The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-30
Vermont State News.


Friday.
ST. ALBANs has had four fires in one week,
but with no serious loss.
HENRY Z. HARDIN of Sherburne has COW
| fifteen years o.d that had new teeth come out
| last season.
| RUTLAND has introduced the district mes
senger service and expects to have a horse
| railway soon.
SUSIE LEACH, living at Westminster, has
| been robbed at three different times in little
| less than year.
THE Sauveur college OF languages has been
| removed from Amherst, Mass, to Burlington,
and will hold its ninth annual session in that
! city from July to August 10.
| THE class at the medical college, Burlington,
| now numbers two hundred and twenty-five
students-a much larger number than ever be-
fore in the history of the college.
THE Burlington milkmen have reduced the
price OF milk to the summer figure OF FIVE cents
| per quart. How would it do for the local deal
ers In the lacteal fluid to follow suit?
ST.. ALBANs lodge, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows celebrated on Thursday evening
the sixty-seventh anniversary of the establish
ment of odd Fellowship in America.
TIMOTHY PAIGE the boss dyer in the Proc
| torsville woolen mill, dropped dead with heart
disease, while at work, last week Wednesday
afternoon. His age was about seventy.
W. G. WYMAN Of Grafton, a merchant widely
|
politics, died suddenly at a hotel in Bellows
Falls on Friday. He had been feeble for some
months
DAVID G. HosLEY was found dead in log
way near H. j. Fullers mill in Bondville
(WinhalD. 1t is supposed that he was killed
| by rolling logs, on which he was at work the
day before.
On Thursday there died at the place of Gen.
eral John S. Berry in Baltimore county, Md,
the bay horse '' SAM" aged nearly forty years
Sam was foaled on the farm of Mr. F. Davis in
Vermont on May 5, 1874.
THE Windsor Coffin Company, manufacture
ers Of and dealers in coffins and caskets at
} Windsor, has suspended The company was
recently burned out, and this is one of the
causes of the embarrassment.
THREE men in Burlington, Friday, were
working on new house, when the scaffolding
gave way and they were precipitated to the
, ground. Henry Nichols, unmarried, was fatally
.. injured. The others escaped unframed.
: HENRY HITCHCOCK, late of Gaesburg, ILL.,,
I who has been reported as having left about
/ 100000 to Lennox college, was esteemed
resident of Castleton from 1845 to 1850. While
| in Castleton he was in the hotel and stage
a business.
Q S. B. MORGAN, several years teller of the
8 Vermont National Bank of st. Albans, has Sc
! cured the position Of cashier of the Manufac-
t turers National Bank Of Neenah, Wis, which
| is a live western town of five or six thousand
population.
CAsTLEToN furnishes three stalwart students
of the state normal school They tip the beam
at five hundred and ten pounds, are under
7 eighteen years Of age and wear No. 10 boots
Il and No. II overshoes One of them stands six
. feet in his stockings.
E LARGE crowds continue to assemble at the
! Middlebury town hall nightly to listen to the
: temperance talks of Rev. Mr.. Frost. A good
q many people, young and DID, including some
hard cases, have signed the pledge already, as
many as fifty signing some evenings.
!, Mrs. LIvERMoRE spoke at temperance
b meeting at Springfield, Mass, recently, and
8 told the audience that she had come from
It Burlington, Vt, where prohibition was sup
posed to be in force but officials had been
Q elected that ignored the law or winked it,"
!, WHILE between West Rutland and Castleton
h brakeman on freight train named Dolan
Q became detached from the brake rod throwing
g him from his position. He fell upon flat car
II and rolled off beside the track, but was unhurt.
n DR.. RUPERT left Casteton to accept situa-
q tion in a hospital. He arrived at his destina-
!, ton in florida and remained there one day,
h and then embarked for New Orleans. Thence
\, he went to Colorado and then started for Yer
O mont. making the round trip in ten days and
q ten nigh s-a journey of six thousand miles
It MRS. GEORGE H. HARRIS OF Fair Haven was
3 much surprised few evenings since, while
l. putting stick of wood in the stove, at the
d flames shooting into her face, burning her
10 dress, face and hands. The flames rose as high
o as the ceiling. 1t was caused by combustibles
10 that had by accident found their way into the
g kindlings
h In tearing down Ryther's old building on
Main street, at Brattleboro, a copper penny
>; was found coined in 1885, on one side OF which
d is a turtle bearing huge safe and on the other
u is donkey, with the motto, Il follow in the
10 footsteps of my illustrious predecessor" This
a penny figured quite prominently in the Van
+ Buren campaign.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM H. HARE has returned
from Vergennes, and gives depressing picture
of the low state of the legal profession there.
1t seems that during his entire stay but one
l. lawsuit took place, and that was in regard to
O. two lengths of stovepipe; and while there are
ID few offences against the law, the authorities
If always let the offenders go.--Free Press.
10 FOUR medum-sized black bears, which were
t killed by Alonzo Bishop and Benjamin. Buckley
* of Woodford, were exhibited at Bennington on
ss the 23d. The animals were tracked to cave
r in the mountains and shot with but little diff
a Guilty. As the state offers bounty of $40 for
e, each bear killed, and as each skin is worth at
d least $40, the hunters will make 500 for their
!, days work.
is THOMAS SMITH of Georgia is an Englishman
. who labored by the day until he saved enough
- to buy him small farm in that town. This
\, spring, after an absence from his mother
10 - country of twenty-one years, he was taken
?, with sudden desire to return to his boyhood
~ home, and with that object in view he sold his
=, farm and deposited his money in the First Ma
~ tional Bank of St Albans. With his trunk
., packed, and at the depot ready for start he
- called at the bank for his money The bank
- had closed that morning and his all was gone
l. THE statistics of the Methodist conference
" for Vermont for the year past show member
II ship of 1878 Probationers, 1852; local
T. preachers, rs; deaths of members, 2SS.
,e Churches, 177l; value, S5S9,S5 Parsonages,
m 127 value, Sl69,075. Paid for building and
IN repairing church property, S34, 94l; paid old
rt debts S4,S96; present debt, 1872, ,40i, Sunday
,e Schools PIG; of cers and teachers, 2,43S; scho
d ars, lS,0Sl. Missionary collections, 50, 541
IS collected for Woman's Foreign Mission, Church
I'd Extension, Tract Society, Sunday-school Union
re Freedman's Aid, Education, American Bible
IN Society, and other Bible collections, S5,080
T? amount raised for presiding elders and bishops
Is S1,012. 81 conference claimant, ST. l42; church
at expenses, Sl3,2l4.
ie TILDEN G. ABBOTT, the defaulting cashier OF
il the Watertown, Mass, bank, has been arrested