Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-03-01
Vermont Stafe News.

Tr is denied that James H. Batchelder has OBJ
talned a divorce
THE receipts OF the Brattleboro post-ofice for
1881 were s13,1a
GEORGE S. GooDNow has been appointed post
master at Nottingham.
THE next franklin county fair will be held at
Sheldon, September 6, and 8.
srowE has only one clergyman, and he con
ducts four services each Sunday
Two thousand acres Of land in Concord will be
stripped OF its timber this winter.
TIMOTHY CONWAY of Newport has been run
over by horse and will probably die.
BURLINGTON man has been fined for furnish
ing liquor to the prisoners In the jail there.
THE town OF Essex will raise a tax Of only
twenty cents on the dollar for the coming year
The Burlington republicans have renominatcd
Mayor Hatch, who is now serving his sixth term.
EDWARD DELANEY, a brakeman, was instantly
killed at Alburgh last Friday while uncoupling
cars.
FOURTEEN HUNDRED dollars worth Of liquor
was sold at the Bratteboro agency during the past
year
THE Merino sheep trade is booming No less
than fifteen western buyers were In Brandon last
week
THE State Dental society will hold It's annual
meeting at the Van Ness House in Burlington
March 10th, 10th and nth
GEORGE D. SPENCER Of Castleton has had Eve
shocks OF paralysis in sixteen years, and is now
| likely TO completely recover
CHAuScEY WARNER Of Cambridge has given in
money and securities S25, 900 to the home for des-
titute children at St. Adams.
| The town Of Bratteboro has reduced its ndebt-
edness about $1,000 the past year; the town still
owes debts amounting to $4,000
FISHING rods to the value of from forty to fifty
thousand dollars are annually made in Post Mills
| village, in the town Of Thetford.
| LARGE ash tree in Panton swamp was found
to be full Of coons and after an exciting chase six
| nearly full-grown were captured
The number OF convicts now in the state prison
Is one hundred four. The officers and guards are
now occupying their new quarters.
Dr. L. J. DIXON Of Milton refused a 50, 600 APP
pontment in one Of the departments at Washing
ton, preferring his professional practice.
POLICEMAN KINNEY of St. Johnsbury has been
sued for false imprisonment for committing per-
son to the house of correction at Rutland.
WILLIAM BARLOW, who recently escaped from
the custody of the sheriff at Burlington, has been
recaptured and is now in Burlington Jail.
MIR NJ. WALKER of Whiting lately sold fourteen
hundred bushels OF potatoes, the product Of nine
acres Of ground, for one dollar per bushel.
Anew years ago Norman Shattuck was a bill
lard saloon keeper in West Randolph. lie has
Just been elected mayor Of Fargo, Dakota.
D. C. CELLEY Of St Johnsbury has been APP
pointed scribe of the grand encampment Of odd
Fellows in place Of II. c. Kinney, resigned.
JARED BooTH of Ferrisburgh from a farm Of
less than hundred acres, derived net in
come the past year Of over a thousand dollars.
A. CLARY's barn at Greensboro has been
/, burned. sheep knocked over his kerosene Ian
tern, which exploded and set the building on fire.
, THE March term OF the Rutland county court
begins March 18th, Judge Veazey presiding 1t
will probably be a short one with few cases.
D THE Orleans county jail contains but one prs-
oner. At the recent term Of court no criminal
cases were heard, and but two divorces were
, granted.
e THE Windsor county temperance convention
3 was held at Woodstock last week, Henry Stafford
g OF Hartford being nominated for county COM
) missioner.
The Vermont farm machine company Of Bel
lows Falls received two medals last week from
the American institute at New York city for It's
excellent dairy goods.
IT seems certain now that the business Of. cot
ton manufacturing in Middlebury has finally and
, utterly collapsed. The machinery in the mill has
been sold to parties in Alabama
HENRY GRAY, youth Of seventeen years. on
I Thursday last at Andover, robbed his employer,
4 Rand, Of $40 The money was taken from Rands
Z pocketbook. Gray has not yet been arrested, 80
far as is learned
3 J. L. SAsDERsoN OF st. Louis formerly OF st.
Albaus, star route contractor, has been indicted
for conspiracy to defraud the government and for
perjury. He began his active life as a driver
, from St. Adams to Richford.
BRIDGEwATER boy recently saw string Of
common cotton Irvine about eight inches long
hanging from the bill Of duck. The boy took
hold OF it and pulled until he had unraveled his
duckship to the tune of thirty yards
MEssRs SMITH & KETcHAM Of vergennes have
purchased the mandatory on the Otter Creek
falls in that city, where they have for some time
; been engaged in the manufacture OF cabinet fur
niture, under a lease OF the premises
: In Burlington in 1881 there were eighty-seven
marriages, three hundred fifty-iour births and
two hundred twenty-six deaths Seven deaths
. were the result of violence. The most fatal dis
ease was consumption, from which there were
twenty five deaths.
DECEMBER last there were four hundred and
ninety-seyen post-oflices in Vermont The re-
} cepts from these offices last year we're S602 40
less than the expenses, but in only twelve states
and one territory Of the Union were the receipts
/ equal to or above the expenses.
AT Felchvile, the other day. Mrs Mary Gates
committed suicide by hanging. She was found
hali-reclining by the side OF the bed with a rope
around her neck fastened to a post at the head Of
the bed Mrs. Gates had been an invalid for six
years and since the death OF a daughter, few
weeks ago, she had been very respondent.
LUKE RANSOM, native of Woodstock, where
. his father used to keep hotel, was recently
, found dead near his residence at Hinsdale, ILL
nois with a wound behind his left ear that the
brains had oozed out of, and recently discharged
new revolver at his side. He is said to be s7O-
900 defauter to the Osborne reaper COMPANY of
Chicago.
AT a meeting OF the officers of the National
I Horse Nail Company, held on Friday offers from
several localities were carefully considered, and
1t was decided to maintain their works at Yer
I BcnnesD Wnere superior water power, low rental
z and other facilities were offered. The yergennes
Water Power Company will proceed to erect the
necessary buildings Immediately, on the former
site.
4 A COMPROMISE has been reached in the patent
stockcar suit brought in the United States circuit
4 court by Severance OF Middlebury against Burns
Q OF Ohio the defendant agreeing to pay a royalty
of $40 on each car and costs OF prosecution Many
sheep men have transported their Merinos In cars
provided with the internal eonveniences patented
by Severance and are, therefore, liable to suits for
= infringing the patent.
WHILE Charles +. Sears and wife of Benning-
ton Center were out riding that place ON Fri
day they were'set upon by couple of dogs. The
animals tore the buffalo robes in pieces, and
would probably have injured the occupants OF the
sleigh had not a hay wagon happened along
, The men on this drove the brutes off with their
ptchforks One OF the dogs was bloodhound;
their owner is not known.
SAMUEL FLETCHER OF Charlestown New Hamp-
\ shire, close geological student who possesses one
OF the finest collections OF minerals and curiosites
In the state, has recently discovered fine spec-
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