The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-16

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tesy of half-fare.
THE quarterly meeting OF the Rutland county
| medical and surgical society was held ut the
| Bardwell house In Rutland last week We'd
| nesday.
la. DAYTON Of Addison has COW, half
Jersey and half Galway, that has made this
past season 415 pounds of butter, without any
| extra feed.
| RUMoR has II that work is to be commenced
| on the railroad from Hoosac Tunnel to Reads
boro in early spring, and pushed rapidly to
completion
LEWIS STAFFORD of Stamford was upset in
his sleigh and one Of his arms broken. Al
though seventy-fve years old and feeble, 1t Is
| thought he will recover.
THE Charles P. Harris manufacturing COM
pany Of Vergennes has contracted for the
work of the boys in the reform school at Yer
| gennes for bottoming chairs.
CAR of rags on a side track at Bellows
Falls, and owned by the Fall Mountain paper
company, was burned Saturday from spon-
taneous combustion; loss about $40o
SECTION men on the Passumpsc and Central
Vermont roads have had their pay cut down to
| 81. 40 for bosses and $1.10 for hands, and the
| number employed has been reduced to the
| minimum.
THE present number OF inmates in the reform
| school Is ninety-two, of whom seventy-five are
boys and seventeen girls. During the year
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| before the full expiration Of their sentence
GIRL of fifteen years, from Manchester,
arrived in Bridgeport, Conn, on Tuesday OF
| last week, inquired her way to the circus quar-
| tiers, and announced that she wanted to be-
come circus rider. Mr.. Hyatt told her APP
| prentices were not taken, and advised her TO
return home.
NOTICE has been served on the common
councmen Of Vergennes that settlement by
| the town for the recent accident and damage
to Mrs Sheppard Tappan of Troy, and Arthur
Tappan of Panton, by their being thrown over
| the railing of the creek bridge, would probably
| prevent O lawsuit.
THE report that John ]. Myers, the rich Rut-
land man who died at Washington, left will,
| is now denied 1t is said that the property
will be divided according to his expressed
| wishes, one-half going to the widow and her
child and the other half to the two children Of
a former marriage.
For short time past the sheep trade at
Middlebury has apparently been picking up
| Although the shipments by the carload have
not been 30 numerous as they formerly were, q
good many small lots or single animals have
been shipped by express and now freight ship
ments are being resumed.
JAMES STARR, freight conductor on the
southern division of the Central Vermont road,
was killed in the yard at Windsor Friday night
of last week. 1t is supposed he went in be-
tween cars to pull PIN fell and was instantly
killed. He was about thirty, married, and
lived at White River Junction.
AT the annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Missisquoi and Clyde rivers railroad COM
pany, Hon. w. G. Elkins, Hon. H. c. Wilson,
DIR. j. II. Hamilton, Hon. J W. Currer and
Colonel o. N. Elkins were elected directors,
and subsequently Hon. w. G.. Elkins was
chosen president, and Colonel Elkins secretary
and treasurer.
ALBERT DOYLE of South Royalton, son of
| Inhp nnvla HuinU the ra vyllaua
went into the woods to work recently, appar-
emily in good health, and, not returning at the
usual hour, search was made, and he was
found, dead. As there were no marks Of in
jury sufficient to cause his death, it is supposed
he died of heart disease.
A TERRIFIC wind storm, accompanied by
rain, ragged at Rutland the 9th. The entire
roof of the grand stand of the driving park
was carried away. The roof of the Bomoseen
house at Castleton was blown off, damaging
other property. The wind formed drift on
the Bennington g. Rutland railroad in which
a train of sleeping cars was stuck seven hours.
THE directors of the Howard Park association,
at their annual meeting, reelected Colonel
LeGrand B. Cannon, president; Hon. G. M.
Spaulding, treasurer, and George Hammond,
Esq., superintendent. E. F. Brownell, Esq,
declined reelection as secretary, and Mr..
Chauncey w. Brownell, Jr,, was chosen to sue
coed him. The auditors elected are Messrs. l..
II. Talcott and s. II. Weston.
SEVERE wind prevailed at North Benning-
ton on the 8th and 9th Twenty chimneys
were blown down and several buildings con-
siderably damaged by way of broken glass,
Baptist church. The Congregational church
received the most extensive DAMAGE part of
the slate roof and the weather vane were
thrown into adjoining yards. One section OF
the elegant rose window in the front Of the
church was destroyed.
THE Windsor county agricultural society
elected these officers last week Thursday Pres.
ident, William c. Bement of Reading; vice.
presidents, Charles ii. Markham of Pomfret
and Joseph c. Parker of Hartford; secretary,
Ora Paul of Pomfret treasurer Norman Paul
of Woodstock. j. c. Parker, Norman Paul and
tee to secure suitable grounds for the fairs, its
lease of the old grounds having expired, and tc
report to an adjourned meeting, February l.
RUTLAND, with u, 900 inhabitants, boasts Of
having twenty-five physicians in active prac
tce. Better than that, Essex, with fraction
over two thousand population, has thirteen
physicians in practice, besides drug stores ant
a medicine mandatory, which supply the peo
, pie with all the "safe" remedies and " sure
cures" for any disease that is afoat. And
there is still room for hom9opath - and al
"eclectic" or two to say nothing about " can
Ger" and "corn" doctors. The field is wide
and open.
SOME time ago a Newport man bought q
money order at the post-officefor the purpose
Of paying an assessment OF life insurance
company. A month afterwards he appeared
I at the Office rather wrathfully exhibiting dur
from the company for the same assessment
I. 81 want to have this explained" said he. "
r paid you the money for this month ago, anC
have got your receipt for it yet" And then 1t
{ produced the money order he had bought
. month before, and had carefully kept instea'
Of renting to the company.
CARLOS S. SHERMAN of Castleton succeed
, Ex-Governor Page as president of the nationa
bank of Rutland, but the old board Of directors
q including Page, was reelected, with two I'D
ditional directors w. ii. Smith and 4. Pier
~. point No dividend was declared but state
: ment was made by the directors showing tn
: bank to be in much better condition than il
n July. The directors claim that not more thai
h ten per cent of the banks paper is doubtful
/ The Howe scale company is the largest singl
|. debtor, its liabilities TO the bank being abou
! 1886, 900. Page told the stockholders that h
J. could not longer act as president because h
/. had been unfortunately connected with partie
4 who were faithess to their trusts (alluding I
I the Haven-Page Rutland railroad complies
/. tions), and that his time would be fully occr
pied in Strengthening those matters out. Al
the other Rutland banks have reelected thei
old officers.
l. THE steam stone-cutter company of Rutlan
q has two suits now awaiting trial in the Unite
70 States supreme court and eighteen differer
ID anita in tho Varmnnt TInitad STA tas crnut con