Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-18
Vermont State News.

failures In Vermont, with liabilities Of Sl55,0O0
THE Peabody hotel in South Londonderry was
destroyed by fire last week Wednesday afternoon.
Loss 5000; insured.
PosTMAsTERs appointed-H II. Gordon, Georgia
Plain; George p Blair, West Barnet Russell A.
Flint, West Braintree.
THE Bennington Battle Monument Association
has reelected It's old board of officers Its fnan-
cial condition Is excellent.
ACCORDING to the census, OF the s6i4, $50, 400 Of
United States registered bonds, 1855, 100 are
held in Vermont by 1909 people.
On the 9th, the store Of W. c. Barker Of Wells
was burned Loss on goods 5000; insured for
$1,000; building insured for s4O0
THE dwellinghouse OF man named Watkins
| Of Montgomery was destroyed by fire on wednes-
day Of last week. Loss, unknown; no insurance
LUTHER X GRAVES has been elected by the
Bennington Battle Monument Association to fill
the vacancy caused by the death Of A. B. Gardner.
VERMONT is represented at the National Agri-
cultural Convention at Washington by Henry
Clark OF Rutland and George Hammond Of Mid
dlebury.
THE Ascutney national bank Of Windsor dis
continued business having divided among the
stockholders its capital and surplus aggregating
$4,000
f. d. BLoDGErr has been elected president Of
the Passumpsic savings bank, st. Johnsbury, in
place Of Emerson Hail. who has been elected vice.
president.
OSCAR KNsMAS of Poultney few weeks ago
received slight cut on his thumb lie caught
cold in 1t and 1t began to swell. lie died in very
short time.
THREE new cases OF small pox have appeared
in the Streeter family in Guilford in the same
locality where the first was discovered about
| two weeks since.
CHrTESDES county seems to be in good condi-
ton financially It received last year S2312 80
and paid out S96l24 leaving a balance now in
hand Of S1,351.26
THE Ethan Allen engine company Of Burling-
ton has received Parian marble bust Of the late
President Garfield from Mr.. Truman C Fletcher
OF st. Johnsbury.
The case Of Fuller, found guilty Of the murder
Of Melvin Witham, recently tried in the Denning-
ton county court, has been carried TO the supreme
court on exceptions.
MICHAEL DoNAHUE Of Fairfield who attempted
suicide week ago Sunday by cutting his throat,
has since died. lie declared that he did not know
when he committed the act.
WILLIAM KAYE Of st. Adams committed an as
sault on feow-townsman the other day, owing
to trouble growing out of the temperance ques-
ton, and was put under bonds.
REV. L. D. HOPKINS Of st. Johnsbury who is
now an inmate Of the Brattleboro asylum, al
though still in very low condition, shows
slight tendency to improvement.
AT the funeral Of Hon Edwin W. Stoughton in
New York, last week Tuesday, many distinguished
men were present The remains were taken to
Windsor, Vermont for interment.
THERE are FIVE cases OF smallpox in Holland,
and large number of persons have been
posed. 1t is supposed the disease was brought
from New York by young man named Davis.
THE jury OF the Bennington county court has
rendered verdict of :" not guilty " in the case of
William II. Keefe, indicted for murder in the sec
ond degree for killing William O Brien Of Shafts
bury.
IT is understood that the much talked OF suit of
Edward Murphy and others against Rev. Father
Guidreau and Kinny, his door-keeper will be
tried at the March sitting Of the windham county
court.
THE court docket for the February term of the
Orleans county court, which is to convene Febru-
airy 7th, has less than hundred forty cases, the
smallest for years. Hon. 7. P. Redfeld is to
preside.
LAST week Monday Edmund S. Stevens, night
Waterman at Buffers mill at Island Pond, while
oiling machinery, got entangled and was whirled
over the shafting, sustaining injuries from which
he died Thursday.
THURSDAY an aged man named Henry Licks
was kicked by horse and killed at Poultney.
He was a farm laborer, and for many years had
been in the employ of DR.. Barker. lie was a
| Canadian Frenchman
BRATTLEBoRo now has telephone communica-
ton with Guilford, West Brattleboro, Marlboro,
Wilmington, West Dover and Jacksonville, Ver-
mont, also to North Hinsdale, Chesterfield and
Chesterfield Lake. New Hampshire.
LUTHER HOLDEN of South Wallingford cele-
| brated his one hundredth birthday January 9th.
| He retains all his faculties to a remarkable de
gree; has over seventy living descendants and
has brother nnety-seven years DID, living in
Mount Holly.
THE mail route from Burlington via winooski,
Colchester, West Milton, South Hero and Keeers
Bay to Grand lsle has been changed so that it is
now via Mallett's Bay, South Hero and Keelers
Bay; and it has been made daily route instead
of a tri-weekly mail. post-ofiice has been es-
tablished at Mallett's Bay, with Mr. Alexander
C. Morrison as postmaster
DURING the past year there were shipped from
the depot at Middlebury seventy-one carloads
6,777 head-of registered Merno sheep OF these,
2,2S7 went to Ohio, 26s to Missouri 1,23O to
Michigan. 1,725 to Texas, 3O5 to Pennsylvan
66s to Kansas, 81 to Illinois, 1874 to Colorado, 106
to Maine. In 1879 forty-ive carloads, about
| haat ahi in aiwtv rIo
5,965 head.
ACCORDING to a just issued census bulletin the
area OF Vermont is 9,565 square miles, Of which
J fifty are occupied by rivers and smaller streams
and $3.50 by lakes and ponds. The land area in
square miles by counties is as follows; Addison,
740; Bennington, 700; Caledonia, 640 Chttenden,
5i5; Essex $50; Franklin, go; Grand Isle, 80; La
moille 400 Orange $50; Orleans, 700; Rutland,
900; Washington, $50; windham, 800; Windsor,
1000 Lake Champlaiu has an area OF 4ss
| square miles,
THERE were one hundred seventeen deaths
from violence in this state in the year 1884, thirty
two Of them suicides. Two condemned murder
ers, Hayden and Carr, paid the penalty of their
crime the gallows in 1881 There were four
persons who died from alleged homicdal assaults
during the year; Frank Mccullough OF Burling-
| ton, Lewis Merchant OF Barnet, william u Brien
| of Searsburg and L. NJ. Witham OF Readsboro.
| The aged couple Mr.. and Mrs. Cook Of Bellows
Falls, who died mysterious death last October.
should be added To the list.
THE people Of Westminster are greatly excited
In consequence of the sudden death of Samuel
Cobb, old and esteemed resident under the
following circumstances: His son-in-law, Fred
Streeter, lately came home intoxicated broke
into Cobb's cellar with an axe getting some hard
cider stored there. He became crazy drunk,
routed out the household drove them all out of
doors and kept them ont Cobb to a neigh
boris for help, and when he reached there sank
into chair dying almost Immediately, probably
from heart disease caused by fright
The railroad shop at St. Adams shows greater
activity there than has been the case for long
time. Besides the usual repairing large number
of freight cars being constructed for the new
line between Montreal and Boston. The Lowell
and Northern roads are each building cars OF the
same description for therpart of the complement
Five day will be built there at present, and with
the advent Of spring the force will be increased
and the work pushed. There is great demand
for freight cars all along the road, and those Of
the new line will be built none too fast to supply