The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

| ST. ALBANs proposes TO nave Fourth oil
July celebration.
A STRONG Blaine and Logan club is being
| organized in Rutland.
A sEvENrY-FIvE pound sturgeon is reported
as having been caught near Grand Isle last
week.
THE residence Of Marcus Hewlett of Shafts
bury was robbed of $3.50 by colored man
| Friday.
CALEDONIA county grand jury, lately in ses-
| sion, found ten true bills against Maynard
| citizens of that locality.
THE eighty-fourth commencement of Mid
| dlebury College occurs Sunday, Tuesday and
| Wednesday of the week of June 29th.
THE Sunday paper train over the Passumpsic
| road will begin running the 9th of next month";
| the day before the summer change in time.
Miss NELLIE ApLIN of East Putney was very
badly injured by being thrown from wagon
| She lay unconscious for long time but hopes
are entertained of her recovery.
ROLAND DECAMP, a bov of Bellows Falls
| decamped with a section boss watch and tried
| to sell 1t for twenty-five cents. He was cap
tured and released on account of his youth.
JAMES SANE brother of the poet, John G.
| SAKE, died at St. Adams after a long illness,
| aged about sixty. He was prominent dem
ocrat, and one OF the oldest merchants in that
| village
THE new Middebury College catalogue shows
| 1888 graduates since 1900, of whom 619 are
| living. Five hundred and nine graduates be-
| came clergymen, and 400 non-graduates have
received honorary degrees
ISAAC ii. McCLARY of Barton sent one hun
| dred and twenty-eight tons of sugar to Chicago
| in three weeks. He paid eight cents n pound
| for tub sugar, ten GEMS for stirred sugar He
| paid 81 900 at Lyndonville, and larger sum
| in Orleans county.
A COUPLE of fellows pretending to represent
| Jordan & Marsh were travelling about Brattle-
| boro last week, selling cheap lace and other
Jordan & Marsh elected the fact that they
were frauds.
| REPUBLICAN county conventions have been
| called as follows: Addison county at Middle
| bury, Tuesday, June II; Caledonia county at
| st. Johnsbury, Tuesday, June "a; Rutland
county at Rutland, Tuesday, June "a Essex
| county at Guildhall Wednesday, June %.
A STAGING upon which two men were at
| work on barn in Braintree recently, gave way
and precipitated one of the men to the ground
| q distance of about thirty f. ct and strange to
| say he was only slightly injured. The other
man chung to the roof until assistance reached
| him.
PORTRAIT of the late Professor Joseph
| Torrey painted by Mr. T. W. Wood of New
York, has been received at the University at
| Burlington. The portrait is q gift to the
| University from the Hon. Frederick Billings,
| and is to be placed in the new library building
| when completed.
JUST after midnight Saturday morning a
| party of Odd Fellows at Bennington, returning
| from a rehearsal of the grand master degree
staff, surprised burg ars mt work upon the safe
| of the First National Bank. They escaped, and
| no damage was done except the entrance forced
| by means of a window.
RECENTLY one of the severest hail storms
ever witnessed in this state passed over
| Windsor village, from west to east, cutting
| down garden vegetables, breaking glass in
some instances, and doing other damage to the
| highway. Some of the hail stones picked up
after the storm measured three inches in cir
| conference.
SPRINGFIELD has called special town meet
ing for the 23d, to provide for digging channel
| big enough for the Valley brook, and also to
| vote special tax to pay for the repairs. The
recent high water came near washing out the
works of the Slack Fertilizer Company at North
Springfield, but gang of men prevented a
serious loss.
MEssRs. NOBLE F. DUNsHEE of Bristol and
Edison A. Dowd of New Haven, who were
nominated by the Addison county prohibitionist
convention for sheriff and assistant judge,
have notified the president of the convention
that they decline the honor, on the ground that
the ticket was put in the field with the avowed
intention of defeating the regular republican
ticket.
FRANK HOWARD, indicted for robbing the
post.office at Benson Landing, has been cap
tured in the Adirondacks by Deputy United
States Marshal King and taken to Troy n Y
Howard escaped from Deputy Marshal Fisk of
Vermont by juml ing from the cars at New
Haven, few weeks ago. He also escaped
previous to that and was captured in Saratoga
county.
The Rutland e. Tidewater railroad is being
surveyed at Rutland and promises to be built
this summer 1t is only five miles long, but it
connects the West Rutland marble quarries
with the Bennington & Rutland and Central
Vermont roads and breaks up the monopoly
on marble and coal freight, which the Delaware
Il Hudson company has long worked for all it
was worth.
THE Congregational convention at st. AL
bans appointed Rev. C. S. Smith, President
Buckham of the University of Vermont and
Frederick Billings committee ON divorce re-
form. The convention will meet at Bellows
Falls next year. The Episcopal diocesan con-
vention in session at the same place and time
also adopted divorce reform resolutions. The
next convention will be held at Montpelier.
The late Peter B. Brigham in 1877 gave, by
his will, $50 900 to the town of Bakersfield, to
constitute the Brigham school fund for educa-
tional purposes. The residue of his estate
after the payment of certain legacies, at the
end of twenty. five years, with. its accumula-
| tons, is to go to found the Brigham hospital
lOr SICK pelsOuS III lnulSenI CIRCUMSTANCES re-
siding in Boston. The residue already exceeds
81 100000
THE loss by the Springfield flood seems to
have been considerably exaggerated when it
was reckoned at $50, 900. The Reporter gives
a long column of individual losses, estima ed
by the property owners and the total only
reaches $1,000. The list contains only two
losses of $1,000. The damage to roads may
not have been overstated at $25 600, as they
are torn out and bridges are gone in all drec-
tons from the village
THE Vermont State Medical Society," in ses-
sion at White River Junction, listened to papers
by c. c. Perry of Bethel, A. l.. Mcmillan of
Barnard, c. S. Caverly of Rutland, f. Banch-
ard of Peacham and c. F. Camp of Waitsfeld
Dr. Blanchard exhibited fine herbarium of
| medical plants. The committee ON litigation
was instructed to use stringent efforts to en-
force the observance of the law relating to the
| licensing of young graduates and others.
Other Localities.
BISHOP SIMPSON is slowly sinking. Physi-
clans say he cannot survive.
SUIT to recover over 49, 100000 has been
entered in New York against the estate Of John
G. Emo.
THE heavy rains have inflicted great damage
on the crops in California. There has not been
such heavy fall since 1850.
| THE news Of the capture Of Berber has been
confirmed. All the garrison and many of the
| Inhabitants were massacred.
GENERAL GRANT was unanimously chosen