Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-13
Vermont State News.
wmBrR r. STORY, editor OF the Chicago Times
Is MiddIebury boy.

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trio light under consideration.
NORTH Troy finds great many who refuse to
ALI out and swear to the tax inventory.
MRs GIBSON OF Montgomery Center committed
suicide the other day by hanging herself
Trout fishing, although contrary to law until
May ist, is INDUCED in by sportsmen at Lincoln
and Ripton
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION has an old man who
has recently made pipe organ and is now learn
ing to play on II.
The Van Ness House, Burlington, was sold for
1875 447, and the new proprietors assumed charge
on Monday last.
Mrs CuRRIER Of North Troy has Just filed
petition for divorce from her husband, whom
she married in 1891
ONE Of the Swanton listers recently exempted
two cows on account OF their having lost their
upper front teeth.
FRANK MINER Of West Halifax was fatally shot
the other day by the accidental discharge Of a
gun In the hands of L. II. Ballou
THE listers Of the town Of Georgia have refused
to act, and the selectmen have called meeting for
the 18th to elect their successors
AT New York book sale James Lyons
"Scourge Of Arstocracy," printed in Casteton,
Vermont, in 1898 brought sl25O
THE Burlington cotton mill now employs about
three hundred operatives and turns out twenty
five thousand yards Of cloth day.
soLoN +. GooDRIDdE has resigned the pres
idency Of the Bellows Falls savings institution on
account Of his business in New York
Mrs. EDWARD GREEN of Bellows Falls, the
money queen" is reported to have sold her
property in the place to avoid taxation.
THE Spiritualists association of the state talk OF
buying one OF the small islands in Lake Cham
plain on which to hold camp-meetings in the
summer.
MIDDLEBuRy's missing cattle drover, Tom
Shackett, is now located near the Kansas line,
and two Of his creditors have left for Kansas to
interview him.
BURLINGTON has a debt Of S439, 900, a reduction
during the year Of SO 562 and sinking fund Of
S5SOO0. Its schools have cost it $40, 628, and its
streets and sewers 800, 1875
THE case Of the williston murderers, William
Wood and Mrs. Smith, has been continued to the
next term of the Chittenden county court, on ac-
count Of the illness Of Mrs Smith.
MAN at a St. Adams hotel was 80 polite the
other evening that he sat patiently in his seat for
some time after eating supper until the waiter re-
turned, and asked her II he might be excused
CONSUMPTION is said to be not nearly so COM
mon In the counties along Lake Champain as in
those along the Connecticut river the weather be-
ing more equable the year through near the lake
MICHAEL alias James Mead, the confidence man
ltuln. nd l.utx AL
last Janury, has been rearrested and returned to
Burlington Jail. Two Of the escaped prisoners are
still at large.
FREDERICK DAWSON OF Derby, Vermont, and
James Dawson OF Holyoke, Massachusetts,, broth
ers, have just met after separation OF over forty
four years. during all which time neither had
heard from the other.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to raise fund for the
permanent support OF the bishop OF the Episcopal
| church. Burlington thinks IT can raise S13, 900,
and the other sl2 900 can be easily raised by the
other churches Of the state.
AT Swanton the other day two-years-old
daughter Of Myron Kidder, while playing on the
floor, her mother being engaged in washing, fell
into pail Of boiling water and was SO terribly
scalded that death soon ensued
AT the adjourned Vergennes charter election
the ordinance relative to trade and commerce was
refused passage A tax OF 81 900 was voted to de-
fray the expenses Of the past year. City jurors
and town, petit and grand jurors, were elected
THE body Of the missing Addison vanderhoff
Of West Addison has been found in an open pas
ture near Dead creek having been there nearly
ten days. He was forty-two years DID, and has
been regarded somewhat demented for the
past year.
The recent canvass Of Woodstock In the inter-
est Of the Vermont Bible Society resulted as fol-
lows Population enumerated at 2,54S; of this
number i,04i arc occasional and habitual attend
ants OF public worship; 6S3 individuals attend
Sunday-school
REV. FATHER CUNNINGHAM, whose parish en-
braced the churches at vergennes, Bristol and
Middlebury, is succeeded by Father Kerlidow.
Father Cunningham has largely increased his
charges and built beautiful church at Bristol
during his ministrations
BAKERSFIELD had lively school meeting the
other day. One Of the committee, lawyer, was
charged with having appropriated three cords of
wood belonging to the school, and this led to a
fight, one of the features Of which was an attempt
to bite of the ears Of the accuser
LIEuTENAsr-GovERNoR BARsrow and Hon.
Charles Thatcher, one OF the directors of the
state prison and house OF correction, visited the
latter institution Tuesday of last week. to which it
is proposed to make a forty feet addition to the
workshop as soon as the weather moderates suf-
ficiently.
THE April term Of Lamoille county court opens
on Tuesday, the 10Th inst. There are eighty-nine
cases in the county court and twenty-sx in chan
cery-a slight increase over the December docket
The most important case for trial will be that of
State us. Moses d. Smith. indicted for man
slaughter.
NEW YORK parties have taken 800, 900 of the
Bennington refundng town bonds at par and ac-
crued interest This places the loan at $4,000
OF Bennington town bonds bearing four per cent
interest. These bonds are drawn so that the
principal is paid in twenty years, portion ma
turing yearly.
The state championship checker match between
Messrs Bailey OF Rutland and Powell of Cuttings
vile was concluded at Rutland last week Wednes-
day evening, Mr.. Bailey, the present holder OF
the championship board, remaining in possession.
The score at the end stood: Bailey, four; Powell,
three; draws, thirteen.
Sr. ALBAss has voted to adopt plan which
will increase the capacity OF the reservoirs 3d.
100000 gallons at an estimated cost OF Sc, 900,
and to organize the fire department on paid sys-
tenn II the trustees deem it advisable. A. A.
Hall was elected trustee Five-sevenths of the
funded debt has been refunded at five per cent.
"OLD ALEXANDER, the wandering jew" who
for over half-century has wandered alone
over the face Of the earth, making his appear
ance periodically about twice year in New Eng
land, has just died without friend, aged eighty
seven, at the Middlebury town farm. His real
name is supposed to have been Francis William
Alexander.
The hearing on the petition in insolvency
brought against the firm OF H. W. Mason e. Co
by the Merchants National Bank took place be-
fore Judge Wales in Burlington recently, and the
firm was adjudged insolvent. The firm now has
six days in which to file schedules OF assets and
liabilities, after which meeting OF the creditors
will be called
A BRISTOL woman has thus advertised her liege
lord in a local paper; Lost, strayed or stolen,
from his bereaved household, one red-headed
man five feet and eight inches tall fnlI set Of