Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-10-18
WATCHMAN e. JOURNAL sUPPLENENT--OCTOBER Is, 1882.

dislocating a hip and otherwise injuring
him. He may recover.
In the county court at Burlington, Edward
Lawrence and George Painter, for burglary,
and Edward Amell and James Garrow for
highway robbery, have each been sentenced
to seven years in the state prison.
A TRAIN on the Rutland division of the
Central Vermont ran into drove of four
teen cattle near Middebury last Saturday
morning and killed five. No person was in
jured and there was no damage to the train.
In the case of Myers Us. Town Of Rut-
land, in the United States court, verdict
was given for the defendant. The doub-
ling clause" was involved, and Judge
Wheeler said he should rule it constitu-
tional.
A BOY by the name of Potter, late Of the
reform school, and who for short time has
been in the employ of Frank Weeden, of
Bridgewater, skipped the other day, in the
absence of the family, with suit of valua-
BILE clothing and all the silver ware.
THE following clerks in the United States
pension Office from Vermont have been
promoted John L. Parker, Charles Fair
banks, George S. Emery, George Howe, E.
c. johnson, James A. Whitcomb, Dennis
O'Conner, Daniel E. Barrett, Miss Eunice
l.. Reach.
ST. JoHNsBURY Inder " Rev. L. ID. Hop
kins has been stopping in town for the past
few days and seems to be in fair health and
spirits. Mr.. Hopkins is the only st. Johns
bury man who was ever suspected of having
sinned, and is therefore the object of some
curiosity"
THE cornerstone of st. Marks Church
(EpiscopaD was laid at Newport last week
Thursday with appropriate ceremonies. The
weather was suspicious and many of the
clergy from the diocese Of Vermont and from
the diocese of Quebec were present and as
sisted in the ceremony.
REV. DAVID SHURTLEFF of Massachu-
sets, plaintiff in the SANDER suit Of Shurt-
left Us. Rev. DIR. Alfred Stevens, which was
decided in the latter's favor last May, was
arrested at Bratteborro, the other day, for
refusing to pay his lawyers. He paid them
after short confinement
Mr.. ERAsTUs BLISS and his daughter
Mary were driving horse in Milton the
other day which was suddenly taken with
the blind staggers and became unmansge-
able. Both were thrown violently from the
carriage and were badly injured. Mr.. Bliss
is entirely helpless from his injuries.
The estimates of building the Rutland
and Woodstock railroad place the cost of
construction at about S1,200,000 There is
only one bad spot Oh the route and that is
about two miles on the east side of the
summit, Gall rocky which, tits estimated, will
cost about 100000 to cut through.
A BAD case of absence of mind lately
occurred in East Burke. Arthur Jenkins
drove up to the post-office with his wife and
baby, went in, got his mail, came out, got
into wagon in which was the wife of an
other man and drove off. His wife's vigor-
GUS protests induced him to return.
In the Rutland county court case
of William Mullin of Chittenden against
David Il. Rowell, the jury returned YER
dict of $l7S for the plaintiff for damages
for the poisoning of his cattle with paris
green, three of the cattle having died. 1t is
Claimed that Rowel did it in revenge be
cause Mullin as lister in 1881 doubled Row
ellis tax list
THE sheep business continues on the
boom in Addison county. The western
markets, from Texas in the south to Mime
sofa in the north, are necessarily calling fol
the best products of our best hocks and are
always CRYING for more. Hundreds of car
loads of sheep leave Middebury for the
west every year, and it is matter OF won
der how the sheep flocks OF the county car
stand the continuous drsin that Is made
upon them.
EpHRAIM WHITCoMy was arrested al
Rutland the other day under circumstance:
which Indicate thsG the officers had come
the "Ephraim over him. During liquor
raid he was found in the cellar drinking
from a tuaoler and on trial of the case ht
swore 10 was pop beer. But it appears that
the officers took the partially emptied tum
| bier from him and sampled it, and Eph. has
been obliged to give 5000 bonds to answer
to charge of perjury.
CALEDONIA county has smart old man
ninety-fve years old, who took trip tc
western New York this summer, going ant
returning alone. He has just gone ove
into New Hampshire on visit to his ma
tive town. Mr.. Works, for such is his name
moved upon the farm upon which he nov
lives during the cold season of 1916. Dur
ing that season he hauled corn from Port
land on fourhorse wagon, which sole
quickly at $3.50 bushel.
A CURIOSITY has been discovered neal
the path leading up Mount Hor near vii
loughby Lake In Westmore which will ado
to the attractions of that delightful summe
resort. 1t is birch tree which has upor
it an excrescence which, seen few fee
away, shows grinning human face 1t il
four feet and four inches from the top O.
the forehead to the tip of the chin, and thu
corner of the month is turned up in sor
Of leer, as if the figure was tickled to thini
it had escaped observation so long.
AN exchange is responsible for the follow
ing "a few days since pupil in the stat
normal school at Castleton was discovered Il
be crying very hard. Inquiry by the princi
pal elected the fact that the girl had jus
received letter stating that her sister Mar,
was dead. School was stopped and praye
was offered. A second perusal of the lette
showed that the girl was mistaken, that /
WAS not sister Mary. but a favorita famil,