The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14
Vermont State News.


replace the one recently burned.
BURLINGTON aldermen voted 500 to help
the Grand Army post celebrate Memorial day. |
JAMES X. BATCHELDHR Of Arlington will de-
liver the address at North Bennington Memo
rial day.
DIR CnLEY drove through snow fifty inches
deep in one of the main roads in Jericho on the |
first day of May.
+. w. McGETTRIcK of st. Albans has been |
appointed inspector Of Grand Army posts for |
Franklin county.
THE Rutland district messenger telegraph is |
now in full operation about sixty call boxes
having been already put in.
JOSHUA FLETCHER of Chester was fatally in
jured by being thrown from his carriage in
Ludlow, Sunday, his horse being frightened
by bicycle
A TELEPHONE is being run from W est Ran
dolph to Chelsea by way of East and North
Randolph. An exchange is to be placed in
West Randolph soon.
THE Women's Christian Temperance Union
of Rutland have secured the serves of Mrs. j.
X. Barney of Providence, X. l., to speak in
severa towns 10 Rutland county.
The stockholders of the National Union
Bank of Swanton have voted, after an ex-
animation of the affairs of the bunk, to go
into liquidation, but t. reduce the capital stock
to $50 900.
shearing of the Vermont Merino Sheep-shear-
ing Asso ,iation will be published and ready for
delivery to those who are entitled to copies in
a very short time.
A MEMORIAL window is being placed in the
University of Vermont chapel at Burlington
for George Willis Benedict, n former professor
in the university aud the father of G. q. Bene-
dict of the Free Press
THE troubles in the First Baptist church,
Burlington, in relation to which there has been
a good deal Of talk about town, have culmi-
nlled in the expulsion from the church of
seventeen Of its members.
HENRY MCKINNEY of Richford, freight con-
ductor, fe.l between two cars at North Troy
Saturday morning, one car passing over him,
breaking his arm and causing internal injuries,
VIII Gu were considered fatal.
A BRATTLEBoBo farmer is said to have
chawed " up a pound of fne-cut tobacco
while greatly sgitated over the breaking down
of his ox-cart, and during the half-hour lie was
engaged in rep firing the same.
THERE are fifty-four firms and individuals
| in Rutland who pay on personal lists of $40 600
and upward. Last year there were fifty-seven
| The estate of II. II. Baxter shows the heaviest
| personal list, it being Sl9l, $40.
THERE is on the Wells farm at Center Rut-
| land well dug in 1862 1t was built by Colonel
James Mead, and to-day it is in as good cond-
ton as when first excavated. The water is
| Cicdi etuu COlu dHu hcNCl
THE house of Judge Dunton of Rutland was
| entered by burg ars the other night who Sc
cured Mrs Dunton's watch and 50 in money
belonging to the servant Cir, who appears to
be the capitalist Of the household.
Mrs. EUNICE LARABKE, aged eghty-four, of
Brattleborp, was severely burned by the lace
| handkerchief which she wore about her neck
| taking fire from a candle which she was carry
| ing. Her injuries are likely to prove fatal.
| 7 ,uit oil rich
circulation of blood concluded the other day
that he needed spring tonic" He procured
a bottle of Hostetters Bitters, which toned up
his system so suddenly as to effect a fine OF
| So and costs
THE Poultney Slate Works. for the quarry.
ing milling and manufacturing of slate in the
| town of Poultney, with principal office in New
| York. was incorporated May T. The capita
stock is 800, 600, and the trustees Francis f.
Sargent, Henry B. Dawes aud George +. Breed
SPRINGFIELD is excited over a fight between
the local stage-driver and Charlestown( N. H.
hotel man who keeps a livery-stable. The lat
ter has been carrying drummers to Springfield
at reduced rates in order 10 have them stop al
his hotel. The Springfield merchants have re
taliated by agreeing to boycott drummers who
do II t come by the stage.
Mrs. SALLY GAGE of East Burke, who is il
her eighty year, has since the middle o
last September woven one hundred and sixty
| NdTuS Vi CdlpttluS anu lOIty -clSuI ydTu
of flannel, spun forty-one pounds of rolls, kni
six pairs Of stockings five pairs of double init
tens and one pair of gloves, besides piecing NJ
three bedqults and making up fifty yards o
cotton cloth.
| Mr. LEONARD w. LEACH of Swanton det
Wednesday evening from heart disease, at thu
advanced age of eghty-three years The de
ceased was born in Bevidere, and for man,
years was resident of North Enosburgh, be
ing one of the most prominent and infiuent a
citizens. He was honored by nearly all tn
town offices, and for several years was sid
judge in the Franklin county court.
THE industrious burglar got in his work a
a lively rate in Burlington. the Sth, two house
those of f. Stanley Hall and Frank X Con
verse-being entered. At Mr.. Halls a gol,
watch belonging TO his brother, w. T. Hall
was taken, together with what loose chang
could be found in Mr.. Halls clothing. At Con
| verses new suit of clothes belonging to tn
hired man was taken from the latter's room
and also between four and five dollars in money
PART of the money which was deposited il
the First National bank, St. Albans, the da,
before the institution closed, has been refunded
by Receiver Roberts. The cash SO paid bacl
includes deposits made by seven individuals a
a late hour on Monday, which deposits were
set aside to be returned and were not reported
| to the bank examiner as among the assets o
the bank. The money should have been re
funded on Monday night, as it was clear to tn
|, | Dank OncldlS tnat tne INSTITUTION was IN III
shape to receive money at all that day. Th
refunded deposits amount to SS56.
FARMER in one of the southern countie
of the state placed in his cellar last autumn
some more than dozen barrels of cider TO
family use. His wife shuddered at the though
that her sons might freely drink OF the intox
icating clement and, believing that physca
force would work well as demonstrative evi
dence OF the same, and feeling assured tina
the earth would not grow angry nor stagge
from free use of cider she entered the celia
one day with axe in hand, and smashed in th
heads of ab ut twelve barrels then remaining
unused, giving the cellar bottom one goot
drink. And it is said her husband remark ed
81 don't care for this, If my wife will behav,
now."
WoRKMEN for the past few days have beer
engaged in digging up the pips that conveys
| the overflow of water from the watering trough
near the Clement building to a sewer, a stop
page having occurred The pipe is common
sewer pipe, five inches in diameter, each piece
shutting into another, thus making complet,
line. The workmen discovered near the depo
park that the root of willow tree had growI
over the pipe and tiny shoot from the roo
had forced itself through one of the joints
where apparently M opening existed, and haC
developed inside the pipe, I'll ling the same fo
a distance of over "A rod with tbrous hairy
growth of the consistency of sponge, which
completely shut off the flow of water. The
growth must have been rapid, as the pipe hai
been in position only year or two.-huttdnC
Herald.
THE annual meeting of the Connecticut Rive
Valley Medical Association was held in Bellows
| Rails IN ruesdaV of last week with a fair Mt