Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-03-29
Vermont State News.

B. +. ASHLEY has been appointed postmaster at
South Pomfret
Henry W. TRACEY has been appointed post
master at shelburn.
ALBERT II. TUTrLE has been renominated for
postmaster at Rutland
CHAIR factory is building at Barton to take
the place Of the one burned last winter.
DIR CUTTING, secretary Of the board Of agricul-
ture, is very sick with bronchial difficulty.
MRS JOSEPH soPER recently died at st. Johns
bury from an overdose Of morphine and chloral.
FROM seventy-ive to one hundred dwelling
houses will be erected in Bennington the coming
season.
BILL Of 81, 1890 has been presented to the
Burlington board Of aldermen for vaccination In
the city.
ABoY escaped from the reform school last week
He went to his home, but his father has takea
him back
ID. BANFoRD while chopping in the woods near
Derby Line, Friday, was killed by tree falling
upon him.
osGooD & BARRIERS foundry in Bellows Falls
has been damaged by fire to the amount Of
about 500.
RAILWAY from Brattleboro TO Wilmington by
way of Marlboro, Halifax and Jacksonville, il
much talked Of
ST. ALBASs has four hundred French American
families numbering in the neghborhood Of two
thousand people.
PRINCIPAL FULLER Of st. Johusbury academy
declines his recent call to the Greek proessorsbp
OF Dartmouth college.
BELLOWS FALLS is to have telephone e1-
change 1t is expected there will be forty sub
scribers to start with.
JOHN LABEL, wood-chopper in Bolton, was
knocked senseless by falling tree and the scalp
was torn from his head.
DIR. J. S. DURAsT thinks the Danville North
Star has damaged him 5000 worth, and has
sued that paper for libel.
The New England agricultural society will hold
Its next exhibition in Worcester, Massachusetts,
beginning September 9TH.
THE Wakefield varegated marble company now
have eight saws running in their mill just built at
Maetts Head, Colchester.
BENNINGTON man sent some ore to Connecti-
cut to be analysed. He paid $40 for the informa-
ton that 1t was iron pyrites.
SMALLPOX is breaking out again at Holland,
and one case has just proved fatal This makes
the sixth death since December.
MICHAEL KELLEY, convicted OF robbing Frank
Woodman, at Brattleboro, March 9Th. has been
sentenced to three years in the state prison.
THE National Horse Nail company is rebuilding
at vergennes the shops lately burned. The build
ing will be OF wood lined with brick and will be
larger than the old one.
bava n
Cushman OF North Bennington for prepared vul-
canized rubber for erasing purposes, and to W. w.
Sweeney Of Middlebury for faucet attachment.
The Poultney slate works are preparing to erect
new and extensive slate mill at their quarries
southeast Of the village, where they will also put
up eight or ten tenement houses for those in their
employ.
WHILE sliding, little Ida George Of Royalton
met with painful accident. Her sled ran into a
clump Of trees and bushes, and she received
frightfu cash in her cheek that extends from the
mouth to the ear.
ABOUT twenty FIVE men in the polishing room
Of the Columbian marble company OF Rutland
struck last week because the company had put q
negro to work in their room. Work has begun
with a new set OF men.
Barton and seized a large quantity Of liquors
Mr.. Spaulding and Mr. Foster were each fined $50
and sentenced to one months imprisonment
They each took an appeal.
THE long-talked-of wrestling match between
Ed. Decker Of Swanton and johnson Of Boston,
which was to take place Wednesday, March 22d,
has been dropped for the present owing to the
Boston man not coming to terms.
SAMUEL D. GAINES, proprietor Of the Stevens
house at vergennes, who was arrested on charge
OF violating the liquor law, appeared before JUS
tice OF the peace and pleaded guilty to thirty Of
fences and took an appeal giving bail in the
sum of S375.
JOHN SHERBURS, who died in wheeock the
other day, had been confined to his bed for forty
three years. In 1889 he fell from his horse and
injured his spine in such a manner that recovery
was impossible. His digestive organs were sound
and his general health good most of the time.
THE March term OF the Essex county court con-
sumed just one day. The only case of interest
was that OF Charles W. Morrison OF Lexington
who pleaded guilty to rape, and was sentenced to
eight years in the state prison at Windsor, to pay
the costs of prosecution and to stand committed
until paid
OWING to the scanty snow the past winter only
about 5000 of the 100000 cords of wood con-
tracted for by the Central Vermont have been de-
livered along Its line. This necesstates consider
able hauling, some % 900 cords during the sum-
mer, which, with the amount on hand, will last
the road until another winter
JOHN T. BRowsELL OF Arlington cut down
spruce tree sixty feet long and twenty inches in
diameter at the base recently. As the ax-man in-
tended it should the tree slid down the steep side
OF the mountain. Forty rods from where 1t
started the top OF the spruce struck the trunk of
a birch tree two and half feet in diameter, and
went through it, protruding six feet.
GEORGE BowKER, spinner at whttemore &
Dillon's wooden mill at Springfield, frloniously
assaulted Miss Laura A. Smith As she was return
ing from prayer meeting at the Methodist church,
throwing her upon pile of iron and breaking two
Of her ribs She succeeded in getting away be-
fore he accomplished his object He was ar
raigned and sent to Jail in default of 5000 bail.