The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-27
Weekly News Summary.
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ALBANY has just received its first telephone.
]. EsTEy & Co. OF Brattleboro have given
$3.50 to the western flood sufferers.
A RECENT liquor raid at Brattleboro dis
closed forty barrels of cider in one cellar.
A TwENTY-FoUR POUND pickerel was taken
out of Lake Bomoseen on Saturday, the 9th
THE Richford Savings Bank and Trust Com
pany has declared q dividend OF five per cent.
HOWARD & LEAvITr, Craftsbury merchants,
have failed for $4,000 nominal assets,
$4,000.
BARNARD subscribers to the History of Wind
sor County pronounce it "a failure and
fraud"
MRS JAMES C. BARRETT OF Rutland fell on
an icy sidewalk recently, breaking both bones
Of one leg.
LITTLE son of Elmer A. Smally of Hyde
Park had his leg broken, last week Thursday,
while coasting.
IT is said that many farmers in the vicinity
OF Brattleboro have sold large lots Of sugar in
advance at fifteen cents.
Miss BELLE SPAULDING Of Bellows Falls has
an ancient English coin Its value is one-fourth
Of a cent and 1t Is dated 1749.
THE Windsor county agricultural society
have bought the fairgrounds formerly leased
by them at Woodstock, for $4,000.
LOREN WHrTCoMB OF Essex Junction had
thirty sheep killed and several more wounded,
last week Wednesday night, by dogs.
c. r. MARSH of Brandon has a collection OF
old Roman coins, about twenty-five In number,
some of which antedate the Christian era.
THE knitting mill of George A. Wattles, at
Bennington, was burned Friday. Cause I'M
known. Loss S25, 600; insured for 500, 500.
THE Passumpsc railroad company has de-
cided upon reduction of about ten per cent in
the wages OF employees, to take effect March LIST.
THE Jews resident in Burlington have or
ganized synagogue, presided over by
rabbi, and hold regular services every Saturday.
JOHN NJ SKINNER, a selectman of the town
of St. Adams Is a defaulter to the town to the
amount of $4,000. He has been seectman
since 1876.
The well known trotting horse, Laura Will
lams, owned by j. A. Williams and l.. A.
Drew, has been sold for 81 500, to 60 on a stock
farm across the lake.
THE Bates house at Rutland, which was sold
at auction the other day, went on condition
that the purchaser give $40, 900 bonds not to SELL
or allow liquor to be sold, in the house.
A MAMMOTH log was hauled into the Glas-
tenbury mill recently 1t WAS over seventy
feet long, and contained over fifteen hundred
feet of lumber. There is some excellent timber
in the Glastonbury tract.
CHARLES WHITCoMB of yde Park was re-
Gently drawing ice from the Lamoile river,
when his horses broke through in ten feet Of
water, and it was only by great efforts that he
saved them from drowning.
AN Orange county dairyman has tested the
matter and finds that his milk, sold at three
and one-half cents per quart is as good as
butter-allowing twelve quarts of milk for a
pound of butter-at twenty EIGHT cents per
pound.
On Friday morning, the 18TH runaway
horse overlook the Hinesburgh stage, In a
narrow place in the road, and jumped into it.
He jumped clear over the rear seat the two
persons upon it being untouched, and landed
on the center seat, severely njuring its occu-
pant Mrs. t. A. Wheelock Of Burlington
HENRY MCCORMICK, a brakeman on the
Schenectady freight tran fell off car near
the Fairhaven station Sunday night, February
IT, and was run over by the train. Death was
instantaneous. The body was horribly man.
gled. Mccormick age was about twenty i've
He was resident OF Rutland and unmarried
ANDREW S. MATTIsoN of North Bennington
has lost two swine one of which died with
marked developments Of hydrophoba They
were bitten by an unknown dog few days
ago. After one had died the second swine
shook the body, just like dog, and otherwise
exhibited remarkable symptoms of change in
nature. Another animal will die, and duck
bitten at the time has died of hydrophoba
POSTMASTER GEORGE HAMMOND of Middle
bury has received advices to the effect that
the prohibition against allowing American
sheep to land in Australian ports is absolute
u
useless expense in charterng the steamer ply
ing between San Francisco and Sidney, and
have been to the additional useless expense OF
getting shpload of sheep to San Francisco, all
ready to sail
HENRY A. CHAMBERLAIN, Esq, a prominent
lawyer of Toledo, Ohio, who died recently, al
the age OF thirty-seven years and five months,
was the eldest son of Hon. John A. Chamberin
of Grand lsle and was educated in Vermont
academies and at Oberin college, and for d
year or more pursued course OF study in
Germany. Mr.. Chamberin had resided in
Toledo several years, and gained an excelen,
reputation as lawyer and citizen. He leaves
family.
GEORGE NJ Colt of Brattlebore, about fifty
years old, shot himself twice, probably fatally,
just below the heart, while alone at his Organ
street home Friday afternoon. He was suffer
ing from melancholy and had been in poor
health for some time, never having recovered
from disease contracted and wounds received
while soldier in the late war. During one
battle he was nearly shot to pieces, receiving
dozen wounds. He had quite an experience
with rebel prisons, and while at Andersonvillt
managed to whittle out with jack-knife a
very passable violin of full size and quite sweet
tone. This instrument whiled away many ar
hour for the prisoners, and Mr.. Colt WAS al
lowed to bring it North with him when he was
exchanged.
In excavating in the cellar of the old AID
ANS block, in Middlebury, some traces of tht
earlier days of the town have been found. Ir
the early part of the century the Middebury
branch of the old state bank was located in thu
block which stood there until 1t was burned
down in the great fire OF 1875. The bank wal
mysteriously robbed one time Of part of III
funds, and no trace OF the robber or clue to thu
method OF the robbery was ever found unit
many years afterwards, when some repairs
were being made on the house now used as the
Congregational parsonage. The workmen found
in the garnet key which was discovered tt
be duplicate of the key of the bank, and il
was thought that the unknown thief had usec
this key in committing his depredations.
AT the annual meeting Of the Western Yer
mont Masonic Reunion, held at Middlebury
Wednesday, February 20, the following officers
were elected: President, w. +. Lewis of Rut
land vice-presidents T. NJ Chapman of Mid
dlebury, s S. Gaines OF Vergennes, T. S. Peck
Of Burlington, N. f. Dunshee of Bristol; cor.
responding secretary, l.. Z. Burnham of Rat
land recording secretary, George A. Kimbal
OF Orwell; treasurer, A. A. Fletcher Of Middle
bury; executive committee, d. Ii Bennett OF
Bridport, K. p. Russell of Middebury, G. III
Holbrook of Brandon, G. A. Cutting of Shore
ham, W. b. Wright of Orwell; financial com
mittee, Hiram Roberts Of Brandon, Samue
Brooks Of Middeburv, Ozro Meacham o
Brandon. The annual banquet was held at tn
Addison house at half-past seven in the evening
Other Localities.
THE Thetis, of the Greedy expedition, will
sail from England for America this week.
VANDERBILT is to be busted-by youn