Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-10
Vermont State News.

lHE CONNECTICUT river railroad Is preparing 10
erect repair shop at Windsor
QUITE number Of the fresh-air" children Of
New York city are to he sent TO Fair Haven.
MAGGIE MORAN, who drank corrosive subli-
mate by mistake at McIndoes recently, is dead.
The failure Is announced Of Mr.. J. @. Davis OF
'ne bfattleboro House, breeder OF fancy horses.
MELVIN PITKIN, aged fifteen, was drowned at
sharon, Monday night Of last week, while bathing.
SOME sneak thief entered the PREMISES Of ! p
otis OF Burke, on a recent night, and stole a gold
| watch valued at $3.50
lHE workmen Of the Fair Haven marble and
marbleized slate company successfully struck for
more wages last week.
THE new bank at Poultney begins business Sep
TENDER LIST, with NJ. d. Cole cashier of the Castle
ton national bank, as cashier
STEPHEN MUSRoE and Isaac Laventure. re-
Gently severely Injured at Middlebury by the fall
ing OF staging, are recovering
THIRSTY thieves broke into Converses ice
house in Burlington lately and seized quantity
Of malt liquor belonging to the city.
WILLIAM Brooks Of Hartford committed sui
eide by taking opium on the 1st His age was about
thirty-fve. lie leaves widow and one child
JOHN WHITE, the brakeman who went off the
bridge at North Hartland, distance Of sixty
Feet with four cars, at the late dump is out again
as good az new
BELLOWS FALLS Is TO have an S1S, 600 sewerage
system, planned by James W. Sewall Of Newport,
Rhode Island, under the supervision of Colonel
George T. waring.
GEORGE b. PRENTIss fell from staging in BEN
nington village Thursday afternoon, and at first
was thought to be fatally injured. lie il improv-
ing and may recover.
MRS. ALBERT SAIL, a reported insane woman
oil Holland, left her home the other night and no
trace Of her has been found although diligent
search has been made
BIG elm tree near Deacon James Parker's
house in Sharon was struck by lightning recently.
Mrs. Parker had a brass kettle in her hand and
was severely shocked.
DAVID HALE of Rpton farmer, has been
placed under 500 bonds for trial at the December
term of the county court, charged with raising a
town order for SO IL to sl31 IL, and selling it,
ONE Cassius Jobert, an employee Of John W.
Hayes OF Burlington, stole a suit Of clothes of a
fellow workman the other day and fled to his
home in Port Henry, where he was arrested
LAST year Vermont paid but s53, l45 SO in in
ternal revenue, the smallest sum of any state.
This is paid mostly on whiskey and tobacco which
are manufactured very sparingy in the state.
ZENIA II. ALBEE of Bellows Falls went to Fargo
Dakota, to locate in law practice He found forty
two lawyers to only about twenty-five hundred in
habtants, and promptly returned to Vermont
ROBERTSON MOORE, papermakers at Bellows
Fails, have dissolved partnership. Both will con-
tinue in the business, Robertson in the mill re-
Gently built By them and Moore in their old mill
A DEPUTY United States marshal recently
seized in Plymouth still and other apparatus for
Illicit distiug and arrested four men, Calvin
Sprague, James Salter, Edward T. Coolidge and
Ira Webster.
GRAssHoPPERs are cutting off oats badly in
many places in Addison county. In some towns
farmers are cutting the crops before maturity to
save total loss. The oat crop is fine everywhere
and winter and spring wheat exceptionally good.
In addition to the construction Of large kiln at
Fort Cassn to manufacture hydraulic cement, the
same rich parties from Rutland have bought land
at Apple-tree cove and Limekiln point on Lake
Champlan and will at once begin to manufacture
white lime.
ST. JoHNsBuRY is again in trouble about its
water works. 1t has just paid 81 900 for its in
fringement of the Holley pump patent, and now
an expensive litigation is begun to determine the
rights Of the mill-owners and the viii
lage to the water-power.
DURING recent thunder storm lightning struck
an elm tree in the yard of o. H. Fisher in Addi-
SON. The tree Is believed to be two hundred
years old 1t was set on fire, and the blaze at
tracted the neighbors for quite distance They
supposed the house was on fire.
THE residence of Hon Worthington C. Smith
at st. Adams entered by burglars last week
Wednesday night. The thieves carried off some
$500 in money, and quantity of clothing and
other valuables valued at 500 more At last ac-
counts no arrests had been made.
lr is reported that the Rutland liquor seizures
of June will be contested for informality NAL
feasance OF the officers, etc, at the next term of
the county court, and the Hon. John Prout Hon
T. r Hard, Hon. b. F Fifeld, and Colonel A. i.
Walker have been retained as counsel.
FRANK X MEssIER and Ada Lezotte an clipping
couple from Lowell Massachusetts, were arrested
at Burlington, Saturday, and lodged in Jail. Mes
sier left a wife and Lezotte husband in Lowell
On trial Monday the woman was let off on nol
pros. and the man, after full hearing, was ac-
quilted
The Richford Gdzette says that there are in one
family three living pensioners of the war Of 1872
Hiram Clark of Richford, aged eighty-six, Amos
Clark OF St. Adams, aged lightweight fought at
Pattsburgh. Their sister, Mrs Orrin Green OF
st. Adams, aged seventy-seven, is a widow OF
'oldier of that war.
MIKE LAPAGE, an employe Of the Connecticut
tiver lumber company, who was at work putting
n suce for the purpose of getting logs over
iandyke Merrill's mill dam at McIndoes, was
dangerously injured Saturday morning by a log
hat rolled over him, breaking one leg and other
wise bruising him.
The following the dates set for various Yer
mont fairs in September: State fair, Montpelier,
3l6; Addison county, Mlddlebury, 5.7 Rupert
Vest Rupert, 2022; White river valley, Bethel.
0-22; Lamoille county, Morrsville 90, "a; Mad
liver valley, Wakefield, 27, IS; Batterskill valley,
factory Point 30, 30.
THERE is family in Vergennes composed of
hree persons, whose united ages amount to two
hundred and forty-nine years. The youngest Of
he two women, aged seventy, looks after do
nestle affairs daily, without any assistance. The
ead of the household is ninety, his young
notherin-law eighty-sx, and his wife seventy.
A Respectable looking woman tramp with n
ag Of cement in bottles has been calling on prom
nent Vergennes citizens for a week past and af-
er getting them to leave the room by adroit
ames, hooked on to anything of value that she
ould find. She was caugbs stealing from mil
merry store, but settled damages and was released.
LANSING MILLS having OF cred to pay oae-halfof
hs 50, 900 debt the First Baptist church OF st.
.lbans, provided the remaining half shan be de-
osited in hank b, october LIST, the members. on
nesdav .,ening of last week, held meeting and
apserbed 81 ,90i toward the needed sum- and
here is a strong feeling that the whole amount
ill be obtained.
PRISONS ase passing through Addison and Chit
'nden counties with long strings Of poorly built
'rrisges, stopping at the principal villages and
elling them at almost any price They are sus-
ected to be practicing the same lodges SO sue
essful q few years ago, when the unfortunate
uyers were called upon later by other parties to
NY chattel mortgages on the wagons for nearly
leir full value.
The AMERICAN BAR AssocIATIoN.-As hitherto
the fourth annual meeting OF the
mercan Bar Association will be held at Saratoga
prings on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
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