Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-09
Vermont State News.

| Inn "omphiemhkoR mouse ~ Newport II clOset
for the winter
TnE Howe Scale Works pay their workmer
about $4,000 per month.
MORE than three thousand cattle have been sole
TO drovers In Orleans county this fall.
ONE hundred thirty-one cases were heard a
the recent term Of the Rutland county court.
The epizootic, or pink.eye, has recently mad,
fearful havoc among the horses at Bennington
CHARLEsroN hen lived under hay NOV
eight weeks without food or water, and still lives
The total losses by fire in the state during Sep
TENDER were 1890; insurance company losses
$4,000.
SIMON MARSH Of Holland raised eighty.si,
bushels OF white Russian wheat on one acre and
seven-eighths
The Portland 0gdensburg railroad has con.
cuded not to bridge lake Champlain at Rouses
Point at present.
WHITE fish, as they are called, are now plenty
In Lake Bomoseen. They are caught only in the
fall, and with net
THE nineteen barrels OF ale seized In the Cen
trail Vermont station at Burlington two weeks ago
have been declared forfeited.
NEARLY all the states show decrease in this
years wheat crop, but Vermont has nearly 81, OOC
bushels more this year than last.
Snow fell Friday along the line Of the Pas.
sumpsic railroad between Newport and St. Johns.
bury to depth Of four or five inches
THE entire capital stock, 81, 300 OOO for the con.
struction of a railroad from Dandy to Whitehall,
has been subscribed and the money is in the bank.
EDITOR W. +. STORY Of the Chicago Times has
been spending, with his wife, week at Middle.
bury, his former home. lie left Saturday fol
Boston.
W. T. CoDDISGroN, DID. formerly well
known teacher in Vermont, has been called to the
Second Methodist society in Chicago at salary
Of $1,000
MIR. AND MRS. OSCAR HAMMOND Of Troy, who
were divorced at the last term Of the county court
having reconsdered the matter, were remarked
last week.
COLONEL WALTER SCRANTON has left Yer.
gennes for Scranton, Pennsylvania. He will have
banking office in New York, but live perma-
nently in vergennes.
COLONEL CANNON Of Burlington has colt that
cost him $500, which has just trotted half mile
In .12l. 1t IL understood that he has refused an
offer of 50, 900 for the animal.
LITTLE one year-old daughter of Frank Booth
Of Essex Junction had spoonful Of laudanum
administered to her by mistake few days since,
but was saved by medical skill
THE bodies Of Mr.. and Mrs Cook, who were
found dead at Bellows Falls, were placed in a
tomb, and no other examination has been made,
as all are satisfied that they died by their own
hands.
DEPUTY SHERIFF MORRILL, OF Franklin county
last week caught horse thief, who gives his
name as J. o. Brien, at Winooski The thief had
stolen the team Of II. Reynolds, a St. Adams
livery-stable keeper.
PAUL and Mike Tierney, brothers, engaged in
scufe at Ripton on recent Sunday, during
which the former had pipe stem driven twice
through his tongue and back into his throat, max
ing hole five inches deep.
TRIPLE over $50, 900 is already pledged for
the Bennington battle monument, and further
congressional appropriation toward the needed
100000 will be sought. Individual subscriptions
are quite numerous and substantial.
THE house in which President Arthur was born
~ ishos 10 nNiii cNduuiub. OtNtrhl apple
trees near by are pointed out by the "odest in
habitant" as having been planted when the pres
dents father was living on the place.
OLIVER REED was stabbed four times in the alb
domen Saturday evening at Fairhaven by his
brother-in-law, Andrew Howard The cause Of
the assault was quarrel over gun. Reeds in
iuries are as near as can be ascertained, quite
serious.
THE venerable Alvah Sabin, secretary Of state
for Vermont forty years ago and representative in
congress from the Burlington district in 1853. 81
is spending ripe old age at Sycamore De Kalb
county. Illinois. He has just passed his eighty
eighth birthday
THIEVES broke into and rummaged the house
of William Kimball in Barton one night last week,
going thoroughly through all parts of the house,
but finding no money, as Mr.. Kimball had his
money in his wallet 1t is probable that they
took some small articles.
Mr. J. p. WILLIAMS Of Shrewsbury, agent of
the state fish commission, has recently stocked
several ponds in Newark and Sutton with oswego
bass and black bass, and will soon place fish In
some OF the ponds on the line Of the St. Johnsbury
& Lake Champlain railroad
THE law docket OF the December term of the
Windsor county court numbers only one hundred
forty cases and OF these thirteen are state cases
The number of chancery cases is twenty-eight
Never before since the court business of the
county has amounted to anything has the docket
been so small
JAMES MCGUIRE, twenty.four wears old. was
killed by cars at North bennington last weeh
Tuesday night. He was OF intemperate habits
and 1t is supposed that he was intoxicated and
fell asleep on the track. When first seen he was
lying on the track with his arms folded over his
head. The train could not be stopped in time to
save him.
The firms of Hilapd. Cbeesemap & Co. of Ros
ton and Curtis e. Co., have bought nearly is 600
barrels of apples principally grown in the Cham.
plain valley in Addison, Chitteudeu and Grand
Isle counties, paving from 50 to SO per barrel for
No. is and 81. 80 for No. Us. Several parties are
now buying for shipment to Chicago. where a
short crop is reported.
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It the Barbados. was the cadet from the first
congressional district at the naval academy. An.
iapolis, when the war broke out. His home WAS
n Burlington He served I'm the navy till the re-
,ellion had been nut down and WAS then an.
pointed consul at the Barbados Though sinner.
tide at the island.
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