Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-01
Vermont State News.

GOLD has been found on James Bradford farm
at Holland.
THE Lyndonville Congregational church is try
ing to secure ex-President Hulburt Of Middlebury
college as pastor.
LoDEssA HOWARD OF Fairhaven, about thirty
years Of age. committed suicide Friday night by
taking fifteen grains Of sulphate Of morphine.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES has received from Dunn
merston man a receipt written by his uncle,
Roger Brchard who kept store there about 1872.
Two couples recently walked fifteen miles to
Island Pond to get married. and after the cere
mony started on thrty-five miles wedding tour
on foot.
A BOY named Story was stabbed In the arm last
week Wednesday in Milton by one named Smith,
nine years old, and bled badly an artery being
severed.
The new militia company in Newport has been
organized with c. A. Prouty, captain; C. G. Kel-
sea, first lieutenant; c. s. 0Connor. second
lieutenant.
AT Hubbardton last week Sunday morning,
Mrs. Norman Wood, aged seventy five years,
while smoking, set her clothes on fire. and was
fatally burned.
The Shepherd & Morse Lumber Company Is
filling in two and half acres near the Champlain
dock, Burlington where the water has an average
depth OF thirteen feet.
ANDREW WRIGHT, a workman in chair fac
tory at Barton Landing, was recently caught by a
shaft in rapid motion and had his clothes stripped
off and his moustache torn out
THERE Is quite colony OF the d" Hicksite ="
- L.. .l,n-
liam Allen, colored man, is now holding a So
ries of meetings in their Westinghouse.
THE cotton mills at Mddebury will be enlarged
and a stock company with 100000 formed, en-
| ploying three hundred hands. The mills have
been idle for many years, until recently.
Or the seven hundred nnety-nne women who
were led into the woman's safe deposit swindle in
Boston, only one was a Vermont woman, Miss
Ellen Crandall Of Tunbridge who lost $40.
THE Chittenden county Good Tempars will
meet in quarterly union on Wednesday, June 9Th,
at Wiliston. The Rev Merritt Hulburd will de-
liver the address at the public services in the
evening.
Mr.. ISAAC FARwELL, the widely famous cen.
tenarian OF Dorset, who has lived to nearly the
age of one hundred and two years. died Monday
night, May 23i. He was born on the 1ith Of
July, 1779
ALBEIT CHAPMAN, secretary OF the Vermont
| merino sheep breeders association at Middlebury
Is accused Of violating the rules OF the Vermont
merino sheep register. His salary was recently
raised to 81, 500 a year.
| HARRISON G. THAYRR, a young man driving q
| team for ii. H. Wolfe OF Bellows Falls, has Just
been left dowry OF $4,000 by a friend In Port.
land, Maine Mr.. Thayer did him favor once
and he In turn did not forget it,
THE Central Vermont managers have decided
| to build a new passenger depot at West Randolph
this season. II will be OF brick about thirty by
| sixty feet, with iron passenger sheds extending
along the main track one hundred and eighty
feet. The plan Is the latest and most improved
| Tor passenger stations and the building Is to be
just like the new depot at Montpelier and the one
about to be built at Brattleboro.
SIMON MoLEoD, foreman OF the pulp mill Of
the Fall Mountain paper company, at Bellows
Falls, was nearly killed May 9th, by the explo
sion OF the shaving machine Two men lett II
only a few minutes before, resolving they would
not run 1t any more on account of It's Earring
Both would have been killed II they had remained
The pieces OF the machine flew In every direction
1t is thought that Mcleod will recover.
AT Sutton, p. O., DIR. Rufus Hamilton, formerl,
OF Montgomery and now OF Sutton, alighted from
the van OF u freight train TO get glass OF waite
for his child. lie walked back on the top OF tn,
cars, and while leaning over from the top of one
OF them to give 1t TO the child, the train started
and he was thrown down between the wheels
which passed over him, breaking leg, an arm
his jawbone and inhicting serious internal inju
ries. lie was alive at last reports
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