Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-06-06
Vermont State News.

DOCS have been making havoc among the
sheep at Post Mills
BRATTLFnoRo thinks Of sending rifle team TO
Creedmoor this season.
The st. Adams reform club Ia now occupying
Its newly furnished rooms.
BETWEEN seventy and eighty cases OF measles
arc reported at West Townshend.
AN old counterfeiter's press was recently dis
covered in the woods at Berkshire, buried in the
earth.
IT is said that the creditors OF the North Troy
Furniture Company will realize about sixty-fve
per cent.
FoUR car loads OF Norweglans passed through
Rutland last Wednesday night on their way 10
Kansas via Montreal.
PIKE weighing over fifteen pounds was re-
Gently caught in the Connecticut river 1t meas
ured three feet in length.
l.. 5. HAYES Of Bratteboro has sold bis interest
In the Bellows Falls exchange to the Boston and
Northern telephone company.
THE I" rush " for houses in Manchester this year
Is unprecedented. One gentleman took 800 for
one hundred days rent, and others have done
as well.
THE store Of George W. Hlliard, dry goods
merchant at Rutland, was closed by an attach
ment last week, but is now open, being In charge
OF an officer.
IRA ANDREWS OF IIinesburgh, nearly eighty
six years old, has made In the last year three
pairs OF light traverse seighs and three piano
box buggies.
HENRY CROwNINGsHIELD was held at Brattle-
boro In $500 for breaking into the farm house OF
George W. French during the temporary absence
Of the family
THE catalogue OF st. Jobnsbury academy gives
the following summary Graduate 3; senior class,
%; middle class, 1903; junior class 1i5; sub-jun-
Tor class 100; total, Ala.
THE grand jury has indicted viii and Frank
Gallagher, John and Frank McClinton, Ed CAT
ney and George Field for assault with intent to
ufNnn Ua Il. nd aln ant Inn
AIRY lst
N. NJ. SCOTT Of Barton, in two weeks, paid out
10 farmers in that vicinity over 50 600 for maple
| sugar having bought about 10000 pounds. lie
reports about an average yield as to quality and
quantity.
DIR. CHARLES BARRIER has within short time
placed In }. NJ. Ravens pond in Shrewsbury over
half million OF trout ranging In size from those
| taken from the Matching house to trout Of fair
dimensions
THURSDAY morning freight train on the Grand
Trunk railroad we1t through an iron bridge at
| Sttatford Hollow, In consequence of broken
| rail. Engineer Kavanaugh Of Island Pond and
the fireman were killed.
AT the annual meeting Of the stockholders Of
| the Lincoln Iron company Redfed Proctor, w
H. Dubois, j. c. Dunn, lockwood Barrett and w
| A. Patrick were reelected directors; X. Proctor
| president X. Barrett, clerk and treasurer, and
w. Patrick, superintendent.
THERE have been five lodges OF Good Tempars
| /,
viz. Mt. Mansfield at Stowe; Crescent, Passumpsic
| Hillside, T. Lyndon; McIndoes, McInioes Falls
| and Echo at East Haven. The order in this state
is in very prosperous condition.
AT the district meeting called near Coventry
| Gore several nights SINCE a dispute arose In con-
| sequence OF which Charles Clark OF Westfied WAS
| caught by several OF the rngleaders OF gang, OF
| which the moderator was a prominent mber,
thrown down and severely beaten.
DANIEL HARRINGTON OF Granville set his milk
| house on fire with some new milk cans turned
upside down against the building The concave
| bottoms, being bright acted like sun dial and
iguited the building Not being sure OF the cause,
he set the cans against the fence and soon discov
| cred that on fire.
| BIGELow & PRESCOTT, dealers In general mer-
| chandise, at st. Adams, have failed, with re-
| ported liabilities of about 81 800 and nominal as
sets Of some 81, 800. The liabilities Of Colburn &
Cannon, boot and shoe dealers White River
| Junction, are about 50 Co., and the assets noml-
| naly about 5 900.
YOUNG man by the name OF Coon, from Mont
| gomery, at work in Hunter & Co.'S saw mill at
Fast Franklin, got caught in the machinery while
putting on belt May 18th, and had both arms
| and legs broken. He lived six hours after the
accident, but died about thirty minutes before
| his mother and father arrived.
| PUTSEy correspondent OF the Brattleboro
| Reformer has discovered in that town three boys,
Hiram, John and William, and four girls, Mar
tha Sophia, Fanny and Emene, whose average
age is over eighty and the youngest of whom can
count up seventy-five. They all went to school
together in the same district, and have lived
| there almost constantly ever since.
AT meeting OF the First Baptist society OF st.
| Adams last week, 1t was voted to rebuild their
church at once, building and subscription COM
| mittees were appointed and the ground plan pre-
sented by Mr.. SWEET was adopted. BY this the
main external features will be retained, but the
| Internal arrangements are much changed. The
| work OF rebuilding is now in progress.
| FEW voters came together in Charleston, May
23i, in response to call of the seectmen to IL
the town would elect superintendent and also to
see If they would rescind the vote taken at the
annual meeting to raise forty cents on the dollar
| for the support OF schools under the town system.
| But the seltctmen had got ahead of the town by
| appointing the same board OF directors that WAS
elected and resigned. The meeting adjourned
| without taking any action on the articles In the
a ans swn rss and ind 1s at q ths
| with good will.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL HENRY has served
| wits OF attachment on the property OF General
| W. W. Lynde Of Brattleboro, Dana ID. Dickinson
| and o. l.. Sherman Of Newfane and Richard
Z. Pratt OF Dummerston, bondsmen for Cap
tain Morton Pratt, the late Indian agent who
the government claims is short in his accounts
some 10000 Pratt was Windham county boy.
lie lost an arm at Bull Run and was always held
in highest esteem at Brattleboro His friends be-
leve that he will satisfactorily explain the def
cheney and thus relieve his bondsmen, who are re-
| sponsible In the sum of Sl5 900 each, and are all
rich and of good standing.
D. f. NICHOLSON OF Rutland, contributing to
the Herald "reminiscences OF the late Chief Justice
John Pierpoint illustrative Of his sound sense and
disregard of conventionalities tells us OF an oc-
casion when a coarse, ignorant man who had
been convicted OF theft under circumstances OF
some mitigation, stood sullen at the bar OF the
court and heard the mildest sentence warranted
| in law. lie broke out with curses upon the
judge, shaking his fist menacngly toward his
person in so shocking manner that prominent
member OF the bar, representing the sense OF the
whole assemblage, moved the court to order the
convict to stand up and have his sentence dou-
BLEED upon him for his unparalleled contumacious
| behavior. Whereupon the cool, philosophical
and plying judge remarked in reply: OH we
cannot expect these poor fellows TO feel very
well toward us for sending them to the state
| prison."