Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-09
Current Mention.

CASPIAN LAKE In Greensboro is still frozen over.
MIR, WRIGHT is expected to preach in the
Morse school-house next Sunday at quarter past
two P. NJ.
THE Burlington customs district is one Of the
eleven In the country to which the new civil ser
vice rules apply.
THE Champlain Transportation Company is
about to build new steamer and 1t is expected
to be ready to run next fall.
THE work OF repairing the bridge on the Barre
branch, a part Of which was carried away by the
ice, Is being pushed along rapidly.
THE telephone line Is now working between
waitsheld and Middlesex and connection will
be made with Montpelier this week. Waterbury
and Burlington will soon be taken into the circuit
MARK TwAIS's new work, Life on the Mis-.
sissippi," will be published on the 18th inst. and
delivered during the coming week, the great de-
mand for the work causing the delay in pub
LEGATION.
THE suit OF the Bradley Fertilizer Company Us
DR.. II. A. Cutting Is set for trial at the May term
Of the United States circuit court, which opens
next Tuesday at Windsor Ex-Governor Farnham
Is counsel for Dr. Cutting.
The Normal school at johnson has begun Its
summer quarter with more than its usual number
of scholars. The aggregate attendance for the
present term Ia greater than for the correspond
ing term last year, and the aggregate for the en-
tire present year Is greater than for the year
previous.
THE hearing OF the evidence 10 the Love case at
Rutland has not yet taken place. In his paper
Love has published letter from W. S. Cannon,
mayor OF Clyde, Kansas, uncle OF the girl against
whom the offence Is said to have been committed
giving the girl bad character and intimating
pretty plainly that 1t is case OF blackmail.
THE papers were signed last Saturday by which
the Pavilion hotel In this village was transferrtd
to the Charles W. Bailey estate, Mr.. A. j. Sib
ley, who has 80 satisfactorily managed the hous,
for several years, has been retained and Their,
seems to be no reason why this popular hostelIy
should not retain Its well-earned reputation.
A SWEEPING conAagration visited Hanover, N
IL, last Saturday, Twelve buildings were burned
and the loss was large. Seventeen families wer,
rendered homeless. Professor Henry T.. Parker O
Dartmouth College was severely injured by tn,
falling OF chimney. His skull was fractured
but his mind is clear and 1t is thought he will
recover.
AN eyewitness saw forty nine barrels OF pix
taken from Lake Champlain, at Alburgh, In vic
lation OF the fish laws, May I'd. The law seem
TO be utterly disregarded. The fishermen pursu
their illegal traffic, net only unmolested by tn
officers Of the law, but before their eyes, an,
with their tacit assent II net their direct per
mission.
COUNTERPART silver dollar mysteriously talke,
about by government officers, OF the same weight
size and ring IS the genuine, turns out to be tn
same In all respects The metal Is silver precisel
like that used at the mint, is worth eighty-siI b
eighty-eight cents, and yields such profit Il
coming that great numbers OF the pieces are sail
to be la circulation.
The hearing In the case OF Joseph Poland y,
Miss A. NJ. Hemenway 10 recover on the contrac
for printing volume four Of the Vermont Hstor
cal Gazetteer was begun Monday afternoon befor