The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

about S30 OOO.
A FRENCH newspaper at Johnsbury is the
latest proposition.
THERE are twenty-six students from this
state in the freshman class ut Dartmouth.
THE Messenger says there was any amount
Of drunkenness at the Franklin county fair
JAMES G. WooD Of Pawlet has within the past
four weeks shot with rifle 100 woodchucks
A NORTH CHESTER man has dug potato
which weighs two pounds and seven ounces.
THEY EXPECT to furnish board Mt the Middle
bury college boarding house for $1.75 per
week.
AN attempt is being made to organize and
sustain Grand Army of the Republic post at
St. Adams.
MEAD e. KIMBALL Of West Randolph sold
red-polled heifer calf recently for 5000. II
goes TO Minnesota
BURLINGTON has 939 public school scholars,
with an average attendance Of 9l3. This is
larger enrolment than ever.
VERMONT claims the award on large sun
flowers. Weston man has one which weighs
four pounds and two ounces.
DANIEL PET Of Bristol. who fell down stairs
and hit his head against the wall, producing
conclusion Of the brain, died Of his injuries
Friday night
o W ORoUTT of ST. Johnsbury and r J.
Clifford of Newark have taken job to log,
Jaw and deliver 1000 900 feet Of lumber for
the Vermont lumber company.
HFNRY BANGS Of Elmore recently found
blackberry bush on his farm that measured
seventeen feet and two inches in length with
berries growing eight feet from the ground.
THE large stock Of timber pnt into the mills
OF Vermont last winter is pretty well worked
up, except in the largest mills Lumber in
large quantities is being held back for higher
prices.
THE plum yield is 30 heavy in Addison
county, "a to necessitate the propping Of the
trees, and the picking of the inferior fruit thus
relieving the tree and enlarging the remaining
plums.
THE treasurer OF the Bennington Battle
Monument association has received the last re-
mittauce 1T subscription from some citizens
Of Milwaukee. The total subscription amounts
to 1865.
MEMORIAL tablet to the late President
James Marsh of the university Of Vermont has
been placed on the wall of the college chapel
nv one Of his old pupils, W. P. Pierson Of
Onarga, Ill.
THE first Burlington newspaper. The Mercury.
was started in 1897, when the town had only
one hundred and nineteen polls and assessed
valuation Of less than $4,000. The Mercury
fourished for two years.
MARCUS STocKIN of Felchville has for the
past six years dug all his potatoes in the month
OF August, or as soon as ripened. and every
year has escaped the "rot" which has troubled
other farmers who have harvested later.
PATENTS have been granted to the following
vermonters this month: William S Hewson,
Burlington, coal and ash sitter; Hugh Fl.
Hughes, Fair Haven. commode stool; Hiram
M. Chamberlin, Reading, shutter worker.
THE frosts have done great damage in north
ern Vermont to corn, late grains and garden
crops. The apple crop Is a failure. Hay and
the small grains are heavy. The butter Weld
has been good, the quality being above the
average.
STUDENT in the graded schools at st. AL
bans was unfavorablv impressed the first
days of the new school wear, and announced
at home that he guessed I" all the teachers
had money in the Trust Company, they were
30 cross"
THERE were three funerals and fonr inter-
ments in Bellows Falls on recent Monday,
which ia probably without precedent in the
history of the village, and further singular
instance was that the dead were all twin
children.
ONE hundred and fifty tons Of marble fell at
Sheldon & Sons quarry at West Rutland, the
18th. Four quarrying machines were wrecked.
The damage was about S12, 900. Fortunately
there was no one working in the quarry at
the time.
AN Irasburgh "kid," possessed of the spirit
OF the devil. compelled Clarence Sanvile, a
",
pounded him with club and bit his legs in
regular bnll-pup style. The kid" whose
name Is Charles Glover. is fifteen years old,
and is now in Jail awaiting trial.
DENNIS E. MAY, the caterer to the banquet
Of the Grand Army of the Republic on the
muster ground, was robbed of about fifty dol
lars worth OF table ware which he had hired
from Boston. At the close of the banquet a LOT
of the militia men rushed into the tent, and he
supposes they stole his goods at that time.
A NEWPORT correspondent says: I" As an in
stance Of the ingenuity required OF the mail
agents In deciphering the addresses on many
OF the letters which come into their hands we
from Canada, Miquain dous fol- OF course
1t is plain enough, McIndoes Falls, but not
everybody would read it that way"
AUGUSTINE c. PIERCE, born in Mddlebury,
died in Concord, N. H., September g. aged
eighty.two He was formerly merchant at
Danville, went to Concord in 1916 and was for
a time a hotel proprietor. He had been a di.
pension agent, county commissioner and pres
ident Of the First National bank Of Concord.
THE men who have been at work in Middle
bury trying to bore we'll for the village be
came discouraged and stopped. The first holes
bored aggregated eighty-seven feet. These
were put down at the risk OF the village, ant
the cost was ST. foot. On the last hole
they reached depth of something over hun
bred feet; but the last experiment cost thu
village nothing.
FREEMAN J. JAMES of Starksboro, who wa
jailed at Middlebury about three weeks ago, il
still In confinement. He is the keeper of {
house at Starksboro, where he entertains trav
elers When arrested for violation of tn,
liquor law. he pleaded guilty to 100 first of
fences and was fined $500 and costs, with al
alternative sentence Of between A 600 and 8, 00
DAYS to the house of correction. He appealed
and not being able to procure bail, was com
mitted. 1t is alleged that he was DRUM
when tried.
VERMONT correspondent of the Countri
Gentleman says that after four years expert
ence he greatly prefers putting corn fodde
more trouble to feed it, but the saving after
wards makes that up more than ten time
over. He says the uncut is by far the sweet
together in the same silo. He is so wei
pleased from his past experience that he wi
cut no more, but cut up and fill his silo in tn
same manner as when putting fodder throug
machine.
A MAN claiming to havea bank account 9
Albany, N. Y, struck Pownal recently, an
visiting the stock dealers and farmers pun
chased what cattle he could from each part
and gave his check In payment for the SAINT
Nelson Johnson sold him beef for $40, fo
the money he tried to collect the money on tn
paper and WAS not successful in doing So II
approached the cattle-dealer and requisite
that he should cash the check, which reques
was met with rebuff, and after offering tn
aame for G37 without obtaining the caah h