Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04
Vermont State News.


THE Fairbanks scale works make an average OF
one scale every two and a half minutes
BURLINGTON physicians report 80 many cases OF
eye disease "a TO amount to almost an epidemic.
Mrs. SALLY SrooKwELL OF West Brattleboro
was one hundred and three years old last Saturday
Mrs. MARGARET MACK OF White River juno
ton has Just died at the age OF one hundred and
three years
MICHAEL MAHAR, who was injured by an acct
dent at the Evergreen slate quarry Fairhaven,
has since died
JOSEPH RusHLo OF Sheldon was accidentally
kicked by one Of J. II. Stuilebean's horses and
died the next day
AsruRoEoS weighing eighty pounds was caught
recently, between the North Sister Island and
Long Point, Grand Isle.
EX-GOVERNOR HORACE FAIRBANKS wife and
daughter have sailed for Europe, where they will
spend the next six months.
Miss PuFFER Of wndham, a lady eghty-seyen
years old, fell asleep one night recently about
eleven o'clock, and never awoke
S. M. WAITE is said to have considerably i'm
proved in health Of late and his trial is expected
| W dthe putce NJ WlnnsOr next month.
FAIRBANKS 6 Co. and the Fall Mountain paper
company Of Bellows Falls received awards at the
Melbourne international exhibition
THERE are upon the docket OF the June term of
the Addison county court one hundred and eighty
two court cases and twenty-five chancery cases.
REV. ISAAC HosFoRD. one of the Oldest Congre-
gatonal ministers in Vermont, is very Ill at his
home in Thetford and is not expected to survive
| HUBBARD HASTINGS, for many years treasurer
OF the Passumpsic railroad, has retired from that
position, and removed from Lyndon to St. Johns
bury.
THE vergennes Vermonter has again changed
hands Mr.. George wilmarth has sold the paper
and job office to Mr. James Crane the longtime
foreman.
| FRANKLIN county court has appointed Messrs
| II. c. Adams OF St. Adams, Daniel Leach Of Fair
field and c. S. Royce of Richford as road COM
missioners
ALFRED DUMMY Of stockbrdge has lost four
yearlings and feeding hay cut by the side Of po-
tatoes where Paris green was used dry, is the
cause assigned
| AMONG the improvements at Mddlebury college
| are new gymnasium, more commodious quarters
| for the museum and new library building with
| dome and winding alcoves
| IT is said that Bradley Barlow has disposed of
all his interest in the St. Johnsbury & Lake Cham
plain railroad Including the real estate at Ma
quam) to the Fairbanks family.
THE summer train from New York to the White
Mountains over the Passumpsic railroad will this
year start from Philadelphia leaving there at nine
| A. NJ, and reaching Fabyan's at ten p NJ
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ihh piiso" commissioners nave ueciueu VI oulIu
an addition oil forty feet 10 the workshop oil the
mouse oil correction ms mas been found neces-
sary on account OF the increase OF the business Of
'"o 0o"''"''o's' M !" p'o"" anu w.
The First Baptist church OF Nashua New Hamp.
shire, mas extended a call TO the Rev. j. A. john
son OF Ludlow Mr. Johnson is graduate oil
McGill University at Montreal and the Crozier
baptist theological Institute OF Maryland
REV. L. L. BEEMAN, who was assigned by the
Vermont conference to Woodstock, is in Massa-
chusetts in attendance upon his wife, who is sick
child, and Mrs beeman was taken SICK while there.
LIEUTENANr-GovERSoR BARsrow has gone to
New York to attend meeting of the committee
having in charge the Yorktown celebration. The
Ransom Guards Will probably be one OF tpe COM
panies OF militia winch VIII accompany the COVER
nor to the celebration
THE Woodstock railroad suffered some misfor-
tune the other evening, when the parapet wall to
the lower twin trestle," formerly 80 called,
"ppou o'er rom 'he pressure upon IL anu part
OIL tne emoanK"eht went down leaving one side
~ 'ne ''"oA susponueu'
The well known hotel proprietor, Asa T. Bar
ron who has been seriously Ill at White River
junction Tor the past two months. has been con-
'eyed 10 "incnehdon' massachusetts Tor treat
condition il very nrecarious
nv Tbrr.d,v r,oh, so,. oo ball. ,u
wirsb;n,s honso IN p,aa,,rd ,h~a,,.s -.
and AFTER rrmm.,;ra ,ha ho,sa .aa,.,r,a. 80
frigbtened of nv Tho dog rhou a,o,o w;n.,,s1,s
Goa, I'm, ,af, n,,oLo,' ,ool, ,,,,,oh ,,..
nocte, IN a ,ahI. IL ,ha si,.in,, -,
AsABEI. IsuAM who died Mt Fast Fair6a,d tho |
sd inst, aged ninety.two, was an active soldier |
in the war of 1872 At the time of his death he |
had in possession his fathers discharge from the |
revolutionary ranks, signed by George Washing |
ton. twin brother of Mr. Isham is vet living in
Washington
THERE will be present at the teachers meeting
at St Adams in July, DIR. J. L. NJ Curry Of Rich
mond, Virginia, the agent of the Peabody fund, |
Julia Ward Howe, ex-senator J. W. Patterson OF |
New Hampshire, state superintendent OF public
schools, and other well-known persons interested |