The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

shipped from Addison county, this season.
THREE boys in St. Johpsbury academy have
been sent home for writing unchaste verses.
THE losses OF some Rutland stock operators in
New York are said to be quite serious to them.
Exchange
FIFTEEN farmers on adjoining farms in Bar
nard have over 800 turkeys that will average |
ten pounds apiece, dressed
THE net proceeds OF the French Catholic |
fair, Burlington, amounted to the handsome |
sum of considerably more than three thousand |
dollars.
FRANK BISHOP OF West Burke has this sea- |
son shot 25O cartridges. One day he shot |
twelve and another day thirteen without the
help of dog.
Mrs FRANK DART OF Perkinsville COM |
mitt, suicide recently by taking Paris green
Grief at the loss Of her husband who died about
two years since, is supposed to be the cause.
HERBERT HARRIS of Derby, one Of the boys
at the reform school, ran away last week, and
though every effort to trace him has been
made, his whereabouts remain undiscovered.
THE slate manufacturers OF Poutney and the
towns around there have adopted a schedule OF
pay by the hour which reduces the mems earn
ings, and the men have struck. The slate
business Is dull
THE Oldest person in the town OF Addison is,
undoubtedly, Mrs. Marina Wright, widow Of
John Wright, formerly of Weybridge, who is
now rejoicing in the one hundredth year of her
age and is quite smart for person so adj
vanced in years.
THE visions OF a bounty for killing bear,
the abundance of bear meat and grease, also
good skin, INDUCED in by Elijah Davis and
Richard Pheeney of Island Pond were ruth
lessly dispeed by their discovering that the
supposed cinnamon bear was only yearling
heifer
Alb CARPENTER Of West Waterford thinks
farming pays He has sold about 50 coo worth
0f hutter fhia has raised IL hogs and 40
pigs, 4S5 bushels of corn, 900 bushels OF oats,
20 bushels of India wheat, 200 baskets of clover
seed $50 bushels of potatoes, 30 tons OF hay
and % 70 pounds of sugar.
DR.. II. A. INGHAM Of Vergennes received
Saturday from the United States fish comis-
sioner at Boston, twenty young carp which he
proposes to place in fish pond on his Waltham
property, and see If they will thrive in Vermont
waters. The fish appeared healthy and vigor-
ous Notwithstanding their long journey in tin
pal
The doctors who attended Mrs Clapp, who
died at Middlebury hotel under suspicious
circumstances, say she died of acute peritonitis,
but ~ the man In whose family she had been
working has fled the country, this diagnosis
helps on rather than quiets the local scandal
The papers are after the states attorney be-
cause he doesn't start an investigation.
WHILE two young men, Clarence and Forest
sops of John Gilmore Of Woodstock, were out
hunting for cartridges, Clarence coming in
front and in range of Forests gun as he dis
charged it at partridge, received the charge
himself. Ten shot entered his person one shot
entering his left lung. two his cheek knock
ing out two teeth, and another in the top of his
head. The most danger Is anticipated from
the one which entered his lung
ST JoHNsBURY is pleased over joke on the
leader of the South church choir. The organ
has been out OF tune, to the disgust of the
leader, but on recent Saturday the instru-
ment was tuned without the leader being
aware OF it, On Sunday he made the usual
wry faces over the accompaniment, and on
Monday asked the organist to have the instru-
ment put in tune. When the facts were made
known, bride to secrecy was promptly given to
the organist, but somehow the story got out
A SHOCKING and fatal accident occurred in
Van Dykes saw mill at McIndoes Falls last
week. Daniel Mckinley was at work on the
lacking machine, guiding the rope over the
spool as it was wound up, when his hand was
caught by the rope and he was whirled around.
His head was split completely in two, killing
him instantly and his body otherwise manged.
He was nineteen years old, unmarried, and
the only support OF a widowed mother His
remains were carried to Lancaster, N. H., fol
ipterment.
The ladies' society Of the North church al
Ludlow can certainly take the pie II not the
cake At a recent church festival there were fur.
nished the following thirtp-seven kinds Of pie
Chicken, pork, beefsteak, mince, mock mince
oyster strawberry, currant, plum, peach, cram
berry, pumpkin squash, onion, boiled cider
sweet potato, carrot, lemon, raisin, orange
cream, cocoanut apple custard, apple, blue
berry, blackberry, dried apple, raspberry, corn
starch, cracker, rice, Washington, cherry, but
ternut custard, fried, and prune.
MYRoN AMBLER who has been confined in
Jail at Hyde Park for month on charges OF
embe zzlement preferred by his partner, NJ
Smalley, was released one day last week, afte
asettement which seemed unsatisfactory t,
both parties. Amber was released about sever
o'clock, p. M, and went away after buying
bunch of matches and some tobacco. Abou
nine o'c ok OF the same evening the sugar
house of Smalley, situated on the road which
Amber took, was found on fire. and wa
totally consumed LOSS about 5000; unin
cured Amber was arrested and committed
the same night on suspicion,
ST. ALBANs has been excited over the find
ing of a mans body in c'ffin about six inche
under the ground. After investigation is seem
probable that the body was that OF soldie
named Edward l. Ordway of Troy. 1t is yer,
probable that after his death the body and hi
effects were put into a coffin and started TO
Troy it went to st. Adams by mistake and rs nc
body came to claim the body it was buried ther
by the express company. The extreme sha
lowness of the grave can perhaps be explaine
by the supposition that the parties hired
bury the body neglected to do their work wei
or that 1t was intended to exhume 1t as soon a
anybody called for it.
REGARDING the sale Of the Franklin hous,
which has creat' quite furry in the usual
quiet town of Vergennes, but little can be sale
The facts are, as we understand from good al
thority, nearly as follows: Thursday OF la
week the sale was contaminated from the hei
Of the Hiram Adams estate to Samuel S Gaine
on terms which are private, though not up
what the property would be estimated ut
the assessors. The furniture Of the hotel WI
not purchased. Considerable speculation hi
been INDUCED in as to the future OF the Fran
lin house block but from present indications
is probable the present proprietor, Mr. John
Jackson will continue TO occupy the hotel 4
another year. 1t is rumored that Mr.. Gain
proposes turning the lower story OF the prese
hotel into stores, when he comes into posse
sion. The sale, as it is understood, includ
the store adjoining, now occupied by Mrs.
E. Benedct-Free Press.
Other Localities.
A Boston paper roughly estimates that BIZ
ler's unsuccessful campaign cost him $125 Ot
IT ia estimated that ten thousand huntt