The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-11
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

Vermont.
FARMERS report that the effect Of the recent
frosts ha% been over-estmated.
A woMAN's CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
has been formed at Bellows Falls.
AN active effort is being made to establish a
second Baptist church in Burlington.
Miss MARY JONES, daughter of II. w. Jones
of Shoreham, has died from the effects of a
surgical operation.
JONATHAN AUSTIN, one of Brattleboros old
est citizens, was stricken with pralysis last
week and probably cannot recover.
GENERAL KINGSLEY Of Rutland has pair
of horned toads from Arizona and California
which were sent as curiosites by friend.
ALLIE SPAULDrNG of Burlington, twenty
three years old and disappointed in love, took
strychnine and twice attempted to shoot
himself.
JoHNGRovHR and wife of East Fairfield were
thrown out of their carriage last Friday by a
frightened horse. Mrs. Grover was seriously
injured about the head, and possibly cannot
recover, and her husband was badly hurt
THE Vermont Valley railroads annual meet
ing will be held at the Brooks House, Brattle-
boro, June IS, at one O'Clock. A proposition
to increase the capital stock so that It shall not
exceed 81, GOO, 900 will come before the meeting.
II. +. HoUGHToN, merchant who has long
been identified with the business interests Of
Bratteboro, died last week Wednesday, aged
about fifty-five, after a protracted rheumatic
trouble that had confined him to his home for
several months.
THE large barns of Wilson Derby of Lunen-
burgh were struck by lightning last Friday and
consumed. One valuable COW was killed. The
others were saved. There was but a small
cloud, but the bolt was very heavy. Loss
above insurance, 81 900.
UNDER one roof in Rutland are living five
generations, namely: The great-great-grand-
mother, ninety-fve years old; the great
grandmother seventy-fve years old the grand
mother, fifty-three years old; the mother,
thirty years old; and the child, six years old.
THE total amount of duties received at the
port of st. Adams during May was Sl3,678 SO.
The value of fee goods entered was $92, 175.
Among the entries during the month were the
following: Forty three horses, valued at &c.,
$50; 2 452 tons of hay valued at $40, $50; 400,
562 feet of lumber, valued at S1S,635; and
sol, 1856 dozen of eggs lover six mil.ions), valued
at S64, 044.
THE faculty at Middlebury college have an
unpromisng unpleasantness on their hands.
The programmes for the last junior exhibition
were stolen, presumably by the sophomores.
Now the faculty have divided the bill for the
stolen programmes among the sophomores and
assess every member of the class for his share.
The sophomores refuse to pay and there is talk
about expelling them.
ANOTHER burglary was cOmmltted In MID
dlebury Tuesday night of last week. Some one
entered the office of c. c. Peck's Touring mill
by breaking pane of glass and pulling out a
brace, which held the window, and then climb
ing in. The desk was broken open and the
money drawer was thus got at, but it was
empty, no money having been left there over
night. No attempt was made to get into
the safe.
THE much-talkedabout Wilmington railroad
has nroduced n surfet of local neWspaper Cos
sip and correspondence pro and con in the
Windham county papers, Last weeks Re-
former printed an extended article from Rev.
Lewis Grout of West Brattleboro, in which
questionable acts regarding the towns assent
to bonding were imputed to Edward Crosby, a
leading advocate of the project, and Mr. Crosby
has instituted $4,000 libel suit against Mr..
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