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

added another yoke and another wagon. Ten
years later he added another wagon and pair
OF horses. He was in the business thirty years
or more, used horses altogether at last and sold
out to Allen Perry of Cabot.
JOHN B. PAGE has begun libel suit against
Clement & Sons for the statements contained
in the recent circular of the defendants in rela-
| ton to the Rutland railroad company that
Governor Page had used $4,000 per month of
| the funds of the company without paying the
| interest and had fabricated a pass-book be-
| tween the company and the National bank Of
Rutland, to deceive the accountant who was
examining the books Two hundred thousand
dollars damages are claimed and the real es-
tate and stocks OF the defendants are attached
THE total amount of internal revenue taxes
collected in this state for the year ending
June Both, 1883, is as follows: On distilled
spirits S595 "a; special taxes, S1S, ,502 So; on
| cigars and tobacco, $1S 1885, ,6i; on banks and
bankers, S8,26919 penalties, fines, ETC.,
| S561. 08; total, SAG, 06227. The amount col
! ected the previous year was S56, 4445S, show
ing decrease this year of $40, 1882. 81, but we
are informed by Collector Stearns that If there
| udu Uttn uO CuduEc III bho icNOnuC laws, hnO
amount collected would without doubt have
been at least 100000.
| RUM had another victim last week. Dennis
Daley, who lived near what is called the Gravel
| Pit in Plainfield, and is r section hand on the
Montpelier & Wells River railroad, is spoken
of as an industrious and generally sober man,
but sometimes he would have SPREE Friday
he came to Montpelier to see the circus, got in
toxicated and was sent home on the noon train
| by some of his friends. He Immediately hired
some one to bring him back and his friends
again sent him home on the four o'clock train.
1t was with difficulty that he was kept from
| falling off the train, but he reached the Gravel
Pit and left the train in safety, and after the
train passed he came back on the track and sat
down The next morning he was found, ter
ribly mangled, evidently having been run over
| by an engine which came to Montpelier during
the night. One leg was crushed, the other was
cut off and there was frjghtful cash on the
back of his neck An inquest was held before
Hon. W. S. Martin, but nothing new was de-
veloped. Daley left a wife and two children.
No blame is attached to the employees Of the
road by the officials.
THE idea seems to prevail that by the laws
of this state any woman is entitled to vote in
school district meetings, but an examination of
the matter will show that this is a mistake
Section 524 of the Revised Laws reads as fol-
lows: Women shall have the same right to
vote as men have in all school district meet
ings, and in the election of school commission
ers in towns and cities, and the same right to
hold offices relating to school affairs" Sec
tion 523 says that "persons residing in school
district and qualified to vote in town meeting,
shall be voters in school district meetings" Z"
1t follows then that a man or a woman must
have the same qualifications for voting in a
school district meeting as in a town meeting
What these qualifications are may be seen by
section 2644: male citizens, twenty-one years
of age, whose lists are taken in any town at
the annual assessment next preceding a town
meeting or who are exempt from taxation for
any cause, shall, while residing in the town,
be voters in town meetings." 1t will be seen
from these sections that only those women
"whose lists are TAKEN" that is, those who
hold property in their own names, can vote in
school district meetings. There are quite a
number OF this class in this village and we
hope to see them at the school meeting next
Wednesday evening.
R. G. HAZARD of Rhode Island. representing
holders Of $4,000 of Vermont and Canada
stock, has entered suit in the United States
District Court against the Consolidated Rail-
road Company of Vermont alleging that said
company, by conspiring with majority of the
directors and stockholders of the Vermont and
Canada, obtained possession of the road with.
out giving any consideration therefor; and
that Il vote turning over the Vermont and
Canada road to the Consolidated company was
illegal and void. In similar suit brought in
Boston she American Loan and Trust Company
has been enjoined from issuing the bonds Of
the new company. The authority to issue the
new bonds was supposed 10 be derived from an
act passed by the last legislature which reads
as follows: When two railroads are encum
bered by lien or liens upon the two roads
the company owning either road may issut
bonds on the time and rate of interest provided
by section $3.50 Of the Revised Laws, for the
purpose OF extinguishing such lien or liens, ant
compromising disputes, and the same may b,
secured by mortgage or mortgages of botl
| iOhuo ny NotC VI tuo SlOChHOlubTS Vi tHb COlH
panies owning said roads, Mr. Hazard al
!. leges that there is no construction OF thi,
section which will permit the Consolidated
company to issue to the stockholders OF the
, Vermont and Canada road one million dollars
worth of the new bonds in exchange for theil
road, as the act in question merely permits 9
road encountered by a lien or liens to ISSUE
, bonds " for the purpose Of extinguishing sucl
lien or liens" There is no telling but what
this may be the beginning of new litigation
as long as the old one, which was thought to bt
settled, and the next step will be awaited with
interest.
THREE years ago in April Alvaro Richardson
brakeman, was knocked off car on nigh
freight at the dry bridge over the track OF
Stowe street. in Waterbury. He was MOI
missed till the train reached Middlesex. WORD
was sent back and the mangled remains of thu
unfortunate man were found by the track 8
few rods from the fatal bridge, Last Friday
night a through freight passed Waterbury sta
tion about eleven o'clock and when it arrived
, at Middlesex Lester Clark a brakeman, known
/, TO have been on the train near Waterbury, wal
missing. message was sent to Waterbury
and search was at once made where Richard