Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-31
Vermont State News.

| ihh receiver oil the National Bank OF Poutney
is now paying the last demand to claimants
AT the Mallets bay marble quarries, August
10Th, Andrew Myers was killed by the fall Of a
derrick
FRANK CHAMPAGNE accidentally shot him
self between the thumb and forefnger at Middle.
| bury last week
THE Springfield agricultural society will hold
its annual fair Tuesday and Wednesday, septem.
Der 10Th and Dist.
AT Woodstock Sunday afternoon, the house
and barn Of Daniel Ross was burned Loss,
$1,000; insurance, 5000.
JACKSON DAVIS formerly Of Alburgh, was ac-
cidentally shot In the eye by Lawyer Day at st.
Elmo, Cal, recently lie died instantly.
DURING thunder storm at West Salisbury
lightning struck the iron railing near the depot
three successive times within ten minutes
PRINCIPAL J. D. BARrLEY has resigned his posi-
ton at the Burlington high school, to take charge
OF similar school at Bridgeport Connecticut.
ALBERT MILLKiN, a Bellows Falls blacksmith
and son Of Royal Mllln OF Saxton's River. has
eloped with the wife Of Mr.. Mills Of that town.
A DAUGHTER of +. Kingsley jumped from the
train at New Haven August Goth, before the train
stopped striking on her face and was badly hurt.
CRAZY woman is wandering about Bridge
water clothed in a most filthy and scant manner
1t is not known who she Is OF where she belongs
PATRICK CULLINAN Of Arlington, who has been
laboring under alteration OF the mind for the past
six months, attempted suicide by cutting his throat,
but failed of his object
THOMAS BENwAY Of Charlestown, New lamp
SHIRE aged seventy, fell sixty feet from the Bur
lington and Lamoe railroad bridge near Burling-
ton Monday and was killed.
AGNES ROBERTSON fourteen years old, was
fatally burned while pouring kerosene oil on a
lighted fire at Rutland. Her mother was seriously
burned while trying to put out the flames
DANIEL BURROWS, seventy-one years old, deaf
and dumb, and resident Of Brdport, was killed
by the White Mountain express south, August
10Th, on the Rutland road near Brooksve.
OLIVER BLOOD Of Putney, whose son Oliver
mysteriousy disappeared on the Dist received a
telegram from Eagle Bridge, New York, that the
boy was there, destitute of clothing and slightly
deranged.
THE night express train over the Passumpsic
railroad was thrown from the track last wednes-
day by reason of a loose truck. No one was So
riously hurt, but the cars were considerably
damaged
DANIEL HOPKINS, an aged citizen Of Tunbrdge,
went into the woods to starve himself recently
because he was afraid he would be sent TO the
poor house. He was found after two-days' hunt
by the smoke Of his FIRE
JOE BENNETT was arrested at Fairfield last
week for smuggling eleven gallons of whlskey
Tha buJ
could hold him only for drunk, so he paid his
$50 fine and skipped off with his whiskey.
GEORGE ALLcHIN, a recent graduate of the
Bangor me theological seminary, sails as a mis-
sionary to Japan October /. lie will be ordained
in Rev. Mr. Spears church at Middebury Dr.
Cyrus Hamlin preaching the ordination sermon.
GOVERNOR FARNHAM has appointed Colonel
LeGrand b. Cannon OF Burlington trustee of the
University of Vermont and State Agricultural col
ege to fill the vacancy in the board occasioned
by the resignation of Lieutenant Governor j. L.
Barstow.
WHILE endeavoring to dislodge half-fallen
tree in the woods at Woodford the other day,
Charles Burris received injuries which it is
thought will prove fatal When he cut the prop
which held the lodged tree it came down upon him
THERE is case of domestic crooked ness lately
found west of Randolph among the mountains. A
man named Kimball and his wife are living on a
secluded farm there and it is alleged that neigh
Dor, Albin has been too intimate with the woman,
with her husbands knowledge and consent
CATTLE are being driven from Addison to neigh
boring towns to find pasturage, as the dry weather
and grasshoppers together have completely
whipped out their pastures. 1t is said that in
some sections in those southern towns grass lands
are as dry and dead to all appearances as in mid
winter.
STANFORD is excited over the finding in spring
on the farm of one Winchell pound OF paris
green This spring supplied the family with
water and filled trough by the wayside. The
poison was discovered by the discooring OF the
water in the trough. 1t is thought that it was in
tended as fatal dose for the winchell family.
LucIus WirHAM, midde-aged man living in
the town of Readsboro, was fatally shot by an un-
known party when about to retire and while sitting
ON the edge Of his bed one night last week The
shot was fired through the window from the out
side, and is supposed to be the act of a neighbor
with whom Witham had quarreled and who had
threatened the latters life.
MILO VARNEY, who disappeared from his home
in Bristol some twelve days ago, has been found
in his fathers barn, where e had hidden on his
return from the mountains. Although somewhat
pale and emaciated, he seemed not to have suf-
fered much from his wild life in the forest, where
his insanity had led him. lie was taken to the
Brattleboro insane asylum.
+. f. DEWEY, Charles W. Towns, Samuel Web
ster and II. H. Davis, Bellows Falls liquor dealers,
were arrested Saturday the complaint of State
Attorney L. NJ. Read and taken before H. c. Lane
and fined 500 and costs under the nuisance act,
amounting to sos each, which they all paid
Yesterday their places Of business were closed by
the states attorney. Each has given bonds and
begun business again.
QUITE sensation has been produced in Vernon
by the maneuvers of one Harry Aldrich lie has
not been quite right for some time, and the 10th
he drove his wife from home with axe Next
morning he went to one of his neighbors and
wanted a shovel to dig his wife out OF the brook,
and acted very wild. lie then went to two houses
with club and told the inmates he would knock
their brains out. lie was finally quoted and
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