The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-09
Weekly News Summary.
vermont.

a CAR on " DITCH ClTcus bIdlu toOh l'O vi
the way to Morrisville and ten horses were
badly burned
THE Ludlow wooden mills will stop for re-
pairs soon. It is expected that they will be
closed six weeks.
TIMOTHY DUGAN; aborer of Vergennes,
was drowned in Otter Creek, July "a. by the
up-etting OF boat
THE Rutland village trustees have decided
upon putting in the Gamewell fire alarm sys- |
TEN. Twelve stations will he put in.
AT Pownal Amasa Thompson caught large |
black bear ia trap. The bounty from the |
state and the bearskin will bring him $50
THE Vermont Cattle Company have pur- |
chased about one hundred booded bulls, which |
will be sent to their ranch in eastern Montana |
this month.
THE Vermont Nation Il aud Peoples banks |
of Brattleboro have declared their usual semi |
annual dividends of five and three per cent
respectively.
DIR. SAMUEL J. ALLEN of White River juno |
ton, who killed Edwin Hansell of Rockland
Mass in b lston saloon last month, has been |
arraigned and pleaded not guilty.
BURLINGTON has Blaine and Logan club,
with w. L. Burnap as president. aine
and Logan club has been organized at Rutland,
with Charles II. Sheldon as president
FRANK MARBLE, aged fifteen, working in the
Sunderland veneering mill, accidentally caught
his right hand in the gearing of the veneering
machine, and the hand was entirely cut off.
A SALOON and three freight cars on the st.
Johnsbury a. Lake Champlain railroad were
thrown from the track west of St. Johnsbury,
Thursday, and Edward Hayes of Lyndonville
was seriously hurt.
AT meeting OF the druggists of Windsor
and adjoining towns at Windsor, July 1, they
formed an association with twenty-one mem
bers, to be known as the Connecticut River
Valley Druggists Association.
THE total receipts of the St. Adams custom
house during June were S1637935. The value
Of free goods entered was 1872, 401. Among the
entries were 43S, 700 dozens of eggs valued at
$50, 1888, and l, 760, l49 feet of lumber.
THE extent of the recent fire at North Con-
cord was the destruction of one thousand cords
of wood belonging to the St. Johnsbury & Lake
Champlain railroad, the water-house and a
dwelling-house owned by Hastings Follansby.
Loss $4,000
SPRINGFIELD doesn't mean to be at the
| mercy of auotber food and so has voted to
| widen and deepen the channel of The brook, to
| tear down the buildings that cover it and build
walls where necessary, and to build new
bridge on Main street.
TwENTY-oNE COWS on the asylum dairy farm
| at Bratteboro are suffering from the fouls or
| football, disease similar 10 character to the
| horse disease known scratches There was
great alarm lest it should prove to be the
| dreaded foot-and-mouth disease.
| BY the premature explosion OF a small can
non at st. Johnsbury, the 4th, Andrew Morse
and William Stevens, lads about fifteen years
old, were seriously injured Morse lost one
eye and had a hole made through his cheek
| into his mouth. Stevens had one side of his
face and eye badly bruised.
AN accident to freight train on the Della
| ware Il Hudson road, near West Rntland, was
| caused by some miscreauts placing a tie be-
| tween the. rail and frog The en- zine and most of
the cars were thrown from the track. The fire.
| man, William Gray of Schenectady, was badly
scalded about the hips and legs.
MR.. EDWARD CROSBY of Brattieboro has
| begun libel suit against Rev. Lewis Grout of
| West Brattleboro for $4,000 damages on ac-
count of Mr.. CIRCUITS letter, published in the
Reformer some weeks ago, on the railroad ques-
ton, in which serious charges were made or u-
situated against Mr.. Crosby and his methods
and motives in attempting to secure a vote of
aid for the BrAttlebJro e. Bennington road
from the town.
The Rutland banks have declared dividends
as follows: Rutland county, four per cent
Baxter, three and a half per cent; Clement,
three per cent; killington, four per cent. The
National bank of Rutland, of which ex-
Governor Page was president, declares no divi-
dend Each OF the trust companies, the State
and the Rutland, pay three per cent and each
of the savings banks, the Rutland and the
Marble, pay two and a half per cent.
AT meeting of the Rutland railroad di-
rectors, held the I'd instant, it was voted to pay
a dividend OF one per cent on preferred stock,
payable July, 1884. The new management
took the road on August 1st 1883, with a large
floating debt, which has all been paid, together
with interest on the bonded debt, leaving a
balance large enough to pay a dividend as
. stated above. The annual report which will
soon be issued, will show very hatterng pros
poets for the future of the road.
, cit will, no doubt. surprise great many tc
G,,nxx that pf Zinc, o1o nil
! prove drunkards and sots," said temperance
, lecturer, who had been asked to speak before
I the friends of the high school at Bellows Falls
The two young gentlemen who constituted thu
r male portion of the class looked obviously a
: | each other, and general litter arose from tn,
Q audience. NJ raj: 1t will not do to be too
specificin ones remarks before the members
of Vermont high school class
8 THE new rink at Rutland, which has jus
: been completed at an outlay of S12, 900, wa
opened to the public July 4. There were tire,
| sessions, forenoon, afternoon and evening a
each of which there was large attendance,
specially large audience being present in tn
a evening. The programme included bicyc
!. riding by the club, fancy skating and exper
: bicycle riding by experts, and music by TIN
q cornet band The rink is the largest in New
!. England outside few of the largest cities.
o A BILL has been passed by congress and ap
8 proved by the president authorizing the town,
d of North Hero aud Alburgh, in the county o
v Grand Isle, to construct and maintain
j. | way bridge at some convenient poin
n across that part of the waters of'Lake Oh I'm
J, plain which divide the aforesaid towns. Tn
g. bridge must be built under and subject to sucl
" regulations as the secretary of war may pre-
II scribe for securing conveniences of navigation
% and the right to erect and continue the bridg
c is subject to revocation on the part of congress
n THE Bennington artesian well Is abandoned
u The history of this enterprise can be stated j
70 few words. Mr., II. W. Putnam two year
B. ago determined to procure, if possible, suppl
10 of pure water. His first attempt was ON tn
10 level land to the east of the graded schoC
II building Water was found at depth of som
a eighty feet but an accident prevented this we
'r from being sunk to a sufficient depth TO answe
y the purpose, although considerably more tina
d a hundred feet was bored. The second attemI
Z occupied all last season, aud the location wa
10 on the rise of ground to the south of the vi
lage. The winter suspended operations at
10 depth reached of ten hundred and eighty-on
- feet. Lately thirty feet more have been SUM
~ but the hard work and unpromisng appea
III ance have finally led to suspension of I'll
work. Bloomington Banner.
y, THE Harris Library at STAFFORD has bee
a. a. designated a depository of public documen
=. for the state of Vermont, in compliance wit
20 20 the provisions of sections sol and 502 of IL
.5 Revised Statutes Repositories are the mo
~ a. favored of all institutions in Che matter
- public documents receiving, as they d
III through this department, copy bound
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