The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-13
Vermont State News.

LUDLOW is talking of establishing national
bank.
NORTH Troy is to have a fourth of July cele-
bration.
ARArIRoAp from Island Pond to Newport is
again being agitated
S1xry.rwo tons Of butter were shipped from
st. Adams last month
Two bears were cartured on the mountain
in Chittenden last week.
DURING the month Of May there were but
ten deaths in Bennington.
SosIF fields of corn in the vicinity of Chester
have been destroyed by wire-worms.
FIFTEEN Thousand feet Of lumber was used
by the circus men for bill boards in ST. Adams.
A MuD.TuRTLE was found at Johnson the
other day with the dates 1866 and 1867 cut on
his shell.
THREE thousand five hundred pounds of but
ter were shipped from Danville station Monday
OF last week.
THERE will he no public exercises OF the high
school ut Bellows Falls this year as there is no
graduating class.
STAN~ARn post G. A. R, Of Burlington
Melted $500 rom the war-songs concert on the
evening Of Memorial day.
Snow Is reported tn be vet tqrrving at the
foot NJ Mount Killington so that the hotel will
hardly be open before July lat.
AN unusnn' tfATUrh 01 me commencement
exercises at Middlehurv this year will he the
inaugural addresses by the new professors,
Foster and Eaton.
G H SAxRY NJ johnson whiln tearing IN the
old nlark sidewalk in front NJ the hotel, found
n 500 gold rieca which had probably fallen
through the chnks.
THE firm NJ c. II Davenport e. Co of Brat
tlehoro is dissolved bv the withdrawal of J. II
Livir gston who Coos 70 Pennington to publish
the Termination CO5tnfU RCfOrTOpr
SIXTY men have heer enlisted for the mill
tary company in ST Johrsbury, nine mora
than il rpunired nv law II is expected that
the company will he mustered in at once
On the 81 inst. on the place formerly known
as Moses Courser's mountain rancho in Glen
Sutton. snow drift about two feet deem was
sem. in the middle of which stood maple tree
in full foliage
CONSIDERABLE quantities Of nototoes are be-
ing bought at various points in Addison and
Chittenden counties for shipment 70 Massachu-
satts markets. The nrice ranges from sixty to
SEVENTY cents q bushe'
Austin PECK If East Middlebury has Sue
ceeded in preserving graft apples sound and
fresh for over two years II IL said that APPLES
packed in kiln dried spwdust can be kept from
decay for q long reriod.
Mr.. NJ E. KENDALL If Middlehury sheared
his two-vear-old Atwood ram, " Ranche." the
other dav. taking off fleece that weighed
thirty pounds and two ounces. 1t was fourteen
DAYS over years growth.
AMONG the internal ornaments Of the new
library building If the University nj Vermont,
will he a marble bust of the late Hon. Geo p.
Marsh. the gift az Mrs Marsh. and a portrait
in oil OF the late Professor Joseph Torrey.
THE Passumnsic railroad ward men at Lvn-
don struck for higher wages last week They
were immediately requested to call at the office
and receive what was due them, and were no.
al &l,aN Al,os-
CURED
sisted nv prominent citizens. are unearthing a
hot-bed of iniquitv that promises developments
that NAV bring to light series Of crimes nm
paraleled in the history Of the town. The
PRINCIPAL offender il accused of incest and
adultery, and there are suspicious Of nfanti-
eide.
A. BARTLETT of Arlington SAYS that in
1884 after the corn had been planted. a heavy
snow storm came and piled in large d-ifts
chilling and killing all vegetation: hundreds of
lambs were frozen tn death and general deva O.
tation was the result On May Goth, 1888,
there was more or less snow upon the highways
on the Green Mountains.
FRED WATSON who has heen recent inmate
of the insane asylum at Brattleboro. was ar
rested on suspicion Of being concerned in the
recent hnrglaries at Charlestown. n. H. He
confessed to share Of the mischief. and por-
ticn OF the goods stolen recovered. He
was sent to his home in Washington, Vermont,
for proper care and restraint.
EFFORTS are being made tn reopen the Lvn-
don literary institute, a Baptist school which
suspended two wears ago s Thomson
will give the buildings. IL 500 600 for nerrna-
nept fund ia raised bv Tnlv /. D Hall
pledges $4,000 Rev f. Owaps has received
hedges for 81 900 more and the committee
feel confident of raising the balance.
THE Fairbanks scale COMPANY have Just
comr1eted an iron frame railroad track scale,
the platform IT which ia eight rods long less
two feet It is TO he used for weighing loaded
coal cars while in motion. The engine il
switched round the scale the momentum car
ing them over and the weigh master is enabled
to get the gross weight nv the patent beam
made specially for the scale.