The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-10
Vermont State News.

THE Winooski wooden mill and Burling-
ton cotton mill are running on three-quarter
time.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ROYAL WHITE of Crafts
bury celebrated their golden wedding re-
Gently.
JOHN G. GRENARD, at one time a resident
of Rutland committed suicide at Glenham,
N. Y, recently.
ABOUT twelve million feet of lumber will
be manufactured and shipped from Groton
the coming year.
The st. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain
Railroad Company has cut down the wages
of its workmen ten per cent.
THE citizens of Newport have guaranteed
$1,000 for the new county buildings, in case
they should be erected there.
WHIrMoRE & CLARK's MINsTRELs gave
their opening entertainment of the season
in Ludlow on Monday night of last week.
IT is said that q Troy man, residing near
Newport Center, recently sold his wife to a
Frenchman for So. She has sued for a bill
of divorce.
ARuTLAND girl bet fifty kisses on the result
of the election and lost. She declares there
shall be a fair count If she has to go over 1t
dozen times.
LAST week Monday evening burglars en-
tered the store and post-office at North
Pownal and stole quantity of silk, cigars,
shirts and other goods.
THE residence of A. Tinker, st. Adams,
was entered by a sneak thief, Sunday night,
and cash to the amount of 81 10 was taken
from Mr.. Tinker's clothing.
DIR. WOODWARD of Brandon and DR.. c. j.
Russell recently performed delicate opera
ton on Mr.. Lowell CroSsman at Hines
burgh, by which about three inches of his
backbone was removed
LUDLOW boasts a man who has been for
over twenty years a resident of the town,
living within two miles of the village, yet
who has never been in the village on Sun
day until within a month or So
EARLY Tuesday morning of last week f.
n. Demarey, a freight brakeman on the
Central Vermont, was struck by bridge in
West Hartford and badly hurt, having a
narrow escape from instant death.
FLOOD, the jail-bird imprisoned at St.
Adams for robbery at Enosburgh Falls, and
who broke Jail several months ago. has been
recaptured, and was brought back to his
old quarters in st. Adams Jail last Friday.
THE bankrupt estate of Bradley Barlow
of st. Adams paid two and two-thirds
cents on the dollar. The settling of the es-
tate necessitated the sale of nearly $4,000
worth of property, consisting largely of real
estate.
THE boiler room connected with the
Brattleboro gas works was considerably
udUldReu ny dill eNDlOSlOl, OuntldN,
just as people were going to church and
while the workmen were engaged in clean
ing the sand pipe. 1t was the result of
carbon oxide igniting from the upper heater.
The roof of the building was shattered and
windows and doors blown out. Two men
working in the room were uniniured, how
ever. The explosion was felt in many parts
of the village.
NEWTON BROTHERS of Holyol1e and Reads
boro have offered to build and equip a rail
road up the Deerfield river to Wilmington,
providing the towns of Nottingham and
Wilmington will guarantee about $4,000, or
$4,000 mile. After its construction they
would either lease their interest to the
towns or take lease of the towns interest.
The freight rates, they think, would be
about ten cents on one hundred pounds
from the Hoosac tunnel, and the passenger
rates about five cents mile.
WE copy from the Springfield (Mass.) pa
pers this interesting item: among the
many family gatherings on Thanksgiving
day, none were more interesting than the
one at the house of Mr.. Charles Hall on
Bradford street, where assembled his father,
Ex-Governor Hiland Hall of Bennington,
VT, and Governor Halls four sons, all who
survive of a family of eight children. The
sons are Henry d. and John V. of Benning-
ton, VT, Nathaniel b. of Jackson, Mich, and
Charles of this city, and all had their wives
with them The venerable Governor Hall
still takes lively interest in political affairs,
and has, as might be supposed, an endless
store OF political "reminiscences. Some OF
the papers are saying that Edwin Darlington
of Pennsylvania is the oldest living ex-mem-
Der of congress, having been chosen to the
twenty-third congress; but this honor be-
longs to Governor Hall, who was a member
of the twenty-second congress in 1928,
more than fifty years ago."