Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-04-26

Vermont State News.

HARVEY BUNDy shot bear in Hydepark last
week.
A VILLAGE improvement association has been
organized at vergennes.
THE ogdensburgh railroad has decided to build
bridge at Rouses Point.
MoE Canucks are coming into the states this
spring than ever before in one season.
THE Rutland smallpox patients have recovered
and the town is free from the disease.
A NEW post route has been established from
Wilmington, via Searsburgh, to Hartwellville,
A MAN was killed on Saturday at the West
Rutland quarries by means ice falling upon him.
THE losses by fire in the state for the month OF
February amounted to S6i, 100, with $40. 900
insurance
THE indicted listers in Chittenden county have
secured a postponement Of their trials before the
county court.
VERMONT postmasters appointed: Frank H.
Young at Pleasant Valley, and Zenas d. Barker
at West Dover.
IT is said that the Lyndon bank will either be
removed to Lyndonville or new bank will be
chartered there.
A DRUNKEN man was found few days ago Just
before train time lying across the railroad track
near st. Johnsbury.
THE semi-annual meeting OF the Vermont
Homeopathic Medical Society will be held at st..
Johnsbury May 10th.
JOHN GILFoy, sixty-seven years old, poor and
insane from sickness, hanged himself at New
Haven last week Wednesday
THE thirty-eighth session the Vermont annual
| Methodist conference opens at Ludlow to-day,
Rev. s. M. Merrill, ID, presiding.
BURGLARS broke into the Brattleboro post-office
last week Wednesday night and stole everything
Of value. 1t is the third time that office has been
| robbed.
Work has commenced at Burlington on the
pedestal for the statue OF Lafayette to be erected
on the grounds Of the university by Mr. John p.
Howard.
The Passumpsic and the St. Johnsbury & LAX,
Champlain railways are maturing plans for Z
large and elegant union passenger station at st
Johnsbury
| THE indications from all parts Of the state arr
that not more than two-thirds the amount of per
sonal property will be returned for taxation Their,
was last year
THE payroll for the month OF March at tn,
Fairbanks scale works at st. Johnsbury figures NJ
S27 800; that OF the Howe scale works for tn
same month, about $1,000.
AN investigation of the murder OF the maj
found near Rlchford is going on, but beyond get
ting what the authorities think are promising
clues, nothing has been developed
| I'm 10. ,1.
case was tried by jury and continued, three passe
to the supreme court, two with court, and tire
settled by the parties Five divorces were granted
THE hay press and baling machine invented b
G. W. Batchelder OF Boston and owned by the In
ternational hay press company Of St. Adams ha
been found adapted to pressing cotton and will b
introduced in the south.
EMMA, daughter of Eber Rice, a respecte
farmer OF West Cranky, while temporarily d.
ranged, jumped into bonfire the 10Th, and wa
so badly burned that she died in a few minute.
She was thirty years old
A SERIOUS and perhaps fatal accident happene
to Mr.. Amburgh Hood at his mill in Albany la
| Saturday. While arranging pulley upon whiC
was crank, he was struck by the crank upon ii
head and his skull was fractured.
THE post-otiice at Castleton was robbed Frids
night, the safe being forced and its contents a
stracted. The burglars stole team, which wa
afterwards found at West Rutland. There are
clues as to the personality Of the operators.
J.. SHOOTING ARRAY occurred at Sandgate la
week Wednesday, difficulty arose between
party Of gypsies and two families named Whittier
and Williams. One Of the Whittens was kill,
IL and gypsy mortally wounded. Some arres
have been made and more will follow.
., PATRICK HARTSET, employed in the paper IN
=, Of W. Russell & Co., at Bellows Falls, was la
I. Saturday caught in the machinery between b,
. and hot cylinder, and held there until his al
q was thoroughly cooked nearly the whole lengt
|. and WAS otherwise seriously injured.
q A COMPROMISE has ended the suit for IS 8
n brought by Mrs. b. F. levin against the ownt
p OF the junction drug store at White River Jur
ton for selling her husband rum which caused
% death Having got the rum last month on
D. MUSICIAN prescription, levin drank himself 4
~ his wagon. The widow takes $500 and drops I
or suit.
THE furore created by the liquor prosecute
in St Adams last December has, according tc
8, correspondent Of the Free Press, complete
ne petered out. The cases pending will not be tri
a, The four hotels sell openly, and there at le
IN tweRty saloons and groggeres In town where
n ardent is sold in open defiance OF the law and
b. the tact consent of the authorities who know,
Ia dees every one with eyes and ears, the exact st
u" of the case