The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-24
Weekly News Summary.

GEORGE w. DAVIS is in Newfane Jail for
stealing $50 from Landlord Mclean of the
Jamaica House.
THE Lake Champlain steamer Williams
failed to make Plattsburgh, Saturday, on
account of the ice.
GEORGE HARVEY of East Burke, while at
work in his saw-mill, got his right arm badly
sawed below the elbow.
MOSES TOWNSEND of Barnard accidentally
fell from hay-loft, few days since, and
broke several OF his ribs.
THE fall term of the University of YER
mont closed last evening, with the annual
prize reading in the College street church.
THE Office of State Auditor e. II. Powell,
at Richford, was recently entered by burg
lars. Some valuable law books were taken.
w. f. CHAPLIN of Essex has sent one
thousand pounds of butter and two thousand
pounds of cheese to the exposition at New
Orleans.
WILLIAM WAKEFIELD of Westfield boasts
of being the last man from this state dis
charged from the late war. October 8, 1865,
is the date.
JOHN SHERIDAN of Castleton, veteran of
the Seventh Vermont Regiment, has just
been allowed 81 200 back pay and $96 year
as life pension.
NEARLY all of the slate mills and quarries
of Rutland county have either shut down
for the present or reduced materially the
number of their help.
Mrs. WILLIAM BARRETT of Hartland re-
Gently fell and broke her arm. She met
with a similar accident last summer. She
is nearly ninety years old.
MRS. ARTHUR e. MEADER of Chester at
tempted suicide by swallowing teaspoon
full of paris green. Medical aid was sum-
moned and she is now better.
T. f. GULLY, Central Vermont brake
man, had his ankle badly sprained, last
week, at Essex junction, in iumping from
ha nf n hn q mi
WILLIAM BRENNAN, Castleton farmer,
has raised the past season fifteen hundred
bushels of potatoes, which he sold last
week for thirty-two cents bushel for the
Boston market.
b. j. FOLEY, q narrow-gauge brakeman,
got his right hand caught and two fingers
badly hurt while shackling cars at the
Wardsboro station last week. One finger
has been amputated
YOUNG peoples savings bank is estab-
lished at Lyndonville. L. w. Sanborn is pres
ident; G. M. Chase, vice-president; Ida s.
Pearl treasurer. The bank opens for bust
ness the first day of January.
j. AND S. S. WALKERS farm house. in
Hartland, was burned last week Friday.
Cause, defective chimney Loss large and
no insurance. A neghbor had one hundred
barrels of apples stored in the cellar.
REV. G. E. SCOTT, pastor of the Methodist
church at Underhill, has applied for a com
mission work, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Mead
being already under appointment to the
same place.
WHILE shutting up a store, the other
night, Nathan Ranney of st. Johnsbury
fell upon the sharp-pointed butt with which
the door is hung. The point passed through
his clothes and entered his groin, making
savage wound.
THE house which has stood so long upon
tho breakwater at Burlington was brought
ashore last week Tuesday. 1t was loaded
on two canal boats and taken to the south
dock, the operation being easily accom-
plished and taking but short time.
The residence of Lawrence X. Barnes, in
Burlington, was entered by burglars on the
night Of the 10TH who took about $500 worth
of jewelry belonging to different members
of the family. Mr.. Barnes was out of town
and Mrs. Barnes was the only person on the
first floor.
PRISONERS in jail at St. Adams COM
menced operations last week Tuesday night
with view to escaping, but were detected
in season to prevent it. The principal mover
in the scheme was one Flood, who escaped
from Jail several months ago, but was re-
Gently recaptured.
THE auditors of the Central Vermont rail-
road have discovered deficiency of about
$1,000 in the books of George f. Herrick,
the station agent at Windsor, and notified
his bondsmen, the Canadian Guarantee
Company, who went to Windsor, last week
Monday, and secured his arrest.
In the Windsor county court the following
persons have been indicted for violating the
liquor law: James Merchant, Newell Stet-
son and Edward Warren of West Hartford,
and Ed ellison of Bethel Capiases have
been issued against George ellison of Bethel,
d. F. McIntire, ID. ID. Priest, Fred Sawyer
and g. III. Markham.
THE special Christmas poultry train which
ha Vermont
made up of seventeen carloads from the
line of the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain
road, twenty-three carloads from the Cen
trail Vermont, one from the Missisquoi road,
and one from the Burlington a. Lamollle-
in all, forty-two carloads.
The managers of the Bennington Battle
Monument Association have unanimously
voted to accept the design of Professor
Weir. The design is for monument OF
rough granite some fifty feet high, sur
statue will represent General Stark, or the
figure of one of his I" minute men " that won
the famous fight.
Mr.. HORACE JENNIsoN, Familiarity known
as Major Jennison, was found dead in
his bed at the Lake House, ST. Adams,
last week Wednesday morning. He had
been Respondent for a long time, and un-
doubtedly took his life in fit of alteration.
He had served as clerk for the listers and an
assistant of the town clerk. He was fifty
five years OF age.
REV. o. SMITH was found insensible on
the highway in Halifax, last Saturday, and
was supposed to have been frozen He
died Sunday. He left Brattleboro Saturday
morning on a blackboard for Nottingham,
where he was to preach the day following.
1t is believed that he left his wagon to fix a
broken whihetree and was kicked by his
horse, as a calk mark was found on his
forehead.
Two men on the late express from Mon
treal on Friday night had tickets for st.
Johns, but feigned sleep and were " carried
by" When Conductor Church discovered
them again he ordered them to get off the
train at st. Armands. About three miles
this side of that station they were found on
the rear platform of the baggage car One OF
them had frozen hand and the other had
his nose badly frozen. The men were short
of cash and wanted to get to Winoosh.
THE following are among the criminal
cases which were disposed of in the Ben
nington county court last Friday: l.. A.
Robbins, convicted of stealing horse in
Hoosick Falls and taking the animal into
Vermont; sent to the work-house at Rut-
land for two years. Edwin Tompkin, fol
larceny of money and watch IN Brattle'
boro given five years in state prison. Sid
ney Pangburn, for breaking into store in
Pownal; sent TO the work-house for six
months
THE passage of the Especial prosecutor