Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-06
Vermont State News.

CALEDONIA county jail mas not single inmate.
The Richford Gazette says the Southeastern road
earned net profit last year Of over 100000.
Hon. 7. W. PARK will probably erect his pro-
posed orphan asylum at North Bennington, it is
announced.
PLN WHITE, notorious swindler, formerly Of
Vermont, has been indicted by the grand jury at
New York.
THE Bellows Falls paper company has bought
the Bridge quarry at Keene, and will use the
stone in building at its mills.
YOUNG lad named Eddie Norcross Of Brad
ford was drowned last week Wednesday, while
bathing in the Connecticut river.
JOSEPH STEEN of Brattleboro, aged eighty -four,
the oldest bookseller in New England, retires from
active business after fifty years service.
EDWARD j. PHELPS of Burlington has Just re-
ceived the appointment of professor of law in the
academcal department Of Yale college.
THE assessed valuation of personal property and
real estate in the town OF St Johnsbury is 81
1886; valuation in the village, So, 157, 1856.
A CRAZY woman has been wandering about the
fields and woods in North Chittenden lately. Her
husband has made an unsuccessful search for her.
DR.. HAMILTON, surgeon-general of the marine
hospital service, has made arrangements for the
care Of seamen at the port of Burlington at the
Mary Fletcher hospital.
EUGENE L. EMERY, b A., for the past year prin.
cipal of the Frelighsburg grammar school, has
been appointed to the principalship Of Barton
| academy and graded school at Barton
DR.. A. T. GRINNELL has been promoted to the
chair Of theory and practice in the medical depart
ment Of the University of Vermont made vacant
| by the resignation of Dr. Walter Carpenter.
| A SPRING, said to be of rare medicinal water,
has been found on the Pratt farm near Rutland
| Joel M. Haven of the Bates house owns the farm,
and proposes building summer hotel oni it.
| THE vacancy in the corporation OF the Univer-
| sity of Vermont, occasioned by the death of Hon.
l.. B. Englesby, has been filled by the appoint
ment Of Hon. William g. Shaw of Burlington.
NOBLE J. PURDY of Manchester dropped dead
Wednesday of last week; cause, apoplexy; aged
| eighty-one years. He was the Oldest member Of
the Masonic lodge there and highly respected.
| NEwBURY has lost its Oldest inhabitant-Phabe
Goodwin, aged one hundred and one years, one
month and fifteen days. She retained her facul-
ties until the last, and talked with the family the
| hour of her death
| WILLIAM HAZARD, a negro, was arrested and
brought before the court at Bellows Falls last week
Wednesday morning, for burglary. lie was
bound over to the Windham county court in 500,
in default of which he was taken to Newfane Jail.
COLONEL F. v. RANDALL of Brookfield has been
| granted pension Of S25 a month, with arrears
amounting to "a, 935, on account of injuries sus-
tanned by being thrown from his horse in January,
1863 while colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment Of
| Vermont Volunteers
MRS. CAROLINE (WEBB) BUTCHER, widow Of
the late Hon. L. L. butcher OF St. Adams, died in
that village last Wednesday evening, aged eighty
one She was one Of the Oldest residents of the
town, and until within few months was able to
attend church and other social duties.
A ROBBERY was committed in the store OF
Walker Cowee at Benson the other night. The
goods stolen are estimated at $50 Some cutlery,
dress goods and money were taken. 1t is sup
posed that the thief entered by tue back door and
was locked in no track can be found.
W. I. WILLIAMS, for several years secretary Of
Vermont farm machine company at Bellows Falls,
has resigned to accept the position of steward Of
the American asylum for deaf mutes at Hartford,
in place of Henry Kennedy, who has resigned af-
ter nineteen years service in that capacity
THE divorce suit of Ethel Wright against j. j..
Wright for adultery and intolerable severity
ended suddenly in the Addison county court
Thursday, by Wrights giving her 81 800 almony,
her household goods and daughter, ten years old,
and allowing bill of divorce on the latter charge
A STEAM yacht or launch from New York harbor
has been launched ON Lake Dunmore The boat
is twenty-one feet long, little over five feet
wide, weighs nearly two tons and cost 5000 A
small upright boiler in the center furnishes power
for screw propeller. She will carry twenty
passengers.
In regard to the lately discovered gold, silver,
spathic and galena veins in Plymouth, the super
intendent of the Plymouth mining company,
Joseph Wilder and Augustus Trudo with Henry
Fox, the New York assayer and mining expert,
are OF the opinion that the property offers good
prospect for mining enterprise.
THE St. Adams shirt factory has opened with
forty employees. Its laundry does up sixteen hun
dred pieces a week. The former site Of the Ire
mont house was given the company by the town
on condition that the business should be estab-
lished there and employ from three hundred to
five hundred hands for five years.
to have been injured by the cold and dry weather.
Over east the rainfall has been so small that the
water in the Connecticut river has become very
low, leaving thousands OF the first drive started
by the Connecticut river lumber company lodged
on bars, Islands and the banks for more than
fifty miles
THE North Troy Palladium says that work is to
oegin Immediately on the Mlssisquoi q BLACK
River railway, the contract having been let at
81. 600 per mile. and the sum necessary to secure
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THE body of W. A. Carxins was found at the
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