The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20
Vermont State News.

At Windsor.
COMMENCEMENT at Middlebury comes on the
Fourth OF July.
THE signal service station at Burlington has
been discontinued.
GEO. L NORTON OF Derby had two-years-
old steer killed recently by bear.
GEORGE DoNAHUE. seven years old, was
drowned in Otter Creek, Middebury, last We'd
nesday.
THE celebration Of the first settlement OF Or
well Ia IN be observed by appropriate services
to-day, June 90
HORACE MORSE of Island Pond killed black
eagle recently which measured seven feet from
tip to tip OF wings.
A TEN-YEARs-oLp son Of James Brooks OF
Bellows Falls was drowned last week while
bathing at Cages mills.
Wool buyers In Woodstock have been pay
ing twentv-eieht cents for washed and nine
teen and twenty cents for unwashed
FISHING on Otter Creek and In the waters of
Lake Champlain Is all the rage, and the catch
Of pickerel and bass Is exciting much interest.
THE down passenger train on the Passumpsic
road ran off the track Monday morning Of last
week at St. Johnsbury, caused by an open
switch.
THE eleven-year-old daughter Of Joseph Des-
ablind Of winooski, fell into the winooski river
last week Tuesday while at a picnic and was
drowned.
THE artesian we'll In Bennington has been
sunk to the depth NJ $40 feet. It IL thought
that good water will not be reached short Of
300 feet.
THE international lumber COMPANY ut New
port has decided In erect q mill 20 by 225 feet
and boiler honse 80 by 80 feet, in addition to
Its present buildings.
AT the prize declarations of the sophomore
class at Brown University Monday evening,
the first prize was awarded to Harry o. Alex
aDder OF Bellows Falls.
THOMAS SPooNER. for thirty years time
keeper at Fairbanks scale works. st. Johns
hurry. died Saturday. The shops were closed
Monday for the funeral.
JESSE BRADLEY lad fourteen wears old, son
Of the late Thomas Bradley of Milton, was
drowned In the Missisquoi at Swanton on Fri
dav night while bathing.
THE. village of Wells River has but one
church Congregational. The regularity OF
the parish Ia that 1t is situated In two states,
three counties and four towns.
ALL the common schools Of Hinesburgh will
meet June Both for temperance picnic. Great
preparations are being made and the exercises
proIlise to be very interesting.
AT the annual meeting Of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union OF Bellows Falls,
1t was voted to discontinue the organization on
account Of the lack Of interest.
In the case OF Weeks Us. the town OF Lyndon.
for injury on the highway, verdict Of So, 500
in favor Of the plaintiff has been returned
$1,000 more than the former verdict.
F. A. PORTER of Fairlee has a great curiosity.
in shape OF cat. that ia raising three red
squirrels and one kitten. She treats the squir-
rels in all respects the same as the kitten.
JOHN WALSH of Cavendish. who has been
working In one Of the mills OF the Fall Noun
tain paper company. at Bellows Falls had two
fingers cut off his right hand by circular saw.
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marble companies and the firms Of ellison q
Woodfn, Ripley Sons and Sheldon g. Sons pay
little over one-ffth Of all the taxes paid in
Rutland.
JEpUTHAN THOMAS IT Pittsford who has
acted AZ sexton since 1847. dug his frat grave
for John W. Smith, who died October that
year. He has served the town for thirty-six
years as sexton
REV. j. c. BRACE. convert from Catholi-
cism. was ordained IN the ministry at the First
Baptist church at Burlington Fridav evening.
Forty clergymen were present from all the New
England states and New York.
L. D. sPAULpNo, former landlord OF the
TYSON House. at TYSON Furnace, indicted last
fall for illegal liqur-selipg, pleaded guilty at
Woodstock and paid fine OF S120 and costs
$40. Twelve counts were admitted.
THE ballasting Of the Rutland road IL now
nearly comnleted between Burlington and Mid
dlebury and the first consignment OF steel rails
j. now in course of shipment to Burlington.
From Middleburv to Rutland the road was re-
laid with steel rails last year.
FRED DALEY, the boy who stopped the ex-
press train from running into the washont at
the Elmore brook bridge the 18th, has been
piven life pass over the St Johnsbury q
Lake Champlain railroad, besides present OF
800 In cash from the company.
THE Fourth of Juv celebration at Howard
Park, Burlington, bids fair to be a success.
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bles, bicycle race, horse trot. foot races and
creased Mig chase. ending with brilliant dis
play Of fireworks in the evening.
WESLEY WOODLANDS house near Livermors's
mills in Londonderry was burned recently
Considerable quantities Of the household goods
were found concealed In the barn and other
places, and his wife and two daughters have
been arrested on the charge of setting the fire.
F. D. PRESCOTT of North Danvile MIXED
nine cows the past year and made two thou
sand and seventeen pounds Of hutter beside
what was used in the family One COW died
and three were three-year old heifers. The
dairy would not average more than eight cows.
THE Ransom Guard of St. Albans have re-
ceived from the Citizens Corps Of Troy, N. Y,
A. an evidence Of good will and appreciation, a
handsome imported PLAGUE, some twenty
inches in diameter. on which Ia painted the
corps badge, containing the words "Hium fttit.
Troja est"
THE case OF the state against the Troy &
Boston railroad WAS heard in the bennington
county court and the road fined 500 The
complaint was for encroaching on the highway
in Pownal. and one Of the Boston, Hoosac
Tunnel and Western roads lawyers appeared
for the state.
DIR. CYRUS PORTER, who died In Rutland last
week. seventy-five years old, was the last OF a
locally famous family of physicians His
father. cold Doctor Jim," was a leading
physician In the town fifty wears ago and more,
while the whole center of the Otter creek valley
depended upon his brother. "young Doctor
Jim." for forty years.
WESLEY TIFFANY Of Greensboro had mar
row escape. He and his hired man were work
ing in the barn cellar during severe thunder
storm and received shock sufficient to pros
trate them. Mr. Tiffany fell against the wall
cutting quite cash In his head. They soon
recovered sufficiently to find the barn on fire
and succeeded In extinguishing 1t.
A GERMAN in the employ OF G. w. Browne
OF Wiliston, while fishing in Shelburn Pond
on Sunday last, caught fish hook through the
pupil of the eye. and thereby destroyed tht
eye. The man ran mile and half with the
hook In his eye and was then carried to Essex
where Dr. Ferrin removed the hook and tool
the man to the Mary Fletcher hospital fol
treatment
THERE IL young lady connected with tn,
school at Vergennes who has been In attend
ance for three years, and lives one and a hal
miles away, but has never received tardy
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