Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-10-25
Vermont State News.

WINDSOR is agitating the question of
public library.
A VILLAGE improvement society has been
formed at West Rutland.
THERE are several cases Of diphtheria in
Orwell, and five persons have died.
THERE are four generations living under
the roof of Mr.. Asa Badger in Danville.
The dwelling house of Warren Sheldon
in Jamaica was burned last week We'd
nesday.
JAMES HARRINGTON, who fell from an
apple tree in Jamaica, September 30, died
last week.
THE New England box makers associa-
ton held tariff meeting at st. Johnsbury
last week.
ANOTHER bear has been killed near the
27O pounds.
The sea serpent mania has reached st.
Adams. Ladies, otherwise sane, declare they
have seen him.
VERMONT ACADEMY at Saxton's River
has $50 students, a larger number than at
any previous term.
COLONEL E. b. SAWYER of Hydepark has
received back pension of about so 800, and
a monthly allowance of $3.50.
AT Gsysville, Lorenzo Bird was arrested
for intoxication and abuse of his wife and
family. Fine and cost some 3d.
ONE of the postoffice delivery clerks in
Burlington handled fifty-eight thousand
pieces Of mail matter in one month.
The old North church at st. Johnsbury
has been rechristened Fairbanks hail." 1t
is owned by Horace and Franklin Fair
banks.
JUDGE WHEELER of Jamaica has discov-
cred what he claims to be valuable marble
quarry upon his land, not far from his
steam mill.
The wrestling match at Middlebury be-
tween Connors and Goodrich is off for the
present, but both men are determined to
have it out hereafter.
GEORGE SEARLEs, a deaf and crippled
pauper, lately committed suicide at South
Reading by throwing himself from bridge
upon the rocks below.
JOHN POCKET of Fairhayen has a boy
who in his fourteenth year measures only
thirty-fcur inches in height. He was the
same height last year.
The Mary Fletcher hospital in Burling.
ton has purchased twenty acres of land ex-
tending from the former southern line of it's
ground to the Williston road.
GENERAL H. HENRY BAXTER of Rutland,
the other day, gave his son Hugh, on his
21st birthday, present of 100000 in New
York Central mortgage bonds.
Mr.. j. M. HAVEN of the Bates house in
Rutland has purchased fine boat, fifteen
feet long and weighing ffty.five pounds,
which he will put on Shrewsbury pond.
A SMALL son of l. B. Gustin of st. Johns
bury fell from a teeter-board and broke the
small bone in one arm. His fall was caused
by the boy on the other end jumping off.
WHILE trying to shoot a cat, at Burling-
ton, young son of Mr.. w. j. Tyndall sue
ceeding in shooting himself in the thigh, in
flicting painful but not dangerous wound.
A LAND-locked salmon weighing over
seven pounds was speared at West Barnet
the other day. 1t probably came from Har-
vey's Pond, which was stocked five or six
years ago.
In the Rutland county court each one of
the Shrewsbury parties engaged in the so
called tarring and feathering of Paul Ellis,
last spring, has been required to pay $3.50
on pleas of guilty.
HELEN M. LINCOLN, who was lately pros.
ecuted at Rutland for violation of the liquor
law and sentenced to the equivalent of thir-
ty-four years in the house of correction, has
been released on $4,000 bail.
The Ford and Gleason hills in Barnet are
to be denuded of their timber to furnish
employment for large gang of hands to
run portable saw mill A million feet or
more Of boards will be sawed.
FIRE broke out early Friday morning in
the Leavenworth Block, Burlington, started
in the Porter manufacturing company's shop
in pile of shavings in the third story.
1t was put out before much damage was
done.
On Monday night, Albert Graham drove
into Lake Champlain near Lyman's coal Of
fee in Burlington span of horses belonging
to Henry Spear of Shelburn. Graham was
rescued from the water with some difficulty
and the horses were drowned.
THERE is much excitement among Addi-
son county sporting people over the pros
pective race between Darwin. Riders Clara
M. and Kent Wright's Fanny Russell, and
large numbers will attend it at Island Park,
Albany, N. Y, next Thursday.
The dwelling of John Brooks in Coven-
week. Fire had been smouldering In a
closet for a day or two and finally burst
through partition. Nearly all of the cloth
ing of the family was destroyed.
JERRY McDERMoTT, freight brakeman on
the Vermont Valley railroad, fell from a
train at Bellows Falls, Wednesday, breaking
his neck and cutting his body in two equal
parts. He boarded at Windsor, and had a
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body was taken for burial
ST. JoHNsBURY has of late been annoyed
by youthful hoodlums who amuse them.
selves by ringing bells and other acts OF
rowdyism. Through the efforts of Mr.. Put
ney, principal of the academy, two of the
ringleaders have been caught and justice
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