Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-01-17
Vermont State News.

Tilley; Wallngford, Calvin M. Townsend.
HORACE KINGSLEY OF Clarendon received Sc
we're Injuries to his head and back by fall
JosKPHUs ELLSWORTH OF Cambridge has re-
Gently received pension, with $472 arrears
GEoRaE o. GUILD, Bellows Falls merchant,
gave dinner to his employees New Years day.
THE chair factory OF William Webb & Co. at
Vergennes has been purchased by parties in
Jericho.
AMOS WILCOX, the Oldest resident Of Middle
bury, died on Tuesday OF last week. aged about
ninety-six
STRANGE horse disease has appeared in Hines
burgh 1t attacks the throat and lungs and Is
often fatal
STEPHEN MORSE Of Danvile was severely in
jured by falling limbs from tree while at work
In the woods.
THE eighth annual meeting Of the western Yer
mont Masonic union will occur at Bennington on
February 22d.
ABNER e. PEoK's sswmil In Ssdawga, operated
by Josiah Iinney. has been burned Loss, S26OO;
insurance, $500.
ATEN-YEARs.oLDs son Of Peter Wesson Of South
Danville broke his left arm just below the elbow
while at play at school.
HARRISON GEORGE Of Morrisvllle cut the cords
OF two fingers quite severely, while using shave
In his wheelwright shop.
AT recent Ludlow village meeting 1t was
voted not to purchase a steam FIRE engine, but TO
organize a fire company,
UNCLE JOHN PIERCE Of Cambridge lately cele-
brated his SEVENTEEN birthday by cutting and
piling two cords OF wood.
FAIRBANKS & Co. made and sold over 10000
scales In st. Johnsbury last year, against $4,000
in 1881 and 5000 in 1880.
THE Caledonia county liquor agency sales for
December were eghty-eght gallons at the seven
agencies, at a cost Of S337
THE women OF the Congregational society at
Bellows Falls cleared $50 at the necktie and apron
sociable the other evening.
I. NJ. CHAPMAN Of Middlebury has a contract
to furnish thousands of cords of wood to the pulp
mill company at that place.
HENRY Mort Of Alburgh recently lost his horse
| and sleds In the lake. while crossing on the Ice
| from Alburgh to Rouses point.
THE annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Champlain granite and marble company will be
| held at Vergennes, January Both.
THE Freemasons OF Rutland, twenty five couples
| strong, had sleigh-ride Tuesday night Of last
week. with supper at the Bomoseen house.
TRAIN on the Burlington & Lamoille railway
| was stalled by snow drifts at Jericho last Mon
day, and 1t took an hour or so to get 1t out.
THE National automatic car.couping company
have organized under the general law with a
capital Of $500, 900 and will locate at Rutland.
THE Universalist society OF Morristown has re-
ceived town clock as a gift from one of their
| former townsmen, Hon. s. M. Pennock of Boston.
| DURING the year the Burlington firemen were
called out twenty-five times by as many alarms.
| There were, however, but seven fires worthy Of
| the name.
GOLDEN weddings: Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Hitch
| cock Of Athens, Mr. and Mrs Harvey Hodge of
Dorset, Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Tyler Of South Lon
donderry.
RALPH GOLDSMITH of Bennington rsked his
| life to stop runaway team of the Olympus spice
mills Of Troy. The driver gave Mr. Goldsmith
| twenty cents.
THE Young Mems Christian Association OF Rut-
| land has a membership Of over one hundred, and
| the average attendance on the Sunday afternoon
meetings is fifty-three
THE site for the new court house at Middlebury
has not yet been finally decided upon, but 1t
grows more and more probable that it will be built
on the site of the old one.
BlRNEY WILKINS Of Morrisville, while engaged
| about the machinery Of the pulp mill. got his
| right hand into one of the pockets" badly
| crushing three OF his fingers
A ST. ALBASs man has an ear Of corn, sent him
by a friend in the west, containing twenty-four
rows, with some fifty-four kernels in a row-or
over twelve hundred kernels.
THE Estey organ company at Bratteboro en-
poys 560persons. The factory turned out last year
5000 perfect organs and the sales for the same
| period were about 81, 0OO,O
MRS MARY A. MOODY OF East Charleston, who
had five In the Of the rebellion and lost
| two of them has recently drawn arrears of PEN
| sions to the amount of 81 ,932 30.
B. B. SHArrUcK OF st. Johnsbury was thrown
| from his sleigh and severely Injured about the
| back while driving home by being struck by a
| runaway team. His condition Is precarious.
EZRA FISHER aged seventy years, a
farmer living near Grafton, was instantly killed
| by falling tree while chopping in the woods
alone. He leaves widow and two children.
A. II. FISHER, prominent paper manufacturer
| OF Bellows Falls was seriously injured Sunday by
| falling down stairs at his residence, breaking a
number of ribs and otherwise injuring himself.
AT Morrisville last week George w. Dyke OF
| Colchester, aged seventy, very nearly lost his
| life by trying to board moving train. He was
only saved by the timely effort Of the conductor.
Mr. GEORGE M. WMLMARTH formerly Of Yer
| gennes, met with serious accident Monday,
| while fixing belt in saw mill in Addison His
| right arm was broken between the elbow and
| wrist.
THE Central Vermont railroad company paid
| Tuesday of last week So 502, the Judgment of the
supreme court, to Margaret R. Davis, whose hus-
band was killed near Bartonsville through de-
| fective culvert
| THE Fort Cassn cement company, with works
| erected near Fort Cassin on Lake Champlain,
| manufacturing hydraulic cement from a stone re-
| Gently discovered there has been incorporated
with capital of 100000
| SAMUEL BRAssAU twenty years OF age, has
| been convicted at Middlebury OF an assault on a
| girl with whom his brother was going home from
| a dance on the Saturday night previous He was
| fined S1450, which he paid.
FRED CURLER, son of Robert Curler, who Is
now in California, met with Il shocking accident
at West Rutland. His right arm was crushed be.
tween two blocks Of marble, and so seriously
that amputation became necessary.
MRS. AMOS MORSE OF Danville came near dying
on Monday of last week from taking dose OF
| cedar oil DIR. Haviland was called and found
her insensible, but by administering an emetic
succeeded in bringing her to consciousness.
JOHN HOLMES of Rutland has pleaded guilty to
twenty offenses for liquor-selling. The fines and
costs amounted to S409 03, which he paid He
| was then further sentenced to five months i'm
prisonment at hard labor In the house Of correction
THERE Is but one new case Of scarlet fever re-
ported at Woodstock and that light one in a
| family that has had one case before. 1t Is moi
| spreading and with continuance of the precau'
tions already taken it is hoped soon to hear the
] last OF it,
PATRICK READY has been brought before Jus
tce Bailey at Rutland on complaint Of grand
juror Cain, for retailing liquor. Ready pleaded
not guilty and at his request the case was con
| committed.
DAVID SHoRrsLEEvE Of Rutland has invented a
gang-saw for saving marble and stone, which Is
| claimed to do oDe-third more work than the old
| style of saw He has already built two for Bos-
ton men, and is now building three for W est
| Rutland firm.
| The residence of Widow Cordelie D. Paige In
Bennington Center was burned Saturday. In.
| sured for 81, 500. This dwelling was one of the
| landmarks OF Bennington, and was over one hun.
| dred years DID,
| The grist and shingle mill at Lower Perkins
| vile, known Robinson's mills owned by Mrs.
Daniel Wheeler and leased by Melvin Robinson.
with the contents OF both mills were burned last
week Tuesday. Some damage was done to sur
rounding buildings.
G H. RICK's house at the the locality in Milton
known as Checkerberry was burned the Other
| day. Most Of the household effects and all the
| clothing was saved. About one hundred bushels
OF potatoes and some other provisions in the eel
lar were lost. Not insured.
THE Burlington Philharmonic society will give
| a concert in Howard Opera House February 10Th
| Mrs. Henrietta Knowles OF Boston, the popular
| soprano, who has made many friends in this state
| during the musical festival given by the society,
will take part in this concert
| TIMOTHY BANcRoFT's carriage and blacksmith
| shops and Sanford Olmstead's grist mill at Shell
don were burned last week Tuesday night Ban
| crofts loss is $1,000; insurance, 81, 100, Ohm
stead's loss is 81 500 insurance, 1000. The
origin OF the fire is unknown.
The quarrel between the two Mddebury com
panies OF ice gatherers has broken out again
and is at a white heat most Of the time One law
several times personal alterations have been
prevented only with difficulty.
PETER ABBOTT of Barnet, while washing car.
riages at stable in ST. Johnsbury, where he was
employed, froze his feet In the early part OF win
ter They would not heal and gangrene made
amputation of all his toes necessity. This was
successfully done several days since.
THE settlement OF the estate OF a recently-de-
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