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

junction in the courts of Vermont. The mat
ter will doubtless be brought before Judge
Wheeler of the United States circuit court at
an early date.
THE fifty-sixth financial year of the Vermont
Mutual Fire Insurance Company closed July
3lst The business Of the company has been
larger during the past year than at any pre-
vious time during its history. There have
been S,41S policies issued, insuring property to |
the amount of SO, 1862, ,401 and premium notes |
taken on same amounting to S662, ,815.41. The |
whole amount at risk is S3S, 115, ,261, and pre- |
MUM notes in force amounting to So 572, 572 81,
showing gain in the capital of the company |
during the year of S1O4, 956 63. To meet all |
losses and expenses of the year it has been |
necessary to make an assessment Of three and
three-fourths per cent, which in addition to
paying all losses leaves good balance in the
treasury. This is trine in excess of the as
sessment last year, but considering the i'm
mense amount of property destroyed through
out the country generally, the policy-holders
should deem themselves fortunate that it is no
larger.
Two freight trains on the Troy g. Boston rail-
between Petersburg junction and Pownal, Yer
mont, killing six men. The collision was
caused by the neglect of orders by the telegraph
operator at Petersburg Junction. One train
had forty-five cars and the other twenty-five
The engines were driven into each other and
fifty cars derailed and piled up while some cars
fell into the Hoosic river. The wreckage inn
mediately took fire. About five minutes after
the crash passenger train with four cars, all
full, was DUE and a brakeman with hands,
face and head bleeding, went out and tagged
it. The trainmen and passengers on the train
at once set about securing the unfortunate men
under the freight cars, but it was 80 hot they
could do but little. The killed were Charles
Marden of Troy, engineer Of freight No. l; John
Barrett of North Adams, conductor of freight
| No. g. Mark Sullivan of Chatham, engineer of
train No. 6; Fred Emelaux, brakeman Of train
No. 6; Thomas Lane, brakeman of train No. 1;
H. H. Bruce of Pownal, operator of the Troy &
Greenfield road at State Line was also killed
The loss to the Troy g. Boston road cannot be
less than $4,000.
| BENNINGTON BANNER: 1.-THE beauty and
sublimity of the scenery throughout the state
of Vermont, with its unbounded supply of pure
mountain water and invigorating breezes are
attracting the attention more and more each
year of the tourists. Every summer the num-
Der of city people who spend their summer
months from home among the Green Noun
tains, increases. These beautiful mountains
wrapped in the solitude of their towering still
ness, with the gurgling brooks springing from
their sides and feet, leave ap ennobing i'm
preston upon the traveller at first sight. Said
a prominent tourist a short time since, when
conversing on this subject: There is no place
on Gods footstool so beautiful as Vermont in
the summer time. | have travelled in every
state in the Union, at all seasons of the year,
and never yet have found a place to equal it,
Some complaint is made of the severeness of
the winter, but | have never found any one
suffering from it. The people, as a class, are
long-lived, honest and thrifty. No state can
show such small percentage of criminals as
it. My idea of Paradise would be an endless
June in the Green Mountains of Vermont The
people OF the state have become so used to this
gorgeous scenery that it is not given passing
thought In my mind the time is coming when
every village nesting in the valleys of these
the most populay summer resorts in the world
People will soon tire of the seaside resorts,
but OF this scenery never. Property in the
state is sure to appreciate When asked how
long these changes would be in coming about,
he said: hardly know what to say. Ger
tainly in few years. Perhaps 1t will take
twenty. five but don't believe it, 1t is to be
hoped the dream and prophesy of this enthu-
siast will be fulfilled at no distant day. The
: picture not at all overdrawn, as the numerous
: visitors each summer testify"
OUR Tunbridge correspondent writes as fol-
lows: For several months it has been known
that near this place several moonshine distiller-
les were running and that several parties were
peddling new cider brandy in this and sur
rounding towns, but no effort was made to traI
. the moonshiners until two of them were caugh
working the still in a small belt of woods neal
the residence of James NJ. Jones, about one ant
: one-half miles northeast Of this village som,
two weeks since. Since then watch has beel
kept over several parties, and last Thursda.
= evening word was sent to United States Marsha
Henry of Burlington that the still was again il
operation. He came to South Royalton upoi
- tne nlgnt express, look with MN Snerlu Jone
of that place and Constable Cilley of this place
U and made descent upon the place at abou
: daybreak Friday morning, but found that tn
o moonshiners had got wind OF the intended rai
II and had removed their still. Failing TO fin
" that, General Henry arrested James NJ. Jones
e Miles Comstock and William Swan, and sum
d moned John II. Alexander, George Titus an
IL Lucus Demmon as witnesses, taking all wit
him to Burlington. Comstock is an old OF
Is fender, living in Vershire, and against him an
10 Swan, who has been respectable farmer, tn
l. proof is said to be positive. Jones is a farme
% and speculator in cattle, sheep, etc. tn
', scene of operations was upon his farm, but
Is few rods distant from his residence. Demmo
l. has drawn the cider for them, and, it is said
ii has peddled the cider brandy. Alexander an
10 Titus saw Swan and Comstock running tn
v still. This seems to have been a strangel
planned campaign, for the situation was sue
% that two men could have easily captured tn
a. still by watching their opportunity any tim
n within the past two weeks and 1t is said I
N have been running at six o'clock r. NJ. Thursda
~ evening When the officers found the arch tn
\. stones were cold, and it is thought that som
cf . tba Iivfu in 10,