Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30
Vermont State News.

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BFEMAN Academy at New Haven has closing
exercises June 9Th TO Sth
IT cost the town OF Hartland 5000 to keep its
roads open during the winter.
COMMENCEMENT at Middebury college begins
July LIST and closes on the 4th.
PRocroRsvLLR has a new FIRE engine and Is 10
organize In company at once.
BARTON LANDING dentist extracted one hun
dred and ffty-two teeth In one week.
A BRATrLRBoRo man received an order from
Danvers, Mass, for six tons Of dandelions
w. B, JOHNSON Of st. Johnsbury has two
year-old Durham bull that weighs 400 pounds.
on the 7th day OF May snow shoes were used
In glastonbury, because locomotion was impossl-
BILE without them.
Posi- RoBKRTs, G. A. r., OF Rutland, which has
26l members, is the largest organization Of the
kind in the state.
WILLIAM BoYcE OF Woodstock found in his
garden the other day perfectly preserved &c Lib
erty y cent OF date 1877.
Mn. HARRIS, native OF Ludlow, the most sue
cessful orange planter In Florida, has cleared
Se3,OOO on his crop Of fruit this year.
PUTNAM's artesian well at Bennington is down
upwards OF 600 feet, and still no water Is yet
reached. The boring will be continued
THE toll bridge over the falls at Bellows Falls
was built In 1885 and is supposed to be the first
bridge built across the Connecticut river.
Mr.. DAVID FRAsIER OF Hinesburgh has re-
Gently received another gift amounting to nearly
5000 from brother residing in Scotland
HoLLIs THRAsHER Of Coventry made one thou
sand four hundred and twenty-five pounds Of
sugar from four hundred and seventy five trees.
The dam at Swanton was injured 30 badly by
the spring freshet that new one must be built.
The old dam has served about seventy-five years.
A PATCHWORK quilt OF seven thousand pieces
has been made by Miss Lizzie Munson OF Willis
ton. Five years having been required to finish it
ARTHUR BoUDoU is In the clutches Of the
swanton authorities for stealing cum Of money
from the Catholic rectory during Rev. Father
Cams absence
GEORGE HEATH, who was stabbed by Frank
Leighton at West Barnet, Friday il better, and
will probably recover. The wounds were inflicted
with pocket knife.
HEN belonging to Colonel Porter OF North
Ihettord has earned newspaper recognition by
laying an egg measuring seven and a half by six
and fourth inches.
A BRATTLEBoRo woman saved money BY taxi
ing. her time and money to go to Boston and back,
and paying S25 for piece OF dress goods exactly
like one marked 500. 80 at home.
THE Delaware Hudson Canal company have
issued an order forbidding all news boys and
peddlers from deposiiing any merchandise In the
laps OF passengers or In tho seats by their sides.
NELSON HERBIT, aged about twenty-five. was
drowned In the creek about mile south OF Shell
don village on Tuesday, the 22d. He was sub
unconscious state.
ALFRED ROBINSON was shot In the shoulder by
some unknown party at Danville, last week Mon
day night returning home from prayer-meeting
The shot is supposed to have been intended for
some other person.
MIR. CHARLES C. DUNN OF Rutland lost one of
his valuable span of matched horses last week
The horse got out OF the yard and ran against a
barbed-wire fence, cutting him terribly around
his shoulders and legs.
beat his crippled father recently, was tried in the
Rutland municipal court May 81. A foe was i'm
posed, with costs, amounted to about S25, and he
was placed under 500 bonds to keep the peace.
AN advertisement beginning " Cats wanted, .
has been put up in the Westminster post-office by
hermit-like citizen who eats, sleeps, cooks and
works in house of but one room, tobacco-sortinR
his vocation, cats his sole companions and d.
version.
FRANK THORNTON, a young man about egh-
teen years old, has been bound over In the sum
OF $500 to appear at the next term of the Rutland
county court to answer to the charge of setting
fire to Bradley Barlow's barns in Brandon, which
were burned May Goth.
The telephone wires are so numerous at Brat
tleboro that 1t takes nearly an hour in the morn
there to take their orders by this method alone
from the various families and places with which
they are thus connected.
THE managers of the Howard Park at Bnrlng
ton are arranging for celebration there on the
Fourth OF July, the programme to include two
races, etc. In the evening 1t is proposed to have
grand exhibition OF fireworks.
The state prison, according to the annual re-
port, has 100 men convicts and one woman, eleven
less than it had year ago There have been no
escapes from the prison for thirteen wears. The
earnings OF the past year amount to SIC 8i5 So 252
less than the expenses The state receives fifty
cents day for the labor Of each convict.
WHILE removing some old books and papers,
recently, family at Braintree, Mass discovered
curious old document which had been concealed
for years. 1t being the will OF Samuel Bass of that
town, the grandfather OF William Bass of West
Randolph 1t was made in ITO, and the curious
divisions OF his real estate among the heirs could
hardly fail OF causing much litigation in these
days.
THE liquor prosecutions by Grand Juror George
Slate at Bellows Falls have been settled by an ar
rangement between himself and the attorneys for
the respondents In the cast of druggist H. II
Davis he pleads guilty TO first Offences and
Is fined $40 and costs, amounting to 500; in the
case of landlord c. W. Towns he pleads gnilty to
twenty-five first offences, and is fined $3.50 and
costs, amounting to S25904
THE grand bodies OF Masonry OF the state con-
vene in their annual assemblies in Burlington,
commencing with the Scottish Rite on Monday,
June 18th. The Grand Commandery follows on
Tuesday, the Grand Council on the evening of
that day, the Grand Lodge occupies Wednesday
and Thursday and the Grand Chapter closes the
series on Friday The Orders Of High Priesthood,
etc, are distributed along through the week, as
Ii usual
WHILE going over tho mountains to Gasten-
bury last week Monday, James K Atwood OF
Dover came upon large black bear, Although
armed with nothing but shotgun, he fired and
struck the bear in the shoulder. The animal was
angered and turned upon Mr.. Atwood who man
aged to beat him off with bis gun and then fol-
lowed him some distance, but finally gave up the
NM and hon. IL
some claw marks to remind him of the encounter
AN engineer on the Southeastern road one night
recently while asleep in the engine house at Suit.
ton Flat, dreamed that his engine was standing
on the main line and train was approaching,
lie hastily sprang into the cab of his engine put
her into back gear and opened the throttle; but
he was not quick enough to avoid the supposed
collision and the approaching engine struck him
with bang and p crash, and he awoke TO find he
had backed the machine clear through the engine
house door.
THE anomalous position OF the Stamford Meth
odist church uncared for by the Vermont con-
ference, though 1t is nominally in the Burlington
district and out of the Troy district, with which
i Is Intimately conneeted-has been the means OF
its getting talented woman for pastor, Miss Z,
II. Delavan, graduate OF the Boston theological
seminary. She takes charge of the church as a
lay preacher without appointment from any con-
ference though the Troy presiding elder was in
strumental In getting her services
SEMINARY HTLL.-The piano recital given in
Chapel hall last Friday evening under the direc-
ton OF Professor A. A. Iladley was largely at
tended and the appreciation Of the audience was
very marked. =. The Skull and Bones" base
ball club Of Barre played the " Dauntess " club
OF Montpelier, on the grounds OF the latter, last
Saturday afternoon, the result being 80 to IA In
favor Of the Montpelier boys. J.. Mr.. e X Dex.
ter, who left school short time since to enter the
profession OF a general map agent" has been
making us a short visit We were all glad to see
him. Mr.. II. L. Gale, salutatorian OF the class
OF 'S3, has been home with the measles and they
have left his aXes go yak TINT he IL nnahla 10