The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04
Vermont State News.


A METHODIST church is being built at Me-
Gainesville.
ANNIE LOUISE CARY-RAYMoND Is summer
ing in st. Adams.
A MAN in Holland recently found two wolves
playing with his dog In the yard.
TELEPHONE line is to be put up between
Canaan, Vt, and Colbrook, N. II.
THE wooden mill at Proctorsville has shut
down for three weeks for lack Of business.
CHESTER proposes to have an old-fashioned
celebration on the Fourth, for which sum has
been raised.
THE Missssquoi valley camp-meeting ASSOC
citation hold the camp-meeting at North Shell
don, August %.
HARRY, son of Landlord johnson of Chester,
was struck by a broken ball-bat and quite Sc
verely injured last week.
M. c. RICE of Orwell lost thirty FIVE fine
sheep recently owing to the hot weather, they
not having been sheared.
HIRAM BROMLEY of Dandy, aged eighty
eight years, was kicked by his horse the other
day and died the next morning.
CARL, youngest son of Frank Gallup OF
Windsor. was drowned In pond last week,
having fallen in while playing around the
water.
CHARLES LAFoE, from Hatley, P. O.,
eighteen years of age, was drowned in the
Clyde river at West Derby last week while
bathing.
LAST week the authorities of Colchester
gathered in several promising youths, filming
them five dollars each for playing base ball on
Sunday.
PATRICK McCABE of Shelburn, eighty-four,
tried to cut his throat on Wednesday, and fail
ing, hanged himself to tree He was poor and
tired OF life.
A FREIGHT train went off the switch at Bethel
FRIDAY night and three cars loaded with rail-
road iron were derailed. The engine was some
what demoralized.
JAMES E. WHITE of Shelburn has the ma
terial at hand and has commenced the manu-
facture of seven thousand barrels for use in
shipping fruit this fall.
CHARLES BATES, for twenty-five years mas
ter machinst of the Eagle Square company in
SALISBURY, died last week BE was men,
Der OF the Vermont legislature in 1861, and
prominent Mason,
AT Braintree a barn was struck by lightning
and a cow and hog killed. Twenty-three
sheep and three lambs we're found dead in the
pasture, killed by lightning.
The Bennington pulp mill, which has been
run by the Androscoggin pulp company OF
Maine, will shut down finally in August, hav-
ing "gone on the mortgage"
Mrs POND, the mail carrier between Ver-
gennes and Addison. completed the second
year of her contract Wednesday last. She has
not missed one trip during all that period.
CAPTAIN F. A. NASH. late treasurer of the
Northeastern mutual life insurance company,
and one of the directors in Waite's broken
bank has been taken to the Hartford insane
| asylum.
GARRETT J. Ross, charged with poisoning
| his mother, Mrs. Amanda Hawley, at Middle
bury June %, by putting paris green in her
whskey, was released last Wednesday for lack
| Of evidence.
Tom LARNARD Of Somerset, less than seven
| teen, recently had one of his traps carried off
by bear which was caughtin it. He followed
the bear, pitched in with a club and jack
knife and finished him.
S. M. FIELD of Newport who Jumped his
| bail at the recent term of United States court
at Windsor, and thus escaped trial for counter
| feiting, is living at Mansonville, p. O.. where
it is Iumored his family will soon join him.
THE Central Vermont roads woodsheds al
| Chase cut, between Bethel and Randolph, to-
gether with two carloads of lumber, burned
| Tuesday afternoon of last week. The fire /.
thought to have caught from engine sparks.
| THE valley north of Rutland, has another
| mild marble boom. New openings are beinl
made, and farmers who think their pastures
cover marble, run up their prices for fear some
corporations may buy them out unbe
knownst."
PATRICK G. DoNAHUE, aged sixty-five years
was found dead on the track in the railroad
yard at St. Adams Saturday morning, and it IL
| supposed that, in performing his duties az nigh
watchman in the yard, he was knocked dowr
and killed by the cars.
| c. p gibson probably has the only hors,
alive that served in the First Vermont Cavalry
| The brand on his shoulder "U. S." and C. ,
for the company, are as plain as when put on
The horse is apparently not day less thai
thirty years old, and Is still good driver.
AN old man named Glover. aged seventy
eight, in the west part of Holland. fell recent,
and broke his hip The broken bone was set
but from his age and infirmity it is hardl,
probable that he will ever recover the use o
his limb. Glover is an United States pen
sioner.
THE Passnmpsic Railroad passenger depot IL
st. Johnshury took fire at eight o'clock Mon
day morning in the attic ard was badly dam
aged by fire and water. The stock OF tickets
books and papers was saved The upper stor.
was occupied by o. II. Henderson, ticket agent
and M. L. Bullard; both insured.
THE rear of the Connecticut River Lumber
Company's big drive Of seventy-five millions o
lumber left McIndoes Falls the 25th. Will
the present pitch of water it will require som,
nifty or sixty days to reach the company
mills at Holyoke and Hartford. They hav
been obliged to leave about million on tn
Fifteen Mile Falls.
THE state insane asylum has bought tn
private school with twenty acres of groun
north of their old building at Brattleboro an
fitted it up in attractive style "a summer hom
for the tractable patients. There are accom-
modations for sixteen patients, and the curabl
cases will be given better chance, with recre
alton out of doors.
The following ex-governors of this state ar
octogenarians: Hiland Hall, Bennington; Ry
land Fletcher, Cavendish julius Converse
Woodstock Paul Dillingham;, Waterbury
Frederick Holbrook Brattleboro Other e1
governors living: Page and Proctor of Rutland
Stewart of Middlebury, Farnham of Bradfor
and Smith of st. Adams.
THE badly decomposed body OF man wa
found at Swanton last week Monday, while tn
flume of Smiths sash factory was being ceane
out, From the best evidence obtained it seem
probable that it is the body Of Charles Rot
selle, who disappeared last fall after drunke
spree The latest developments have show
that he probably fell through the railroa
bridge by accident.
ELISHA COTTON of Sherburne, 1t would seem
Is fairly entitled to the championship in bea
bunting, having caught five last wear and tW