Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-06-14
Waterbury Items.

|
conspicuous for certain shocking and destructive
| assaults upon human life. 1t made an effort
during the past week to retrieve its reputation
and achieve an enviable distinction by presenting
an example of the remarkable fecundity of its
housewives. 1t succeeded Wednesday morning
| Mrs james Hartman, living on the Duxbury side,
conveyed to her lord the intelligence that he was
again father. Two were directly announced /;
three Tailed the attendant; four scored the ply
stefan, who seemed to rival the magician with his
| famous reproducing bag. AT this point so great
was the panic the tally WAS lost and several later
rivals reported 10 have escaped in the confusion
uncounted tO the woods. The enumerable result
OF this prolific travail Is four diminutive speci-
mems of humanity, three boys and one girl,
weighing In the aggregate fourteen pounds, and
all doing well at last accounts. The parents are
OF French-Canadian extraction Less than year
ago twins were born to them. Figuring after the
manner of the census statsticans, II this ratio OF
reproduction is maintained the least estmable re-
suit In the course of another twelvemonth will be
eight more little Harrimans The mother has
given birth to nine children, OF which seven are
| now living, and the eldest is three years. Her
earliest efforts are alleged to have been the work
OF spontaneous combustion, and wonderful
reproductive powers are said to be hereditary In
the families Of both parents. The babies have
held daily receptions which have been numerously
| attended and have yielded good financial results
Rev. 5. ii. Wheeler, with wife and II tie
daughter, is spending short vacation with his
father, Rev. o. G. Wheeler, at his island home in
beautiful Champlain. His congregation wor-
shlped AT the Methodist church last sunday but II
is expected that his father will supply his desk next
Sabbath and that preaching will be maintained
during the remainder Of his period of rest.
Mrs. johnson, wife OF the Methodist minister,
was summoned to Boston last week by the serious
illness of the sister who was for many weeks
during the past year dangerously sick at Water
bury. The public schools closed In the village
last Friday. The primary, under the instruction
OF Miss Jacobs, has done fairly well. Miss
House, who had earned good name during sew
eral years experience In the primary, has sus-
tanned her reputation for efficiency and aptness in
teaching In the intermediate department to which
she was promoted at the beginning OF the winter
term. 1t is currently reported that she will not
resume her connection with this school. The
high school begun with full numbers but petered
out rs the term advanced and closed with less
than dozen in attendance. There Is room for q
reasonable doubt as to whether this department
has yielded even measurably adequate results for
the money II has cost. The work OF Tefurnishing
the building will commence next week and will
be done by Hugh Griswold and Thaddeus Crossett
Mrs. Woodward with her daughter Miss Eva,
arrived from Washington Saturday and will re-
main for a few days with her sister Mrs. c. N.
Arms. Thomas Ryan, young man little past
his majority, living with his father, John Ryan,
on Woodward hill, died suddenly Thursday morn
ing 1.-The Stowe COACH laden with seventeen
passengers and heavy baggage overturned Satur-
day about five O'Clock, near the house of Mr.. |
Prescott, about two miles out from this village
son OF Mr. Faunce the driver, was on the box, |
and seven passengers including Governor Bling
ham were ON the outside with him. The driver
seems 10 have been somewhat careless about |
keeping his horses In the travelled track and not |
10 have paid sufficient attention to sundry eau |
tions that no was driving too near the ditch |
Near Mr. Prescotts the coach was so far from the |
Travelled track that before the driver could rein |
his horses into the road the wheels sunk in the |
soft earth and the vehicle, topheavy with its load
overturned and crushed against the roadside |
fence, Very providentially but one person, a |
lady, an inside passenger, injured, and she |
only slightly. Governor Bingham's tile was |
found under the broken fence slightly demoral- |
led but what 1t had contained an instant before
was all whole. 1t is a little less than miraculous |
that he and his fellow passengers escaped with |
only rough shaking up. The coach was righted |
up, reloaded with more regard for proper ballast
ing, and Mr. Faunce, who had been summoned |
from the village, taking the relns, completed the |
trip. Mr. Faunce should learn that the place for |
heavy freight like the governor is In the hold, |
not ON the hurricane deck, Mr., Q. l.. Wyman, |
collector OF the school taxes, gives notice TO tax
papers that payment OF their tithes before Sep |
TENDER LIST will save them four per cent .. In a J
letter to Timothy Wheeler, prominent and skill |
ful maple sugar maker in Franklin county says In |
regard 10 the comparative amount OF sugar made |
the past spring; 1T IL my opinion that the \
county OF Franklin has made an average amount
OF sugar this year have been over the county |
some since you wrote me, and the most OF the
sugar-makers that have seen say that they have
made an average quantity this year.
think your predictions have proved true In most
respects. Republican caucus for the election
OF utltRhtts 10 tne kite convention VIII he held at
the Center in the NJ thodst church Saturday at two
O'Clock +, NJ. IL, Y, Bates has been adding some
tine carriages TO his livery equipment, and has
built "A carrage-house djacent 10 his stable
A southwark bound freight train was off the
track In the yard here Tuesday morning Mon.
day evening, as Samuel Cornish and Minnie Lyon
were riding near Thorndikes, the horse took
fright at the cars and leaped over the fence,
throwing out the occupants. The horse then
jump d down the bank near Buffers pond, about
twenty feet, making total wreck Of the buggy,
and it is feared the horse is spoiled . Lewis "a
tro, at the Center, died Monday, OF pneumonia
The butter market was very lively Monday, and
receipts heavy; prices n little higher than last
week. The highest for tubs was twenty.siK
cents; prices range from twenty 10 twenly-six
cents. Samuel II. StOwell has bought OF John
Little OF Rayston iine-looking grey horse weight
1000 pounds, height fifteen hands for quite a
large gum. Stowell proposes 10 challenge Q. @.
Warren for n raoo one OF these days