Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-03
Vermont State News.

G. II. HALL OF shoreham cut 1883 pounds Of
wool from his flock Of ninety-five sheep.
A BRANDON lady raised twenty-six bushels Of
strawberries this season, worth S3.25 per bushel.
COLONEL FULLER Of Bratteboro has just placed
steam yacht for his own use on Chesterfield lake.
GEORGE CHAMBERLAIN, formerly Of Craftsbury,
was killed by cyclone near Sioux City, Iowa,
recently.
A rosr-oFFicE has been opened at South
Walden, Caledonia county, with Mark Amsden as
postmaster.
Four million pounds Of maple sugar is DR..
Ioskins estimate Of the yield this year in Or
leans county.
WORK on the Rutland opera house is going on
rapidly. The roof timbers are up and the walls,
except the front, all laid.
The St. Johnsbury district camp-meeting will
be held at Lyndonville, commencing August 22d,
and closing August 9th.
The state convention Of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union is to be held at st. Johnsbury,
September 9th and 2Sth.
RAPID progress is making on the new depot
at Brattleboro, and it will probably be opened and
the tracks all changed October LIST.
lHf SOutnehslern IL 10 lay steel Tails DetWeen
Newport and Richford They are to be imported
and the duties on them will be $4,000.
THE supreme court for the county of Lamole
will convene in Hydepark on Tuesday, August |
| 10th. There are ten cases on the docket.
Two Addison farmers are Dragging about their |
hay crop They claim to have cut ffty-fve acres |
and that it will not weigh over seven tons.
| THE Spring Grove camp-meeting will hold ten
days meeting at New Haven, beginning August
23d. The railroads will give special rates.
| DR. HAMILTON one OF the physicians attending
| upon President Garfield, was professor in the
Castleton medical college in 1870 Al and AZ.
THERE are now no trestles on the Woodstock
railroad; citizens and bondholders by volunteer
subscription paid the bills for making the fills.
NORTH Troy Palladium: "Thomas Kdder
met litter OF skunks and killed seven, but was
obliged to leave his hat on the field Of battle"
Mrs. JOHN YOUNG Of st. Johnsbury fell down
the cellar stairs, breaking one wrist, dislocating
the thumb Of the other hand and bruising her hip
severely.
REV. DIR. ALvA WOODS of Providence, r. l.,
gives the Vermont Academy at Saxton's River
another $1,000 to be used in supporting embryo
ministers,
A YOUNG man by the name of George s. Stone,
residing with his father in the southern part of
the town Of Ludlow, was drowned while bathing
the other day.
| A sIx-YEARs-oID daughter Of Mr.. L. Powers Of
Beebe Plain, Quebec, was run over by freight
train on the passumpsic railway last week, and
probably fatally injured.
| DESTRUCTIVE hail storm passed over Starks-
boro in the evening OF July oath. 1t travelled six
or seven miles and was about one mile in width
The damage exceeded $4,000.
IT is the design Of the officers of the Rutland
county historical society to secure biographical
and genealogical accounts Of the settlers OF Welsh
families in the vicinity of Fairhaven.
PROFESSOR c. II. HITCHCOCK is engaged as a
special agent of the census bureau in preparing a
report Of the quarres of New Hampshire and
Vermont. 1t will soon be published.
Ex-Governor PAGE of Rutland, the principal
q owner of the Manhattan quarry at West Rutland,
is building new eight-gang mill A fine layer
: Of mottled blue has just been discovered
SATURDAY evening boy about fifteen years
old named Joshua Samson was drowned while
bathing in the Mssisquoi river at East Berkshire,
. His body was recovered Sunday morning.
g PASSENGER on the Portland & Ogdensburg
Y express from Swanton the other day put his hand
. | out Of the window and had it very badly
d jammed by staging erected near the track.
l. GILMAN WILSON, for forty years engaged in the
:; marble business at Manchester, died suddenly
It the 9th. About two years ago he had shock OF
a paralysis since which time his health has been
d poor.
d Al the exhibition of the Park gallery OF art at
Burlington, just closed, the aggregate number OF
# pictures sold twenty, for which $500 was
II paid. The purchasers were chiefly residents o.
:. Burlington.
d THERE are two maple trees on George W
If Premises farm at Painield which for thrty-twC
feet grow separate, but at that point unite ant
N form one perfect tree photograph was recent,
l. taken for the New York Graphic.
10 THE receipts from internal revenue at the por
D. of Richford aggregated S37 900 in the montl
s. of July. At St. Adams the receipts for July ar
d also large. There are indications Of lively freigh
business over the roads to these points.
!, SENATOR EDMUNDs in declining invitation
~ which was extended to him to deliver the address
u at the Windham county fair says 81 began thi
spring with resolution to practice total dbstinenc
=" from public speaking, ETC., this summer, and
have stuck so far should otherwise have beef
glad to 60"
IN Miss MAGGIE MORAN of Leeds, p. O., a youn
I'd lady who came to the hotel of Vandyke & Merrill
st in McIndoes, through mistake took dose of cor
is rosive submate. A physician was summoned a
IN once and gave an antidote for the poison. Sh
now lies in a very critical condition, and her re
~, covery is considered very doubtful.
or In Rutland twelvey ears.old son OF S. 7
L. Thayer sitting in the window of the shirt fac
ne tory, when he lost his balance and fell to tn
al ground, distance OF twelve feet The boy strucl
ne on his forehead and breast ON a slab OF marble
Partial conclusion OF the brain was produced, am
1t is thought internal injuries were sustained.
', SATURDAY, three Norman horses, one stallio
- and two Mares arrived in St. Adams from Paris
% where they were bought by Governor Smith
They are four, five and six years old, in colo
~ glossy dark bay, and very gentle. Not so larg
as the Normans bought three years since, the
~ will be used rs driving horses use to which thei
NC gentlenesss and endurance makes them PECULIAR
:" adapted.
Mrs. CHARITY WYNN committed suicide b.
OF hanging, ON Friday night at Wallingford. Sh
OF had been sick for some weeks, but was though
of better Friday and walked across the road. Sh
he was found Saturday morning, lying partially O
he her bed, her head off and strangled by rop
he fastened to a clothing hook in the wall. She wa
lis dressed and the act was apparently committe
D. before retiring at night. She was seventy-on
in years old.
n. Coon health is the greatest of fortunes; n
A remedy has so often restored this prize to tn
suffering as Hoods Sarsaparilla Try it,
N KEEP IT ON HAND.-No farmer or teamste
an should be without Henry & Johnson's Arnica an
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