The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-05
Weekly News Summary.


THERE we're no births or deaths in East Bar
nard in 1888
BARNARD has been having successful dra-
matte parties this winter.
PoTAToEs are so low at Royalton that no one
will buy them for market
JOHN NICHOLS of Brookfeld killed a striped
snake on the snow recently.
DANNY has had but fifteen different town
clerks since 1862 including the present one.
SOME heavy gambling transactions in Mid
dlebury are about to come to light in the
courts
GENERAL BAXrER's estate Is to be settled in
the Rutland probate court, his widow and son
being administrators.
]. B. ALLEY & Co. of Bethel are doing an
immense business in their tannery, paying out
over $4,000 month.
THE Merchants national bank of St Johns
bury contemplates Increasing its capital stock
from $500, 900 to 100000
ONE depositor has refused the dividend now
being paid by Receiver Rich of the st. Adams
Trust Co., demanding all or nothing.
ST. ALBANs is to be connected by telephone
with Burlington, Middebury, Rutland and the
towns in the eastern part of the state.
THE north end of North Troy is threatened
with q creamery. The farmers Of that locality
talk of starting such an establishment.
CAMP OF the sons of veterans was organ
lied at Windsor on Tuesday evening, February
Goth, by Adjutant L. r. Morse of Rutland.
THE Woodstock Age says that gentlemanly
appearing stock buyer from Texas has swim.
died farmers in Royalton and vicinity out OF
about 5000
THE will of the late Mrs. Sarah G. Lord of
Bellows Falls will give to the Congregationalist
societies of Westminster and Westminster West
about S4OO each.
SHELDON AND Sons, marble dealers, have
executed $3.50, 900 mortgage on their quarry
property to the Rutland trust company, in or
der to fund their debt.
MEssRs. CHERBINo & WILLIAMSON shipped
a carload of ewes from Middlebury last week
for Athens, Ohio. They were selected from
fifteen prominent hocks.
THE Vermont Farm Machine Company Of
Bellows Falls are driven with orders. For the
past four weeks they have shipped nearly four
carloads Of creameries day to firm in Phila-
delphia.
EDWIN FISHER of Lyndon has a Jersey COW
which made the second week in January,
fourteen pounds of butter, on what hay she
would eat, pint of corn meal and three pints
of fine feed.
SOME rascals attempted to burn the Poult-
ney slate works recently. barrel of kerosene
was stolen and poured on the woodwork, but
was for revenge.
City, and j. d. Mcfarland, Lincoln, have pur-
chased, or are about to purchase, from II. t.
Cults, Orwell, for So 600, the bay stallion Ad-
olson Lambert, record 2:27.
THERE is no truth in the report that disease
Is affecting Vermont sheep This report is
probably set in circulation by parties envious
of the reputation of the Vermont sheep and the
success of Vermont breeders.
THE duties collected at the custom house at
Island Pond, including duties on imports and
fees, amount to $4,000 annually; aside from
that there is from $4,000 to So 100000 worth
OF business transacted in expectation and
bonding
A GENTLEMAN aged eighty-six resides in a
pleasant town bordering on Lake Champlain,
who has the ambition, strength and capacity
that enables him to do greater amount Of
work than many whose years number half
eighty.six.
MARSHALL PERKINS, a brakeman on the St.
Johnsbury & Lake Champlain railroad, and who
had been on that road number of years. fell
from freight train at Lunenburg on Monday
night of last week, and was killed. He was a
married man.
A MAN appeared at the savings bank in st.
Johusbury recently to settle his account He
had deposited $40 March 1, 1856, and the
amount due him was S100.17, the interest for
twenty-eight years being over four times as
much as the principal.
GEORGE SLATE of Bellows Falls, the former
treasurer of the defunct Connecticut River Mu-
tual Fire Insurance company, brings suit
against the company for $l7O, with an ad
damnum of SO 000 which he claims as his due
upon thorough investigation of his accounts.
YOUNG Rutland doctor ectured there re-
Gently, before the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION, on the subject Of "Dyspepsia," and
wound up his remarks by informing the audi.
ence that il the prescriptions he had given did
not benefit them, his latch string" was
always out.
ONE of the most brilliant weddings that ever
took place In Middlebury was that which oc
Cured on Wednesday evening, when Dr. Ere
mont Hamilton OF Rutland, son Of DR.. Henry
Hamilton OF Brandon, was united in marriage
to Miss c. Lizzie Buttolph, only daughter OF
Mr.. John l.. Buttolph.
THE board of directors of the Rutland County
Agricultural society held an adjourned meet
ing Wednesday. The premium list was re-
vised and reports read. September 16, II and
18 were the dates agreed upon for the nex
fair. 1t was voted to have running and pac
ing races at that time; also to offer special
premiums for Percheron and Norman horses
THE annual meeting of the Bratteboro &
Whitehall railroad company occurred at tn,
Brooks house, Brattleboro, on Thursday. Tn,
old officers were unanimously reelected. Tht
report of the president was very meagre, be
cause he had not received reports from TIT
Central Vermont road. change in the by
laws WAS NOtou, DTlDRlug tn6 annual meeting
in May hereafter
HONORABLE HENRY n SoLLACE of Brdport
who died February oath, after an illness of tive
or three months, aged sixty-two years, was 70
a long time one of the most prominent men il
that town, being universally esteemed anC
being always the poor mans friend. He hell
various town offices, in addition to which HI
was for many years postmaster of Brdport
was side judge of the Addison county court
and in 1876 presidential elector
THE regular February term OF the United
States circuit and district courts opened in Bur
lington. February 26, Judge Wheeler presiding
There was large attendance Of members o
the bar. OF the thirty eight cases on the la,
docket, fourteen (mostly United States cases
were marked for trial. two were discontinued
one marked not to be brought forward an
the rest continued OF the fifty four cases OIL
the equity docket, two were marked for tria
and three discontinued
Town LIQUOR AGENT PETITE of Brattlebor
says that he has sold only one thousand ga
Ions of liquor the past year; that the purchas
ers include people of every town in Windhar
county, besides some In Cheshire county, \
H., and Franklin county, Mass. and that fou
hundred gallons Of the liquor sold was fC
chemical and mechanical purposes. He ado
that this II equally distributed, would not Civ
homeopathic dose to each person in I'll
county, which he thinks, accounts for the ia
having but one prisoner.
Other Localities.
Ex-Governor HUBBARD of Connecticut