The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-26
Vermont State News.

the Goth.
TRANS are now crossing Lake Champlain to
Crown Point.
PUTNEY has roller rink association of thirty
members or more.
TBE Wells River paper mill has been sold 10
+. Deming and d. W. Learned for $4,000.
THE Burlington wooden company banqueted
the city fire department on the 10th, as tes-
| timonial to its efficiency.
THERE were four hundred entries and fifteen
| hundred birds in the poultry exhibition which
closed at Brattleboro recently
THE house occupied by Lester Howe and
| Will Thompson, and owned by William Rus
| sell OF Shrewsbury, was burned on Saturday
afternoon.
On Thursday three cottages were burned at
| the Lake Dunmore hotel. Cause supposed to
| be defective 1ue. Loss about $1,000 insur-
ance $1,000.
| DR. NJ L. BAXTER of Washington, D. c., has
| purchased the old Baxter homestead at Derby
Line, which has been in possession of the fam
lily since 1926.
| NoRCRoss BROTHERS OF Worcester Mass
| have contracted to build the Billings library
at Burlington for 100000 1t will be of Long
| meadow sandstone.
THE s. c. Eastman house in the north part
OF Lyndon was burned during the temporary
absence of the family. Nearly everything was
consumed. Insured for $500.
OTIS H., promising Ben. Franklin horse,
| was sold at Fair Haven, a few days ago, to
Boston parties for "a, 800. The horse was owned
by r. Hamilton of Fair Haven.
RAwsoN S. HUMPHREY, superintendent OF
| the Columbian marble quarry, was killed
Saturday morning while Stacking cars at the
quarry switch near Sutherland Falls.
INFORMATION has been filed against Thomas
| Ward of st. Johnsbury for abusing his wife,
and Ward has been bound up for appearance
at June court and enjoined from disposing of
his property.
BUSINESS at the Fairbanks scale shops at St.
Johnsbury is extremely dull and it Is under
stood that the pay roll for the month ending
the 18th amounted to only ST. as against
S27, 900 the previous month.
IT is reported that Mr.. Shedrick who owns
the land at "Beden's FALL" (Middlebury) on
which deposit Of valuable marble has been
found has agreed to sell the property to Bos-
ton capitalists for $4,000 Mr. Shedrick was
previously poor man.
BENJAMIN DODGE Of Lowell, aged twenty,
was arrested at Bellows Falls, Wednesday, on
the charge Of forging an order for goods at one
, Of the stores. In default OF bail he was COM
; mitted to Jail. He is wanted in Orange county
for other alleged crimes
THE Lamoie county grand jury indicted
, several rumsellers, who turned around and
presented evidence against the foreman,
Druggist L. B. Sherwin, on which his fellow
jurors indicted him, and he paid his fine along
; with the regular offenders.
> AT an early hour Tuesday morning Matthew
Flarity was drowned in Lake st. Catherine
while attempting to cross over on the ice from
I the east to the west side of the lake, on his
way to the quarries Of the Poultney slate
, works, where he was employed.
t MR. NATHAN TAFT, a Morrisvie farmer,
= met with serious accident recently While
t feeding his cattle in the barn he climbed to the
. high beams, from which he fell to the floor,
8 striking on his head and shoulders. He re-
9 NAMED unconscious for a long time.
8 NEW books are now being added to the Mid
t dlebury college library, the result of donations
r made for that purpose by Hon. James H.
h. Phelps of the class of 1885 and Hon. Mark
o Skinner Of Chicago, who have each given
y checks for $500 within few months.
DEPUTY SHERIFF GEORGE WALwoRTH of
North Bennington has been arrested for letting
: a rumseller escape over the state line. Wal
y worth insists that he did his best to catch the
e man, lays his arrest to the North Bennington
:. temperance league and asks for speedy trial.
. SOME mscreant entered the barn of Cephas
y !. Trefren, in Lyndon and put Paris green In the
y feed boxes Qf-his cattle. A valuable full
y bosded Jersey t%o<yesSs,5dd ate enough
4 to kill her; the other cattle did not eSt-ft No
a reason can be assigned for so cowardly an act.
d THE first farmers institute of the season
n was held at Lunenburg December 18th and
d 18th. The attendance was good. The speak
v ers were Henry Lane, E. W. Pember, f. M.
:, Goodwin, E. 4. Towle, NJ W. Davis Score
Il tary II. A. Cutting, Frank D. Hale and Frank
F. c. Grant.
y ]. W. WRIGHT of Chimney Point has begun
his usual Strengthening of turkeys at this sea-
% son of the year. He has fourteen men en-.
Is gagged in picking the turkeys, and he packs
e down for freezing about four hundred per day.
It He keeps them frozen for summer trade in
I. New York market
d THE directors of the Windsor county Mutual
- Fire Insurance company met at Woodstock,
l. Wednesday evening, to make final adjustment
OF its business, and voted to return three.fourths
n of one per cent on all notes in force February
J. %, 1888, on which the full assessments have
= been paid to the company.
a THE blind man. George Pippin, who has fol-
a. years showed wonderful ingenuity in handling
v freight tending switch; etc, at Shelburne sta
At ton, is dead He had been blind from boy
hood, and the skill he displayed at various
RI kinds OF work. including upholstering, which
\. he followed as trade for some time, was
a. simply marvellous.
v AT Mhdlebury on Friday night the annual
Il. services in commemoration of the Pilgrims
st were held in the Congregational church. The
Of address was delivered by Professor Frank II
Of Foster. After the banquet the various toasts
were happily responded to by Congressman
Stewart, Rev. Mr.. Speare James NJ. Slade and
" Charles M. Wilds
~ THE house and barn in Ludlow belonging u
IN John Goodspeed were destroyed by fire on Sat
to urday morning. The fire having made consid
to cradle Roadway before discovery, nothing
10 could be done to arrest the progress of tn,
n flames The loss will probably be about 81, 800
W There was an insurance of 81 500 on the house
10 and barn in the Phoenix of Hartford, and S60t
at on household furniture and produce.
On STANFORD merchant has been caught by
Q. new fraud. drummer called and asked
I'd the privilege of leaving showcase contain
es ing good variety of soap. At the end of thu
a year he would call and get pay for what soal
:. had been sold. The merchant signed con
TX tract to that effect But at the end of thirty day
ne another man appeared with contract whcl
90 had a clause in fine print calling for paymen
Is in thirty days.
w In the famous cases Of State Us. L. D. Hop
70 kins in Caledonia county, the Bullard forgery
" case was entered nolle pros the two cases 70
o., larceny were entered nolle pros and not to b.
10 brought forward, respectively the case for tn
"a Green forgery was entered, not to be brough
~ 81 forward, and in the case for larceny, which wa
~ tried by the supreme court in November ant
remanded, the bail was forfeited and chancerel
to $500, which was paid
es THE contemplated improvements on the st
~ Johnsbury g. Lake Champlain road are to b
~ begun at once. The real work of laying stee
es rails will not begin until early spring; but tn
30 steel is now being purchased. and all repair
no during the winter will be made with it. Tn
o. o. old iron is sold for S24 per ton and the stee
III costs S35, making the actual cost OF the stee