The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-09
Weekly News Summary.

shows between 5000 and 1000 inhabitants.
THE present number Of inmates Of the reform
school Is ninety, Of whom seventeen are girls.
A. p. CHILDs of Bennington has sold his
horse, " Railroad Boy" to New York parties
The price stated is 81 900.
A EUROPEAN capitalist has been looking at
the water power at st. Johnsbury. with view
to utilizing 1t for a wooden mandatory.
LETTER recently received in Canadian
mail at a Vermont town was addressed: " Louis
Bouchard, Johnny Miller's shanty. U. s."
The result of the March run of the Rocks
Mining Company in Ludlow was one hundred
and forty and one-fourtb ounces, a bar OF gold
worth S2,S97
j. r. ALLEN, street commissioner of St.
Albans died suddenly last week Tuesday morn
ing He was about forty years old, and leaves
q widow and two children.
THE dwelling OF j. G. Caswell, near Taftsville,
was burned the other morning. The fire took
in the chamber floor from stovepipe. Little
was saved from the house. Insured for $500,
which hardly covers the loss.
ONE OF the largest and most costly mills in
western Vermont is being built by ii. Aims
worth Of Castleton. The estimated cost of the
mill, completed and equipped with engine and
machinery, is from $12 900 to $4,000.
FREMONT STEVENS of Weston attempted to
commit suicide by taking dose composed OF
chloroform, ether and aconite, medicine his
wife had to use for the toothache Medical
aid was summoned and his life was saved.
WALLACE G. CLEMENT, a member of the
firm of Clement & Sons, Rutland capitalists,
who made their first money In marble, has
been buying 800 acres Of land and quarry rights
in 1900 more in Georgia. They will organize
their company at Atlanta, May TO-
THE Billings slate mill at Hydeville, owned
and operated by the Billings Slate and Marble
Company, WAS totally destroyed by fire the I'd.
H.
origin. The mill was insured for 1000. The
fire throws a number of men out of employment.
PROFESSOR L. o. OFLIRPA, the great East
India bird charmer," advertised great exhi-
bition of performing birds to the citizens of
Springfield, to take place Tuesday, and the
whole town gathered on the street to see the
show. The show consisted in spelling the pro-
fessor's name backward.
A YOUTHFUL couple boarded Conductor
Flints train at Essex Junction, bound for
Northampton, Mass. The man was ninety
three years of age, the woman ninety, and
they had been married seventy years. Both
were hale and hearty, and thoroughly enjoyed
the attention showed them on the train when
their history was known.
THE seectmen and village trustees of st.
Johnsbury have closed all billiard halls in
town and notified the saloon-keepers that they
must stop selling beer of any kind or their Ii
cense will be revoked. Some time ago the
duLnOr1tleS uOtlu6Q t1b pTOpIl6IOrS tnaC tn6y
must close their billiard halls at ten o. clock P.
NJ, but they paid no attention to the order
THE third annual public sheep-shearing fes-
tival of the Vermont Merino strengthening
Association commenced at Middlebury on the
LIST and closed the Sd. The weather was decid-
eddy unfavorable and cold, yet some over two
hundred were in the pens to be shorn. large
number OF western and southern sheep breed
ers were present, watching for opportunities to
purchase.
E N. BISsELL, president OF the Vermont
Merino Sheep-breeders' Association, urned
from Australia March 31st. He had stormy
passage from San Francisco to Sidney with the
arrival the scab had broken out and the minis
ter Of agriculture ordered the sheep killed, and
everything liable to communicate the infection
Was burned.
Posi- WILLIAM c. TRACY Of Windsor, organ
lied June 80, 1888, now numbers forty-one
members. They have secured Colonel F. "
Randall for speaker for Memorial day. The
post have an excellent hall, well furnished
and very fine life-size crayon portrait OF
Captain Tracy, presented by Comrade Charles
Evarts, a son OF Hon. William M. Evarts, who
served in the fifth New York cavalry.
CHARLES FARGO, aged twenty-five years, an
employee in M. Tarbelps rake factory at Me-
chanicsville, near Wallingford, while at work
about machinery, the LIST, was caught by his
clothing by revolving shaft and carried round
it until all the clothing on his body was torn
from him. Then, terribly bruised from head
to foot, he fell to the floor unconscious physi-
elan dressed his wounds and he will recover.
LAST December Moses D. johnson and wife
OF st. Johnsbnry obtained an injunction against
the Connecticut River Lumber company, re-
straing it from running logs on the Connecticut
river or maintaining booms at Mclndoe's Falls.
On Tuesday of last week a hearing was held
before Chancellor Ross and the injunction was
k1A hold txrx hat fba NJ.
cut river is public highway for the transpor-
tatiOn of logs.
THE body of Michael Mott was found on
Monday morning, March 81, in sort of gully
At the foot of the hill near Otter creek, within
the limits Of the town of New Haven. Mr.. Mott
had been for good many years an inmate of
the Middlebury poor-hOuse. Last week Mr..
GLADDEN., who has had charge Of the poor-house
for some years past told Mott that he was going
away. Mott said that II GLADDEN. left he would,
and it seems that he made good his promise.
THE probate court of Fair Haven district has
disallowed the will of Thomas Laden Of Castle
ton, on the ground that it was not witnessed az
required by law Laden had been blind for
over twenty years and signed the will by MAX
ing his mark, being raised up in bed. The
witnesses then took the will into an adjoining
room and signed 1t on table placed In such
position that the will, as the witnesses signed
it. could not be seen by the testatOr as he lay In
bed. The court held that this was not signing
sin the presence of the testator," and there
fore disallowed 1t.
RUTLAND will have a four-days' musical fes-
tival the first week in May, with big local
chorus, the Germania orchestra from Boston
and Carl Zerrahn to conduct. Beethoven 6
Fifth symphony will be given, and Elijah. u
Max Bruch's I" Fair Ellen" and a mass by
George A. Mietzke, local composer will be
sung. The soloists include Mrs. Helen Ames,
Nine. Rive-King, Ella Earle, Vermont girl
who has been making good reputation in
New York choirs and concerts, R. L. King
tenor, D. M. Babcock, bass, and Ivan e
Morawsh, New York baritone, who will try
"Elijah"
THE Vermont democrats will nominate l.
W. Redington of Rutland for governor, and
some one familiar with his record and that O
his family has written sketch Of him, which
the organs Of the faithful are printing with hi
picture. Redington is an agreeable younl
Rutland lawyer who was bright enough Il
join the democratic party In 1876, when tn
town was full of young lawyers, not one o
them democrat. He has since done a larg
professional and political business, and hal
represented his town in the legislature and thu
state at national conventions. He Is now mu
nicipal judge at Rutland. --Sprinafeld Republi
can.
Other Localities.
THE decrease of the public debt for Marc
is $14, 238,000
AN engine and seven cars on the night 81
press from Toronto to Montreal ran off tn
track, two miles west of Wales station, Ontario
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