Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-11
Vermont State News.

In is announced that the St. Adams hotels will
be reopened this week.
MRs LUCINDA HADLEY has been appointed
postmistress at Chester.
DIrnTHERA has broken out in Barnard, and
the schools are being closed
THERE are forty-ive different kinds Of wood
growing on one farm in Glover.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ORIN TIMING Of Putney recently
celebrated their golden wedding.
THE Riverside slate mill at Fair Haven was
burned Sunday. Loss, $1,000; insured
CAPTAIN W. W. SHERMAN, for some years cap
tain OF Lake Champlain steamer, died last week
at his farm in New Haven.
MEssRs SHERMAN, Gleason and Proctor OF
Rutland have 100000 worth Of blue marble in
sight, in a portion Of their quarry long since
abandoned.
LESLIE II. ScRIvEss, whose exploits in the line
Of mai-robbng we have mentioned is now in
Burlington Jail awaiting trial before the United
States court
AFTER regularly paying eight per cent annual
dividend the Ascutney bank Of Windsor has re-
turned It's 100000 capital and $4,000 surplus to
the stockholders.
THE Passumpsic savings bank Of st. Johnsbury,
after carrying to their surplus the full amount al
lowed by law, has declared a semi-annusl divi-
dend Of two per cent
WORK has been begun a new hotel at Fair
Haven to be built by a stock company, and
| enough temperance men have taken stock to in
| sure temperance house.
THE manufacturing companies at vergennes
| have within the past week suffered great damage
| from water, caused by the formation Of floating
ice in Otter Creek into pack.
| HARMON A. RAY OF Burlington was Kicked and
nearly killed by horse last Saturday. lie was
insensible for an hour His condition is crit
| ical, though no fatal result is expected.
THE jury of Bennington county court has
brought in verdict Of guilty against Edison Full
Ter for the murder Of one wtham at Readsboro
the facts Of which we gave some time since.
II. A. TENSEY, the Boston drummer who, while
under the influence Of liquor last summer, stole
sum Of money from Robbins & Marsh of Chester
and at vergennes, and has been in Woodstock
Jail since, has been bailed, thus avoiding Windsor.
CHARLES N. DAVENPORT, ESQ., OF Bratteboro
has retired from the active practice Of the law on
account OF ill health. His place In the law firm
Of Davenport & Eddy is taken by Speaker James
L. Martin, who has taken up his residence in
Brattleboro.
THE Champlain transportation company elected
these officers last week at Burlington: President
| LeGrand b Cannon of New York directors, Q.
V. Baker and A. L. Inman Of New York, George
B. Chase Of Boston and W. P. Noyes r. T. Trait
and E. Root of Burlington.
AT Christmas party in Burlington one Of the
ladies present wore dress thirty.sx years old,
ring one hundred, lace forty-five, bonnet, twenty
two, shawl thirty-six, gloves forty-eight; shoes
fifteen, stockings forty six, skirt forty, comb
twenty-five and collar thrty-six.
MICHAEL DoNAHUE, nineteen years old, son of
a shoemaker in Fairfield cut his throat with a
large shoe-knife Sunday and will probably die.
No cause is known for the act, except that his
head was injured in an accident some time ago,
and this may have affected his brain,
Z, D, HOPKINS the insurance agent who was
found guilty Of larceny at the recent term of the
Caledonia county court and against whom two
convictions for forgery are now standing, has
gone violently crazy, and it has required force to
prevent him hurting himself and others. He has
been removed to the Brattleboro insane asylum
CHARLES WHITE of Burlington, employed by
D. W. Robinson, the manager Of Skillings, Whit
neys 4 Barnes lumber business, disappeared
lately, and the other morning his body was found
in the at the south part Of the water front OF
the city. He became intoxicated and either
slipped from rude foot bridge across the canal
or fell from the dock. White was about twenty
nine years Of age, married and leaves two
little boys
DISPATCH from North Ferrisburgh says; "a
year or ago the Rev. George Woods was in
stalled the first settled minister Of the society
Of Friends in this town. Woods is said to have
| been a sailor formerly. Last week he became en-
gagged in dispute with Lindley Macomber, also
Friend, and Woods finally struck Macomber
twice, knocking him down. Macomber made no
resistance, but subsequently Woods was ar
raigned before Justice c. W. Wicker and fined
S14 and costs"