Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-16
Vermont State News.

LIE DWh OF SthrksDorO elected twenty-five men
at Its recent town meeting before II could secure
board Of listers willing to serve
CITIZENS Of vergennes are moving In the matte,
OF building branch railway from the Central
track to the falls. survey is to be made at once
THE bids for building the additions contemplated
in the $4,000 appropriation for the reform schoo
were only two in number and were rendered by
Messrs. Smith & Allen Of Mddebury and f. II
Daniels Co., OF Vergennes. The trustees have
reserved their award
The sheriff Is gathering them in,--the papers
started on ground already preoccupied. The
latest case Is that Of the Middebury Journal and
1t Is reported that the editor, r. f. Smith, has fled,
leaving his partner, W. J. Fuller to meet the liza
bities, which are said to be very largely in er-
cess Of the assets.
THE original charter Of the town OF Ripton
bears date April 18th, 1881, being granted by the
governor, council and general assembly Of the
state OF Vermont upon the payment Of six hun
dred and sixty pounds sterling in the fifth year
OF the independence Of this state, and signed by
Thomas Chittenden, Governor" The town was
surveyed In 1882, and made six miles and thirty
nine rodssquare and contained "a acres Of land
bennington County.
s. 3. SCOTT, hardware, furniture dealer and
grocer OF Bennington, has failed for $50, 900, only
5000 OF which is owing out OF town.
Ex-PRKsIDENT HAYES remembers Bennington
by forwarding to the treasurer Of the Battle Mon
ument Association, Hon. L. X. Graves, his check
for 500 towards the monument fund
THE First National Bank Of North Bennington
has taken measures TO reduce Its capital from
100000 to 100000 and consequently retires It's
circulation to the amount Of S360O00
Caledonia County.
BARNET village, with less than three hundred
inhabitants, has eleven persons drawing pensions
st. Johnsbury will advertise its liquor agency
sales in local paper, paying three cents for sale,
and the yearly expense is expected to be over 500
GORDON ANGER OF Sutton has been having a
very serious time lately, having got a barbed
spear Of grain in his ear, which has been working
out in the neck just behind the jaw.
PAT MALLoY, who escaped from the Jail at st..
Johnsbury in September, 1879 and who has led the
sheriff chase ever since, has finally been arrested
in Illinois and returned to his old quarters.
A. l. MOORE, the collector, visited the stone
sheds at Ryegate with a view OF collecting taxes
from some Of Carter's stone-whackers The boys
suddenly changed their names, and the collector
couldn't find man about the works whose name
was on his books
The town meeting at Stannard was the most
exciting one held since the town was organized
After working quite late the meeting adjourned
without eectiug board Of listers, as not man
in fnxu xvnuId on
law. The town has grand list all told of $500.
SAUL BADGER OF Danville is prominently
"home" man. His father moved to the farm
which he now occupies in Pumpkin Hill" dis
trict when he was six months old fifty-two years
ago, and he has never been farther from home
than Plainfeld, twenty-sx miles distant, and has
never ridden in stage coach or a railroad car.
Chittenden County.
AT latest accounts the venerable Nahum Peck
OF Hinesburgh was slowly recovering from his
late severe sickness.
Il. Ii. START and +. A. Brownell Of Burlington
and Cornelius s. Palmer, representative from
Jericho, are going west.
Hon. THOMAS d. CHAPMAN of Charlotte has
been appointed assistant judge for Chttenden
county in place Of Hon. L. ii. Lane.
THE Universalsts OF williston have secured
successor to Rev. Mr. Hayford, their former pas
tor, in the person Of Miss Myra Kingsbury Of
Pennsylvania, who is drawing large houses.
THE present number Of students in the medical
department Of the University Of Vermont is one
hundred and thirty-five, OF whom forty-fve are
candidates for the degree Of NJ D. at the coming
commencement
JUDGE HUNT, the new secretary OF the navy
emit wife was the widow of Clement Hopkins, son
of Bishop Hopkins Of Vermont. Judge Hunt
epoas weeks in burlington a year or
two ago.
TUESDAY night Of last week burglars broke into
the basement Of c. n Meads store in Burlington,
and took from the money drawer small amount
less than dollar-which had been left there
over night An Intellectual attempt was made to
enter the main store BY back passage way
CASE Of cheese poisoning, to be tried next
month, is now pending at Burlington. f. NJ.
Slayton Of Manchester, New Hampshire received
an invoice OF cheese from Jericho which was sold
to other parties, the latter complaining soon after
that the cheese was poisoned. Negotiations with
results, and Mr.. Sayton brought the suit.
Essex County.
REV l.. A. ARTHUR recently resigned the rec
torship OF the Episcopal church at Island Pond,
but was induced to withdraw his resignation and
take vacation instead.
Franklin County.
AT the st. Adams rolling mill from seventy five
10 eighty tons Of steel rails are now being turned
put daily.
Ir is expected that the Glens Falls shirt COM
pany will have their new factory in St. Albans
ready for manufacturing purposes in few weeks.
They expect to employ from three hundred to
sight hundred hands, as business demands.
THE spring term of the Franklin county court
will open April 18th, On the court docket are
wo hundred and thirty-two cases; on the chan
cry docket fifty-four Judge Royce will preside
ast September the court docket had two hundred
md sixty-nine cases, and the chancery sxty-two.
THIS is what the Messenger man does when he
Doesn't half try; Like cannon going off at the /
wrong end, we are hurled from depth OF watery,
lippery, uncertain terra infrma to frozen height
Il prisonment yclept downward OF mercury; from
he gentle woong Of twenty-five Fahrenheit to the |
uthless, thck-ribbed icy embrace OF the knight |
q armor, zero"
JUDGE HUGH BUCHANAN Of Georgia has just |
zen making a visit at his brothers in Barton
lie was colonel in the rebel army and is a newly |
lected representative to congress from the fourth
istrict, democrat of course He was one Of /
ir. Twilights pupils at Bloomington, and was
lso student at Derby academy; he has been a
uccessful lawyer end stands high in his state
The fifty-second annual meeting of the Ameri-
an Institute OF Instruction will be held at ST.
.lbans on the 9th, 9th, 7th and sth OF July. Very
beral arrangements have been offered by the
entral Vermont railroad, and all the indications
ow promise an unusually successful meeting
ow rates for excursion tickets and for hotel ac-
long time for return tickets; at
factive side trips added to an excellent pro-
ramme, including some Of the best speakers upon
EDUCATIONAL topics In the country. with other
,atures soon to be announced, will undoubtedly
raw together very large number OF educators
nd their friends from all parts OF the country.
he president of the institute Is William A.
lowry of Providence, Rhode Island, and the sec
,tary George A. Littefeld OF Boston, Mass
Grand Isle County.
NORTH HERO has debt OF $50, and the town has
oted $40 to pay off this and for the expenses OF
lie year
Lsmoiile County.
In the hotel at Cambridge is poster announc-
g the sale Of various harnesses and wagons.
egarding one Of them 1t says that 1t is con-
iered gere."
Mr.. JOHN A. FERGUSON of Morrisville was