Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-23
Vermont state News.

tiliuhiUtu UHNb gone 1ntD tne laundry
business at Brattleboro.
RUFUS +. BRowS, young Burlington lawyer,
has absconded, leaving many unpaid debts.
THE Jericho cheese factory the past six months
has made 2,4OO cheeses from $1,000 gallons OF
milk
THE state agricultural society has invited Gov
ernor Smith to deliver the address at the next
state fair
THE subscriptions TO the capital stock Of the
proposed permanent fair at Burlington now ag-
gregate $4,000
PATRICK Roach fell into II. G. Hughes quarries
in Fairhaven while at work Thursday, and was
instantly killed.
acres Of timber land near Newport and will erect
steam saw-mill.
From Burlington and Shelburn H. 554 barrels
OF apples were shipped during September, octo-
Der and November
THE private class Of the medical department Of
Vermont University numbers about fifty nearly
double that Of last year.
self with a dissectlng knife few days since, and
will probably lose his arm.
MARY LAMB, an attendant at the Brattleboro
insane asylum, was seriously injured by falling
elevator last week Monday.
JOSEPH PHELAs caught a wildcat weighing
thirty-one pounds in r trap in the woods at East
Granville one day last week
DAVID SMITH, a noted inventor, died at SPRING
field recently. His father, Samuel Smith, was
one Of washington's body-guards.
WHILE jumping out of chair. Thursday, a
four-years-old son Of Wellington Ssger In Bur-
lington fell and broke his right arm
MILK delivered at the factory OF the Middle
town cheese company during September netted
the patrons 81 26 per hundred pounds.
A NEW acknowledgement bell was placed in
the tower Of the county courthouse at BenDing-
ton, recently, the gift Of Hon. George W. Harmon.
The citizens committee for the suppression Of
rum.selling at St. Adams warns the Weldon
house and three other places to quit or they'll be
prosecuted.
MIR. JoHNP HOWARD, In addition TO his other
gifts to the city Of Burlington already chronicled,
subscribes one thousand dollars to the Champlain
Valley fair project
OLIVER JOHNSON, who Is well known through
out the state editor, author and lecturer, and
native Of Peacham, has recently accepted posi-
ton on the New York Evening Post.
KATIE DUSPHRy, Rutland servant girl, mys
teriously disappeared last Sunday, taking but a
scanty supply OF clothing. She is about twenty
one years old, tall, and of dark complexion.
DAVID LEE Of St. Johnsbury aged seventy
In bod
man jumping from a train. His hip bone was
broken and he is likely to die from the shock.
MARicK Young OF Weathersfeld drove to Clare
mont New Hampshire, with Charles Streeter last
week Tuesday. They separated, and Young has
not been seen since. There is no clue TO his
whereabouts.
DAVID GoRHAM and wife Of Westminster have
just celebrated the SEVENTEEN anniversary Of theil
marriage. Both came from Cape Cod when small
children and Mr.. Gorham has ever since lived in
his present home.
DURING the six months ending November Isl
the business transacted at the Central Vernon,
freight office in Burlington was, in tonnage
double the amount Of the corresponding time In
the preceding year.
JOHN BRENNAN, an Englishman, who was ar
important witness for Batchelder in the Brandon
bank forgery case, and who had previously beer
Batcheder's clerk, has left Middlebury with hi.
family for California. Batchelder is now in bust
ness at Chicago.
JOHN p. HOWARD OF Burlington now gives t.
the trustees of the Episcopal diocese OF Vermont
title deeds to eighteen hundred acres OF land in
Wisconsin and Minnesota. The income from the
sale Of the land will be used to support the do
cesar missions in Vermont
OTIs p. SPURR, while running a turning ma
chine at the Springfield snath works recently
lost his hold Of the stick he was putting through
tho machine and 1t flow cut, fractured his skull
just over the left eye, broke rib on the same
side and badly bruised his right shoulder
BENJAMIN r. SEARS of Remington married
Mary A. Waters OF Stockbridge, Massachusetts,
at Bennington fifty years ago Sunday, and his
sister Lucy was married at the same time to z. E.
Fobes of Middletown. All four are living, and
are now celebrating the event at Bennington.
Hon. CHARLES l. BENEDICT OF Brooklyn, who
has been appointed to the vacant place ip the New
York court of appeals, is brother to G. G. Ben
edct editor Of the Free Press He has beer
United States district judge since 1865, but re
signs that place with its 81 900 salary to accept
one with Si4, 600 year remuneration.
THE ladies who are to constitute the board Of
managers of Mr.. Chauncey Warmers Home fol
Destitute Children at st. Adams have elected Mrs
J. G. Smith, president; Mrs. A. Fuller, vice
president; Mrs. ii. J. Watson, secretary Mrs. F
S. Stranahan treasurer. Mrs. NJ. ii. Warren was
elected matron OF the new institution.
THOMAS LYON escaped from Sheriff Hulburt re-
Gently just as they were to go to Rutland, where
Lyon was to work thirty days for violating the
liquor law. 1t is stated that he Is In New York
state looking for step-ladder to find Hulburt
who is slate-roofer Lyon has the nickname
"Gobbler,' and Huburt says he will gather him
In before Thanksgiving.
SHELBURS family received a pleasant antici
patory Christmas gift last week In the shape OF a
nine-months-old infant. An elderly lady stepped
of the New York express and asked the family tc
kindly care for a child for a moment. They
cheerfully complied with the request, whereupor
the lady stepped aboard the cars again and was
soon on her way rejoicing
john RYAN, about seventy years Of age, was
killed at Fairhaven, Thursday morning, by the
premature discharge OF gun. He was found sit.
ting on a box in his barn with his gun resting
between his knees, and it is supposed that he
leaned over while the gun was cooked to fasten
his shoes. His movements discharged the weapon
and the contents entered his breast.
PEAcHAM ACADEMY The closing exercises Of