The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

VermOHt.
THE Barton fire company has dlsbanded.
ST.. PAUL's church in Burlington has boy
choir numbering twenty-four.
The Bratteboro band has received its APP
pointment as the Vermont regimental band.
PROFESSOR JUDAH DANA ruptured a blood
vessel In one Of his feet and Is at present
quite lame.
THERE have been shipped from Bradford
this season zoos crates or 40 486 quarts OF
Strawberries
The convent of Our Lady at Rutland has
been permanently closed The sisters have
left for Montreal
ONE OF the pioneer merino sheep-breeders in
Addison county, Sumner Clark, died recently
at his home In Addison.
AT West Randolph, Frank Belcher, young
mill man, who had his fingers slightly cut on a
circular saw few days since, died from lock-
jaw.
SAMUEL BASS, a West Randolph gardener,
has picked eight hundred quarts Of strawher-
ries from one-eighth of an acre Of land this
season.
A CAR LOAD of kerosene oil en- route for St.
,Iohnsbury was burned about three miles from
Swapton village on the night OF the 25th.
Loss $500.
THE ladies' OF St. Johns church West Ran
dold held fair the Goth, from which they OBJ
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new band.
wall in North Shrewsbury, and upon being dis
lodged 1t proved to be fiue specimen of white
woodchuck.
JONES Lamson & Co.. cotton manufacturers
OF Windsor, and the Jones & Lamson machine
company have been attached for the benefit Of
their creditors.
RAID was made on Towns hotel at Bel
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sixty gallons Of liquor seized. The proprietor
threatens that the hotel shall be closed till next
March election of grand jurors.
G. ]. CHAPMAN was arrested in Rutland for
being drunk and fined A charge Of attempt
ing to kill his wife and others has been made
against him. When arrested he had loaded
revolver and very sharp dirk knife, which he
threatened and attempted to use.
j. M. HAVEN Of Rutland was declared an in
solvent debtor on Thursday. and ordered to
furnish schedules Of assets and liabilities within
six DAYS, after which meeting Of creditors to
elect an assignee will be called No opposition
to the adjudication was made by Haven.
DUeALD STUART of Peacham became intoxi-
Gated one day recently. and chased his wife
from the house threatening TO murder her
She ran screaming towards the neighbors, and
fortunately was heard and rescued before her
husband carried out his evident designs.
AT recent meeting Of the Kingsley Guards
of Rutland thorough investigation was made
in regard to the absence OF several Of the men,
hers at the time thew were called out to 90 to
Ely, and all were excused satisfactory rea-
sons for non-appearsnce being given in every
case.
A SON Of T. j. Hubbard OF Towns hotel
stables at Bellows Falls was ont cunning the
other dav with friend named Kenrick, when
a revolver in Hubhard's hands was accident
oily discharged. the ball passing through his
finger into Kenricks leg The latter Is COM
Portable, but the ball has not been found.
CAMP Frank Ray, Sons of Veterans of Ben
niDgton, was mustered July 23d by Lieutenant
Colonel F. D. Proctor There were twenty
charter members and every prospect of grow
ing camp. Captain Wells Valentine and del
egate represented the camp at the annual
division encampment at Burlington last Thurs
day.
A FAMILY in Craftsbury is terribly afflicted.
The father has cancer on his forehead two
daughters are rapidly running down with con-
sumption; son, on whom the family has
largely depended for support, IL in very poor
health probably in consumption, and the
mother, worn out with labor and anxiety is
raving crazy.
IN maple grove owned by A. L. Davis in
Hartland. is a natural curiosity. II consists of
two maple trees standing eighteen feet apart at
the ground. One five and one-half feet in cir
conference. grows straight, the other takes the
same direction three and One-haf feet then
makes a perfect curve and takes horizontal
direction four feet, from which point it curves
upward and forms a perfect union with its
neighbor