The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-26
Vermont State News.

VERMONT has s22, ,75S, 300 invested in rail-
roads.
CAPTAIN L. Med. SMITH has been assigned
to duty in the custom house at Newport.
Mrs. MELINDA BowLEY, eighty years of
age, a resident of Brattleboro, is suing for
a divorce.
THE house of Langdon Hendrick of Gro
ton Pond was destroyed by fire the Goth.
Loss about $500
GEORGE f. LoUGEE OF st. Johnsbury, in
jured by the bursting of gun on Friday
night, died Sunday night.
THE University of Vermont has three hun
dred forty-six students, as against two hun
dred seventy-one last year.
LARGE numbers of wild geese are being
killed on Lake Champlain this fall, es-
pecially in and about the Gut.
The terms of the postmasters at Barre
and White River Junction, paying $1,4Oo
and 81 200, expire next month.
MRS ELIZA HTBBARD of Pomfret has Sc
cured pension of eight dollars a month
and SIG back pay on account of a son.
HERBERT NJ. ADAMS of Barnard lost
thumb and part of finger from the burst
ing of gun while firing at squirrel last
week.
CHARLES ROBINSON of Bradford, while
firing a salute in honor of the election Of
Cleveland, had his hand filled with powder
w a tA piooloh
ANNIE FRANCIS was assaulted by two men
at St Albans, Friday night, and robbed of
SO. Her clothing was badly torn. There
is no clue to her assailants.
WILLIAM REYNOLDS house at Barnard,
with two buggieS a lumber wagon, his
household furniture and clothing was
burned last week Thursday.
Mrs. WILLIAM POWELL of Essex was Sc
verely injured few days since in getting her
| feet cau n q which iaI IN q cotxr
| The COW ran and dragged her some distance.
In Bennington a tenement house owned
| by James Boardman was destroyed by an
accidental fire last week Friday. The in
mates narrowly escaped. Loss 81 200 no
| insurance.
CHARLES HENRY of Westford, young
man about thirty, while butchering, fell
backward into kettle of boiling water,
scalding his back from his knees to his neck
| in a fearful manner.
THE supreme court, last Friday handed
| down its decision in the case of Henry b.
Stevens rs. Pillsbury and others, by giving
| plaintiff $4,000 The case has been heard in
| court since 1867, and involved the title to
| about half the business portion of Bradford.
THE trial of DIR. Samuel Allen of White
River junction, for the murder of Edwin A.
| Hansel of Rockand, Mass, May %, in Bos-
| ton, has been set down for the second Mon
day in December, in the supreme court. B.
| f, Butler and w. b. Gale will appear for
| Allen.
WILMINGTON voted last week to rescind
| its vote of two years ago to aid the pro-
| posed Brattleboro & Bennington railroad.
| This was done because of Bratteboro's g
failure to aid the project, and because of
promises of road up the Deerfield river
from the tunnel.
AS a little daughter of Mrs. Lyman of AL
burg was attempting to climb up the side of
a NOW of grain in barn where a machine
was threshing, her clothes caught in the
arbor of the speed wheel and wound them
up whirling her several times around the
arbor before the machine could be stopped
The clothes were nearly torn from her body
and her head came only a few inches from
the brake at each revolution. 1t is thought
she sustained no serious injury.