Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23
Vermont State News.

VeTmOnb DtHUe NeWss
Addison County.
GEORGE HAMMOND OF Middlebury has sold to
Messrs. s. s. Campbell and W. B. Law Of Har-
rison county, Ohio, four thoroughbred Atwood
Merno ewes and one ram lamb for $1,000.
Bennington County.
SOME $500 in liquor fines and costs have been
paid in Bennington county since December list,
two and one-half months.
Caledonia County.
FRENCH child in Lyndon died the 10Th from |
the effects Of taking poison from Its mothers |
medicine tumbers
Chittenden County.
LAWYER J. f. wHEELooK OF Milton has become |
insane. He was a prominent greenbacker, and |
has lately become rather disposed to melancholy
ACCORDING to the recently issued twenty-eghth |
annual announcement Of the medical department
OF the University Of Vermont at Burlington, one
hundred and forty-fve students attended the last
session, fifty Of whom received the degree Of doc
tor Of medicine. The faculty numbers sixteen,
seven Of the regular faculty and nine professors
Of special subjects
Grand Isle County.
THE county court of Grand Isle. which convened
last weels Tuesday, had absolutely nothing for the
jurors to do, and the judge after delivering
charge and telling the jurors they could draw
their pay dismissed them. Characteristically
enough the only matter to come before the court
was an application for divorce, which was granted,
and after a ninety minutes session the court ad-
journed, the longest proceeding being the pay
ment Of the jurors.
Lamoille County.
Mr. Cam freipht conductor. lost three finpera
while coupling cars at Morrisvie.
II. o. DWIGHT OF Morrsville is soon to leave for
Turkey; he first goes west for short time and
win sail for Constantinople in April
AT the county mass temperance convention held
| in Hydepark last week Tuesday, Major D. j. SAT-
| ford Of Worthwhile was chosen president and l..
dalsey Of Hydepark, secretary Upon the first
ballot for candidate for county commissioner, Al
bert A. Niles OF Morrisville received more than
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of all the votes and the NOM
ination was made unanimous. Great harmony
and enthusiasm prevailed. County and town
committees were appointed.
| Orleans County.
| THE disease of sheep called "scab has greatly
increased in Irasburgh during the winter. Sew
| eral 1ocks afflicted and nearly ruined.
p 0. HoLr of Derby made and sold the past
season nineteen hundred pounds Of butter by
actual weight from ten cows and one additional
COW during the month OF August, besides what
was used in the family.
MOSES SHEPARD, an old and respected citizen
of Greensboro was badly hurt last week by a
horse falling on him, and breaking his collar bone
and otherwise injuring him. On account Of his
old age his recovery is doubtful.
THOMAS MARNocK of East Albany, while at
work in the yard at Grandy's MILL was caught
under some rolling logs and crushed into the
snow, having one leg broken and receiving in
terna injuries which will probably cause his death.
| Rutland County.
THE centennial of the organization OF Rutland
| county comes March 4th, and is to be celebrated
by the county historical society with appropriate
public exercises, addresses, poems, papers, etc.
ONE of the derricks in j. Adams & Sons marble
yard at Fairhaven fell Thursday morning, So
verey injuring young man by the name Of
Brannock The cause of the accident was the
: giving way of one of the guys.
THE trouble caused by the action OF the last gen
eral convention Of the Methodists in detaching a
portion OF the Methodist churches Of the state
from the Troy and adding them to the Vermont
! conference, eliminated last week in meeting o.
the disaffected churches in Rutland. letter tc
the bishops was prepared, refusing to be bound by
their acts and declaring that unless the rights o.
the churches were conceded they would seced,
, and become independent. Measures have beer
taken by some of the churches whereby their prop
erty can be taken from the jurisdiction Of tn,
bishops, and from the spirit manifested at tn,
Rutland convention 1t IL evident that, unless the
request is conceded, they will carry their threat
) into execution.
windham County.
A FIRE caught in the printing department Of thu
loo"' ais @ S Void nave proved dsas
trous to the block The damage done was slight
THE auction sale of the ruined First Nationa
banks furniture and fixtures at Brattleboro Fri
day, was well attended. These articles generally
sold for their full value and in some cases more
owing to a disposition on the part Of some Of tn
purchasers to obtain some little relic Of the de
. funct institution. For instance Waites privat
desk sold for S12, possibly worth half as much
while other much used and dilapidated furnitur
sold proportionately high. A steel engraving o
General Grant brought S1.lO, while portrait o
, the gallant Stannard, purchased for the Gran,
. Army went at so. Ex-President Williston's por
: trait, which has hung in the directors room 70
, many years. sold for $40. The life Of Grant wa
secured for ten cents, while model OF the oil,
Burroughs-Waite gun, for the perfection Of whicl
a large amount of money is supposed to hav
3 been spent with the expectation that the govern
ment might adopt it, was struck off at thirty-fv
g cents The large banking counter sold for be
tween Sc and 81.