Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-03-21
Vermont State News.

lHE central House block at Burlington, re-
Gently burned, Is to he rebuilt coon as possible
THE winter term OF the University Of Vermont
closes to-day. two weeks vacation will follow.
NEW post flee has boon established at
Branch, Orleans county; George Merrill, post
master
THE vital statistics for Orleans county during
1882 include 437 births, 2G6 marriages and 1853
deaths.
THERE are in the village Of White River June
ton twenty-three persons who bear the name
Maggie.
The Heath boys, who attempted to poison Mr..
Rankin and bis sister OF Danvllle, are not to be
prosecuted.
RICHARD sASDEBsoN \ house in South Wheelock
YVES burned recently. Contents saved. Loss on
house $500.
DANIEL WAKEFIELD Of Danville has to draw
his water for thirty head Of cattle and four horses
n mile and n half
LAST Friday fire broke out in the Lincoln Iron
Works at Rutland. The damage was about $1,000
covered by insurance.
WILLIAMS Bros. & Co.'S slate mill ut Poultney
has been burned, with oil the machinery and a
large quantity Of stock.
The stagecoach running between Springfield
and Perknsville was blown completely over four
times one day last week
HERBERT DONALDSON and John Hiliker have
been arrested for fishing with seines off Hog
Island In Lake Champlain
THE authorities recently seized six cases Of H.
packages at North Concord.
EX-GOVERNOR SMITH Of St. Adams has a
Guernsey COW which has had FIVE calves within
twelve months-triplets and twins
THE Eastern Vermont division Of the Boston
and Northern telephone company has been trans
ferred from Bellows Falls to Greenfield, Mass.
THE Vermont marble company has bought for
SIG, 800 the Erastus Wells farm at Center Rutland
and offers for sale In building lots all but por-
ton which the company will use itself
THE old and expensive lawsuit between A. A.
Kirg and W. j. Ia bell for a small piece OF land
at South Royalton has been decided by the SUI
preme court in favor Of King, the plaintiff.
THE Vermont shade roller company OF Yer
| gepnes has become a joint stock company, with
capital etc ok limited to $50 GOO; Willard Crane Of
Burlington president, II, F. Foss superintendent.
| AT Lurenburg, jerome Johnson his wife and
| infant child all died inside Of fifteen hours-the
| former from malignant erysipelas and the latter
| from rheumatic fever. They left two small chill
| dren.
| w. V. STuRrEvANr OF New Haven recently
drove a valuable horse into an open cstern which
| harper ed to be dry. By filling the cistern with
straw the horse was got out without receiving
| scratch.
| KiLLiNGToN MOUNTAIN in Rutland county is
| 228 feet high. About three hundred feet below
| the summit il a never.iailing spring, sufficiently
cold In the hottest days of summer for use with
| out ice.
| n L. FOLSOM has held an office Of BILE
/ and collector In 81 ei1eld for twenty year, and
| in all his experience in collecting taxes never in
| siugle instance had he to take mans property
| in payment.
ALL the officers elected by ballot at the recent
town meeting In St Johnsbury have resigned,
and meeting IN I'll the vacancies has been
called for March 81 This will end all controversy
| of Illegally.
| SoME Massachusetts capitalists have organized
| the West Rutland marble company to work the
| Green Mountain or Morgan marble quarry at
| ND ,rbfe h 4. hoa kaan
| filled with water.
| NORMAN MCCLAFLIN of Richford committed
suicide last week Thursday at Kuowlton, P Q,
| by hanging. lie was about thirtyo years Of
| age and had been married only few days No
cause is assigned
A COW belonging to T. c. Narramore OF Willis
| ton recently climbed two flights Of stairs and
| brought up in woodshed chamber. 1t took the
combined efforts Of all the neighbors to get her
safely down again.
| JAMES FLANAGAN, one of the truckmen at ST.
Johnsbury scale shops, fell through the II 'or Of
| one of the rooms upon the elevator, distance OF
about twelve feet, breaking one Of bis ankles and
| Djuring him otherwise.
JOHN n GALE, late superintendent of the st.
| Johnshury water works, whose peculiar book
| keeping got him into trouble, has been arrested
| on charge Of ENLIGHTENMENT and put under 81 COO
| bonds for bis appearance at county court.
ST. JoHNsRURy, Swanton and Cabot have SOL
| diers' nonuments Brandon l. about to erect one
| Rutland voted S25 OO) for the erection of a me-
| mortal hall Benson at its recent town meeting
| appropriated $1,000 for a soldiers monument.
A CURRENT item says that Mrs. Mary johnson
Of Baton IL the oldest Stbbath-schoo teacher In
Vermont, being seventy-six years old Mrs.
| Phillip Goss of Lyndon is 10 her eighty-third
| year, and still has class in the Sabbath-school.
PATENTS have lately been issued to citizens OF
this state ~ follows L. Meanwhile, assignor,
| one-half to n. d. Nicholson, Rutland, attachment
for ovens of cooking stoves; John Prince, West
Randolph, hoop shaving machine; James Sheehy,
St. Adams, box or case.
A CARLOAD of German immigrants, brought up
from Castle Garden under the auspices of j. S.
Morrill,, arrived at st. Adams the li'h and were
met at the depot by PARTIES from Grand Isle and
other localities in that vicinity. This is the fourth
carload introduced Toto that section.
RUTLAND boasts OF one hundred ard two tele-
phone instruments and Brattleboro Of over two
hundred. At Bellows Falls are about seventy
five in q G exchange, aud new additions are being
made weekly. There are one hundred and fifty
IN the Montpelier circuit, embracing Barre and
WilliamstOwn.
W. A RUSSELL will rebuild the Vermont farm
machine building at Bellows Falls a. as the
frost is out of the ground, The new building will
probably be forty or fifty feet larger than the old
one. The Vermont farm machine eompanys
tools came last week and most Of their hands
will be at work this week.
A NEW prize has been instituted at Mddlebury
college to he competed for on the same evening
as the ParkeTian prize speaking every commence
lutHt lHc Illdl sum EACH year Will Dt ninety
dollars to be divided into four prizes OF thirty,
twenty-five, twenty and fifteen dollars. Eight
members of the Sophomore class will speak in
competition for these prizes,
WHITE marble In unlimited quantities. aud pro-
nounced by experts to be of the finest quality 10
Vermont, has been discovered on land belonging
to 5 II. Weston in Colchester. Ii IL estimated
that n can be quarried for about two and one
quarry Of the same grade OF marble 10 the state
and that costs twenty-five cents To quarry
Oh Friday night as Sewel Baker and wife were
returning from an evening visit to George Go dell
in NJ lrristoWn. the horse and sleigh we're thrown
.ver small bridge and Mrs Baker was instantly
killed, and Bakers elbow broken and shoulder
dislocated Mrs Baker was tfty-two years Old
The accident was caused by the cross-bar Of the
sleigh breaking and running it sidewise off the
bridge, on which there was no guard.
The mania for distinction in the pugilistlc arena
has struck some OF the Mddebury small boys.
Two OF them had pitched battle the other even
ing, one belonging to the village and the other In
East Middlebury. The referee awarded the vic
tory to the village champion although he came
out OF the contest in AN apparently worse state
state than he other, his face having been very
picturesquey damaged in the struggle.
On the p. ultney River between the town OF
West Haven and the state Of New York mag be
seen one cf tina most picturesque waterfalls In
New England. In high water the river pours over
the limestone lecges more than eighty feet 10 the
basiu below, about sixty feet OF which is one I'M
broken 81 e-t of water. The roaring OF these
falls sheard for great distance. When the water
Is low the entire current OF the river passes through
a subteuanean channel aud the direct river bed
Is dry.
A BARN belonging 10 Sas Jewttt in Weybridge
was destroyed by fire with most of its contents,
last Sunday afternoon. The fire WAS commu-
nicated to another OF Mr. Jewelts barns, which
was also consumed. One OF the barns was new
and cost $500 Five hundred bushels of grain
and some hay were burned up, and twelve coarse
wool sheep persisted in the flames, while several
more were badly scorched. The total loss is
about 81, go or $500 and there was no insu-
rance. 1t Is thought that the fire of In
cendiary origin.
On Saturday morning, March II, at six NJ,
while w. I, Morey WAS starting his gTist mill in
lrasburgh he went to the loft or garnet to start
belt and Accidentally fell and broke his lantern.
Instantly the dust and chaff upon the floor be-
came gnited and burned with wonderful rapidity.
Mr., Mercy fastened below and succeeded In saw
ing most of the customers grain, but quite an
amount of his grain burned l. 50 81 500; in
surance 81, $50 Mr.. Mercy had owned the mill
only II few months but the incon e from custom
grinding has been over 500 month.
A DESIGN has been announced by Judge Wheeler
OF the United States district court on the motion
To dissolve the Injunction in the case Of the Rut-
land steam stone-cutter COMPANY against Sheldon
& Slason. which WIS heard at Burlington In Feb
Iuary. Judge Wheeler grants the motion and
dssolyes the injunction The effect OF this Is to
release the old hanson stone channeling ma
chimes, which were tied up by the Injunction, so
that they can be put to work The Injunction
lh -. So.