advanced age of one
hundred and one years
for the month OF March were S463, 40, and the
domestic exports were S92,G1S.
LITTLE daughter OF George IL Days of Wood
stock sat down in kettle Of boiling water the
other day and was terribly scalded
THE May session Of the United States circuit
and district court for Vermont will be opened at
Windsor, on Thursday, the 18th inst.
NEW building has been added to the State
street side Of the state prison at Windsor, new
chapel built, and an outer gate added
MILES, the Barre bank robber, is said to behave
exceedingly well in the state prison just now, and
| Is gaining time at the rate Of five days month.
THE Estey Organ Company, the product Of
whose factory has for some time been forty
gans per day, are making preparations to increase
to fifty per day.
YOUNG man by the name Of Pheix DeForge
who threw a stone through the window of a pas
senger car at Richmond has been sent to the re-
form school for six years
THE docket of the May term of the Windsor
county court, which opens the 25th, contains one
hundred and ninety-four cases The chancery
docket numbers thirty-five cases.
SULLIVAN |. DAY was thrown from his carriage
at North Troy, Monday night, and seriously if
not fatally injured lie is injured internally, and
sustained serious cuts about the head.
THE Congregational church at Pittsford, which
has been altered at cost of 81 263 was dedicated
last week Wednesday, Rev. DIR. George Leon
Walker Of Hartford, Connecticut preaching the
sermon.
II. NJ. DUFuR, the Marlboro wrestler, has re-
ceived invitation from about fifty of the sport
ing men in Vermont asking him to come and en-
gage in a collar-and-elbow wrestling match at
| Newport
THE Connecticut River lumber company has
started drive GOOOO,OOO feet Of lumber from
Pittsburg, New Hampshire, with 700 men, and the
logs have begun to arrive at McIndoes, where
they will lie sorted.
MIR. GILLETTE and another gentleman Of
White River junction have each given thirty
acres of land to be occupied as mill property by a
new company which is forming for the erection Of
a cotton mill at that place.
The sugar house of S c. Doty of Emore was
recently burned with all its contents, including p
new evaporator. His neighbors promptly turned
out, put up new sugar house, and got him in
running order in season for the next run of sap.
ALFRED Q EVANS of Sutton, arrested on charge
Of adultery, has been bound up in the sum OF
$1,000 Minerva Coburn also had hearing, on
charge of being the other party in this transaction,
and was put under $500 bonds for appearance
at court.
Lon DERBY and c. Phearons, two of the three
| scoundrels who assaulted iorris Ferris near the
edge of piece of woods in the town OF Ripton
about month since, have been caught and placed
in the Middlebury Jail to await the action of the
June term of the county court
THE First National Bank of Vergennes has be- n
established, with Colonel Walter Scranton a.
president and d. II. Lewis cashier. Lewis ha-
resigned as cashier of the vergennes Nationa
Bank to take his new position. N j. Allen OF
North Ferrisburg is one of the directors.
JOHN HowLE of Perkins Landing, aged twenty
| one, who has been missing for six days is SUP
posed to have drowned himself in the lake, as II
hat belonging to him has been found on the shore
fowle was respectfully connected. Disappont
ment in love is supposed to be the cause.
THE trial of Edward T Paige, charged with
$4,000 defalcation as chief clerk in the Contra
Vermont freight office at Burlington is in progress
there. The defense will try to show that the
| business OF the office conducted that any
| one else might have taken the money, while the
state claims that the responsibility rests with
Paige, who had charge
| JUDGE CRossErT of Duxbury has made 1000
pounds of maple sugar In the best of sugar
seasons he makes 5000 pounds. This is about
fair proportion of the yield of maple sugar this
year AS compared with other seasons. Sugar
orchards ON the high hills have done better than
about eighty per cent of what is made in the best
| seasons
| SECRETARY EvARTs has declined his appoint
ment as orator at the coming meeting of the So
ciety of the Army of the Potomac at Burlington
aud Judge John K. Brady of New York has been
selected in his stead. General Grant has declined
AN invitation to be present, writing that he will
not go east of Illinois before fall, and intends
going to the Rocky Mountains at the time of the
meeting, June 10th
| THREE or four months ago Mr.. S G. lIolyoke
| OF st. Adams bought ten-acre wood lot, situated
| about mile from Richford village About
dozen wood-choppers are engaged in converting
the sturdy naples into cord-wood. One of these
choppers is Mrs Josephine Farrand, young
married lady Of twenty years, who accompanies
her husband and brother to the woods and puts
up her cord day, besides doing her housework.
THE Stamford panther has again been seen, this
| time by n farmer who was chopping wood in the
| swamp near the reservoir at North Adams, Massa
| chusetts. The farmer describes the animal as be-
ing huge, gray fellow and thinks he has a mate
and litter Of Cubs In the neighborhood, from the
fact that during the past winter his family have
frequently been startled by blood-curdling screams