The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.


is moonshiners distillery near Tyson Fur
mace.
FOURTEEN hundred boxes Of SPAWN cure
from Enosburgh Falls were shipped at st. AL
bans In one day for Chicago.
X. H SooTT, formerly Of Swanton, but now
OF Alburgh, has fled petition in insolvency.
Liabilities from S25, 900 to $4,000.
The Central Vermont imported ninety.one
carloads, or 1874 tons, Of locomotive coal from
Canada during the month OF August
RUTLAND and Whitehall are now in tele-
phonic communication the line having been
completed and connections made Saturday
THE Brandon Lime and Marble Company
are now running both kilns, turning out some
one hundred and fifty barrels Of lime day.
THE trustees Of Bennington have ordered
the bars and saloons closed on Sunday, and
the townspeople generally applaud the action.
A SIX YEAR. OLD son Of Michael McMurphy,
OF STAFFORD, WAS accidentally shot by broth
er, thirteen years old, August 29th. The boy
was killed instantly.
PATENTS have been granted to Philo S. Ew-
ms OF West Berkshire for r sorghum evapora-
tor and to David ShOrtsleeves of Rutland on
machine for saving stone.
The sale of the rolling mill property at st.
Albahs has been postponed till November. 1t
is possible that after the sale portion OF the
mill may be put in operation again.
THERE is an effort being made, with pros
pect of success, to secure the establishment OF
foundry and machine shop at Lvndonvile
that will employ twenty-five or thirty men.
AN attempt was made at Burlington Friday
morning to burn the Mary Fletcher hospital
The guilty party is said to be Isaiah Lanya, a
former patient who had trouble with the stew
ard.
JOHN PROCTOR of Lyndon has pair of calf
skin boots made by Williamson of st. Johns
bury Center abont forty years ago, and they
have been the old gentleman's dress-up boots
every year since.
THE Lamoille Baptist Association will hold its
annual meeting with the Baptist church in Col
chester, September and 6, commencing
Wednesday. at ten A. NJ. The annual sermon
Is by Rev. w. G Goucher
NELLIE LAUGHToN fifteen years old, jumped
and caught in her hands a hawk which was fly
ing nine feet from the ground at Dummerston
the other day. The hawk measured thirty
three inches across the wings.
A woMAN's suffrage meeting will be held at
st. Adams on Saturday, September 9Th, at
which Mrs. III. NJ T. Cutler will speak. Mrs.
Cutler holds meetings this month at Newfane,
Rutland, Cambridge, johnson and Morrsville.
LITTLE son of w. F. Chaplin Of Essex
Junction, aged two years and half, fell from
the barn floor into the hog pen. His father
hearing his outcrv ran and caught the child
just as the animals were bouncing upon him.
THE village of Euosburgh Falls is soon to be
supplied with water from a large spring about
two miles from the village The water will
be brought in tubing manufactured by A. Field,
Jr. at Jericho, the expense being borne by b.
j. Kendall & Co.
GEORGE NJ. CLARK of Felchvile found in his
garden last week a glass medal or badge of the
presidential campaign OF 1910, in the days OF
"Tppecanoe and Tyler too" 1t is about the
size of a ten cent piece with log cabin and
the words " Harrison and Reform" blown in
glass.
DAY or two ago an rate ineh-ate at Rich
ford essayed to drown Mr.. Adds o. Brainerd of
St Albans. Mr.. Brainerd was ont on the
stream at the mill dam. The fellow started for
Brainerd who turned the tables on his assail-
ant and the latter found himself foundering in
the river.
IRON ore has been discovered on Hines hill
In Brattleboro. One large piece has been
found fully ten feet long, two thick and how
deep no one knows It ia not bog iron, but
that which has reached the fourth state. and
accompanied by plumbsgo, sure indication OF
Its being ORE
CHARLES BRuYEA Of Middlebury was the
victim of a painful accident recently. By some
mischance he got one of his fingers caught in
a hair picker and the nail was torn ont from its
socket in addition to which the finger was
badly mutilated, but possibly amputation will
not be necessary.
COLONEL w ADkEh, SptClhl C''IuIuiNsH'HcT III
the suit OF the First national bank OF Brattle-
borO against Waite's insolvpnt estate. has COM
pleted his report which will he submitted to
the court this month. It is said that the ward
of the former commissioner has been cut down
from nearly $500, 900 to $40 900.
THE thirty. ninth animal fair OF the Addison
county agricultural society opened at Middle
bury on Monday. The weather in the morn
ing WAS bleak and dismal, hut the prospect
soon changed and the dav was bright and
pleasant. With continuance of such weather
the fair cannot help but be success.
SUCCESSFUL surgical oneration was per-
formed on Eli Judson of Richmond, who re-
Gently fell from high caffold, DIR. James Of
Waterbury performing the operation. assisted
by Drs. Bingham Of Burlington and Bromley,
Green and Hall of Richmond. Mr. Judson is
as comfortable as could be expected.
IT is not believed that the two skeletons
found by George r ,bertson on the old battle
field last week are those OF American revolu-
tiOnary soldiers; but few American soldiers
were killed, and all were known to some OF
their comnanions in arms, and there is no rea-
son to believe that any were buried on the field
M. D. HowE's three-story tenement house
ON Canal street, Brattlehoro, was burned Sun'
day evening; loss SO 600. insured for SO 600 in
the Franklin OF Philadelphia and Continental
Of New York. The tenants narrowly escaped
one bow jumping from third-story window
Lockhart Barrett's adjacent dwelling was badly
damaged insured.
THERE Ia an elm tree on the Cutting farm In
Green River that is twenty-four feet, ter
inches in circumference and has living in III
branches currant bush and mulberry tree
Both these bushes have borne fruit this sea
son. The plants are supposed to have com,
from seeds left there by birds or squirrels
They get their support from decomposed leave
and moss.
A RUTLAND correspondent says that the IA
nous dry shave " case of Cox against Super
intendent Eayres IL again set for trial by jur,
In the Rutland county court where It has al
ready been tried twice, but the supreme cour
on exceptions has reversed the Judgment ant
ordered new trials. The first verdict wa
against Cox, but the second one was for abou
$500 damages in his favor.
The jury calendar OF the September term G
Franklin county court contains thirty-thre
cases set for trial. Seven of these cases ar
Bradley Barlow as. j. W. Barnes, actions ON
question OF taxes. Mr.. Barlow gave in no IN
ventory year ago, was doubled on his proI
erty, including his bank stock. An attempt
being made to compromise the matter, and
Is doubtful IL the case will be tried.
A SEIZURE before Judgment has been take
out against Bradley Barlow at the instance c
Charles II. Cathefn of Stanstead, p. O., MI
Human Of Derby and Mrs. Horace Stewart
Beebe Plain, executors OF the estate OF the lat
Horace Stewart The claim is for somethin
more than $4,000, being on account OF tw
promissory notes Of $4,000 each, given
1881. and the interest for the past two years.