Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-01-31
Vermont State News.

THE Methodist festival at Putney Friday took
in $50.
THE Congregational church Of Pawlet has en-
gagged Rev Mr.. Peach Of Boston for year
THIEVES entered the granary Of Jared Booth
at FerrisburRh recently and stole thirty bushels Of
oats.
THE d. p. Harvey mills Mt watham are saving
1000 feet Of lumber for shipment TO Manchester,
N H.
SAMUEL MINER. of Lincoln has been fined SO
Tor turning his aged mother out Of doors in the
" dead OF winter"
THOMAS McDoNALD Of Bellows Falls fell while
cutting ice last week, breaking his kneepan and
injurng his spine.
CREDITORS Of Landlord Hopper Of the Lake
Dunmore house, have attached his effects Kop- |
per IL In New York.
WORK has been recommended on the Middle |
bury college boarding house, and the foundation |
wall Is now being laid.
THE city Of Burlington now has eight and one
half miles Of fire-alarm telegraph wire, nineteen |
fire-alarm boxes and four indicators.
THE arctic bird, the pine grossbeak, have made
their appearance In the northwestern part OF Yer
mont, betokening very severe winter.
A SET OF paper wheels under truck OF an en-
CINE Of the Central Vermont railroad have been
in use twelve years and are still apparently sound
H. W. Hancock has been appointed postmas-
ter at Lover Waterford, vice A 2. Taft. resigned,
and James d. Leayitt is appointed Mt Craftsbury.
ORWELL has been given by Mrs, Sally Young
a $500 town clock and fve-foot slate side
walk the whole length Of Main street. costing
$500
THE St. Johnsbury triplets were photographed
before either Of the deaths occurred and the
photographs are being sold for the benefit Of the
parents
MIDDLFBuRY has gone into the business Of ex-
porting game cocks to the west, and some have
been sent out from which great things in the
cockpit are expected
Mr. WILLIAM Z. GREENE who was badly in
| iured by a bull at Vergennes is improving, and
| II no new and unfavorabe feature develops may
recover from his injuries
| DssESsIoN in the Bellows Falls division OF the
Sons Of Temperance has caused the withdrawal
| OF several members who think that the organza-
| ton has outlived Its usefulness
| The historical and local records deposited In the
corner stone Of the old Pioneer shop, at Burling-
| ton. in 1852, were taken ont last week, They
were yellow with age but were well preserved.
The cost Of the pauper department Of Burling-
| ton last year was S4 $50 80 Sixteen persons
| were admitted to and discharged from the poor
house, four died, and sixteen still remain there.
THE Ferguson Brothers Of Burlington, and
| George Goodrich of Richmond, have bought the
| entire dairy of Loren Whitcomb, OF Essex. con-
sisting Of seventy-fve cows, at an average Of $40
per head
Vermonters state that their sales Of Jersey cattle
during the past year amounted to over S50,OOO,
and that their herd is one Of the largest and best
| In the west.
AN employe Of the Vermont marble company,
while cleaning the snow from the edge Of one OF
the quarries In West Rutland lost his footing and
fell distance Of one hundred feet. He was only
slightly injured.
ADDISON county is now completely overrun
with western sheep-buyers, who are purchasing
all the good sheep they can get, notwithstanding
the fact that the price OF wool has Just fallen five
cents a pound in Ohio.
Mss NELLIE LEFAy, employed at the button
works in Rutland, came near losing her scalp the
other day. Her hair caught on SEINE small shaft
ing under the machine and was wound around it
She sustained no serious Injury.
AN event which rarely happens occurred al
West Wardsboro January 9th aud 6th-the death
Of aged brothers, Sullivan and Miles Knowlton
Still more singular is the fact that the death OF
each was caused by diseased foot.
A LADY in BrowDington village recently had
for visitors her grandmother, her mother, hei
daughter ard her granddaughter. There were five
generations and she was both granddaughter and
a grandmother to some of her guests.
FRANKLIN MCNAULEYs little daughter met
with serious accident last week Wednesday, in
Swanton, by falling into pail Of boiling water
which was on the finor where the child was play
ing. She lies now in critical condition.
The Producers marble company, which is the
name of the "pool" of nearly all the marble
companies of Rutland have enlarged their Office
, till they now occupy the entire second floor ovei
Stevens fancy goods store on Merchants row.
ENos MCMAsTER for seven years agent of the
: Glasgow Canadian land and trust company al
Scottstown, p Q has been arrested at St. Johns
! bury on charge of defaulting to the amount Of
, $4,000 He is now in Irasburgh Jail and will
probably demand trial in Vermont.
Jo.RpH DuBA Of Grand Isle on the morning Of
the fifteenth skated to Plattsburgh In the even
ing he started on the return trip and has no
since been heard from. His track was followed
until a hole in the ice was found He undoubt
eddy skated into the hole and was drowned.
WEALTHY California sheep breeder, named
| Blenknsorp, had only one relative, niece named
Town, young girl unmarried, whose residence
was unknown to him He searched for her TIVE
, years, and last week found her at Burlington
] working in mill He took her back to Cal
| fOrnia.
IT is announced that the contract for buildinl
a the Lamoille Valley railroad bridges across tn,
lake at Ronses Point has been s gs e r
Springfield, Mass. The bridges to be abou
two miles long, and will cost in the neighborhood
| Of $4,000.
"wrLD" animal seen in North Hero last fall
; was afterward by others, and has Lately
: been seen near Alburgh Springs, and chased BY
, hounds as far north as Henrysvie, p. q 1t i
; described as large black animal, resembling
Newfoundland dog, and when pursued by dog
il very fleet
! NUMBER of leading hotel-keepers of the stat
held a meeting at the Van Ness house. Buring
, ton, the 25.h, to talk mp" matters and thing
!, of interest to the fraternity. After considerable
I discussion the meeting adjourned without having
taken any definite action. Another meeting will
it IL understood be held soon.
THE drought in Addison county still continue
Q without abatement and nothing like it has beer
known for many years. So general and lonl
I continued has it been that very few farmers ar
4 raising any cattle to sell, as scarcely enough
water is to be had to winter the number OF cattl
. usually kept for domestic purposes.
AcCoRDING to just issued census bulletii
Vermont has 9 S74 manuf' curing establishments
having capital of s23 265, 22i, employing ii, Az
men, 2,27l women and s3l children, paying on
annually in wages So l64 479, expanding yeaIl!
for materials s1s330677, and turning out annn
ally products valued at S3l 35i 1866
a THE stone for the foundation OF the new Addison
: county court house is to be brought from Wey
bridge and will be quarried from the lodges iron
q which the stone OF the college building, tn
a school house and other buildings in Mddlebur.
q WAS taken. The work OF tearing down the OLE
! court house will be begun Immediately.
Q PATRICK READY of Rutland, now serving on
2 his sentence OF about thirty-five years in tn
house OF correction for liquor selling, has brough
e petition for habeas corpus to the Rutland count
II supreme court. He claims the bail on appea
. was so exorbtant that he could not appeal
II The bail on appeal was $1,000 and the hoe wa
= $4,000.
: JIM WALLACE, a colored man, went from Gran
Isle Plattsburgh lately to procure the necessar
i ardent for a choppng bee" He was last seen b
Q a man on Cumberland Head about seven o'cloc
y in the evening on his way home. The ice wa
g new and In some places not sufficiently strong
II and Ms he was somewhat loaded 1t is supposed h
d skated into an open place and was drowned
y The famous suit for the value OF steer be
: tween Ferrisburg man and an Addison drovel
y | which was appealed from justice to the count
. court, referred to Chief Justice Piarpoint, on hi
,, death returned TO the county court and agai
!, referred, is to have its final hearing next month
. | The poor calf was sold in Boston for S32, whic
4 Is about onefouIth the cost of the litigation 1t ha
- caused.
" As the express train south on Tuesday afte
n noon Of last week was passing Perce's crossin
n in the north part OF ST. Johnsbury, two boys wit
l. a pair of horses were just crossing. They di
., not see the train and but for the horses hackin
IL and rearing, all would have been killed or il
" jured, The engine only bit the sled tongue an
~ one horse, throwing them several feet from ii
4 track. No injury was done except breaking II
a. tongue
Y, AN ingenious fre-escape for use on the outsd
L OF buildings has been invented by Mr. McDouga
,e Of ST. Adams. 1t is ladder of flexible matera
Dr. constructed on the principle OF an endless gearn
and runs over drums which may revolye on shat
ing OF any des ed length. The ladder is fn
Of nishtd with buckets, at regular intervals, larR
,e enough 10 hold one person. Mr.. McDougall
sr having model of the apparatus made aud wi
st attempt to secure patent on IT,
y Poor John O'Nei OF Rutland, who has bee
% importing II certain fiery liquid from Whitehall,
~ getting familiar with the way of the transgressu
=, Some time ago he gave bail in So 900 and la
a. week fresh batch Of thrty-seyen warrants, eaC
warrant representing a jug. coming from Whit
NJ hall, were served on him. lie furnished 81 y