Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-01-10
Vermont State News.


Four divorces were granted At the late term OF
Windsor county court
FIVE divorces were granted at the late term Of
Caledonia county court.
ST: JoHNsBuRy has silver-platlng business
which In new to that town.
WOODSTOCK National Bank declares seml.an-
nual dividend OF four per cent.
THERE were eighty-four deaths In Bennington
and fourteen In Grand Isle last year.
In 1882 S27i 800 was expended in Burlington
In the erection and repairs OF buildings.
Mrs. MARTIN, an aged lady OF Burlington, re-
Gently fel ON the slippery street and broke hip.
Two bicycllsts In Brattleboro celebrated New
New Years day with wheel around town In the
snow.
THE steamer A. Williams, plying between Bur
iington and Plattsburgh, has been withdrawn for
the season.
THE shops and manufacturing establishments
OF St Johnsbury were generally closed on New
Years day.
THE music OF an orchestra at recent concert
IN Bellows Fails was heard at seventy-five tele-
phone Offices
Mr.. d. S. PERKINS OF Barnard, while unloading
hay, was badly injured by having a pitchfork
thrust into his eye.
The St. Albans Unlversalist society has been
presented with $500 by the widow Of the late
Harrison Stevens of Montreal.
CHARLES LlMooUE, a brakeman, had his hand
Dhuly crushed WDllb coupling cars IN tine RAILWAY
yard at Burlington last Saturday.
NORMAN TAYLOR Of Woodstock, known as the
Vermont pe-eater," has won twelve hour
handicap walking match in Williamsburg, n Y.
A CHILD. two and a half vears old. Of Mr. In
Page at Summerville lin St. Johnsbury) fell into
a tub OF hot water and was 80 badly scalded that
II died.
Tur National hanL of Navnort nm 20 a dividond
Of three and one-half per cent and carries 81, 900
to It's surplus Accountable earnings of the past
six months.
s. Fox of Woodstock has received two ma.
tents within Tho mast week.-mrs. for an IRON fence
post and the other for n barb-wire fastening Tor
iron fence posts
Ir Ia reported that Cbarles q peck and VIII
W. Chapman OF Middiebury have sold their ma
tents on improved machinery for electric light
ming for $50, 900
Mr.. ELIAS Palmer whue blasting for q
Mead in Hinesbureh in running from n blast
caught his chin on wire clothes line and was in.
| iured quite severely.
A,vis srovvs ond .,,,o s,o,,o. n,.A,o
| to procure hail and remain in iaiI 4 beapine
| will be had ON executions in these oases before
| the supreme court next NAV
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tlh pt noIne IN sielgn' tne Mlie OF
bsea ',.h W, y, pDome mho "ss nounS ne,
| the child had been snifocated
| o,,,,,c,,,, s,,,,,r,, $50 =, A.. p.,,. 49,
ce forca b,d ,ba isto,tnn oI Ia, Ia III po
Iinner aiSo,n .,u hsoo,; ~ s,p adu laI on
s s s'dewa AIN p1eahing leg ana spraining
| 80 ' WI, 10 "'u up ioi ''"o '''ne'
rhruh Cn,., pI '. iorlneiIy Oh ~
u I It uus nov VI Mancnester, NJ H.
%as IN 3d. JInnsDnry the other DAY evidently Sc
- ,',. 80 "a' '' oeA W nei iiienus
lHE thietdetectlng society winch, 1t IL ex-
peeted viii make II uncomiortaoIe LOT the petty
Ta,,;s Mlcv naSe oeen , 'ipeng
.I,Hna -. "a.uaii anu i"n'on' Is =" oe UT
saniNeo 'o-norio"'
| ANOTHER seizure OF Intoxicating liquors wa'
made in Rutland last Saturday night on the prem.
ises OF Mrs: Mary Salmon. Enough of the " ar
uen. was ipunu 70 warIan' ner coinni''ai 10 'ht
county jail ior saie keeping
| The number OF deaths at Bellows Falls in 1882
was thrty-four, the average age thirty-seven
years. In 1881 there were forty-five deaths, the
average age twenty-eiRht years. The popula.
tion mas increased during the past year
| SKATING party OF seven at Saxton's River
broke through the ice into about four feet Of
water. All succeeded in getting ont, some in a
| chilled condition but with no other injury. One
girl was pulled out by the hair of the head
MRS. l.. A. WHEELER Of Troy Mills Iowa, pre-.
| scented her daughter, Mrs. j. Fairman Of Fairfax
on Christmas day, a patchwork guilt containing
| hve thousand, hve hundred and four pieces-tht
work all done by Mrs. Wheeler, lady sixty
six years old.
| C b. &C f. EDDY ATTORNEYS for the Connect
cut River mutual insurance company, Bellows
Falls, have brought over seventy-fve suit.
| against the delinquent policy-holders, most OF
| whom have paid their fourteen per cent ASSESS
ment and costs.
| WRESTLING match between Montgomerv M
| Fairfield. and John w Phillips of Nashua, for
500 and the light weight championship, tool,
place in Nashua, y. H., on the 4th, before an ex.
cited audience. Montgomery won the first and
| third falls with apparent ease.
| THE members of the Tunbridge union agri.
| cultural society have elected ID. W. Cowdery
president; n II. Austin and J. p Fish, vice
presidents; f. o. Lyman, secretary II. X Hay
ward, treasurer. The society voted to hold 1T
next fair the first week in October
THE capital stock of the new trust company
Burlington, chartered by the last legislature, wa
| promptly subscribed and the corporators will hole
| a meeting for the election of officers on Monday
January goth. The capital will be $50, 600, anC
the subscriptions aggregated slOl 600.
Mrs. BAILEY of Rupert, while returning from
a visit to her daughter, was overtaken by run
away team, her horse thrown down, her cutie
| was completely demolished, and she, as reported
was thrown some thirty feet from where her cut
ter found. She is in critical condition.
| AsDRFw CARRAy was fatally inipred nj soptl
| Bloomfield by being struck by piece of edgip!
from a board which he was saving. Leonard
Titus was severely injured at another mill in tn
same town. The board saw struck an iron dol
and broke into several pieces, one of which hi
him on the head
| Ar,1-r,v ,br.a. ,aors-o,d obud NJ n dor,as,io n
| M Enoch WaadIs in uinashnroh ioni,ad sora,
matches while alone in a chamber and the be,
and bedding, with all the clothes OF the child ant
her mother were burned The fire was extin
| guished, fortunately, the damage to the rest o
| the house being slight
I coonurr oro;noor 81 ,ha pr,,,no,o,
cotton mil whiia sawi5a a atich ~ ,ir,har IL ~
| workshop Mondav aiternoon was seyereiv in
jured by its flying back and striking him nea
the eye The right cheek was crushed in, tn,
nose broken, the law bone fractured in seyera
| places and the flesh badly cut
| I'm, ,o,,,ru o,d M. s,oo,, oxh;hi,;o, n. p...
rahnro closaJ iast fridan nih, aa,ora a,niaII
| snccessfnI show The at,endanca frnn, o,,t y
town has been larger than aver before Wills Nh,
exhibits, mors Numerous than usual are also
considerably better The Judges pronounced tn,
pigeon department the best ever seen in New
England
| Fp.xv cn,rp who bas hean local axnras
| ~, a, Uindsor 10 sararai aars IL n dafarita
| $50 $50 u. w naoas;ns 80 hn,aas diiar
| III hondsm,.n Wi,Iian SLinrar and Sbario
IVA hona uaada ,and ,,a shnr,a,a and Snnar
intendent Babbet has placed George Rabbit o
| Bellows Falls in charge of the office Gallup ha,
left town
| S,,,,.r ,o,,o. o.,.;,o.;. I, po,tro, ma,
prjS,a,nata baa aaa iatn taxrns - yoad
pfIsema'e,, Ias ,hao ~. Nv eS
oii anu oS,or,asi IN Wnods,ooL az
INA ioi' iJ ~ " us -, "a" in
iarreJ ana * c,ti1ens eanersiI have ro,Dn,ari,,
| 'e,au - 49, hse - "a. ,. ~,
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uye1.'.,,S.,,. -.
Wooptohp woman came near losing consln
eiaole p,n-nohey, ny P,avlng IL lot sale keepinA
| III ias uas, ~ un peuuIeI pVusnt .ne rags hne
was lust disappearing, when tne woman renen,
pere9 the rags, ana set QUIZ aiiet MN NJ iul
| speeu, fortunately sue recovered her casn-seV
eral hundred dolars-peiore II was MADE int
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