Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-04-05
Vermont State News.

bellOWb school meeting |
STEEL rails will be laid on the Rutland road from
Brandon to Middebury, the coming season.
DR. l.. c. BUTLER Of Essex has been appointed
state correspondent Of the national board Of health
THE first cheese factory In the state was estab-
lished in 1864 at West Pawlet and Is still running
FRANK DEMO was lately instantly killed by
being overturned while passing over a road In
Cornwall.
SPEAKER J. L. MARTIN has lost his whole fam
lily, consisting Of his wife and three children,
by death.
A FRAGMENT Of broken needle which entered |
the right hand OF Shrewsbury lady seven months |
ago lately came out Of her left heel.
STERLING p. ROUNDS, just nominated for public |
printer by President Arthur, is about ffty-fve |
years OF age and native OF Richford
THE slate companies at Fairhaven and Poultney
are working on full time and the shipments av-
erage FIVE carloads day from each place
AT a liquor raid at Middebury lately seizure
was made OF four cases Of lager, barrel Of al
cohol and small quantities Of gin and whiskey.
A GOOSE fight was one Of the sensations at Bel
| lows Falls the other day. The police broke up
| the affair and the spectators, all Of whom were
| women, were fined.
T.. NJ. SUTTON pleaded guilty In the city court
at Burlington to five offences Of liquor-selling and
WAS fined $50 and costs, and 81 and costs for an
assault upon his wife.
SEvENTY-FIvE genuine whistng quails have
been received by General Ripley and Judge Everts
| from Texas, to be used in stocking the game pre-
serve around Rutland.
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been arrested at st. Adams for misappropriation
Of money collected by him for parties in st.
Adams. He gave bail.
IT is said that Mrs Meaker, the condemned
murderess Of little Alice Meaker, is attempting
the insanity dodge at Windsor, and lately made
savage attack on prison warden
THE mercurial ointment applied to kill lice has
now caused the death OF ten Of the Holstein cat
tie on " Houghton farm " at Putney and the re-
naming thirty are badly affected.
THE Burlington police lately made descent
upon gang OF burglars which has been infesting
that city, and after desperate fight secured eight
OF them, four men and four women.
AT Barden's blacksmith shop In Wells, a spark
from an anvil flew into a closet where powder
was kept. The explosion badly wrecked the
building, but the two men at work escaped unhurt
JOEL NJ. HAVEN of the Bates house at Rutland
Q has recently put 10000 trout in his pond a,
9 Shrewsbury. lie put 5000 salmon in the pond
last year and means to stock 1t with 1,0O0, 0O(
= more trout.
ASA f. HovEY, a native OF Waterford, is the
inventor Of the system Of propeng street cars by
cable which has been for some years in use il
+ San Francisco, and which is being introduced il
: other cities.
The st. Adams Messenger is informed tina
; there are ten senes in use in the lake near Al
burgh, and that the average daily result of thi
wholesale fish slaughter is about thirty barrels
mostly pike.
THE May term Of the United States circuit AM
district courts opens at Windsor, May 10th, at tw
o'clock P. NJ, Judges Blatchford and Wheeler pre-
. siding. The time for noting for trial vii
II expire April Doth
- ASSAYS are making of the gold and silver ore
70 on the shores OF Lake Champlain and a shaft vii
;. be sunk to work the mines. It is said that SUI
- face gravel from the Benson mine has yelde
S55 to S75 per ton.
DR. II. A. INGBAM OF Vergennes, the owner Q
a well-known patent medicine, has just graduate
n at the age OF sxty-one years from the eclecti
"a medical college of New York. lie has becom
= very wealthy from the sale OF his medicines.
" A. B. VALENTINE has offered to endow tn
is Bennington high school with $4,000, provide
n, the fund shall only be used for school purpose,
n that the school shall always be free to actual
,g idents and that the needy shall be supplied wit
ID books, etc.
he HEARING has been had in Burlington befol
Judge Powers of the bill of exceptions in the
ID ebrated highway of Melendy u.s. Bradfor
IL The bill Of exceptions has been settled and Il
IF case will be heard at the general term Of the 81
t. preme court
" j. b. Henderson, conductor on the Burngto
is Lamoille railroad, was severely hurt last wee
oe near Jericho by being thrown from the train by
NJ sudden jolt He was thrown down an emban
'e ment thirty feet high, but escaped witho'
e broken bones
VI THE junior exhibition at Middlebury colel
took place Tuesday evening, the 18th, in Acaden
hall. The audience was large and the applau
a' frequent and hearty The speakers did credit
themselves and to their instructors, and the exl
" bition was in every way success.
A. AT st. Adams last week Edward Church m
M, with accident in the railroad yard. VIII
ga helping to make up train he stepped off the +
!. OF caboose which was in motion. The fall
nd the frozen ground broke his collar bone and thr
az ribs, besides inficting bad bruises.
BURGLARS entered the residence of Mrs. &c
ernor John S Robinson at Center Benningt
ed Thursday night, and took S95 and draft for 81
Ar from the pantaloons OF Reuben F. Stanford NJ
Robinson's brother Mr.. Stamford was visit
in. on his way to Virginia from his home in Bl
lch lington.
go, THE name Of McLerans post-office has be
10. changed to East Barnet The following pc
ur- masters have been appointed Arson B. Ho
zen Danville; Charles T. Birchard, East Shoreha
is David T. Packard, Leicester; Herbert G. Whe
ng- Putney; Mary W. voodry, South Walden; Hora
by N. Hix Nottingham.
es- THE engine OF the mail train which left Swami
we Tuesday morning Of last week via St. Johnsbr
~ Lake Champlain railway jumped the track nj
rs Cambridge while running twenty-five miles
-" hour The engine went into the ditch and was
I'VE most totally demolished. The mail and one pass
YES ger car left the track The engineer was the o.
run person injured He WAS held by the foot 70
owe minutes before he could be released.
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