Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-06-28
Vermont State News.



ADDISON COUNTY.
Mrs. John Tatro Of West Addison was drowned |
last week Wednesday in Hospital Creek She |
and another lady were driving blind horse, |
which swerved slightly from the track and Mrs |
Tatro seized the lines to guide him back. I'm |
fortunately the lines were crossed and the whole
team went into the creek. The other woman |
saved S herself by jumping from IT., The wagon:
driving the other day were thrown from their |
wagon, and Mrs. Smith had one arm broken In
three places and the shoulder dislocated besides
other injuries. Mr.. Smith escaped with compare
lively slight injuries. Willie Bronson was
drowned at Middlebury last week. While he
and other boys were bathing In Otter Creek, he
waded in beyond his depth The other boys
made every attempt TO rescue him, but without
avail In quarrel Sunday afternoon at Pan
ton, on what IL known as the sand road, George
Perkins shot Frank Barnes in the head, infiicting
a dangerous II not fatal wound Barnes reputa-
ton Ia very unsavory, he having been guilty OF
various misdemeaners, while Perkins character
IL but little better The railroad mass meeting
at Bristol has been postponed to Friday next
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
County court adjourned last week Wednesday
after session Of two weeks. j. v Houpe har-
ness maker at Bennington, has failed. Liabilities,
81, 600. The tax collector Of Pownal says that
act No 80 works like charm in that town. OF
the resident taxpayers, all the tax Of 1881 Is
paid, but six persons owing small amounts, and
OF these all but one are good next pay day Ten
non residents are unpaid, the treasurer neglect
ing to notify In time to close theirs with the bal
ance Of the list Less than $40 all told remains
unpaid Of the tax OF 1881 in Pownal DIR. IL G.
Day Of Bennington has in his possession copper
cent which was recently picked up on the field
where the battle Of Bennington was fought The
face of the old coin IL stamped with male figure
head with the name Of George | above 1t. On the
reverse side Is female figure with the word
Britannia above it The coin is considerably
eroded, but the date, 1925, IL VISIBLE. A man
named Smith, living near Bennington Falls, told
one OF his boys, lad about fifteen, to go to North
Bennington on an Grand. The boy didn't want
to go and his father threatened 10 whip him II he
did not. The boy went away and told his brother
he should drown himself The boy was gone all
day and his father became frightened and tracked
the boy along the Walloomsac creek and finally
dragged the creek to find the body. The boy
was concealed In the bushes on the bank and en-
joyed the proceedings The neghbors are sorry
the boy was not drowned.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
house in st. Johnsbury belonging to the st.
Johnsbury Lake Champlain railroad was burned
| last week Wednesday. Jennie Hines Of Wheel
ock was thrown from wagon and lay insen-
| sible in the road for over an hour. She was in
an unconscious state many hours. Robert
Of the s IUi n been eu 70
| Windsor for two years and half. IA cores
pondent says Of the recent hail storm in Peacham,
| that some of the hail stones were nearly two
|
places so deep as to remain unmelted two days.
oHrTTRNDEN COUNTY.
| train ran into and killed four cows near the
| lime kilns between Burlington and Essex juno
| ton and narrowly escaped being thrown from the
track. -. The walks in the city park at Burlington
have been graveled. Twenty packages Of liquor
house in Burlington, and the same number at
| the wharf OF the Champlain Transportation Com
pany. The graduating class OF the medical
| collegeat Burlington numbers eightv-fve Eleven
failed to pass "A silver pitcher filled with beans
| was offered by j s. billiard Of Burlington as a
reward to the person guessing nearest the num-
Der it contained. Mrs. E Melany guessed 1901
The exact number WIS 1908 There were over
| seven hundred competitors, Mrs Solomon
Norton OF Huntington stepped on rolling stone
| and fell, break < her leg below the knee in
two places. Samuel + Smith, employed many
years at the Burlington wooden mill was drowned
at keene N. T., last Sunday morning.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Toseph Tatro aborer In the employ OF c.
| Weed at West Berkshire, while png wood
alone at sugar house, in some way fell upon a
sharp point OF wood inhicting what proved TO be
nearly mortal wound in the lower part Of his
abdomen. He managed to reach the house, and
prompt medical aid saved him from bleeding to
| death The mill of White, Clarkson & Co., re-
Gently burned at Richford, is to be rebuilt 80.
Five refrigerator cars are now building at st. Al
bans for use by the Central Vermont railroad
viion has been built at Hghgate Springs to
replace the one burned some time ago.
LAMoILLE COUNTY
Mr.. C. W. Green OF West Rutland, while in
Waterville, examined a rock on land belonging
| to Hon. Henry Smile and found gold and silver
| in small quantities Mrs. Bridget McGookin
recently died at Belvidere, aged one hundred four
years .. Emerson Carpenter of waterville has
| not yet recovered from the effects of an injury
| received at the time of the dumping Of the engine
on the St. Johnsbury Lake Champlain railway
last spring.
ORLEANS COUNTY
Seven hundred cords of wood large quantity
of bark and mill logs owned by George G. May
Co., were burned at Jay, Friday. The fire
caught by spark from the steam mill OF L.
G. Spaulding. Loss $1,000.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Nine telegraph poles near Castleton were torn
to pieces by lightning during a recent storm. co..
Napoleon f. Rosseau, Rutland granite worker,
has disappeared and il said to have taken with
him 5000 worth OF bills receivable, and nearly
all the plans for his company's work. As a re-
suit OF shooting aray IN ies noran part o.
waived examination and put under $50 bonds. =.
James Fox of Fairhaven got into an empty box
car for the purpose of stealing ride. As the car
went around sharp curve near West Rutland it
gave a sudden lurch and threw him to the
ground. The train stopped, went back and
picked him up He was stunned and had many
cuts and bruises, but will live During a recent
thunder storm at Pittsford the lightning entered
the telegraph office at the depot by way OF the
wire, and, after burning bundle of messages,
switched off the telephone wire and, making a
flying call at A. d, Tiffanys house, burned part
of the wall paper in the diniug-room
wINDHAM COUNTY
The other day A. P. Clough Of Jamaica sent his
son to the pasture to get hairs from the horses
tail to be used fish line, but in getting it the
horse gave the boy severe kick in the abdomen.
IIA r.AI hon h..s
rods before he reached the house he sank down
unconscious A doctor summoned and he
pronounced the case n fatal one. The boy died
from internal hemorrhage after forty-eight hours
OF constant suffering, at the age of sixteen....
A one hundred thirty-six pound bear cap
tured near Wilmington lately by Frank Ray. 1t
is his twenty-third bear.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
The liabilities of Charles Raymond, the cothier
OF Ludlow, are SIS, 600, against S14, 600 nominal
assets. He offers fifty cents on dollar The
recent tornado blew down three barns for Isaiah
Morgan at Plymouth, and damaged several
buildings at Shrewsbury. Barnard farmers
| complain of bad luck with spring lambs this year.
many having lost more than half and they don't
lay 1t to the panther but to beechnuts $50 Sc
| we're thunder storm visited Springfield recently,
| doing great damage to the highways and gardens
| Elliot Thompson's house was struck by lightning
and Mrs. Thompson was stunned by the shock
| The lightning also struck in several other places
| in town, but no damage done as far as can be
learned :. Norman W Horton of Brdgewater
| arrived in Woodstock the other day in dilap-
| idated condition mentally, and after examination
| by the physicians was sent 10 the Bratteboro in
sane asylum He is twenty lone years of age and
has been at work In a steam mill in Sherburne.
| The doctors think his present condition was SUI
perinduced by night watching in the mill, lack OF
sleep days, and examining himself with sensa-
| tional stories. Woodstock musicians are re-
| hearsing under the leadership Of Mr.. Jerome
| Hopkins, the music for the grand concert TO be
,Aar tha 18th -lUpN
poser and pianist, in that town.
| STATE AT LARGE.
The storm OF last week Monday somewhat
| damaged the shipping on Lake Champlain..
| Between three hundred and four hundred French
| Catholics from this state went on pilgrimage to
| st. Anne de Beaupre, near Quebec, last week
| Tuesday
Orange County Court.
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