Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-09-13
Vermont State News.



Vermont State News.
ADDISON COUNTY
Atkins Dakett Of Bridport had shorse, harness
and covered carrige stolen from his barn recently.
The arrest OF the thief is not reported f. B.
Sayles Of Shoreham took the first premium on
butter at the late International fair In New York.
His cows are all Of the Jersey breed and he sets
the milk in pans twelve inches deep, and i'm
merses them in spring water.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Conductor George Wall OF the BeDnlng-
ton 4 Rutland railway was injured at North
bennington Thursday night. lie was walking
along the track near the switches, ahead Of
train, and carelessly caught his feet In a
frog. The train could not he stopped and
Wallis foot and leg were somewhat hurt.
railway accident occurred at North Dorset
last week Tuesday evening, caused by n misplaced
switch. The locomotive ran off the rail into a
ditch and bank and was badly damaged. The en-
gineer and fireman were badly scalded and the
conductor bruised by being thrown down In the
passenger car. ..A shocking case OF cruelty TO
animals Is reported to have recently occurred In
Bennington. span of horses was overloaded
and the wagon wheels sank deeply into miry
ground. After many fruitless attempts the
horses were unable to stir the load. The driver
became exasperated and cudgeled one OF the horses
so nhumanly that the animal fell exhausted.
The horse was further brutally tortured by being
tDeArtu WIN n n1tCD-IOfk. IOWnAl pnytlclhnH
report typhoid fever epidemic there There
have been several fatal cases and many others
are Ill.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Robert W Laird Of st. Jnhnsbury has had
Judgment on verdict for 81 800 in his favor
against the Passumpse railway company for
burning his store at Barnet ten years ago. This
case was tried three times In the county court and
three times In the supreme court, and Mr. Laird
has paid out in costs and fees over 81 600. The
nahu I'm nd ole Nv
Fairbanks serenade to express their congratula-
tons at his selection a. representative from that
town. ;, The camp-meeting at Lyndonvile last
week had larger attendance than ever before
and was successful. Rev. Mr. Hammond OF the
Barnet Center church has resigned. The horse
OF Hiram Silsby was frightened by the cars at the
railway crossing near West Burke lately. Mr.
Silsby was thrown out and somewhat injured
The horse tried TO reach the crossing before the
cars, but turned aside before reaching II. Mrs
Silsby chung to the wagon and WAS unhurt..
The box shop at Lyndon is crowded with orders
and Is running day and night Etst st Johns
bury has new post-Ofiice. The house OF Mr.
Glover in the north part OF Sutton totally
destroyed by fire last week Monday night. The
fire is supposed TO have caught from the chimney
-. Mr., Edison p. Moore, an employe in the pulp
mill at Passumpsic, was killed about seven oclOck
Monday morning lie and Arthur Symms were
all the help that had arrived, and they had just
started the mills when Moore went down stairs
among the machinery, as Symms supposes, to run
The first intimation which he bad Of anything
wrong was a sound of something rappng against
the floor underneath. He thought a belt had
broken and hastened to shut down the machinery
and ascertain the trouble. Upon reaching the
lower part of the mill he found Moore dead Both
legs and one arm were torn off and the body was
badly bruised. lie must have been killed almost
instantly, rs the shaft which caught him was
making three hundred revolutions per minute. He
leaves a widow and three small children
oHITTESDEN COUNTY.
few days ago Mrs Bridget Shirley, living at
Malletts Bay set out to visit the house of a
neighbor, and while on the way was suddenly at
tackled by savage dog which sprang from the
sids OF the road, caught her by the arm, and
threw her to the ground. She finally escaped
with the sleeve Of her dress torn nearly off, and
her arm badly bitten just above the elbow.
| The managers Of Rock Point Institute near Bur
| ngton have just caused n windmill to be set up
| for supplying the institute with water. The
water IL carried to heiyh OF nearly one hundred
feet The house at Shelburn owned by Henry
| N. Newell, and occupied by j. A. Baldwin, was
| burned to the ground early the It'll. The fire
| caught from a defective iue, and so rapidly was
| its progress that the house and all its contents
were destroyed, some of the occupants having
| some difficulty in saving their own lives The
| barn was also burned. with quantity Of lumber
| belonging to the Baldwin manufacturing COM
pany. The house was insured for $1,000, the
| barn for 500 and the furniture for $500 ...
| Among the patents just issued by the United
| States patent office IL one to Judson A. Baldwin
OF Shelburn for improvement in evaporators.
| Tuesday night of last week at about twelve
o'clock the house of Mrs. Lovina Hand in Col
| chester Center was broken into by two roughs,
| and Mrs. Hand, some seventy years OF age, was
| tied and gagged and all her money demanded
She had but little in the house-some six dollars
which the rufians secured
ESSEX COUNTY.
fine pair OF fve-year.old oxen belonging to
James b Wallace of West Concord was lately
killed by lightning. Jeremiah Bishop Of Island
Pond was thrown from his wagon last week Mon
day and severely injured. man attempted to
jump from railway train at Miles Pond and re-
ceved severe injuries Victory is to have a
railway. The grading is completed to the Had
ley mill, and part of the iron is laid.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Charles Winters of Highgate, while returning
home from Swanton in team Wednesday even
ing, attempted to the railroad track in front
of an approaching freight train, but was struck
by the engine. His wagon was smashed in
pieces and himself thrown violently upon the
cowcatcher, which he gripped with such convul-
sve energy that 1t required the combined strength
of two men, when the train was stopped, TO loosen
his hold. lie was found to be seriously hurt in
ternaly, and there are grave doubts as to his re-
covery....A little French child was knocked
down and killed at the Sheldon fair by a team
which was racing. w. W. Montgomery OF
Fairfield and Nat B Hutchins of Iopkinton,
Mass, wrested at the latter place for $500 anu
the light weight championship. 1t resulted in
draw. The business in the horse-powe depart
ment of the st. Adams foundry has increased to
such an extent as to necesstate running the orks
nights during the past two months James
McGlOne, claiming to hail from New Hampshire,
arrested at st. Adams last Saturday on
charge Of stealing a harness The Montreal,
Portland x Boston railway is now completed from
West Farnham, p, = to East Franklin, and an
excursion train was run from East Franklin to
Farnham and return Saturday. The road will
soon be completed to Sheldon.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY
Much sickness prevails in Alburgh, mostly
among children in the form of cholera morbus
and infantum
ORANGE COUNTY.
Mrs. Wallace a widow living at West Fairee,
was awakened the other night by the noise Of
some one entering the window of her house. She
arose from her bed and in the kitchen found two
men, who seized her and threw her down. She
became unconscious and when she revived she
was held by one man while the other ravished
her. Her children crying in the next room fright
ened the ruffans, who fled, leaving a whiskey
bottle on the floor The woman is in a bad con-
dition. There is no clue to the perpetrators.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
j. c. Moulton has been elected captain of the
Newport company of militia in place of Prouty
resigned.... The Newport postotllce has been
moved into new quarters Rev, f. p. Wild has
only child Of Charles Briggs, was lately drowned
at Newport Center ...Jonah Tinker OF East
Albany has been badly hurt by horse falling
upon him. Clothes-line thieves abound in Bar
ton. E. Daniel Brown and his son Solon of Barton
have been jailed on a charge OF larceny. Joseph
Pierce, son-in.aw, was also arrested but made
his escape to Canada. ....A Charleston miller
has hog which weighs 749 pounds The
Wheelock quarterly meeting of Freewill Baptists
was held at West Charleston, August 1921 inclu-
sive The occasion was one of interest and the
attendance good. .... During heavy thunder
storm in Lowell the barn OF IL c. Foster Quincy
was struck by lightning and destroyed =. Some
party entered the barn of NJ c, Davis, at East
Charleston, the other night and cut to pieces
nine Of his harnesses. No arrests, An absent
minded parent from Morgan visited Charleston
the other day bringing his little boy, two and
one-haf years age, and after trading started for
home without him.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Middetown in its geographical formation is
somewhat peculiar being neither square nor oh
long, but looks on the map like great boulder
thrown in among square blocks The survey
which was made by Captain Spaulding, who died
in 1S41 at the age of ninety-six years shows that
running around the town there were nine corners
neither OF which formed right angle. The ex-
PLANTATION for the peculiar shape or form given 10
the town in the survey is this Middletown was
not incorporated rs town until 1874, and orig
inally formed part of four towns, Poutney
Wells, TiDmouth and Ira, with their four corners
coming together a little north of the center OF the
now town Of Middletown. The territory Of which
Middlttpwn is composed is surrounded on all