Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-08
Vermont State News.

FKW cases OF supposed bloody murraih hhNo
appeared among the cattle on Putney hill, -Four
have died out OF one pasture
M. o. PERKINS, late principal Of the Windsor
high school, has accepted the editorship OF the
Vermont Journal of that place.
A FIvE-yEARs-oLD girl OF st. Johnsbury fell
from a window thirty feet TO the ground, but
strange to say, no bones we're broken.
A VALUABLE colt belonging to NJ c. Tibbets Of
North Troy recently stepped on stick which flew
up, the end penetrating the abdomen, killing him.
The official census Of Vermont subject how
ever to revision at the census Office shows the
population to be 332, 6iS, an increase Of 2O97
over 1870.
HILL & GREAvEs Bellows Falls wooden manu-
facturers, have failed with liabilities Of from S10,-
600 to 49, 900. The mill property has been re-
Gently mortgaged.
TEMPERANCE mass meeting was held on the
Vergennes city park Saturday with addresses by
Rev. G. II. vibbert of Boston and Rev. Merritt
Hulburd OF Burlington.
| AT Middlebury the other day. BERTHE Wright,
son Of Mrs. Victor Wright, while working with
moving machine, got his fingers between the
cogs, crushing them terribly.
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transit at Newport recently, when the possessor
one Coakley a brakeman, threw an iron pin and
broke the jug. He was arrested and put under
| 500 bonds.
TUESDAY afternoon Of last week James Costel-
low employed in one Of the pulp mills in Bellows
Falls was severely injured by being struck by
chain which slipped from log which was being
drawn into the mill.
DANIEL PATRIcK's new dam in Hinesburgh
burst Friday afternoon and is total wreck. His
cider mill, saw mill and cheese-box factory
badly damaged. Mr. Jessie Place went down
with the dam and was found some thirty rods be-
low with one leg broken twice and otherwise in
jured The damage is over 81 600.
NJ. b. BELL, Charles Winters, John Gaffney,
James Brislin, Jack Griffin, James Herman, Denis
Pecor and John Caten have been arrested at Rut-
land for disturbing the Republican torchght pro-
cession. Griffin was bound up in the sum OF 500
for his appearance at the county court, NJ b.
Bell in the sum Of $780, and Charles Winters in the
sum of $500. The others were not prosecuted
BURGLARS entered the dwelling house Of Perley
Mason, station agent at Fairlee, on the morning
of the I'd inst took what silverware, ETC., they
wanted, took the depot keys from his pocket In
his sleeping room and repaired to the Oxford and
Fairlee station, on the Connecticut & Passumpsic
railroad, where they rummaged everything, even
to a lady trunk that was lodged there over night
for the morning train, taking money, tickets, OK.
press packages, etc.
LARGE number Of the alumni and past cadets
of Norwich University, Mortified, met at Young's
Hotel, Boston, Thursday afternoon, Colonel Charlie,
ii. Lewis of New York city, president OF the asso
} citation, in the chair Among those who addressed
the meeting were Major Henry T.. Alvord of Viii
: liston Seminary, Edgar Parker, Professor Charles
} Dole OF the University, Charles II. Reed of tn,
Boston school board Dr. Joseph Setdman and DIR
. G. l.. Hathaway Of Boston. Colonel Charles ii
t Lewis, DIR. Joseph Stedman and Mr.. Charles II
Reed were appointed a committee to make ar
+ rangements for the next annual meeting. DIR. G
} l.. Hathaway, 4l2 Columbia avenue Boston, wa
' elected corresponding secretary.
Two thousand people assembled Thursday a
Indian Hill in the town of Pawlet, to commemo
rate the traditional battle fought there in 1853 be
tween scouting party Of Indians and Canadians
under the command of the French and party O
: the English led by Major, afterward General
u Israel Putnam. Addresses were made by Edito
t Macarthur Of the Granville Sentinel, Judge Brom
!
the speech-making, refreshments were served b.
l. the ladies Of Pawlet. large number of relic
y have been found at Indian Hill and among thos
1 exhibited was a combined sun dial aud compass
Il exhumed there about seventy years ago. and sup
posed to have belonged to General Putnam.
THE executive committee OF the Vermont Merin
= Sheep Breeders association have held meetin
at Mddlebury to take action concerning the CON
: ing sheep and wool exhibition at Philadelphia Il
:. consequence of the regulations of the show bein
:, unfair and the solicited suggestions of this assc
!, citation in framing those resolutions and the pei
sons they recommended to act one of the juror
: being entirely disregarded, and one being ap
pointed acceptable to a large majority of tn
y, members Of the association, the executive boar
+, decided that the cause ofimprovement of Merino
as well as the preservation OF their self-respet
!, would be best secured by refusing their co-opera
y, tion and they recommend that the member
withhold their sheep from the exhibition.