Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-01

Vermont State News.

WILD ducks are said to be very plenty on
Lake Champlain now.
A HAY barn and blacksmith shop were
burned in Burlington last Friday night.
Mr.. ANDREW Dow died suddenly at Hines
burgh last week while sitting in his chair.
Rev. GEORGE PORTER has resigned the
pastorate of the Congregational church in
Townshend.
FIVE persons have been sent to the house
of correction from Island Pond within as
many weeks.
GEo. RHODES, an old man living in Rye
gate, died recently, about eight hours after
the death of his son.
THE Gates House, one CT the principal
hotels in Bennington, was burned last Fri
day evening. The loss was large.
THE round house of the St. Johnsbury
and Lake Champlain railway, burnt at
Swanton last summer, is being rebuilt.
WILLIAM BEREAN, wood-sswyer on the
Passumpsic railway, was struck by a dry
bridge near McIndoes' Falls and badly
injured.
In Brookfeld, last Thursday, William
Eddy, aged about sixty-fve, committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the head with
shot gun.
THE residence of Fletcher Tarbe at
Swanton was entered by burglars, one night
recently, and lot of silver-ware and some
clothing taken.
Miss SALLY PARKER of Proctorsville, now
eighty-six years of age, has visited Europe
since she was eighty, and is smarter than
most ladies of fifty.
AN inmate of the house of correction
lately committed from Orange county proves
to be insane. He has been removed to the
asylum at Brattleboro.
REV. S. Ii. McCoLLEsTER has resigned the
pastorate of the Universalist church in Bel
lows Falls, and will be succeeded by Rev. j.
N. Emery of Beverly, Mass.
THE village of Lyndonville has given its
trustees almost unlimited power to bond the
village for an amount sufficient to defray
the cost of a system of water works.
WALTER WHEELoCK, worthy and inhu-
entail farmer of Cambridge, fell from his
wagon while drawing manure, last Thurs
day afternoon, and his neck was broken.
THE docket for the December term of the
Windsor county court contains only one
hundred and thirty-three cases instead of
three hundred or more, as in olden times.
A TRAMP in Vest Hartford used insulting
language at houses where he called, but was
at last soundly thrashed. He attempted to
pull two young ladies from carriage, but
they succeeded in getting away from him.
The great convenience of the telephone
was illustrated in Burlington the other day
by the sudden deprivation of it, owing to
the collapse of generator. Nearly half
the subscribers were without telephone
communication for half day.
BURLINGTON stands fair chance of get
ting large factory for making paper from
wood pulp. The concern, with S250,000
capital proposes to put up buildings costing,
with machinery, Sl50,000, and Burlington
is asked to give $4,000 to help.
THE tramp who recently attempted a
criminal assault on one of the domestcs at
Johnson's hotel at Vernon and escaped from
the officers by letting himself from an attic
window with sheets tied together, stole a
boat and crossed the Connecticut, and no
trace has been found of him since.
SILAs BoNETT was arrested lately at
West Concord for selling horse which he
had bought and on which he had given a
claim. He was locked into bedroom and
his clothes taken away, but he broke open
the door during the night and escaped,
whether with or without clothes is un.
known.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire broke out in the barn
of Mr.. Spooner in North Derby, recently.
1t rapidly spread and soon caught the dwell
lings of Alexander Mcleod and of Addison
Smith. Most of the furniture in the houses
of Mcleod and Smith was saved, but
scarcely anything was saved from the prem
Uses of Mr.. Spooner.
On October 10th, the Boston and North
ern Telephone company began arranging
for building lines leading from Bellows
Falls, to the surrounding villages in all di-
rections, including Keene and Brattleboro.
Remarkable progress has been made thus
far, and unless the season closes early about
one hundred miles will be in working order
inside sixty days from the start. Over thirty
miles are covered by poles ready for wire.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JOSIAH HURD of Sand.
gate, the Oldest married couple in Benning-
ton county, recently celebrated the seven.
tieth anniversary of their wedding Their
house was filled with friends, who in turn
complimented the old couple, who sat in
their parlor. The ages of the couple are
ninety-one and eighty-seven years. The
house they now occupy is the one in which
they commenced housekeeping sixty-nine
years ago. Two goblets, two saucers and
two spoons were upon the table which were
among the wedding presents sixty-nine
years ago.