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


ISLAND POND has lately been stocked with
black bass.
A ST. JOHN AND DANIEL flag has been raised
at Greensboro Bend
THE fall term of the University Of Vermont
began last week Thursday.
DEER are quite numerous in the wilderness
east and south Of Island Pond.
THE regular September term of Chittenden
county court opened yesterday at Burlington.
WOODSTOCK is to have its first b loon as
cension at the approaching fair to be held there
ED. DECKER of Swanton lost the recent
wrestling match with Mcmahon at Lawrence
Mass.
THE water is eighteen inches lower in Lake
Champlain than it has been for thirty-ti
years before.
CHARLES RoCKwooD of Bennington had a
Jersey COW, valued at 1915, killed by lightning
| the other day.
SEvENTY.Two young men took the free
mans oath at st Adams at the late election,
and voted for the first time.
SHELDON & Sons of West Rutland have dis
charged thirty-five of their quarrymen ON ac-
count of dullness in business.
B. BALLARD, late hotel keeper at White
River Junction, is reported compromising at
| twenty five cents on the dollar.
AN ar,esian we'll is being bored in the vi
cinity of Bellows Falls. AT depth OF three
hundred feet no water had been reached.
On the 8th, the barn ON the Aaron Deerias
place, near Benning on, was struck by light
ming during heavy thunder storm, and de-
stroyed by fire.
THE barn on the farm of Cassius Spear OF
South Buring on was struck by lightning,
during last weeks storm, and building and
contents were destroyed.
A SON of William McMaster of STAFFORD,
while riding on a two-wheeled gig the other
| day, was thrown off and so badly injured that
| he could not be carried home.
LIGHTNING struck the Universa'st church at
| Venom during the thunder storm of Monday,
the 9Th instant, and set it on fire, doing dam
| age to the amount of about $500.
CLARENCE II. MOODY, a prominent meat
| dealer of Bellows Falls, has left that town.
| He leaves behind him family and outs anding
debts amounting to about $4,000, with nc
assets.
THE Blaine and Logan club connected with
| st. Johusbury Academy bad flag raising on
| the 18th, with speeches by Colonel franklin
Fairbanks, DR.. c. f. Putney and Professor
| Hardy
| MADISON CONVERSE of Pant n, an almos,
| helpless paralytic, fell from a wagon while
out riding with his wife, last week Sunday
| and sustained a serious If not fatal injury upon
| the head.
ALBERT DEFoE of West Derby twelve years
of age, shot a fish hawk on the wing, at q
height OF thirty feet, with a bow and arrow
| the other day, bringing the bird to the ground
| with a broken wing.
| A WINoosKI man by the name of Plat fel
! from beam in barn last eek Friday, and
| struck on a threshing machine VIII Oh was in
operation. One leg was go badly hurt that il
| had to be amputated.
IT is stated that the Pdssumpsic railroad has
settled the claim for damages of Mrs. E. L
| Foster Of Barton for the injuries she received
| at the railroad accident three or four years
| ago. The amount paid was 81, 800.
| JOE LAMoUNTAIN of Barnard has q little
| girl six years old that has broken her leg in
| several different places at various times-one
| leg in five and the other in two. She is suffer.
ing from two new breaks in her right leg,
SPARK from an engine set fire to eleven
| bales of cotton on the platform of the Boston
Hoosac Tunnel and Western freight depot al
North Pownal The fire department extin-
guished the fire without serious damage to
cotton or depot.
POSTMASTER JEwETT Of Swanton has recov
cred the tin box stolen from the post office
safe some time ago which contained notes be
longing to Mr., Jewell and himself. The boz
| was found in some bushes near the railroad
track in the settlement" and the papers were
all in order and uuiniured by the exposure.
JOSEPH BAILEY, a student at Morrisvillt
academy from Wolcott, came near being
drowned in the river, while bathing, the cthel
day. The young man. thinking he could swim
jumped in where the water was deep, anC
went to the bottom twice, when, with great
exertion aud the help of his companions h'
reached shore.
THE new library building which Hon Fred
ericl1 Billings OF Woodstock is erecting for tn,
University of Vermont at Burlington, at a s.
Of 100000, is being rapidly pushed forward by
the contractors. The walls are already finished
and the ro3f is nearly completed. The ediic,
promises to be one of the bandsomest among
the public buildings OF the state.
The sixth annual festival of parish choirl
will be held in St. James church, Woodstock
and will be conducted by Professor S. B. Whit
ney organist at Cnurch Of the Advent, Boston
The rehearsals and services will be as follows
Wednesday, September II, seven o'clock p
NJ, first rehearsal. thursday, September 10
nine o clock A. NJ, second rehearsal. At halt
past two p. NJ, public rehearsal, Half-pas