The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-26
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

maine parties LOT 1OVU.
THE requisite number of subscribers have
been obtained to warrant the putting In OF the
Bradford telephone exchange.
ELopEMENTs are reported from Vergennes
and Ripton. In each case the eloper was
woman, and in one colored affinity figures.
THE docket for the June term Of the Addison
county court contains ninety mine court and
sixteen chancery cases. The term begins June2
THE town Of Baltimore has one pauper He
costs every freeman twelve dollars per annum,
and the aggregate isn't a very large sum then.
WEsTFoRD has voted to annually observe
May LIST as Arbor day, when trees will be
planted both along the highways and in the
private yards.
REAL estate in Rutland is fully thirty-three
to forty per cent higher than in Burlington, and
rents in Rutland are probably fifty per cent
higher than in that city.
C. o. GOODWIN and Warren Handy OF East
Charleston recently cut from one maple tree
ten cords OF eighteen-inch wood. The tree was
four feet through on the stump.
PARTIES from Orange, Mass, are to start a
nickel-plating business In Bratteboro, and
another industry, employing forty or fifty
hands, Is expected to locate there
A BENNINGTON man bought pair of boots,
q year or more ago, and has worn them ever
since, not discovering till the other day that
they were both made for the left foot.
FERNANDO and Charles Phillips of Dandy,
two of band of thieves that has infested the
west part OF that town for several years, have
been found guilty by the county court OF stea.-
ing three sheep.
GRAFTON, Chester, Baltimore, Hartland,
Weston, Weathersfield, Marlboro, Landgrove
and Sandgate elected female superintendent
OF schools, and Rutland, Ludlow and Weston
female town clerks.
GEORGE A. WATrLEs, proprietor of the Wat
ties kntting-mill at Bennington, which was
recently destroyed by fire. has been placed In
insolvency by his creditors. His liabilities are
not stated but it is estimated his assets will
realize about twenty per cent.
S. NJ POTTER of St. Adams Bay, married
man, was found dead in barn, mile and
half from his residence, on Wednesday morn
ing of last week. He had been on spree with
a companion, and drank heavily. His death
resulted from drinking and exposure.
The coming May musical festival at Rutland
promises to be the largest and best ever held
in the state. chorus OF three hundred voices
has been organized The Germania orchestra
OF Boston furnishes the instrumental music
The festival opens May and closes May g.
WHEN Amos Hilyard moved from Crafts
bury to Stowe twenty-five miles,, he took
along a cat tied up in bag. Not long after
wards the self-same cat returned and, not
finding her folks, begged admittance to the
home OF neighbor, where she Is now con-
tented.
IT is proposed to erect a telephone line from
81. Johnsbury to Newport, to pass through the
towns of Sheffield, Wheelock, Glover, Iras.-
burgh and Coventry, touching the railroad and
telegraph at the termini of the line. The COM
pany offer to erect the line il the towns to be
benefited will furnish the poles
SwANToN is being stirred up on the liquor
question. II. D. Austin Of that place has been
convicted OF forty-one first offenses and fined
SAL, and f S. Ransom of twenty second
offenses. H. c. Campbell pleaded guilty to one
first offense, and his plea was accepted on con-
sideration of his promise to quit the business
WILBUR EASTMAN of Wells River, a young
man twenty-four years old, was taken violently
insane and sent to the Brattleboro asylum. He
has been considerably exercised in religious
write book on theology. He was so violent
that it required four men to manage him, and
they found it necessary to bind him.
A MAN named Stockwell of Fair Haven mar.
ried, two years ago, an estimable widow named
James. 1t is alleged that lately detectives have
ascertained that Stockwell has another wife,
from whom he has never been divorced. Friday
night the police arrested Stockwell and Satur-
day he was taken to the work-house at Rutland,
being unable to furnish bail at 81 900.
THE supreme court has announced its de-
cison in the case of Michael Welsh and Wife
u.s. the Village of Rutland, which was heard at
the general term In 1883, and has given judg-
ment for the defendant village. The suit was
brought to recover damages from slipping on
ice formed from the escape of water from one
of the fire hydrants, which was frozen up and
being thawed out by the fire department.
MRS H. M. T. CUTLER, the advocate OF
woman suffrage, has been making a tour in
Orleans and Lamoille counties, and writes to
the Woman's journal concerning it. She re-
ports most cordial greetings at Irasburgh,
Barton, Glover, Hyde Park and Cambridge,
and sees signs there OF an increasing interest
in this branch of politics The women of these
places, she found, were quite willing to have
suffrage granted them, but she fails to eulogize
to any extent the naughty men.
The afternoon freight train moving north on
the Rutland railroad met with an accident at
Brooksville station ON Saturday. One of the
trucks of the first car left the track, and after
its connection and was thrown off, fourteen
cars following it from the track. Most of the
cars were more or less broken up, and some OF
the freight was scattered about, though not
seriously damaged. Passenger trains were de-
layed some time by the accident
THE Fisher mills property at Bennington has
been bought by company composed of Hon
OF the Pacific mail and a son-in-law Of the late
Trenor w. Park, Major A. b. Valentine and
William +. Hawks of Bennington. The sum
paid is a little under $4,000. 1t cost Hun,
& Tillinghast 5000, 900 to build the large mill
The Fishers paid $4,000, and added about
the same amount in improvements. The mills
give employment to six hundred work people
Other Localities.
IT is reported that chemist at Pittsburg has
re-discovered the art OF making black glass.
ANTLMoNoPoLIsTs will hold convention a
Chicago, May IA, to nominate a presidential
ticket.