Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-25
Vermont State News.

The grangers store at Barton Landing has been
sold at auction for $40
THE French Catholics Of Bennington are to
build church this season.
CUSTOMS receipts at Island Pond in 1881 foot up
Sloi,113 expenses OF collection $3.50
RKv. SIMEON PARMALEE, formerly Of Vermont,
celebrated his centennial birthday at Oswego,
New York, the 10TH
RECEIVER PRICE, Of Brattleboro puts in claims
before the commissioner for over sG09OO against
Waites insolvent estate.
Ex-GovERNoR FLETCHER is confined to his
house In Proctorsville by the infirmities Of age
and the uncertainties Of the winter weather.
THE Connecticut River railroad company will
replace the wooden bridge recently carried away
by high water at Bellows Falls by new iron
structure.
THE Rutland county agricultural society has
voted to offer the use Of its grounds TO the YER
mont state and New England societies to hold an
exhibition
BARLOW, criminal from Johnson, en- route to
the house Of correction in charge Of an officer
capped from the depot at Burlington last week
Tuesday and has not been recaptured.
who celebrated his silver wedding recently and
made good thing out Of 1t by making his guests
and the musicians pay for their suppers.
LARKN G. MEAD, the Vermont sculptor, has
been elected to professorship in the Florentine
Academy OF Fine Arts His first work when ex-
hibted in Boston was laughed at by the critics.
Mrs A. HEATH of Pittsford, the venerable
mother Of the Revs. W. ]. Heath Of Cohoes and
G. A. s. Heath Of Green Island was thrown from
a sleigh at Pittsford on Friday afternoon and Sc
riously injured
THE biggest bank dividend yet recorded in Yer
mont Is that just declared by the First National
Of North Bennington per cent. 1t is,
however, for the purpose Of reducing the capital
from $500, 900 to $4,000
GoLDsMITH's Deserted Village has couu-
terpart in Newfane Center. There was at that
place forty years ago court house, jail hotel,
school-houses, churches and several stores, but
now not vestige of dwelling.
THE three isolated cases Of small pox at Brat
tleboro have never caused much concern to the
villagers, though they have aroused sufficient
fear among those wholly unacquanted with the
facts to keep the physicians busy vaccinating.
MARcELLAs PENDocK OF Arlington met with a
terrible accident, which resulted in his death af-
Ter FIVE hours suffering. While chopping wood
a car loaded with wood got loose, and as the car
passed him some of the wood struck him on the
head
AUNT ANNIE an English lady who has lived in
John Clark's family at Putney for twenty years,
was found Friday morning on the stove in her
room, where she had evidently fallen in fainting
fit She was completely roasted and lived only a
few moments.
Two Middlebury men are in a state of suspense.
Isaac Williamson has received advices which tend
to show that he has fallen heir to a property in
California, estimated at from $4,000 to $780,
600, and John Hayes, a laboring man. is reported
to have fallen heir to $4,000
THE Vermont Atwood Merino sheep club held
its annual meeting at Middlebury Wednesday OF
last week and elected Worthington c. Smith OF
St. Adams president Henry Harrington OF Keeler's
Bay vice-president, George Hammond Of Mid
dlebury secretary and treasurer. The assets OF
the club are 81 ,249.
AT the meeting OF the Bennington Battle Mon
ument Association Hon. Henry G. Root made a
report Of finances, showing s72,5o including ap-
preparations, certainly in hand and under CONTROL
and about $1,000 on paper, most Of which is col
lectable, or $4,000 total; also about $40 to
5000 more contingent.
A POST MoRTEM examination OF the body OF
Samuel Cobb, who recently died suddenly at
Westminster, shows that death resulted from
heart disease, there being almost complete ossf-
cation OF one side. The terrible fright given Cobb
by Streeter's drunken antics, and his running so
far no doubt FASTENED his death.
THE reunion Of the Western Vermont Masonic
Association at Brandon, Wednesday of last week.
proved great success. At the ball over one hum
dred couples were present and the music was by
the Howard opera house orchestra. The next re-
union will be held at Bennington. Colonel T.
C. Houghton of that village was elected president
of the association and F. C. White John T. Shurt-
Tiff and A. ?. Chids executive committee
LUTHER HOLDEN was born at Jaffrey, New
Hampshire, January 9th, 1882, and celebrated his
one hundredth birthday in good health and spirits
| at South wallingford Last fall he husked fifty
bushels of corn and handled thirty cords OF wood.
He has been married twice and has over seventy
living descendants, including some great-great-
grandchildren. His mother lived one hundred
years and his brother at Mt. Holly is now ninety
| four years old
THE chapel attached to St. Paul's Episcopal
church at Burlington is now about finished. 1t
was built at Mr.. John P. Howard's expense for the
| use of the Sunday-school. The main room is pro-
vided with cathedral seats and chairs in alternate
| rows, for the convenience of the teachers and
their classes, and will seat two hundred fifty per-
sons, while the ell or transept, which can be used
as part of the chapel by opening the folding
doors, has seating capacity for about sixty.
CURIOUS case is reported from Rutland county
Horace Hotchkiss died recently at the age Of
seventy years When about twenty seven years
old he had a severe attack of brain fever, from
the effects of which he became insane, in which
condition he remained until within about fifteen
hours of his death. He then suddenly became
sane, after forty years Of arrangement, and asked
his wife to sing. She was unable to sing, but re-
peated hymn with which she was familiar, and
to her surprise he repeated it after her as cohe-
rently and inteigenty and with as much feeling
as II his mind had never wandered He repeated
one or two other hymns and then became uncoD-
| scous, and remained 80 until he died.