The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

Vermont.
MIDDLEBURY voted S35 to help the veterans
ee citrate NJ emorial day.
MEYER, the supposed murderer, was taken
to Windsor last Wednesday.
THE wages that will be paid farm aborers in
Rutland county this season will average from
$25 to $30 month.
A MAN in Newport owns a cat whose diet
consists exclusively of raw oysters and cheese,
all other food being declined
A sPRITUALIsT convention will be held at
junction house hail. Essex Junction, Friday
Saturday and Sunday, March 81 % and 80
In the United States court at Burlington
William J. Lambert, the mail robber was sem
fenced to one year in the house OF correction.
IT Is said that George JONES' publisher Of the
New York Times Is to build country house in
his native town Of Poultney the present season.
ST.. JoHNsBuRY voted 800 for Memorial
day, and 800 to move the body of Lemuel Jen-
kins revolutionary soldier, and build a mon
ument to him.
HEMAN GAYLoR OF Newport Center has gone
TO Rutland for four hundred and six days on
account of drinking too much and abusing his
wife and horse.
THE Dandy gang, whose acts OF violence and
crime have terrorized the good citizens of that
town, are now langushiug in jail, or at least
part OF them are.
HoLLICE TREADwAY OF Shoreham was ar.
rested and put in Jail in Middebury on charge oil
assault, with intent to kill, upon Joseph Desno-
yers, his hired man.
ANTOINE LARvEY, a French lum herman, was
instantly killed at Pine Valley, Woodford, by
being caught in rolling pile of logs. He was
fOrty-three years old.
J. W. WARNER and wife, two Of the victims
Of the recent railroad accident at 1roouois
Canada, belong in East Hardwick. They were
not dangerously injured.
THE late William Spafford was town clerk of
Ludlow for forty years, and his son for twenty
years; and now his daughter, Miss Sarah Spaf-
ford, has been elected to the office.
THE Union Trust Company of New York has
begun proceedings to foreclosea $3.50, 900 mort
gage on the property OF the Wakefield Varie-
gated Marble Company OF Vermont.
THE Glastonbury company brought to their
mill on Friday spruce log, perfectly straight,
seventy -four feet long and seventeen inches in
diameter at the smaller end. 1t is worth $3.50
for derrick timber
Two weeks ago Mrs. Peter La Bombard of
Vergennes was supposed to be dead, and prep
srations were made for her funeral. She re-
vived, and lay in a semi-conscious condition
until Friday, when death ensued.
THE term at the medical college at Burling-
ton opens very auspiciously At the opening
lectures one hundred and fifty-four students
were present-a larger number than on any
opening day in the history of the college.
ST.. JoHNsBURY secular people are figuring
on the building of hall which shall be open
to all sorts OF entertainments, without dscrim-
ination. They allege that the managers of
Music hall, the present place of assembly,
discriminate too closely in this regard.
THE total amount of duties collected at St. Al
bans port last month is 500, 1866 so; value of du-
table goods entered, $95, 902; value of free
goods entered, 1927, 083. Among the entries dur
ing the month were AZ, 9O6 pounds of wool and
Soma Of ho, thop iona ~
hay for every working day in the month.
MIDDLEBURY people have said so much about
DR.. Judd of Middlebury being the inventor of
saving marble by sand and water with tooth
less strips of iron that Professor Seeley has
shown them that the old Romans did that
very thug and that it was done at West Stock
bridge, Mass, in 1902, and at New Milford,
Connecticut, in 1900.
THE Howe Scale Company has funded its in
debtedness to the national bank of Rutland,
and has given three notes for 1896, 900, secured
by second mortgage on their works and ma
ehinery. The prior mortgage amounts to
$175, 900. The business is still run by Messrs
Cramton, Sheldon and Barrett, as trustees, who
are to apply all the profits toward paying the
funded debt
Hon. JONAS N SMITH, who died in Addison,
February 90, aged seventy mine years, was for
many years one of the leading men Of Addison,
where he held many offices Of trust. He was
TWICE. CHOSEN 10 represent the Town IN the Stdt6
legislature, and was twice elected assistant
judge OF the county court. The last enterprise
of any moment in which he was engaged was
the building Of the Grand View Mountain
house.
WHILE Silas c. Parkhill of Cornwall was
telling tree in a swamp, it suddenly swayed
around, striking another tree near by One Of
the splinters few hitting him in the face just
below the eye, penetrating the flesh and re-
moving the eye. DR.. NJ d. Smith of Middle
bury was called, and succeeded in soon remov-
ing the splinter, which was about the size of
his little finger, and replaced the eye. The
operation was very painful and lockjaw was
feared at one time, but Mr.. Parkhill is now
comfortable.
JONAS CARRUTH died suddenly in Burlington,
Saturday, aged sixty-eight. He was born in
Concord, Essex county, in which place and ad-
joining towns he was engaged in business for
many years. He was often honored with po-
litical preferment by his townsmen, having
represented Charleston two years in the legis-
lature. He also served as postmaster and &c.
lectman. Abandoning mercantile pursuits, he
was four years employed in the customs service
at Island Pond, after which he was in the Office
of the commissioner Of customs at Washington
for six years; and for the past eleven years he
had been one of the deputy collectors of Gus
toms in Burlington.
HUGH G. HUGHES, proprietor of the Eureka
slate quarries at Poultney, met with a shocking
called into the pit to give instructions for drill
ing for blast. A stone weighing several hun
dred pounds was being hoisted. When near the
top the stone split, large piece striking Hughes
on the back Of the head, crushing the skull Grit.
fifth Hughes received scalp wound six inches in
length. His skull was also fractured, and he
was otherwise seriously injured His recovery
Is doubtful. Owen Carvey, book-keeper for the
Eureka slate company, was with the others in
the pit, but mraculously escaped with contu
sion of one knee and a scratch on the leg.
Other Localities.
THE Massachusetts senate passed the elevated
railroad bill.
SOME sections Of Canada are under eigh
feet Of snow.
GENERAL B. F. BUTLER is to be the orator, OF
Decoration day, at New York.
LAST Saturday So, 45O 900 in gold was shipped
to Europe from New York city.
The Massachusetts house has finally defeated
the resolve for biennial elections and sessions
Of the legislature.
THE Montreal & Sorel railway was blocked
by snow last week. In some places the snow
was twelve feet deep.
LONDON is alarmed now over the report tina
bags of dynamite have been deposited in vari
Gus quarters of the city.
THE Massachusetts prohibition state commit
tee has adopted resolutions denouncing higl