Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-03-28
Vermont State News.

Vermont State News.
THE musical convention at East Burke was a
thorough success.
SEVERAL towns In the state have voted sums Of
money for town libraries.
IT is unusually sickly In St. Johnsbury, pneu-
monia being the prevailing disease.
THE fair ground Mt Essex Junction Is to be con-
verted into a fruit and vegetable garden.
The Methodists Of St Johnsbury are about to
make extensive repairs on their church edifice
THE new postofiice at Summerville, a suburb Of
St. Johnsbury, opens with good run OF business.
THE Hibernian society OF Bellows Falls, which
has over seventy members, is having weekly
drill.
THE Burlington wooden company Is to erect
new mill Of large dimensions during the coming
season.
THE wife OF Chester Miller OF S. Adams, In
jured In railway accident some time since, Is
recovering.
The steam mill Of NJ A. Graves in Weston has
been burned. Loss from $4,000 to 5000, with
no insurance.
D.. P. HALL OF Lyndon is about closing his log
ginghusiness for the season. having got in about
5000 900 feet.
IT is reported that the board OF medical e1am-
liners for the pension bureau at Middlebury has
been suspended.
SEVERAL Of the Rutland BARRIERS have agreed
TO close their shops on Sunday and TO prosecute
| those who fail TO do so.
IT is now certain that the new bank at Lyndon.
vile will soon commence business, nearly all OF
| tile stock having been taken.
DENNIS Y. MULLEN and Daniel w. Mullen Of
Rutland informed against for liquor selling, have
| forfeited their bail-S800 each.
SEVERAL persons were badly hurt by collision
| OF au engine with a snow pow on the Southeas,
| ern railway last week Tuesday afternoon.
THE town Of Marlboro has again voted-sixty-
three to thirty-two-agaiust bonding for the pro-
| posed BIattleboro and Bennington railway.
THB comptroller Of United States currency has
authorized the Kington National bank OF Rut-
| land to begin business with capital OF 100000
The house OF Patrick Kelly at Clarendon
| Springs was burned last week Tuesday night.
The family was absent and the origin OF the fire
| Is unknown.
THE state board OF dental examiners has organ
! ICED by the choice Of DE- James Lewis Of Burling
| ton az president, and DR.. r. NJ. Chase OF Bethel
| az secretary.
W. McGovERN train dispatcher OF the Grand
| Trunk Railway at Island Pond, on Wednesday
fell from the stairs at the station and shattered
| the knee joint
| A PASSENGER train on the St. Johnsbury and
| Lake Champlain railway was thrown from the
| track by a broken rail In Walden last week. No
| one was injured.
THE clothes Of Mrs. David Coburn, wife OF a
| Richford farmer, caught fire last week Tuesday
while she was sick in bed and unable to move.
| The doctors think she cannot recover.
| TEAM, loaded with merchandise and in the
charge Of three b ys, WAS struck by freight train
| on the Passumpsc railway last week and smashed
| The boys and horses were unhurt.
| JOHNSON & SuIPMANs livery stable In Win.
ooski was set on fire last Saturday by the acct.
dental dropping OF a lantern. The flames were
put out before very much damage was done.
MICHAEL MoCABE, an empoye OF John Smith
was killed on East mountain, Manchester, by q
falling tree, recently. He came from Ireland less
than year ago and was intending to return II
| the spring.
| FRANCIS NJ. T. CAIN, whom the supreme court
directed to be discharged from jill on furnishing
| n $1,000 bail bond has been baied and has served
an Injunction against the managers Of the copper
| mine at Ely.
THE Young Mems Christian Association OF St
Johnsbury Is at work trying to raise money t
rebuild a church there and adapt 1t for the pur
pose OF music hall The society has received
| material aid
The sheriff at McIndoes recently made a raiC
upon liquor sellers there and captured seven jugs
one keg and bottle-ln all about twenty gallon
of liquor all OF which was turned over to thu
| town agency.
THE United States government has reimbursed
Postmaster Mansur OF Brattleboro for stamps t.
the value OF about $3.50, stolen from the otiic
about year ago, but NO allowance was made TO
money stolen
THE town of Bristol now claims to have the
oldest Sabbath. school teacher In the State--Mrs
H. Needham who is eighty.five years Of age, ant
who has been teacher in the Methodist Sunday
school since 1923.
FOUR golden weddings In this state last week
Bella Downing and wife OF Hartford, John A
Spring and wife OF Springfield, Nathaniel Nut
ting and wife OF Westminster, William Sanbor
and wife of Peacham.
| THE defunct Connecticut River mutual fire in
surance company at Bellows Falls has, throug
l In fral nd Mt N
the fourteen per cent assessment. There remain
about 50, 900 to be collected.
BARNEY DALEY, a Burlington saloon keeper
has been arrested for shameful and criminal as
saut upon respectable girl whom he invited t.
ride with him. lie ia now at home suffer frot
delirum tremens. The extreme penalty is fin
of s., 600 and ten years imprisonment.
! EUGENE MCDONALD was blown up and In
stantly killed by premature rock blast at Gre
wells ledge ia Brattleboro last Friday morning
He was hurled through the air to distance o
some rods and landed on the frozen ground lie
less and mutatei. He eaves wife and children
FRANK GAL,IosN Johz and Frank MeClintor
, three Of the six men who are charged with ha'
ing assaulted aud stabbed Henry Barrel, procure
: bail Friday, and were released from the sta,
prison, where they were held but were immed
ately arrested and sent to Woodstock jail! for pr
vate damage.
; THE Brooks axe factory at Brooksville Wa
burned Sunday morning at about half-past tiv
| ln6 WLOle tulDB burning 10 tnb BrOuuu. Nv
thousand dozen axes were destroyed. The 10.
= Is about S4 000 insurance 81 800. The san
company were burned out year ago last Ma.
, | They will rebuild at once.
q MRS ORLAND AUSTIN, wife OF the baggal
master at Windsor, was run over by locOmoti,
4 and instantly killed Saturday night. She WI
4 | going to a nelghbors near by and was crossi1
the railroad yard while several trains were mo
: ing. Mrs. Austin leaves two little daughter
q aged six and eight. She was member Of Il
h Episcopal church.
5 WESLEY Brown, aged thrty-two, son Of TIN
4 othy Brown, and unmarried, committed suicic
3 about three O'Clock Thursday morning Of la
| week In Dummerston by stabbing himself In tn
i throat with jacknife. He had an attack OF II
sanity some years ago; and slight illness fro
Il | which he had been suffering of late had mao
= him appear silent and morose, though none
l., the family had suspected him OF suicidal inten
/. When discovered he was seated on the edge
!, his bed with the blood oOzing from his wound
r but was too far gone to speak, and died in a fe
l. | moments
d The listers OF Caledonia county met at
& Johnsbury the 2lst, eight towns represented, al
e adopted the following as fair rates In the a
+ praisal Of property Oxen five cents poun
a live weight three-years-old steers, $50 yok
a two-years-ods Sl5; yearlings, 49, cows, So
10 three-years-0ld colts $780, two-years-olds, 81
1t yearings, $40; hogs, seven cents II pound; shee
l. SO so; wool, twenty-five cents pound; hay, 8
d a ton; logs, So thousand feet manufacture
10 lumber, $40 1t was voted that the presses, typ
1t stock aud fixtures OF a printing office should
(, appraised as personal property
:, MoRETowN. George Towle Of PeterbC
s ough was In town last week. Messrs. Geor
ID Haskens and Truman +. wilkins are visit
their relatives here. Miss Minnie Adams
y, visiting her sister, Mrs. Calvin Seaver. ~
"a and Mrs. N X Spaulding Of Burlington recent
81 spent a few days in town. Mr.. James Donov