Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20
Vermont State News.

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RUTLAND has sold $4,000 in town bonds at par
aud four and half per cent interest.
GROUND has been broken for new chapel for
St. Paul's Episcopal church, Burlington.
Z. J. PHELPS Of Burlington has begun course
Of lectures on medical Jurisprudence at the medi-
cal college there
BRANDON Methodsts have voted unanimously
to receive no minister or supply sent them by the
| Vermont Conference.
| IT is reported that George W. Grandey Of YER
gennes has been off cred the consul generalshp at
Montreal and has declined II.
THE Vermont Homeopathic Medical Society
will hold Its semi-annual meeting in Burlington
on Wednesday, May 18th.
| ISLE LA Motto will furnish stone for the bridge
at Coteau from the same quarry as that with
which the Victoria bridge was built
AMONG the editors Of the Dartmouth .Fgis for
the next year are II. B. johnson Of Woodstock
and Charles +. Bradley Of Mortified.
Mr.. +. II. SHAW Of Morrisville, who died Of
consumption the other day, was the last OF twelve
children, all dying Of the same disease.
THERE are some fifty churches in the rebellious
Burlington district of the Troy conference, and
one hundred and fifty in the Vermont conference.
THE regular May term Of the United States cir
cult and district courts for the district Of Vermont
will commence their session at Windsor, May II.
REV. CHARLES T. OGDEN has closed bis labors
with Emmanuel church, Bellows Falls Mr.. Og-
den has been rector Of the church for the past
eight years
| JACOB S. CILLEy, the well-known educator, has
leased the former residence OF Hon. c. M. Spauld-
] ing at Jericho, and will shortly open private
school there.
CHrrTENDEN COUNTY court adjourned last week,
having disposed Of all the business before 1t In
nine working days-the shortest term ever known
In that county
CHIEF JUSTICE PrERPoIsT has decided that
drunkenness has never been held in Vermont
sufficient cause for divorce and has refused to
grant one on that ground
GEORGE A. FARNHAm, a native Of Vermont, but
long connected with the Hamilton Hotel, Ber-
muda, is the sole purchaser Of the American hotel
property at Saratoga Springs.
THERE is some complaint among farmers that
an unusual number Of their dairy cows have ''gone
farrow" this season, which is attributable to
| drouth 30 prevalent last summer
| THE Passumpsc railroad has conveyed Miss
Ferguson, a lady who was severely injured at
Coventry January 7th, to her home in Lawrence,
Massachusetts, in a Pullman car
| F. W. BALDWIN, lately time-keeper in the
| freight department OF the Central Vermont rail-
road at st. Adams, has been appointed assistant
superintendent Of the Mexican Central railroad
AT the recent meeting of the Mddlebury col
lege corporation it was voted to continue the i'm
provements on the college buildings begun by
President Hamlin, and work has been commenced
THE store of D. Kern, Jr., in Burlington, was
entered by burglars, Thursday night, who broke
open the cash drawer and made an Intellectual
attempt on the safe They secured little or
nothing.
| THE people OF the town OF Addison propose to
| surrender their policies held in other insurance
companies, and increase the capital stock OF their
town insurance company, recently organized, to
$4,000.
| A PRELIMINARY survey Of a branch railroad
| from Bristol to some point on the Rutland & Bur-
lington railroad will be made soon. The bust.
ness people of Lincoln, Starksboro and Monkton
are favoring the project.
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Monument Association, to increase the fund for
the monnment Mr. Gleason ia a nat;ve NJ the
town of Sbaftsburv
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the Central Vermont line being foot deep on
level, while in the adjoining towns was two feet
deep, with good sleighing.
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Of Bellows Falls have i.sned a circplsr in which
thew claim that the income of Government, bond.
| is taxable under the new state ,ax ,aw I'm, az.
Judge Barrett holds the onnos;te opinion
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school Mt Castleton. and will ASSUME cortro, ~
the school at the conclusion Of the nresent term
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