Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-04-14
Vermont State News.

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THE st. Johnsbury police made a raid on Pin
ards hotel, and seized a small quantity Of liquor
the other day.
SOME three hundred feet Of piles Of the Rouses
Point railroad bridge were demolished the other
day by floating ice.
THE calendar Of the June term OF the Addison
county court contains one hundred and ninety lone
court and sixteen chancery cases.
ACCORDING to the observations lately made by
Professor Barbour Of Burlington, Jay Peak is
3,i5O feet above North Troy village.
The April term Of Franklin county court began
yesterday Forty-six cases are set for jury trial,
and there are ffty-four court cases
WILLIAM EDWARD MEAD Of Brandon took the
first prize at the junior exhibition OF Wesleyan
College at Middletown, Connecticut
OSE night last week Alexander Robinson, aged
twenty-six years, drove off from the road in Corn
wall into the river, and was drowned.
THE town Of Hydepark has called in its $50, 900
bonds, which were issued to aid in the construc-
ton OF the Portland & Ogdensburg railroad.
THE resignation OF Professor Scion Abee, who
has for a number Of years past been professor OF
Latin in Middlebury College, has been accepted.
In Lowell, recently, five generations sat at one
table, at Judge Pane's, being daughter, a
mother a grandmother, great grandmother, and
great great-grandmother.
GREEN grass was cut in front Of the Caledonian
office, st Johnsbury, the 7th, ten inches long
Friday morning the mercury was only eighteen
above zero at the same place.
AT the school district meeting, Brattleboro, a
tax OF forty per cent was voted for current ex-
penses motion TO cut down Principal Brig
hams salary Of 81, 200 was lost
PETER CASrwELI, tramp printer, stole siO5
from n Johnson, tailor and his roommate, at
st. Adams, and bought ticket for Montreal, since
which no trace OF him has been found
THE April term Of the Lanoille county court be.
gins April 9th, the Hon. IL H. Powers presiding
The calendar contains one hundred and four cases
in county court and twenty-four in chancery.
The principal mill in lrasburgh owned by
Lieutenant-Governor f. p Cotton will be idle a
few months, as the dam WAS carried away by high
water and floating ice April 9th The damage is
from $500 to 81 600
THE reduction in local passenger rates contem-
plated for some time past by the Passumpsic rail.
road company, took effect on Monday last The
fare to all local points has been placed at three
and one-half cents a mile
The Pawtucket ice company have Just com
pleted harvesting ten thousand tons of ice from
Crystal lake in Barton, and have stored the crop
in five large sheds. 1t is intended for distribution
between Providence and Worcester
Tea D.Ita
ports total of s2l 675 of district property nclud
ing fine high school building worth Sl2, 600
The estimate Of expenses for this year is So, $50
including 81, 932 for teachers salaries
CHESTER H. WEED of Malone who was hurt by
falling from the balcony of the St Abans House,
has gone to Cleveland, Ohio, to enter for treat.
ment at the sanitarium there. His limbs are par
TALLY piralyzed as a result OF his injuries.
MRs. ELIZABETH NEWELL of Burlington over
turned a lighted kerosene lamp her clothes i'm.
mediately igniting. The flames were soon ex.
tingaished, but not, however, until she had sul-
fered severe burns on her hands and elsewhere
She died the next morning
HORACE L. LOOMS, George l. Root, c. +. b.
Haskell Of the senior class of the University OF
Vermont, and Edward STANLEY of Burlington, re-
ceived from Ed II, Phelps, recently appointed
chief engineer Of the Michigan Central railroad
appointments on the Mackinaw extension survey
EsrEY Co, of Brattleboro, shipped 1,O2i
organs during March-the largest number in the
history of the firm On Thursday news Of the
arrival of their first shipment to Japan was re.
ceived Though on the ocean between four and
five months the goods arrived in perfect condition
The town of Rockingham has been sued for
$4,000 by Amos b. Keith of Lynn, Massachusetts,
for damages received from being precipitated
down an embankment by canal bridge The in
jury occurred on the 18th OF August, 1879 The
case is to be tried in the United States circuit
court.
YOUNG man by the name of Frank McCol
lon, some twenty years OF age, subject to fits
went out of his uncle's house, that of Alden
Earle of Plymouth, the other evening, and wan.
dered in the darkness and rain until he persisted
Ills body was found some time the next day in a
pasture.
A NEW dept is to be built at White River June.
ton. President Raymond of the Passumpsic road
will have charge of the improvements, the Cen.
trail Vermont and the Northern corporations con
Niioubhs " tHt tAptHrt. IlhOs OF n struC-
ture worthy of the place are in the hands OF the
architect.
VicroR II. LOVELY, the principal actor in the
recent ARRAY at Underhill, had hearing at that
place on Saturday, and was bound over in tn,
sum of 81, 900 for shooting Morehouse and in the
same amount for assaulting and attempting u
shoot Blodgett. He was unable to obtain bail and
now lies in Jail in Burlington.
EDDIE IIoyT, son of Edwin Hoyt of West Ad-
olson, while hunting fish. placed cooked revol-
yer in his left coat pocket in passing it from his
left TO his right hand, the hammer caught dis
charging the weapon The ball entered the right
side of the abdomen, and lodged near the knee
The patient is in a critical condition. and his re-
covery is doubtful.
c. Z. YATES, while gathering driftwood in the
Misssquoi river at IIighgate falls on Monday of
last week, stepped upon a honey -combed piece OF
ice and was precipitated into the water. The cur
rent was so rapid that he was swept from sigh
his son being the only witness of the accident
Although the alarm WAS at once given, 1t was too
late, and he was drowned
The amount of fines imposed and collected at
the late term OF Rutland county court for viola
tion of the liquor law, is as follows: Fines 81 100
of which States Attorney George f. Lawrence is
entitled to $3.50; costs S2i7 g. making a total OF
fines and costs of 81, 1857 Go Bonds called for.
feited and paid 81 300 fines and costs paid under
the nuisance act s40372; total, S3O7l37. The
last two items go to the state in full
ST. ALBASs has a bonded debt of $4,000,
$4,000 of which is payable in twelve years, and
there is not dollar set aside with which 10 pay
it. There is floating debt in excess OF available
assets OF SS,il94. The interest and expenses
for the coming year are estimated at sl56 90
70 meet this and the floating debt there is the
water income and licenses which together will
yield probably 81, 0O0-whch leaves SIS 900 to be
provided for by a tax, and will require 100 cents
RAILROAD matters in the southern part of the
state do not get along smoothly. The Valley
Railroad Company has served formal notice upon
the officers Of the Brattleboro and Whitehall
Company, forbidding the New London Northern
the right OF way over the formers road-bed. The
notice says, That any and all rights OF your
company under an indenture, made and entered
into between the Vermont Valley Railroad Com
pany OF 1871 and said Brattleboro and Whitehall
Railroad Company on the first day OF February,
1879, are by of the breaches Of said inden-
ture on your part forfeited and terminated" This
course is likely to lead to lawsuit, although
there are many opinions as to the final result
Officers of the narrow-guage company profess to
be sanguine OF the early completion Of the road
under the new management, and the ordering of
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