Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-10-12
Vermont State News.

a new Jail.
STRAWBERRIES and raspberries are quite plenty
In Coventry.
A UsIvERsALisr parish has been founded at
Lyndonville
TnE ducks are now making their appearance at
all the usual shooting points.
LAST week Wednesday evening five tenement
houses were burned at Titusvllle in Chester
DEPUTY sheriff Of Essex county Is said to
have been seen selling rum at the recent Caledonia
county fair.
QuITE n number Of sheep men from the vicinity
OF Middebury have gone TO Ohio recently with
sheep or in the interest Of that business.
BAXTER Post, Grand Army OF the Republic, Of
Newport Is to have reunion and camp fire Octo-
her 18th, 14th and 10Th, to which all brethren are
invited
THE great want OF North Troy il water There
are but few wells In the village and large part
OF the people have to draw from the river which
at the present time is low that 1t hardly flows
FoRBEs says in the Boston journal that the
North Star OF Danville has suspended again after
precarious existence since its change from b
democratic paper under Geo W Eaton's proprie-
torship last year.
LIGHTNING struck the barn OF Deacon G. b.
Weston Of Belvidere, tearing the center post OF
the building and running to the ground without
setting 1t on fire A horse was within ten feet OF
the track Of the bolt and found unininred
LAD named Eugene Drury attempted to burn
the academy building at Westminster last week,
but his mates, whom he had told of his perfor-
NANCE gave the alarm and the fire was put out
1t Ia reported that this is not his first attempt at
incendiarism
ARNOLD H. STISuAus OF IIighgate, a Young
married laboring man, attempted to commit sui
eide one day last week by taking quantity OF
paris green, and still fingers in precarious state
The act was caused by temporary insanity pro-
duced by debauch
TnE Chittenden county court has lately been
engaged in the trial Of petty causes. In one the
difference between the contesting parties was
only 10 and the plaintiff finally recovered the
bewildering sum of 50 49, and in the other the
whole amount sued for Is 81.
THE examination at Barnet of Louis Merchant
for the murder Of william Morgan, which was
begun last week Monday, was finished on Tues
day. Respondent was held in the sum Of 81, 800
bail, which was promptly furnished by ten Of the
most prominent men in town.
ONLY three bands were present at the tourna-
ment at Bay View Park near Newport The first
prize was awarded to the Sixty-ifth Regiment
Band OF Montreal, the second to the Third Regl-
ment band of Concord, New Hampshire, and the
third to the Cowansville, Quebec, band.
AT Yorktown the Vermont troops are to be
boarded by Washington caterer, Glascock, who
will erect large building, Hotel Continental"
stones throw In rear Of the camp lie will re-
ceive 81 20 per day for each man, The bill OF
fare includes fine variety. lie will also board
the Connecticut and Michigan troops
The Canada Mutual Telegraph company is now
constructing line of wire to New York city.
The line enters Vermont at Rchford, reaching
st. Adams via the Misssquo Railroad. The new
inc will follow along the Central Vermont road
through the state, and offices will be established
in the towns through which the wire passes
The body of Jack Cain, young man working
at Rutland and belonging in Dorset, was found
lying by the side Of the Delaware & Hudson Canal
company's road near Center Rutland, Thursday
The side of the head was bruised and broken,
and when found blood was oozing from the wound
and the body was still warm, though life was ex-
tinct. How he met his death is unknown.
ACCORDING TO recently issued census bulletin
l3l ,432 pounds Of tobacco were raised on eighty
four acres of land in this state in 1879 Wndham
Is the leading tobacc0-raising county, devoting to
that crop seventy-four acres and producing 49,
2i0 pounds Chittenden and Rutland counties
had each two acres and raised respectively, $3.50
and 7G0 pounds Addison, Bennington, Franklin
Lamoille, Washington and Windsor had each one
acre and raised an average Of 1923 pounds.
TEyNEs, known as the "Poutney barn burner"
was tried in Rutland last week and j. b. Phelps
and George L. Lawrence were assigned to defend
him. While they were visiting the prisoner with
Welsh interpreter Teynen left the room and shortly
appeared with a loaded sxteen-shootng carbine
which had been standing behind a door. He
aimed the weapon at his counsel, but before he
could fire it the interpreter seized him from be-
hind. The defence in the case is insanity and
this act tends to indicate it,
In the Chttenden county court Tuesday OF last
week the grand jury presented its final report
including an indictment for perjury against Ho-
ratio S. Johnson, OF the assessors OF the town
OF Williston, and Cicero G. Peck, j. G. Weller
and Noble Love, assessors Of the town of Hines
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ANS ALMA SMITH ana her iather,1oseph Woods
N'''eu .ne FORMER husband al winston october
-'u' 1903 uhder atroclous circumstances well
known TO the public In the Chittenden court
o"e year ago po'h "ere iouha guiity OF murder
III 'he second degree WOODS died July 9th. Sat