The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-10
Vermont State News.

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A BELviDERE man has chicken with four
WINGS the extra ones being on its legs
THE annual parade of the Burlington IRE
department will be he'd on Thursday, Septem-
Der 18th.
NORWICH has horse thief excitement and
Judge Lynch Is referred to 10 connection with
the thieves.
THE checklist of Rutland numbered three
thousand five hundred and fifty votets-the
largest 10 the state.
SEVENTEEN persons were received into full
communion with the Methodist church at Bur-
lington last Sunday.
THE Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and the Wis
count Nalletout have been stopping at the Van
Ness House, Burlington.
ALEXANDER FAIRBANKS, formerly OF New
fame, committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head at New York.
THE water is 50 low in Otter Creek that it is
with difficulty that the steamers make their
trips to and from Vergennes,
A. D. MARrIN's box shop and dwelling house
at North Springfield were burned last week
Wednesday. Loss over $1,000.
A BARNARD man broke his foot last week by
kicking what he supposed to be cat, but
which proved to be the bed-post.
JAMES CARVER of Pawlet shot thirty-three
woodchucks Thursday, August 49, He has
killed one hundred in eleven days.
THE work of repairing the breakwater in
Burlington harbor, which was so badly dam
aged by wind in April, was begun on Monday.
THE tramps arrested at Proctorsvile sus-
pected of burglary commi ted at Chester last
week Tuesday night, have been released, owing
to lack of evidence.
THOMAS JEwETT of Bennington died from
apoplexy last week. He was attacked while
voting He was a prominent farmer of that
town, aged sixty-four.
JOSEPH LANDoN of Chelsea has an order for
two pair of fine shoes for President Arthur
Mr.. Arthur got New York shoemaker to take
his measure, and then sent it to Mr. Landon.
A TWO YEARS. OLD daughter of William Pow
ers, an employee of the gas works in Burling-
ton fell into pail of boiling water, and was
so severely scalded that she died in few hours
AT Cambridge junction a barn with fifteen
tons of hay and farming tools, the pr Iperty of
r. S. Fuller was burned Tuesday, September
s $751; j. was valued at $780, and was insured for
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ST. JOHN viii adj
dress a meeting at Rutland some time this
month. There are number of voters in that
town already pledged to him. The town has a
greenback labor club, with membership of
about forty.
PAT MCCORMICK, a workman in Laird's
granite shops at St. Johnsbury, was badly in
jured last week Tuesday morning, by being
struck by the derrick crank, which got loose
while elevating stone. The crank struck him
on the head
THE heaviest thunder storm of the season in
Caledonia county took place Sunday night,
lasting three hours. The roads were badly
washed Lightning often appeared like small
balls of fire in the air AT Lyndonville five
inches of water fell.
DANIEL HALEY and team were struck by a
railroad train just below North Pownal Tues
day of last week Mr.. Haley's head was cut
badly. One horse was killed and the wagon
demolished. Two of his brothers were in the
wagon with him and one, Josiah, sustained an
injury of the leg.
The fourth story of the new college building
at Burlington has been converted during the
summer into dormitories for the use of the
students, and this work has been done entirely
at the expense of John P. Howard Esq, whose
gifts to the University seem to be as unfailing
as they are munifcent.
JOHN W. HARRISON who was supposed to
be John W. Mcmahon, an embeZZler of S2O,
600 from the Leather Manufacturers Bank of
New York, was arrested in Readsboro, Sunday
of last week, and lodged in jail at Bennington,
but has been released, having proved not to be
the defaulter There was close resemblance.
THERE is a well authentca, ed rumor in cir
culation that a railroad will soon be begun
from Barton to Greensboro Bend, and that the
lake road from St. Johnsbury to the Bend will
be thrown up. President Harris considers the
idea favorably, and says that the new road can
be built for what it would st to keep the road
from st Johnsbury to the Bend in repair for
three years.
LUDLOW has an infant phenomenon in the
shape of boy twelve years old, weighing two
hundred and forty-tive and one.half pounds.
He is not above mt dunn height for twelve
years-old but is as large round as a hogshead.
His flesh is firm and he is all right as regards
defoImity, excepting the left foot, which has
oil Wa nd no hos off
$1,000, and his fathers expenses, per year to
travel, but his father declined.
THE question of the Lake Champlain
serpent has been settled. Two men fishing at
Point au Roche, the other day, caught
pickerel three and one-haf feet long and
weighing twenty-one pounds. This is the
monster which has caused so much agitation.
1t will now be seen that certain aspersions cast
upon the tempe ance principles of people who
claimed to have beheld the serpent were vile
slanders. St Adams Messenger.
OTTER CREEK at Middlebury claimed its an
nual victim Monday. little after one O'Clock
Frank Lane, son of Rollin Lane of Cornwall
who was about eighteen years of age and who
had commenced going to school in Mddlebury
last week, was in swimming below the fails at
the spot where the Donohue boy was drowned
year ago. There were fifteen or twenty
other boys in the water at the time. Lane got
out beyond his depth and was drowned. AL
bert Phelps, about his own age, tried to save
him but was nearly drowned himself in the
effort.
DURING the night Of the I'd inst. entrance
was made into the depot at Barton, through
the freight room, aud thence through a small
window to the ticket room, where the express
company's safe was kept, and the safe opened
without injury, the door being found open in
the morning. The presumption is that some
body discovered the combination Of the lock
and opened the safe. There was, as near as
can be ascertaned, $1,000 in the safe in ma
tional currency; also a small amount of small
currency and one gold piece which was not
taken. There was no damage done to any
thing about the building or in the office
THE fine new rink of the Burlington Skating
Rink Association was formally opened on
Wednesday evening Of last week. The build
ing is one hundred and fifty-sx by seventy feet
in size and cost $4,000. 1t has seating ca =
pacity for eight hundred people and is one of
the best constructed Kinks in New England
One thousand persons were present at the
opening, and Sherman's military band fur
nished music for the occasion. Robert Roberts,
Esq, made an appropriate dedication speech
Miss Ethel Grant of Boston and G. w. Green
OF Worcester gave exhibitions of fancy skating
and there were exhibitions of riding by the
Burlington Bicycle Club.
THERE was terrible fire at Cleveland, Ohio,
on Sunday night. The entire fire department
WAS called into service and kilograms we're sent
to Akron, Youngstown. gainesville, Erie, San
dusky and Toledo for assistance. The most