Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-02-08
Vermont State News.

NEARLY six thousand persons have been vac
cinated in Burlington lately.
FRANKLIN county bar comprises sixty-three
members Of whom thlrty.three live In st. Adams.
TnE international hay press company is soon to
begin manufacturing its presses at West Randolph.
LAKE CHAMrLAN opposite Burlington, iroze
over last Saturday, the latest closing for twelve
years.
THE national car company will build next
spring a s20O,OOO shop, placing 1t, perhaps, at
Mortified
sEvES deaths from smallpox have occurred in
Holland, and there were twenty-seven cases at
last reports.
The Franklin county temperance society has
nominated L. p Adams Of Sheldon for county
commissioner.
MARY L. GILBERT Of North Troy, aged fifty,
fell lately on the ice, breaking her skull. She was
fatally injured.
QuARrERMAsTER- GENERAL KINGSLEY had 80 40
left Of the state appropriation after paying the
Yorktown bills,
PETER CABANA, while playing with other boys
on empty platform cars at Burlington, set them
in motion and was fatally crushed.
THE docket for the April term Of Franklin
county court contains two hundred six cases-a
decrease of twenty-siK within the year.
RUTLAND village has spent more money than its
taxes come to, and doesn't know how 1t is going
to pay its bills during the next three months.
JOSH BILLINGS is grandson of vermont's DR..
Samuel Shaw member Of congress from 1908 to
1918 and a noted surgeon in the United States
army.
THOMAS CROWLEY is the second and Benjamin
Wright is the third to die Of the victims of the
recent horrible accident at the Pioneer shops in
Burlington
THE office Of J. S. Gillespie, government en-
gineer in charge Of Improvements on Lake Cham
plain has been transferred from Fort Mont
gomery, Rouses Point, n. Y, to Burlington.
JOHN SHEHAN Of Winoosd has had an arm
drawn into the wringer at the wooden mill, and in
order to extrcate it the whole machine had to be
taken apart. lie will probably not lose his arm
REV. JAMES CAMERON, aged sixty-four, pastor
Of Presbyterian church at Oakland, Califor-
mia, and formerly resident OF Burlington was
fatally poisoned recently by his wife, who gave
him carbolic acid to drink, having mistaken 1t
for tonic.
In a wrestling match at Manchester n. H., re-
Gently between William W. Montgomery Of Fair
field, Vt, and John II. Taylor of Baskerville, N
H., for purse Of 500 and the championship OF
America, Taylor won in two straight falls There
were five bouts and the men were very evenly
matched.
Hon. CHARLES f. PATTERSON of Troy, who has
just been elected speaker of the New York as
sembly, was born in Corinth, Vt, May 30, 1872
He was educated at Castleton seminary and Cam
bridge, New York. academy and Union college,
where he was graduated in 1860. lie is lawyer
by profession.
IT is reported at st. Albans that man named
Crawford of Highgate confessed recently on his
death bed that he murdered George Barr, the
Highgate man whose body was found nine years
ago in the river near Malone, New York lie is
said also to have confessed the theft of $500 from
| General Lorenzo Pomeroy of IIighgate
The grand division Sons OF Temperance of Yer
mont was recognized at Woodstock last week by
the Most Worthy Patriarch of North America,
Evan J. Morris Of Cincinnati and other officials of
the national division Several new divisions
have recently been established, and the order is
rapidly increasing in various parts Of the state.
|. T. BEEMAS, chairman Of the ST. Adams
working committee retires from office and
gives a summary of the work done up to February
1st There have been twenty-four prosecutions,
fines and costs ranging from $40 to $40. good
many bottles and several barrels of whiskey and
cider are reported seized and condemned. The
committee paid out about S115, $50 going to the
prosecuting attorney
EZRA PERRY, for many years respected cit
izen of Danville, but who for the past few years
has resided with his son-in-law. W. H. Preston at
St. Johnsbury, went to Danville recently on a
visit and as he entered the door of his old home,
now occupied by Mr.. F. Underhill, he fell dead
across the threshold lie had been in usual good
health, and no particular is assigned for his
sudden DEATH except heart disease