The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

+. w. JAMES Of Starksboro has been fined
81, 800 and costs for selling liquor
c. B. WILLIAMS of Bondville has bought in
two weeks, . AGO pounds Of red raspberries, pay
ing 1928 for them.
RArTLEsNAKE measuring four feet two
inches was killed In the vicinity OF Sktchawaug
mountain, Springfield.
IT Is said B. B. Smalley, Esq, of Burlington,
was on the paper Of his uncle Bradley Barlow.
TO the extent Of $4,000.
PARTY of Barton people, numbering thirty,
have gone to the Adirondack region to enjoy
camp life for few days.
The St. Johnsbury savings bank holds
SIS, 900 Of Barlow paper, which is well secured,
and on which there can be no loss.
M. R. GRAY of Ryegate shipped last week
thirty-six thoroughbred Jersey heifers and
bulls one year DID, to Burlington, Kansas
A MRS DAWSON OF Danville has been fined
ten dollars and costs for abusing the children
Of the man for whom she WAS keeping house.
IT Is said that the late DR.. Harrington Of
Pittsford, had life policy in the Vermont
Life Insurance company OF Burlington for
$1,000.
Two houses near St Johnsbury occupied by
Michael Burke and Paul Guinet were burned
the 14th inst. Most of the contents were saved
Insurance, l150.
HOP picking has begun in Troy little earlier
than usual on account mold and rust. s. r.
Davis, the largest mop raiser IN Town, mas
about thirty hands in his yard
THE new steamer Ticonderoga which is be-
ing built by the Champain transportation COM
pany, to take the place of the Ganousk on
Lake George, has been successfully launched.
THE Vermont spirtualists began r four
weeks camp-meetiDg at Queen City park Bur-
lington, Thursday, the opening address being
delivered by Mrs. Fanny d. Smith of Brandon.
CHARLES ROSEWOOD shot his son-in.law,
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day night, when Hemenway undertook to
force an entrance to Rockwoods house to see
his child.
JOSEPH BROTHERS of Swanton eleven years
Of age, while following his mother and some
others through the Portland and Ogdensburg
railroad bridge trpped and fell through and
was drowned.
AN eight-year.old son of George Brooks of
Norwich was drowned in the Connecticut river
at Hanover, N H., the 10th, He fell from the
boat, which was tied to the bank. His body
has not been found.
THE Ely mine stockholders meet on the OATH
and probably a receiver will be appointed
There is standing offer of S250,000 from a
Boston party, which, however, is but small
part of the original investment.
AUNT SALLY HARRIS celebrated her ninety
first birthday at her West Brattleboro home
last week. About two hundred guests sat
down at the banquet in the yard. Four genera
IlOuS Vi Iub fanny Wpic icpicsCubOu'
THE Ely.Hoe and Fork Co having contem.
plated moving to some other place in St. Johns
bury. or outside of the state, have finally set
tied down contentedly in Summerville, and are
now repairing and improving their works.
AUNT SALLY STocKwELL of Brattleboro, in
her one hundred and fifth year, is quite feeble
and unable to sit up much. 1t is thought that
she cannot live many days, though on several
occasions since she passed her one hundredth
birthday she has been critically sick and after
ward fully recovered.
VERMONT is the heaven of old boots. Al
Burlington an old man boasts that he has worn
one pair for twenty-three years, but Captain
Grin Abbey, one of Mddebury's Oldest resi-
dents goes him one better, claiming that he
has worn pair of boots more or less for thirty
years, and thinks they are worth tapping again
L. W. JOHNSON, the telegraph operator whose
negligence is said to have caused the recent
collision on the Troy Il Boston, at Pownal
when six lives were lost was arrested last
Wednesday at Hoosick Falls and taken to Troy
He pleaded not guilty to the charge of man
slaughter and denied that he was responsible
for the accident.
THE mills at Bellows Falls are closed for q
few days. that the canal company may put In
new gates The work is carried on at night by
the aid Of electric lights, and attracts great
crowds, and will require about ten days tt
finish. Besides this work, about sixty new
dwellings are building.
THE town of Wilmington is considerably
stirred up over $4,000 libel suit brought by
local clergyman against young doctor and
townsman for defamation of character. 1t II
a elimination OF a petty scandal that has agi
tated society in that place for number Of
months and has developed lots of bad blood ant
temper
s. G. Brown of Swanton, lost five VALUABLE
young cattle recently by their going into a fell
where had been left for the night box of pari
green Just as it had been mixed with plaste
for using on potatoes. The cattle found tn
box and licked up enough to cause their death
although some of them lived two or three day
after eating the poison.
A YOUNG and prosperous citizen of Cornwall
was out purchasing sheep the 10th, and whe
he returned home he found that his wife hat
fed In his absence she had picked up such @
the household trappings as she wanted ant
had them conveyed to the depot, where sh
took train and started for the West. 1t is nc
known that there is any second man in the case
TEAM belonging to Merritt Burgess of BeI
nipgton came to the railroad station at Mort
Bennington for passengers. A locomotiv
frightened the horses SO that they becam
unmanageable running desperately down tn
track for an eighth of mile, overturning tn
carriage and demolishing it, The horses unde
took to Jump barbed wire fence One
them was impaled 80 that several large WOUND
needed to be sewed up
THE body of Timothy F. Griswold, a wei
known citizen of Burlington, was found on tn
shore of Lake Champlain, Just above that city
Wednesday evening. He had apparently bee
in the water about two hours. II is not know
whether he was drowned by accident
drowned himself He had been in the insu
ance business many years, was unmarried an
for year past had been in poor health.
A CORNWALL correspondent says the app
crop in that part of the county is almost a fai
ure. This being the bearing year for most o
chards, farmers looked for bountiful crop,
the trees blossomed very full; but many tht
have usually sold from fifty to one hundrt
barrels will be obliged to get their supply els
where for winter use. Plums are to be vel
plenty; trees seem to be over-laden with frui
end many have to prop the limbs now.
f. N. PORTER of Burlington has two paten
on mortse door lock. The interior Of Il
lock is made of four pieces and there is not
spring about it. The single catch take Il
place of latch, a lock with key for either sid
night latch, and burglar proof bolt. r
bolt is carried forward by weight, thus doll
away with springs, and is moved back to OPP
the door by a knob in the usual way. T.
locks will be put on the market as soon AZ
company can be formed to manufacture then
BURGLARS blew open the Woodstock POI
office safe, Tuesday night, the 7th and 9
away with about $50 worth of stamps. f
noise they made caused an alarm and I
thieves fed, leaving money and other valu
bles on the floor. One man was shot at, b