The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-23
Weekly News Summary.

TO Amherst college gymnasium.
A YOUNG child of Charles Dixie OF Wo!cott
was found dead in bed on the 18th.
THE net earnings of the Woodstock railroad
for the month of May were $S93.02
FORTY years ago this summer the first
marble quarry in Rutland was opened.
BRANCH post-ofiice has been established
at Martinsville, in the town of Hart and
+. w. SMITH and A. G. Pierce are "men-
toned for city representative in Burlington.
JOSEPH MAsCorrE, one of the victims OF the
explosion at Burlington, leaves eight children.
THE largest Congregational organization in
Vermont Is at Rutland with a membership OF
over six hundred.
THE state Spiritualist camp.meeting at Queen
City park, near Burlington, will open August
IA, and continue month.
A PosT-oFFIcE has been estab ished at Will
loughby Lake, TO be called Wiloughby, with
d. E. Richardson as postmaster.
THE annual muster of the First Regiment,
National Guard If Vermont, will probably be
held at Brattleboro, August 26 to 30.
BRATTLWBoRo people ate five thousand
quarts Of fine strawberries this season, which
were grown by Charles L. Allen, the enterpris-
ing florist of that town.
A HOUSE and barn at Middlebury, the prop
erty of A. A. Fletcher, were burned to the
ground Tuesday night of last week. The value
was 5000; insurance, $4,000.
N. G. NoRToN's office, at the Island mills in
Vereennes. was robbed Thursday night. The
safe was opened and about 800 taken, with a
heavy steel chest containing valuable papers.
THE eighty-ninth birthday of Ex-Governor
Hall was celebrated on Saturday by his chill
dren and their families at the residence of
General J. G Mccullough, at North Bennington.
LARGE and enthusiastic republican iatifica-
ton meeting was held at St. Johnsbury, the
18th. Hon. Luke Poland. General Grout,
Governor Fairbanks and others made speeches.
ABOUT fifty New York fresh-air-fund chill
dren have re ched st. Johnsbury,' for distribu-
tion among towns in that vicinity. Some of
them were there last year. They were cordially
received.
A. NJ. Brown of Lower Waterford who is in
the chicken hatching business, has already
Matched out nine hundred and sixty chickens,
and has eight hundred more to take wing in
two weeks.
CLARENCE FARRELL, an attache of o. Brien's
circus, arrested at Bellows Falls ast Friday Tor
murderous assault upon another attache
named Baldwin, escaped from the lookup by
digging through the floor.
THE workmen at the Howe sca'e shops in
Rutland contributed the sum of 500 fr the
benefit of Philip Cooley, a former employe at
the same shops, but who has been unable to
work for some time owing to sickness.
EBENEzER BRIGHAM, aged sixty.fve years,
OF the village of Westmin ter, committed sui
eide last Sunday by cutting his throat and
afterwards hanging himself to bed-post He
was wealthy. Dependency was the cause.
IRA LAMPMAN, employed as freight brake
man on the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel Il Western
railway, was knocked off a car near Hoosick
Falls on Wednesday night, by bridge, and,
falling under the train, was instantly killed.
H. 7. CUsHMAN of Bennington has recently
been granted patent on Improvements in
erasive rubber, consisting in iuting blocks of
rubber that it is fe-like in its eff ect gre thy
facilitating the erasure of ink or pencil marks
Hon j. J. DEAvITr of St. Alb'ns has filed
his pettion 10 insolvency, with liabilities es-
timated at $4,000. He has a large amount of
real estate, some of which is encountered The
rest is free from encumbrance and will be set
against his liabilities
THE New York police are looking for John
ii. Lnehr, Rutland tailor, who is reported to
to Washington. He left New York week ago,
but his friends in Washington or Philadelphia
have Sc en- nothing of him.
ELDIN STORY of East Albany, a young man
in the employ of T. p Skinner, had an
encounter with an enraged bull, the other day,
and came very near losing his life His clothes
were torn off, he received slight flesh wound
in the groin and was pitched into ditch, where
the bull stood guard over him until help
arrived
A CONCERT was given to the inmates of the
state prison on the afternoon of July 4, which
WAS one VI Iut De>L anu IlOsL tuJONdDIe ever
given in that institution. The number of the
audience not connected with the prison was
nearly one hundred. The programme was
varied and appropriate, and every number was
well received.
G. W. GRAHAM the taxidermist in St Johns.
bury, has recently set up black vulture which
was sent to him from Montpelier. The bird has
spread of wings of about fifty-four inches.
1t was killed in the town of Woodbury., and il
the only known specimen ever killed in this
region. The bird is native of southern North
America, and is common in the southern At
lantic states.
THE po.t-c flee at Swanton was entered by a
side window last Tuesday night and the safe
blown OF en-, apparently by dynamite The e
were taken $4O0 in cash, $500 W. nth of stamps,
ninety trade dollars and nearly $500 in notes
belonging to Calico Jewell Three men in a
boat enquired the way to Plattsburg of George
Tudnope of North Island, just before sunrise
Wednesday morning
THE Estey Organ Company of Bratteboro
now manufacturing about fourteen hundred
organs week, have established house in
London. The process OF drying timber by
steam, a process invented by Colonel Levi X.
Fuller of the Est-y firm, proves OF great adj
vantage in preparing the organ timber; and
there is demand from all parts OF the country
for rights to use the p O. ess.
JIMMIE AND PETER HEWITT Bellows Falls
boys, aged five and seven years, respectively,
lost their way viii berrying Weduesda '
morning on Mt Kiburn, and, not returning Al
night, two large searching parties were organ.
lied. The boys were found on Thursday in
the town of Langdon n H., four miles is
tant, having passed the night on the mountain
They were evidently enjoying their experience
REPORTS from various sections of Windhan
county show that Saturday nights rain and
hail-storm did great damage to the crops and
highways. At Wilmington the lightning went
into the homes of A. L. Childs and III. +
Barber, whose wives we're Frustrated by shocks
Their shoes were torn from their feet, while
their eyebrows were burned off, and they were
otherwise burned. The lightning entered the
houses by the telephone wire.
The engineer of a train on the Rutland
division of the Central Vermont railroad near
Brooksville, on Wednesday, saw two timbers
projecting up from a cattle guard. The trair
was under such headway that it was impo.
sbe to stop. Fortunately tue timbers were
not very strong, and the engine broke THIN of
and passed on in safety. The timbers are sup
posed to have been placed in. the guards by
two tramps, who were put off freight train.
A VERY sad accident occurred at Ludlow OF
Thursday afternoon, which resulted lin thu
death of Mrs. j. c. Chandler. At about 81,
O'Clock she was found lying, in an unconsci us
condition, at the fo.t of the stairs leading t.
the tenement occupied by them in the seconC
story of the marble shop building. The un
fortunate woman was found lying on her face
in pool of blood that had issued from a wounC