The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-17

THE Rutland county court IL now in sessi' n.
The prospects ave that the term will be a long
one, as more cases than usual are set for trial
by jury, and IL Is expected that large mum.
Der Of indictma nts will be returned by the
and jury. The number Of new cases entered
this term so far is one bundled and six, Of
which twenty are petitions for divorce
A SEASON of light orera at Newport, under
the auspices of the Passumpsic Railroad Com
pany, closed last week Tuesday night. TIE
operas given included Iolanthe, " La Mas
cote" and others, and were presented by
company including male chorus from the
Ideals. Two performances were given daily
at Bay View Park, on an Island twelve miles
distant and in the Newport opera house.
Two C,ughnqwaga Indians by the me of
Deere have lately been employed in the Gen.
trail Vermont ard at st Adams They we're
clean men and attended faithfully to their
duties. The other day they were given va
cation OF few days, and we're to return to
work on Monday last. They came back, but
not to work; for they had while away enlisted
as boatmen in the English expedition up the
Me to rescue General Gordon.
| AT the annual meeting OF the directors of
| the Pas-umpsic railroad at Newport, Wednes-
day of last week, the following officers and
| directors were elected: President, Emmons
! RAYMOND, re-eleLted vice-president A. b.
Harris. president of the Lake road; supern-
tendent, IL. L. Folsom, refl cted; dire tols
| Frederick Billings, A. b. Harris Oscar Ed
| waid4, w. X. Bodgett G. W. Pierce, Alden
| Speare and Emmon- Raymond
j. j. RYAN, he d wal er of the Montvert
Hotel at Middleton Springs, was hrraigned
before Justice +. S. Miller at Poultney on
| charge of assault and ,ttery, preferred by
| Belle Brown of Troy, n. Y, and was fined $50.
| From the evidence it ape rcd that Mis-
| Brown who had acted as waiter at the hotel
| during the season, broke part OF butter dish,
which was charged to her account and paid
| for She claimed the dish ard took possession
| of it when leaving. Ryan demand the dish
and led violence in enforcing his demand.
| Two brothers from New York, one fifteen
| and the other eighteen years old, arrived at
| St. Johnsbury last Saturday on their way home
from rather extensive canoeing trip They
! started from home the 9Th of July, went up
the Hudson and through Lake Champsin,
| through the st. John river into the St. Law
renee, thence to the Thousand I-lands and
| from there back on their previous route through
| the st. John river aud up the lake to Swanton.
| Monday morning they took to the water once
| more, and started for Long Island Sound and
| home.
| EARLY Monday evening of lat week Myron
| Amber confined in the Lamoille county jail
for arson, and man giving the name of
| Lewis confined for stealing hides from the
| storehouse of C. S. Page, broke Jail and de-
| parted Ry some means or other the men had
| got Possession of an old case.knfe, and bre TX
| ing into vacant cell, by heating Il cir knife,
had managed to burn a hole ino the floor and
| thence worked their way down through the
| stone work of the undtrpinnng and out
Sheriff Lamphier was promptly in pursuit and
| captured Amber. Lewis is still missing.
THE extensive Preparations made at Olcott
| Falls on the Connecticut river for the removal
of large mass of rock by submarine blast to
give an exit for water from the wheel pits " ere
completed W Wednesday of last week. Forty.two
| holes. each fourteen feet in depth drilled at
| RIGHT nnplpg from the river CHARGED with
forty-five pounds of dynamite and at two
O. clock, r. NJ. the charge was fired by cleo
tricity, with a satisfactory result. A solid
mass of ro ok sixty-six feet in length containing
nea ly five hundred culic yards was thrown
bodily to the requ red distance in the stream.
A FAYsToN correspondent Of the Mirror and
Farmer writes: "Fruit trees bCssomed full,
bur the fruit has fallen off badly Potatoes
are good, corn light. In several towns north
of ia the frost of week before last killed all
vegetation in the line of farm crops. One day
| last week for about half an hour. Just before
sunset, the air literally swarmed with flying
ants. Their winged life was of short duration,
| however. The air soon became clear and then
we not ced the hens and chickens were busy
gathering something on the ground, which
| proved to be fallen ants. little later and
every ant h d shed its wings. We continued
our ob-ervat ons ard found they were looking
for the best places to dig into the earth The
yaras and roads were perforated with their
hiding places"
THE Middlebury Register says: "The sta
ton agent at Whiting has an old clock that
| has been handed down through three genera
tions. Grandfather, father and son have all
been owl ers Of this old relic. 1t is one hun
| d ed and fifty-four years since it was imported
from Holland. 1t stands in the corner of the
I dinipg-Ioom in its cd cherry case and ma ks
the time as truly as the sun. 1t has quite q
history. 1t was imported from Holland &c
New York, was taken thence to Pennsylvania
and remained some eighty years. then to Ohio
then to Iowa, then back again to Ohio an6
from Ohio to Vermont. The works are very
different from those Of any clock in this country
1t has been taken down for repairs but twice iol
over one hundred years. 1t was imported
, about the year 1880"
LYMAN S. PATCHIN of Bennington, while il
New York on Friday, was accosted by
styishly dressed stranger who addressed hin
as my ireud Mr. Simpson" The man from
Vermont informed him that his name was no
Simpson, at the same time giving his rea
name and place of residence. The stranger
confessed that he had made a mistake and de
t parted. A moment later young man grispeC
Mr. Patchin's hand and inquired, "Ain't you
Lyman S. Patchin from Bennington, VI. % A
conve, ,tiCn was Immediately begun anC
I shortly terminated by the appearance of {
policeman, who arrested the young m IN anC
, explained to Mr.. Patchin what a narrow es
, | cape he had experienced from the wi es o
| noted DunCO men. MT. fdttnlu ndQ Cl,UOO III
his possession Rutland Herald.
BRArrLEBoRo REFoRMER: "The next legis
, lature promises to be considerably above TIT
r average in ability and experience. Among thu
more prominent names OF those elected are J
| X. Batchelder, o. f, Butterfield, w. P. Dilling
ham, Hugh Henry, Colonel Franklin, Majo
Grout, K. c. Abel, w. p. Fairbanks, have beef
returned and will be among the leading, con
trolling spirits of the house. OF these Batch
elder, Henry and Major Grout, and perhap
5 others, will be candidates for the speakership
a with the constest likely to narrow down T.
., | Batchelder and Grout. OF the two, Batch
1 elder. by breadth and vigor OF mind as well a
parliamentary experience, ought to be the win
/ ner though Major Grout made very favor
4 able impression by his short service in tn
a chair after the resignation of Judge Power
[ during the session of 1874"
Other Localities.
THE Mormons are systematically coonizin
! Oneida county, Idaho.
EIGHTEEN steers are being fattened at Shell
byyille, Ind, for big barbecue. All will b,
| spitted and roasted at once.
i A STROKE of lightning split open hollow
clearing up murder mystery.
TERRIFIC cyclone struck Clear Lake, Wis
n the 10Th, killing three persons and doing a vas
amount of damage to property.
t Two convicts employed on the water-work
reservoir at Lexington, Ky, became rebellou
. .la.v and