Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-12-13
Vermont State News.


has been suspended Tor the winter. Middlebury |
will soon be without town hall and the citizens |
are trying to devise ways and means TO procure |
another. The drug firm OF Shattuck & Burbee |
in Bristol has dissolved, Mr.. Burbee buying out |
Mr.. Shattuck. Consideration about $1,000, and
continuing the business. ..A postofllce has been
established at Town Line and Elisha Smith APP
pointed postmaster. ..,.A Ferrisburgh farmer
places q mortgage Of $1,000 on productive farm
and invests the money in buying and shipping
hay. Another Ferrsburgh farmer, who owned
over 600 acres OF fertile land and did the same
thing has just received his discharge In the court
OF bankruptcy Foxes have killed OF injured
sixteen turkeys for Ira h. Smith Of Middlebury.
80. Charles Westall OF Middebury has Just re-
ceived from England a newspaper which was
eight years eight months and twenty-five days on
the way from London. 1t was all black and dis
colored and looked II 1t had been at the bottom
OF the ocean,. Lake Champain is frozen over
from Whitehall to Chimney point, and navigation
on the canal has closed Tor the winter. Otter
creek at vergennes falls is about low az 1t ever
has been, and the wells and springs round about
are nearly dry,...E. B. Oaks, Bristol grocer,
and w. w. Needham clothier, have failed. Oaks
goods have been sold by the sheriff, but Need
ham, who owes Boston men 5000, will probably
pay sixty-three cents on the dollar and continue
business. Eight thousand tons Of limestone
have been shipped this season to Port Henry New
York, from the Golf quarry near Lake Champain.
... New steps and stair-ways, with ash posts fin
ished in oil, have been added to st. Paurs Epi.-
copal church at Vergennes..... Henry Cum Of
Ferrisburg contracts with Stevens Brothers TO
draw 700 cords Of wood from the Dead.creek
woods TO the Vergennes railroad station, three
miles and half, for 81 cord.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
A house owned by Elijah Dewey in Bennington
was lately burned. Loss, 81, 200 insured for
S400. ... Peter Boothby, a horethief, was cap
| tuted at Arlington, last week, by Sheriff John
Robinson. Boothhy recently stole valuable
| horse from H. ii Nichols OF Chatham, New York,
and after a somewhat devious course, brought
| up at Arlington, where he tried to sell the ami
NAL The prisoner was brought before Judge
Harman, and held in $500 for appearance at the
| county court When captured he had In his pos
session a large knife, six shooter OF heavy cali
| bre and three silver watches child was re-
Gently born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lathrop Of
Dorset, which received It's first dressing at the
hands OF It's great grandmother. This same child
has living. besides its parents, one grandfather,
two grandmothers, and two great grandfathers
and two gTeat-grandmothers.. The wife OF DIR.
Bailey of North Pownal, who has praciced med
| icine here for several years, has suffered poor
health for some time from unknown causes. 1t
| il now said that her husband administered OPT
ates keeping her in stupor for days together
She became very much emacated, and some OF
the villagers called upon him and advised him
to leave the place. He therefore left for parts
unknown.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The Vermont lumber company at West Burke
are heavily engaged In stocking their mill, get
ting far greater amount than ever before. The
excess over former years will probably reach 2,
900, 600 feet. The Free Baptsts OF St. Johns
bury now occupy their new church, built on the
site Of the one burned last March. zee. The war
drama Battle OF Gettysburgh was successfully
presented by local talent at St. Johnsbury last
week. The gross receipts OF four nights were
S679 and the expenses about $40, thus putting
$500 into the treasury OF the Grand Army post.
go. Three weeks ago the son Of c. T. Brigham
was eating peanuts and swallowed part OF one
down the windppe. A fever followed which baf-
fled the skill Of physician until last week Satur-
day when some one recommended steaming In
alcohol. This was done and in few minutes af-
forwards the boy coughed up from his lungs part
of the meat Of a peanut. From that time he has
improved RAPIDLY. lsaac Flynn, brakeman,
was brushed from the top of a saloon car near
Woodsvile, lately and will be laid up several
weeks. The December term of the Caledonia
county court commenced at st. Johnsbury on
Tuesday Of last week. Eighteen cases were set
for jury trial, five OF which are state cases-Web-
ster Whitehill, poisoning child; Lewis Mchout,
manslaughter; Cora ]. Ryder, adultery, aud Dr.
A. Il. Stokes for abortion Stokes has been tried
once before for the same offence In this county,
but not convicted. The Fl st case on trial is j. b.
Knox rs. the town Of Wheelock, injury by the
breaking of bridge. 1t has BET once tried, and
a verdict OF 5000 for the plaintiff given. The
ease was carried to the suprememe court, ard re-
manded for a new trial Burglars entered the
cashiers office of the st. Johnsbury and Lake
Champlain railroad at st Johnsbury, Saturday
night, by cutting hole through the partition from
the hallway. They burt open several drawers
cHITrENDEN COUNTY.
There are but twelve cases to come before the
supreme court for this county next January term
THE Burlington liquor agency, which has
been closed many months has been re-opened
} There were seven marriages, twenty-five
! births and seventeen deaths In Burlington during
November. Sheriff Barton has thus far mad'
the following appointments Of deputy sherifs To-
Chtendeu county: Ira b. Wicker, Charlotte
! A. B. Ashley, Milton L. D Baker, Essex juno
ton; Charles NJ II. Ferguson, Richmond: Furthe
appointments will be announced in a few days
, -. John Fitzsimmons, respected citizen o
; Underhill was instantly killed by falling tree
the 9Th inst . The new University buildings a
Burlington are practically completed, with the ex
ception OF the chapel.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The collections at the custom house for the poi
of Island Pond for the month of November wer
$40 663 40. This amount is 5000 in excess OF tn
collections Of the corresponding month for 1881
The articles on which the most OF the duties wer
collected were harley butter, nay poultry an
the management Of the Stewart House at Islam
Pond. =. Connecticut river lumbermen complai
A of a scarcity of good help and are offering laTg
prices to secure such
2 FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Antoine Martin OF Sheldon was killed last wee
! by the caving in of an embankment on the Mon
: treal extension of the Portland Ogdensburg
. railway. G. w MCGOWAN, who was badly in
0 iured by a fall lately, died last week at High
gate. William T. Peat was riding his horse a
: St Adams to the watering trough, and in turn
| ing corner the horse slipped and Tell Pea
! was not able to clear himself entirely and hi
a right leg WAS caught under the horse, breakin
= two bones just above the ankle He was take
into II. G. Motions store, and subsequently cal
: | ried home. DIR. Dunsmore was called to set tn
: | break. o.. Jacob 0Tcutt OF Randolph takes charg
. OF Gov Smiths farm at St. Adams. On Thur
> day afternoon Mrs. Bailey of East Fairfield le
/ two children, one two years old and the othe
= about FIVE alone In n crib while she went out 10
a few minutes, and during her absence the chi
. dren played with fire, and the Oldest was burne
10 death and the other cannot live. Mrs.
Mckenzie of St. Adams will shortly leave for he
> new home at FL Paso, Mexico She will go b
: way OF Boston and New York, making shol
I. sojourn In each OF those places.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
!, The Grand Isle stage now runs to BuIlingto
: across the ice Mr.. and Mrs c. 7. Hill OF Isl
3, | La Motto were recently injured severely by bein
J thrown from their carriage by a runaway hors,
Mr.. Hill received broken jaw, and MIS- Ill
" had her wrist broken. -. Giles ii. Hawriean Il
!. be appointed postmaster at La Grange in Mort
. Hero. Captain Warren Corbn OF South Her
{ has laid the keel for another steamboat. In
lat sailing vessel that left Grand Isle for the ses
son took 1872 barrels OF apples for the New foI
A market.
u LAMoILLE COUNTY
, The little village OF Wateryile Is great
| | hRlthttu OVER tnt snRulhf Va ~ uoo
/ body recently exhumed there. Several men wer
engaged in moving the bodies OF an aged couple
a who have been dead some twenty-three year.
The body OF the husband was found In the usua
II condition. nothing being left OF 1t bat the crnn
n | bling bones. When they tried To raise the com
OF the wife, however, Its great weight Tor tim
4 resisted all their efforts At last IL was brougl
j., to the surface by the united strength OF hye mer
[ | aud being opened disclosed the body in a state {
petrifcation, perfectly preserved, but turned
A dark mahogany color almost black Every fes
ture was Ike marble; not line or expression Z
a the face but what was perpetuated In stone.
n Is estime ted that the weight OF the body mus
have been about 800 pounds
n ORLEANS COUNTY
Il Walter Bailey, freight conductor who was late
. ly run by train at Mansonville station, ha
! | since died Mt North Troy An Episcopal chap'
is being fitted up at North Troy. The societ
a there has been organized only two years and
- | vet small :. John Livingston of Coventry got hi
neck broken N the 30th, by beirg thrown from
| sleigh In Barnston, Q lebec. Dana Hadlock {
North Troy, while at work In the woods, was ~
verely injured by large limb which fell an
struck him In the back and leg His leg wa
broken, and his condition Is considered critical.
v RUTLAND COUNTY.
e The national bank OF Rutland, the Rutlan
5. county national and the Rutland savings bank
l. have entered into an agreement to remain ope
10 for business, after January /, every day exceI
d Sundays and holidays, from nine O'Clock, A. NJ
D. 10 three p NJ Heretofore these banks have bee
Is closed Saturday, Bridget Kennedy OF RUTLAND
ID charged with dealing In rum, was found guilt
nj Thursday of 2g5 first offences, the penalty Il
" which Is fine of So 900 and one month imprisoi