Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-01-03
Vermont State News.

false fire alarm.
THE Howe scale works at Rutland have again
resumed work.
PASTOR Cow of the Baptist church received a
$500 Christmas purse from his people
ASHLEY STONE of wilmington has just had his
left eye removed by Philadelphia oculist.
The new Free Baptist church at st. Johnsbury
will be dedicated about the 10th Of January.
THE total expenses of the village Of St. Johns
bury for the year just ended were S21 ,695 Al.
JAMES WARD, a cook in a logging camp near
Island Pond, dropped dead from heart disease.
HARRISON GOULD fell upon the sidewalk in
Rutland lately and fractured one of his thighs.
Miss DOLLY MITCHELL at st. Adams Bay,
slipped and fell the other day, breaking an arm
THERE was shipped from the Richmond depot
the last year 266 tons of cheese and 205 tons OF
butter.
HARRY W. PORTER, an old citizen OF Rutland,
died last Saturday. He has long been in feeble
health.
JOSIAH ADAMS, workman in Ha2elton's
stretcher mill, Bridgewater, got one finger sawed
off close to his hand.
JOSEPH DANyow was nearly drowned at YER
gennes, the ice on Otter creek breaking as he was
crossing with a team.
THE Danvle hotel keeper finds it a trife costly
to sell liquor and has concluded to run his house
on the temperance plan.
THF Bethel telephone line is to be extended to
it is expected, to Rutland.
A FREIGHT car on the Burlington & Lamoille
railway ran off the track last week, and much de-
lay to other trains was caused.
GOVERNOR BARs1ow has appointed John V.
Hall Judge Of the Bennington municipal court,
vice George W. Hartman, resigned.
VIM WHUCoMB formerly of Felchvile, COM
mitted suicide at his home in Geneseo, ILL.,, De-
cember 18th No cause is assigned.
THE crop of Christmas DRINKS in Burlington
seems to have been unusually large. The police
court turned off about thirty-ive cases.
ONE whteh of Groton, pleaded guilty OF at
tempting to poison his infant child and was sent
to the house Of correction for two years.
IT is understood that the Brandon national bank
will declare four percent dividend in January,
the first since the Batchelder trouble in 1878.
FRED WILLIAMS one of the victims Of the Hart
MELVILLE explosion, went through every battle
with the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts, in the
rebellion
THE First National bank Of Bennington has de-
cared a semi-annual dividend of eight per cent
from the earnings OF the last six months, payable
January LIST.
A wELL-KNowN citizen of Bratteboro recently
lost a pocketbook containing some $1,000, and
found it, after a two hours exciting search, on a
public street.
now of Fergus Falls, MINI, has given the Uni
versity stone ak, supposed to have been used
by the mound builders.
HENRY FISHER while driving unruly horses
down steep hill at Pownal last week Wednes-
day, slipped from his seat and falling under the
horses feet, was kicked to death.
DURING a recent storm the roof Of the Benning-
ton court house, which cost 5000 leaked SO
| badly that several tubs were required to catch
the water which percolated through it.
THE Vermont marble company issued mort.
gage bonds two years ago, payable at the rate Of
hqv hpxp Qpar nuid a md
| cancelled $500, 900 in the two years past.
THE mixed train from Rutland to Bellows Falls
broke apart near Proctorsville and the two parts
collided, smashing six or seven cars loaded with
meat, coal and lumber. No one was hurt.
MIR. c. C. KNAPP, proprietor OF the two hotels
at Alburgh Springs, has surrendered his lease and
| moved away from town. In consequence Mr.
| Smith of the Mansion house is back again to his
| old home,
HENRY BARRETT, a Frenchman, was knocked
down at Windsor Saturday night by party Of
| roughs severely beaten and stabbed seven times
in the back His life is despaired Of Several Of
| his assailants have been arrested.
| A BRArTLEBoRo pastor who was called severa
| miles to tie Christmas matrimonial knot, having
| hastily warmed his half frozen hands, was chilled
again by the prospective groom's announcement
| that "weve decided to put 'er off.
ST. MIcHAEL's Episcopal church OF BrattleborC
| has received from New York friend a handsome
pulpit desk Of polished brass. Rector Collins IL
| addition to other gifts, has been given set o.
telephone instruments by his parishoners,
THE BARRIERS of Burlington continue to clos'
| their shops on Sunday, in pursuance with al
| agreement made several months since, and thos'
who violate it are prosecuted The latest victim
| is Edward Willis, who was fined in city court tn,
other day.
The largest weeks work ever done at the st
| JohnsbuTy scale works was done the first week IL
| December, when three thousand and ten scale
were completed in the six days Workmen in thu
small scale department have worked evenings al
the month
Miss MARY BoYCE OF johnson had marrow
escape from being fatally burned a few days ago
Her clothes were on fire, when Mrs Orange Buck
with whom she is living, ran with great presence
of mind and wrapped her in wooden blanket
II Mrs Buck had not been there the girl mus
have burned.
W. T. WILLIAMS, while at work in Poultne,
quarry, December u, was considerably injured
by the fall of large quantity of frozen dirt esti
mated to weigh seven hundred pounds, which il
falling struck Mr.. Williams on the shoulders
causing a conclusion of the spine and injuring tn
cords OF his neck.
A WOMAN of remarkable life has just bee
buried at North Pownal. She was colore
woman popularity known as Grandmother Scot
and was born at Hartford CT, in 1776, fe,
months before the first Of the glorious Fourths
She had lived at Pownal sixty years and ha
buried seven husbands.
year was 1,000,000 cubic feet, valued at owe
S2,000,0O0. The number of men employed /
the quarries and mills exceed 2 800, and 1t re
quired 10000 cars to carry the marble away
Nearly 100000 was paid for the labor of WORK
ingmen by the quarry owners.
THE second annual reunion and banquet Of tn
Burlington Commercial Travellers Associatio
was held at the American Hotel in that city o
! Saturday evening, December 3Olh, and proved
delightful and in every way successful Atfa
The association was organized year ago an
has proved itself of value in many ways.
THE new Marble savings bank of Rutland hs
elected the following board of officers: Pres
dent Gen. f. H. Ripley; vice-president, II L
! Levi G. Kingsley, Levi Rice, F. A. Barrow
: Simeon Allen, VIM b, Shaw, N. P. Simons
/, c. Lewis, II IL. Dyer and Charles L, Ross.
SAMUEL sTARKwEATHER, a Williamstowl
Mass, butcher while driving through "Dul
way, notorious place near Pownal, Vt, on I'll
state line, at ten O'Clock last Saturday night, wa
, stopped by two men, who asked for his waite
and then knocked him from his sleigh and robbie
a him of $50 in money and valuables worth $40.
n THE Westinghouse, barn and other outbuil,
( ings situated on the Cargill place in Brghto
y were with the greater part of their content
Q totally destroyed by fire on Wednesday night
o last week. The fire originated in the barn an
: was caused by the explosion OF a lantern. I'll
T. loss Is about $1,000, but is partially covered
o insurance.
= JOSEPH BArTELL, ESQ, of Middlebury has bee
= offered 900 for his stallion Motion" by Wi
n son, the great Kentucky dealer in and breeder
= fine blooded fast horses. Wilson has before trie
y to buy Motion hut failed, as he did this time
. II likely, however, that Motion may be sent
n Kentucky for while, for stock purposes Smu
u gler was kept about two years by Wilson in II
7 same way.
= AMONG the attractions OF the poultry exhit
!, tlon at BTattleboro was a pair of grizzly be-
!, cubs, captured in the Rocky mountains after
desperate fight with the mother of eight hui
% dred pounds weight She was despatched aft
y receiving eight balls from Spencer rifles III
a cubs when taken weighed about eighteen pound
\. but now tip the scales at seventy-6ye or eigh
- pounds each.
;. A NEW YORK dispatch OF December 9th say
!. A man who registered az D. +. Flanagan
It Rutland, Vt put up at Coooster's hotel In Fort
" fourth street and Sixth avenue, Tuesday NOR
d ing, At eleven o'clock he was found unconsclo
} In his room with the gas turned on lie W
t taken to the hospital, but 1t Ia thought he cam
,r recover lie was neatly dressed and had S2l
l. in his possession"
BRATTLEBoRo officers lately made seizure
lager beer and proceeded to spill 1t according
vt law by throwing the bottles down bank.
At lot OF urchins picked up the bottles as fast
y they came down, As a result one of the boys !
e. allied forty cents, by emptying the beer up,
O. the ground and selling the bottles, and thr