Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-22
Vermont State News.

SEVENTEEN petitions for divorce entered at the
September term OF the Rutland county court.
THE Burlington wooden company at winoosk
Falls are putting the Brush electric light in their
three factories.
C. TEMPLE of Franklin has furnished over
$1,000 worth Of choice butter for the White Noun
tains since June LIST.
THE case Of A. +. Moore, the alleged forger,
has been continued to the February term OF the
Orleans county court.
HOMER JONES, a four-years-old boy Of North
Troy, had his hand badly mangled by getting 1t
caught in the gearing Of churn.
Mr. D. PAUL, station agent at East Berkshire
when assisting In moving a freight car, slipped
and dislocated his right shoulder.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION has been added to the
list OF presidential post-oices from October LIST,
the annual receipts having reached 1900.
THE prospects now are that work will be COM
menced on the extension of the Burlington & La
noble railroad to johnson at an early day.
CHESTER cat has adopted a two-weeks-old
chicken, tenderly nestles it between her three
kittens, and allows it to drink from the same cup.
FOREST fires compelled the inmates of the West
Ferrisburgh poor house aud neighboring farmers
to remove their goods. John Bonyean and ].
Gregory lost forty-two cords Of wood.
THE stockholders OF the Vermont Valley rail-
road of 1871 will hold a special meeting at the
Brooks house, Brattleboro, Tuesday the 2Sth, to
authorize mortgage of the property and attend
to other business.
LAST week Mr. Jerry Keefe Of Westminster
turned three good calves into pasture where
there acre OF potatoes upon which Paris
green had been used A few days later he found
the calves all dead
ABOUT seventy-fve trackmen are laying rails
on the Brattleboro narrow-gauge road. Should
the passenger cars arrive In time it is thought
that the first excursion train may be run to the
county fair this week.
QUITE serious accident occurred at Poutney
recently at the Ripley & Stanley steam mill. A
child named Loomis was struck by log which
rolled completely over its head and body. 1t is
thought that the injuries are not fatal.
On Wednesday Daniel Reilly, an employe in the
Fall Mountain Paper Company's mills at Bellows
Falls, had his hand and arm caught in one OF the
rolling machines and the flesh stripped from the
bones. His hand was amputated. 1t is thought
his arm will be saved.
THE state reform school has at the present time
one hundred and twenty-five inmates The
breeding of booded stock is successful feature
of this institution, fine farm OF one hundred and
thirty-one acres attached affording excellent IA
cties in that direction.
A FIRE set by Hiram Adams near Vergennes to
burn brush heaps spread so rapidly under high
wind that the citizens turned out and fought 1t,
subduing 1t after it had burned over several hun
dred acres, destroying seven hundred fence rails
for Joseph Gindess and the fence along the Gen.
trail Vermont road.
MRS. OMIsDA GERRY, living in the west part
Of the town Of Bennington, died recently, aged
ninety-two Her maiden name WAS Armstrong,
and she was the youngest OF thirteen children. At
the time OF the battle of Bennington her father
Hopestill Armstrong, lived in log hut in West
Bennington. then wilderness
Mr.. DANIEL PATRICK at Hinesburgh is rebuild
ing his dam. The structure which gave way was
twenty-seven feet high and constructed entirely of
stone and cement, but the latter proved worthless
Mr. Jessie Place, who was so badly hurt at the
dam disaster, died from his injuries. last week at
the Mary Fletcher hospital at Burlington.
A. STISErs and J. Cooney Of Highgate who
in drunken spree drove the track In front
OF a moving train at the Springs short time
since, had rather rough time Of 1t. Besides
coming near being killed and having their wagon
smashed the authorities took up Cooney and
fined him for intoxication, and Stinets escaped
only by being too badly hurt to be moved at the
time.
IT appears that Clarendon Ia not without town
representative, Noel Potter having been elected
by some fifty voters, who refused to adjourn the
town meeting after it had been in session up to
daylight OF the day following election day. After
the meeting had been declared adjourned by the
constable one Of the selectmen called for votes,
| resulting in the above choice, which will doubt
less be recognized by the legislature as valid.
By the bursting Of the headlight to one of the
| engines, two persons were severely burned In
| the round-house at Newport. Charles Williams
fireman, was lying right under the light asleep.
The oil ran down over him setting fire to his
clothes which were all In flames at once. Mr..
Morey, workman in the engine house, In at
tempting to strip him and put out the fire, was
himself severely burned about the face aud head.
Ahhns iNosh u ihuhuhu WOlnhii,
| aged thirty-fve years, the wife OF Peter Short
sleeves, an employe Of Sheldons & slason at West
Rutland, recently left her home, telling Of her
| children that he would never see her again Dill
ligent search for her dead or alive, has been
made by her husband and friends, without sue
cess. She is supposed to have committed su-
icide by drowning in Otter creek on account OF
domestic troubles
On Tuesday of last week l.. ID. Woods of Water
vile returning home after his days work, found
that his wife and two children had left the house.
| Searching for them he found the children at a
neighbors, where his wife had left them, but she
herself could not be found On Wednesday search
was renewed and the woman was finally traced
to Burlington, where all clue was lost. young
man disappeared from the same locality, and
both are probably in Canada.
| WIsDHAM county is having mtre unpleasant
experience with that stringent liquor law Scores
OF witnesses have been subp@naed before the
grand jury at Newfane from Bellows Falls and
Brattleboro To testify against the hotels drug
stores and groceries. Some Of the desired wit
nesses have quietly left town before receiving a
summons while others have gone down TO the
Connecticut river bank and laughed at the sheriff
while they fortunately enjoyed the protection OF
New Hampshire, whose boundary extends to high
water mark on the west bank.
HooD's SARsAPARILi.A Is designed to meet the
wants Of those who need medicine TO build them
up, give them an appetite, purify their blood and
oil up the machinery oi their bodies. No other
article takes hold Of the system and hits exactly
the spot like Hoods sarsaparilla. It works like
magic, reaching every part Of the human bod,
through the blood giving 10 all renewed life and