The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27

| sheriff, George Coolidge OF Albany; bailiff,
Joel r. Dustin of Derby.
On the 10TH Harry. the only son OF r. r.
| Armitage of Troy, lad or youth of sixteen
years of age, started from home with his large
dog about two o'clock to take bath in small
| pond on the Jay branch about one-foutth OF a
mile distant. Not returning to supper search
was made and his body found near the edge
of the pond in about five feet of water.
JOSEPH, tweve-years. old son of John
Wetherby of Manchester was helping his
grandfather, w. r. Dean, milk, the other
| night, and tied the cows tail to his leg. She
became frightened and ran around the yard,
| dragging the boy on his face. Mr.. Dean at
| last managed to catch the COW, and after u
struggle rescued the by from his perilous
| position
| Miss CYNTHIA LAMB, a maidt lady re, iding
at Rev Henry Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, and
q sister OF Mrs. Fairbanks, was shockingly
burned early Monday morning and died that
afternoon Her clothing took fire viii G she
was at work around kitchen range, and her
| clothes were burned entirely off from her be-
fore help could be obtained She was about
| fifty years OF age.
AS Peter Donnelly of Middlebury was shoot
ing at Wild duck on the river a shot glanced
| from the water and struck Peter Champagne
| in the left side of the head, back of the eve.
Dir. Champagne was at work in the bakery
| when the shot struck him. The wound was
| probed, but the shot could not be found, and
| is probably imbedded in such n way as to do
| no particular damage
The small steamboat butt by Mr. Mather of
| Cen, ervile, to run between Brattletoro and
| Bellows Fails was launched at West river re-
| Gently, and he is now engaged in putting in the
| boi er The steamer is about tnirty.six feet
| long and will draw fifteen inches of water and
| is intended for excui sionists 1t attracts much
atten ion being the first one seen on the Con-
nectcut there for many yeas.
| Tim ,f A.
next leg stature to have parcel of land called
| no town, lying between StockbTidte e, Barn
ard, Brdgewat and Sherburne, which con-
tains between two hundred and three hundred
| acres and does not belong to any town, an
| nexed to Stock bridge. The land is worth very
little and has not been taxed by any town,
| though the deeds have been recorded in
| Sherburne
r. G. CHENEY of Atchi son, KAN, formerly
| of st. Johnsbury, has invented and patented
| a steam grain shovel, which il operated by q
windlass located in an elevated position, and
| works so rapidly and easily that one man by
| lis use can empty a car OF five hundred bushels
| of grain in from eight to ten minutes 1t is
| thought that he will realize $780, 900 from the
invention. MIR. Cheney is a brother of H. NJ.
| Cheney and formerly worked in the scale shops.
The assignees auction sale Of Bradley Bar
| lows property occurred at st. Adams Wednes-
| day Personal property to the amount of some
81 800 ard some fourteen pieces Of real estate
were disposed f, most of it at low prices.
| Barow's homestead in that village, which cost
| over $4,000, was bid off by L. A. Dunton at
| $3.50 1t is generally understood that this
property and some of the other were bid in for
| Barlow himself The sales aggregate only
| little over $4,000. Bar ows property in
| BRANDON Nergennes and Sudbury was sold at
auction Friday. The last valuation of the
property which was sold Wednesday was
S44, 946
QUITE a series of accid' nts happened to one
| family at North Hartand week before last
| Frank Mclaughlin disturbed a nest of wasps
| Wednesday evening and TO get away from
them ran into the barn bel ind horse which
| kicked him in the chest, cracking two or three
| ribs and rendering him inser sible for several
minutes. Next dny Mrs. Mclaughlin with a
| team went for medicine for the injured man.
| When on her return her horse ran away,
throwing her out, wrecking the carriage and
| badly injuring her about the head and face.
| The same day the hired man was sent TO Hart
| ford for help with another carris ge, but colided
with another team on the road, making
| wreck of his carriage also.
AT citing of the Bennington Hi torical
| Society at Bennington, the venerable ex-Gov-
| ernor Hi and Hall was re-elect, preside Mt
| Rev. Is &C Jennings read proposition made
by the ii n. John +. Wins ow of -Poughkeepsie
| n. Y, to purchase the homestead of the late
| Henry Kel ogg in Bennington Center for an
historical society building, if the socit ty would
erect suitable brick or stone building thereon
| vii a memorial slab bearing the donors name
| Mr. Winslow's mt tive for the act lies in the
| fact that he was bonn on The spot. The prop
osion was favorably received and commit tee
was appointed to take further acti in the
mat er. 1t was voted to erect memorial slab
on The spot where stood the printing office of
the late Wi liam Lloyd Garrison
Other Localities.
SEVEN miners have been suffocated in coal
mine at Shamokin, Penn.
| The acting secretary of the treasury issued
a call for $40, 600 600 three per cent bonds Mon
day AFTERNOON.
JAMES AND FRED HAssLER fell into tank of
boiling vitriol, at their iron works at Pittsburg
Tuesday of last week Both were fatally
burned.
THERE was a violent storm at Corning, n.
| Y, Friday. Hail in some places was three
| inches deep. The damage Is estimated at
$4,000.
IT is reported the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
has offered S23, 100000 for a controlling inter-
est in lines of the Illinois Central railroad from
Chicago to New York.
CENTRAL and southern Illinois is suffering err
| ribly by prolonged drouth. No rain has fallen
for several weeks. Corn is drying up, and
stock dying for want of water.
NINE negroes have been arrested in Early
| county, Georgia, for ku-kluxing colored peo-
| pie. Lynching is threaten There is
charge of murder against them.
| SOME weeks since an English school teacher
| boxed child ears with some severity. There
followed a severe and long-continued headache,
and it is not unlikely that the child is injured
| for life.
A NOTABLE piece Of work was done at the
| Pullman car company's works Monday of last
week, one hundred cars being constructed aud
painted, all complete, within the regular work.
ing hours
| A DISEASE having marked symptoms OF
cholera has appeared at Cantril, Iowa. The
| local physicians pronounce it TO be gray hux.
| Thirty-two cases are reported, one-tourth OF
which were fatal.
| GENERAL LEROY Pore WALKER, the first
| secretary of war in Jefferson Davis cabinet
and the officer who gave the order to fire on
| Fort Sumter, died at his home In Huntsville,
Ala, Friday morning.
REPORTS from three hundred aud twenty
| five points, covering the British provinces,
New England and New York, indicate that the
hay crop just harvested is nearly thirty per
| cent less than last year
AT Mill Lane station, Penn, while nine
| Hungarian and Italian laborers were at supper
four masked men appeared and, producing re-
| volvers demanded their money. The fright.
ened laborers gave up all their savings, about
800, and the robbers escaped
LARGE man-eating shark was caught at
| Cornwall, N Y, last Tuesday by b. Van
Steenburgh and Byron Tompkins. 1t was fe-
| male and measured nine feet long and four