The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-27
Vermont State News.

MIDDLEBURY is building a new town house.
LUDLOW is talking Of establishing national
bank.
THE Windsor town library is now open for
public use.
LIGHTNING struck the barn OF Walter Davis
OF Danville last week.
CLASS OF twelve was graduated from the
Rutland high school last week
THE stable meeting at Lvndonville has died
out for want OF congregation.
THREE cows belonging to Henry Holcomb OF
Starksboro were killed by lightning.
CORNELIUS HAYES, aged sixty, fell dead at
Winooski of heart disease last week.
VICE PRovENcIA, twentv-one wears old, was
drowned at Morgan last week Wednesday.
AT Rchford the corner stone OF st. AIMS
Episcopal church was laid last week by Bishop
Bissell.
LAST week Lorenzo Merchant was found not
guilty of the murder of William Morgan at St.
Johnsbury.
TIE Missisquoi VALLEY csmp-meetng associa-
ton hold the camp-meeting at North Sheldon
August %.
cow belonging to Mrs. Sarah Shannasey at
East Swanton
THE fortv-third anniversary Of the Baptist
Sundav.school at Brattleboro, was duly OBJ
| served June 18th.
FRANK BoNETT ~ St. Johnshurv had An arm
broken by being thrown from a car on the
Victory branch recently.
HARLEY ATGER. aged sixteen wears. was
drowned in the Misssquoi river at Richford
last week while bathing.
THE assignees Of the ST. Adams iron and
steel works advertise sale of the personal
property OF the company.
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now connected with the central Office of the
Rutland telephone exchange.
TIE dwellings of Samuel Green at Wood
stock. with outbuildngs. was DESTROYED by fire
the 18TH Loss, 81, 200: insured for 5000.
ALBURGH people complain that liquor selling
ia rampant there inst now. seven men having
been drunk on the streets on recent Sunday.
A NEW and rich vein Of ore has been dscov-
cred at the bottom OF the shaft In the Ely con-
per mine, which Is from four to six feet in
thickness
AN unusual feature of the commencement
exercises at Middlehurv this year will be the
inaugural addresses by the new professors, Fos-
ter and Eaton.
GEO. DRFw Of Thetford got some lianor at
LYME. n H.. which made him very III and
turned HIS entire body black even to the
whites Of his eyes.
FoUR-YEAR-oLD aon NJ John Pickles OF
woodstock was instantly killed last week by
the wheel Of a loaded wagon passing over and
crushing his head.
THERE are In Vermont opa hundred and two
chartered lodges Of Free and Accepted Masons
having membership Of seven thousand, seven
hundred and twenty-eight.
THERE are In Essex about sixty-five farmers
who own one hundred or more acres of land
each, and abont seventy-fve persons keep from
six to ninety-five cows each.
BRUCE LAIRD. son of Colonel Peter Laird
who once lived in Barnet but spent the last Of
his DAYS In Peacham was instantly killed by
the cars in Green Mountain, Iowa, last week.
THERE will be a competitive examination OF
| those wishing to enter either the customs SER
vice in the district Of Vermont or any depart
ment at Washington, held In the custom house
building in Burlington on the 9th day OF July
next at twelve o'clock, noon.
DIR. T. r. WAUGH recently purchased Union
block In st. Adams, and has decided to CONVEX,
the third floor into modern opera hall He
| will add French roof and make such altera
tons as will result in pleasant hall. with a
seating capacity OF at least $50.
SAW and grist mill at "Alder Meadow, u
Brookfield. belonging to /. ID. Williams, was
totally destroyed by fire last Thursday. The
saw mill machinery had recently been removed
and the cause Of the fire is a mystery.
Two brothers named Pabolos, living In the
south part of Alburgh. on a recent Sunda,
took boat owned by Herbert Bravton, went
to East Alburgh and purchased liquor. Or