Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-04-19
Vermont State News.

THE grasshopper has begun his summer cam
paign in Barnard
f. A. sHErHERDsoN has been appointed post
master at Fairfax.
ABOUT II, 900 chairs were made in Hartford in
the month Of MARI.
IT Is reported that new and elegant passenger
depot Is to be built at Sharon.
THE vergennes steamer "water Lily" has
commenced her regular trips.
BENJAMIN MAxHAM has held the office OF post
master at Sherburne forty-one years.
RUTLAND is to have telephone communication
with Whitehall, Saratoga and Albany
CHARLES II. sLAsos, of the well-known Rutland
marble firm Of Sheldons & Sason, Is dead.
JOHN QUEEN, the Irish comedian born in st.
Adams In 1843 has become raving maniac
THOMAS BUssENo, a brakeman, was badly
iammed between two cars at Casteton, the 18th
IT Is said that Mrs Meaker has lately made a
savage attack upon the warden OF the state prison.
Mr.. OLIN WILLIAMS became greatly excited
and dropped dead at the annual school meeting in
Brandon.
Dr. C. T. BRANCH OF Coventry has been ap-
pointed examining surgeon by the pension de-
partment.
WHILE boiling sap last Friday, Freeman Walker
Of STAFFORD had shock OF paralysis and died in
half an hour.
TRIP hammer weighing 1900 pounds has
been put into the Pttsfield Iron and Steel Com
| pany's shops.
JOHN D. HLroN OF Norwich fell from load Of
hay last week and was injured SO severely that
| he died two days after.
JANE CHAMPAGNE was sentenced Friday at
Burlington to two years in the state prison for
keeping house Of ill-fame.
| THE United States government licenses 17O,6
retail liquor dealers-one to every 294 inhabitants
| Vermont has one to each 812 people
GENERAL W. Y. W. RIPLEY and Judge Everts
| on Saturday turned loose In Rutland one hundred
fifty quais just received by them from Texas
PROFESSOR l.. F. WARD, a graduate Of Dart
mouth and formerly principal Of the Bellows Falls
high school, lately died at Jacksonville, Florida
REV. L. B. HIBBARD, formerly editor Of the
Ludlow Tribune, has started for Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. where he is to preach in the Baptist church.
DIR. J. NJ. CLARK, late assistant superintendent
at the Brattleboro asylum, has bought place at
Burlington where he will open private asylum.
A PERSON, presumably a tramp, recently came
through from Detroit to Burlington in securely
locked freight car. He was seven days on the
road.
THE late Congressman Allen of Missouri be-
queathed $500 to the Bennington Battle Monu-
| ment Association. The residue Of his estate goes
to his family
THE branch post-ofiice which has for years &C
commodated the people Of Railroad street in st.
Johnsbury has been discontinued, and the people
there are in a ferment.
GEORGE L. HOWARD formerly cashier Of the
Central Vermont railroad company goes to Mex
leo to accept position as second auditor of the
Central Mexican railway.
THE derrick at Hoden's soap-stone quarry in
Chester gave way, last Thursday, letting five
ton block of stone fall down into the pit. Luck
lily the workmen had just left
SOME young fellows from North Troy attended
a dance in Newport lately, and being somewhat
the worse for liquor tore one of the hotel beds to
pieces, and pulled off the railing Of the stairs.
WHILE Frank Hatch and Henry Kidder we're
walking across railway bridge in Swanton,
Hatch lost his balance and fell thirty feet into the
river. He was saved only by great exertions on
the part of Kidder and another person.
AN old gentleman who gave his name as O. G.
Dorwin, native Of Vermont and major in Tay-
lor's army during the Mexican war, was killed
near San Andreas, California, recently by the
overturning of wagon on which he was riding.
THE coach team of the Addison House, Middle
bury, ran away last week Monday and threw the
driver and Mr.. Justus Cobb editor OF the Journal,
against the wall Of building The latter was
seriously hurt internally, but it is thought not
dangerously.
THREE young men on drinking spree at Rock
Island, near Derby Line, got into row the other
night with one Pelow, employed in a shoe-shop in
that vicinity, and one of them struck him with
knife, cutting him in several places. The would
be murderer WAS arrested
SAMUEL c. TowSsHEND, a native of Walng-
ford, was shot in broad daylight the streets of
Leadville, Colorado, recently by T c. Early, a
lawyer. Townshend was constable, and the
affair grew out of dispute about costs in a suit
in which Early was interested.
HAVING provided for the payment of the debt
(S35OO) on their church edifice the Congrega-
tional people of Lyndonville held thanksgiving
festival on Thursday evening. The attendance
was large and the music furnished by the St.
| Johnsbury orchestra very excellent