Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-04-28
Vermont State News.

GOLD digging has begun again in Plymouth.
Two boys escaped from the reform school at
Vergennes Monday, but were recaptured.
THE Central Vermont managers are now fitting
up an extensive picnic ground at Highgate.
WEDNESDAY Of last week young man named
standish of Norton Mills was killed by fall
ing tree.
THERE is a lady in Winha web-footed in the
hands-three fingers on each hand being united
by web.
THERE are at present In the Vermont state re-
form school one hundred and four boys and
twenty girls.
VERMONT has 2 800 school districts and nearly
100 900 school children twenty-one towns sup
port graded schools.
| THE cost Of the public schools at vergennes dur
| ing the past year was So, 1862, which is S6I9 less
than the previous year.
| THIRTY thousand salmon trout fry were placed
| in Lake Champlan at Whitehall, by A. p. Cook,
Of that place, last week
| DIPHrHERIA has again made an appearance AZ
Swanton Junction in the same locality where 1t
was 30 fatal one year ago.
THE vergennes Vermonter has been sold to
George wilmarth of Addison The new proprietor
is well fitted for the position.
THE pay roll Of the st. Johnsbury scale work.
contains six hundred names now-more work be
| Ing done there than ever before
WILLIAM BOYD had his skull smashed by p
wood frame saw at the Lvndonyille dressing mill
| last Thursday. lie lived two hours.
A LARGE corps Of railroad employees are at work
on the Bratteboro & whitehall narrow gauge rail.
road, and it will be speedily completed.
WILLIAM BUGGY OF North Troy has received
from the Michigan Central railroad So 1913 % in
settlement for damages received in the jackson
disaster last fall.
| J X BLAIsnELL's dry goods and grocery store
at Union Village in Thetford, was entered by rob
hers early Sunday morning, and gods to the
value of 500 carried away
THE Wells River Rirerside newspaper has a So
900 libel suit on its hands. being sued in that
amount nv one o f. Nettleton, travelling dent.
| list, for alleged defamatory statements.
| THE poishers at Goodels marble mill in Bnr-
lngton struck last week, and. after having given
| them suitable time tn come back. the proprietor
Of the mill filled their places with other workmen.
THE Ph0nir and Rsformer have together pnr-
chased the Brattlaboro Record and Farmer estab
| lishment tvpa material subscription list, good
will and all for 81. 400 Only two more issues OF
the paper will appear.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL HENRY OF Bnrng
ton assisted hy ndpnntv, have arrested Miles Com.
stock and Henry Sharp OF STAFFORD. and taken
them to Burlington, tn answer the charge OF Illicit
distaton Of cider brandy.
Mr. JrDEpiAH HoLcoMB who died In Cornwall
last Wednesday, aged eighty-one. was one Of the
od-time Abotionsis He was member Of theii
state execntive committee and at one time the edi
tor Of the Voice Of Freedom an Ant-slavery paper
} published at Brandon.
In the Franklin county court at ST. Albans
Thursday, Hiram wescott, who pleaded guilty t.
the larcenv Of one sheep, was sentenced to three
wears In the honse Of correction He IL one Of the
gang who have committed wholesale depreda
fnns on farmers In the eastern part OF the county
His sentence was light on account of turning
states evidence.
THE docket of the June term OF the Caledonis
county court contains one hundred and sixtv-tivs
cases-thrty-fiye state cases and one hundred anf
, thirty civil. The chancery docket contains fifty
court commences In St. Johnsbnry on Thursday
Nav 18th, and there are forty-four cases for con
-ideration.
IL HASD-cAR with party Of three men and on
Z woman was thrown from the track at the Port
land Ogdensbnrg crossing In Swanton last week
The wind driving them at a furious rate ant
the Portland & Ogdensbnrg track men hat
strapped rails the Central track for their en-
CINE tn cross and go to the lake. They were al
D several feet in the air and was almost completed!
4 demolished
g THE Crocker Paper Manufacturing Company o
Holyoke. Massachusetts, have purchased the Oh
colt water privilege situated on the Connection
river two miles below Norwich, together with tw'
/ hundred acres OF land lying each side OF the river
This il the largest unimproved water privilege II
, New England, and can be made nearly equal :
that of Holyoke. 1t il understood that the ne,
b owners win begin the construction OF a dam
v canal and factories at an early date.
FoR more than three-qusrters OF a century
=. strange old man has wandered through New Eng
land On foot and alone. He Is known rs " Oh
: Alexander" and for the last haf-century tn
: sobriquet Of The Wandering jew" has bee
9 added Old men with gray hairs remember hin
:, in their boyhood days, and the school children o
u tn day gather in his path and shout and laugh a
e him while passing by, until suddenly he wheel
4 | around and In voice OF astonishing depth au
a power banches their cheeks with horrid oath
and curses. This man Is singular being. an
e but little is known OF his early history. lie
9 aver six feet In height, with large, high fore
o head sharp features and piercing gray eyes. ii
is Scotchman by birth, and once a learne
i scholar, "a graduate from Edinburgh University.