The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-19
Weekly News Summary.


Vermont.
NEW town house is to he built at West
Rutland, at an expense OF $4,000.
A HANDSOME new chapel has been finished
In the third story OF the insane asylum
MAN in Jay receives so 10 per week from
the town for taking care OF his own father.
THE town Of Chester Is to have 81, 0C0 SOL
diers' monument. The sum was appropriated
at the annual meeting
THERE are only five larger roller skating
Kinks In the United States than the one the
Rutland club propose to erect
"U. A. W." WRITES the Free Press that he
will be one of forty to give $4,000 for a
soldiers monument at Burlington.
THE Howe Scale Company has of late re-
ceived An order from Mexico for seven hundred
post-office scaes-metric standard.
MITCHELL LovELLErTE, while loading logs
in the woods at Richford, was caught and rolled
over between the logs. breaking his spine. He
has since died
THE town of Castleton voted to offer re-
ward of $500 for evidence which would convict
the party OF parties who murdered the Good
win child last September.
A MAN in Castleton presented his only son
with 81 600, not long since, and offered him
another thousand IL he would decline to qualify
for an Office to which he was elected at town
meeting.
CHARLES CARLSON, a Swede, forty-five years
old and unmarried, employed in the Vermont
marble compaDy's quarry at West Rutland,
was almost instantly killed last week Wednes-
day evening by q falling chain.
THE stockholders OF the Vermont national
bank, including bank men from St. Johnsbury,
Rutland, Brandon and other places in the state
and out of 1t, held conference meeting at st
Adams, Friday, to look over the financial
situation and calculate on future prospects.
w. Fl. BLAoKMER, a Brandon boot and shoe
dealer, procured phial Of laudanum, the other
day, and took Dose He was writing fare.
we'll note to his wife, when cleak discovered
what he had done and called physician, who,
with the aid OF stomach pump. removed the
laudanum and Mr. Blackmer recovered.
A MAN stepped into the Windsor telephone
exchange just as the manager was talking with
a party in Woodstock. After listening few
moments with an expression OF profound
establishment depicted on every feature, he
carefully glided out of the door, cautiously ap.
preached one OF the clerks and whispered,
softly: els that medium? That ar Teller
pears to be talkn' with sperrits!"
ADoLPHUs HAPPY of Addison is now the sole
occupant of the Addison county Jail. He is in
for refusing to pay tax Of ninety cents. II
seems he has lived in Addison for ten or a dozen
years, but has never been naturalzed. He
claims therefore, that he ought not to pay a
tax. But the town doesn't agree with HIM,
and at the annual meeting instructed the con.
stable to Jail him ii he didn't pay.
THE suit of the Rutland County Agricultural
Society against the Bennington & Rutland Rail-
way Company, to recover damages for the
burning OF barns upon the Rutland county fair
grounds, year ago, from fire and sparks COM
municated from passing locomotives, was CON-
promised by the railroad paying 81 000-about
one-half Of the total loss. One hundred new
cases have been entered at the present term OF
the Rutland county court fifteen of which are
suits for divorce.
THE following reads like southern darkey
story, but it is said to have actually happened
in Highgate: "Quite an amusing thing hap
pened here last week between two neighbors
who have propensity for depicting hen roosts
One went to the Other henery late in the even.
ing and secured a nice plump hen, which he
carried home and put in a barrel in the shed fol
safe keeping till morning. He arose very early
cut off her head and took her to his wife &c
dress for breakfast. Why Charlie said the
wife, what made you kill our big pet Bra.
mah?' He rushed out to his own coop and
sure enough, the pet hen was killed. His neigh
Dor had stolen her early in the evening"
Other Localities.
A MAJoRIrY OF the Massachusetts house vote
to have wife-beaters publicly fogged.
THE fast mail service is to be extended north
vest as far as Minneapolis and st. Paul.
WoRKINGMEN in Sweden receive from ter
to twenty-five cents day for twelve hours
labor.
THE Massachusetts lower house has defeated
bill extending the municipal suffrage to fe
male citizens.
ENGLISH coroner's juries last year returned
nearly five hundred verdicts " died from ex.
cessive drinking"
BARNUM's much-talked.of white elephant was
shipped for New York, the 18th, on board the
steamer Lydian Monarch.
WIGGINs, the crushed weather prophet, rises
feebly to remark that there will be fearful
storm on the 9th OF March.
OVER sixty-three million pounds of plug to-
bacco have been manufactured at Petersburg
Va, in the last seven years.
ELECTRIC lights on the high mast at Los An
geles, Cal, can be seen from the island of San
Clemento, eighty miles out at sea.
THE Howe sewing machine company have
paid S35, COO in settlement OF the claim OF the
town and city Of Bridgeport, Conn, for back
taxes.
The house committee on rivers and harbors
has determined to restrict the appropriations tc
be embodied in its river and harbor bill to S11,
900 600.
DISPATCHES from large number of places
in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas and Ohio
show that winter wheat has not been much
damaged.
ONE Jacksonville dealer Is shipping one hun
bred and fifty quarts of strawberries per day
to northern markets. They bring from $2 tc
IS per quart
In passing upon pension case, the secretary
of the interior has ruled that the fact that q
soldier had a disease prior to enlistment is moi
an absolute bar to his pension claim.
AT Island Shoals, Ca, while ploughing OF
Friday, Samuel Mcdaniel unearthed Jug con
tanning 50, 500 in gold. The money was buried
by McDaniels grandfather during the Floridi
war.
THE lion IN W Citizen has printed an en-
tire edition by electricity, deriving the curren
from ten dynamo machines fifteen rods away
1t is the first newspaper in the country thu
printed
ROBERT SMALLs (colored) has been nomi
mated for congress by the republicans of Soutl
Carolina to succeed Mackey, deceased. Thu
nomination is considered equivalent to al
election.
HARTFORD Conn., man has taken GU
patents for devices by which beautiful and sub
stantial carpets can be made Of paper at price
much lower than the cost Of common cottoI
mating.
AT Bridgeport, Conn, on Thursday five Sal
walton Army women, arrested for paradinl
the streets, were fined 81 and costs each o
fifteen days in Jail. They refused to pay ant
were committed.
ADvIcEs from Siam state that the king
buying American trade dollars at ninety cent