The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-16
Vermont State News.

VERMONT would receive $4,000 under the
national education bill.
ABOUT five hundred carloads of marble q
month are shipped from Rutland.
j. c. EATON of Lyndonville has sold nearly
seventy thousand Of the round tin sap spouts
this season.
PHINEAs SPAULDNG of Cavendish COM
mitted suicide by hanging, the other day. Age.
seventy-three.
The Howe Scale Company of Rutland have
cut down the wages Of the workmen five per
cent from April 1st
MEssRs. W. E. HOLLAND, w. E. Marsh and
George A. Pope have organized the Venetian
blind company in Burlington, with capital of
$4,000
MADISON CoMsToCK committed suicide by
shooting at Bellows Falls, in the presence Of
his wife. He leaves family Cause, intem-
perance
MRS. BIxBY of Burlington has recovered
$3.50, under the civil damage act, Of liquor
dealer named Holbrook, who sold her husband
liquor on which he became drunk and was
drowned.
MRS TYLER, aged about fifty years, living in
the west part of the town Of Brattleboro, was
probably fatally burned by her clothes taking
fire while standing before stove.
BISHOP DE GoEsBRIAND is to have new
residence built in Burlington and probably
boarding-school. There are now more than
100 children in the Catholic schools in that city.
SOME years ago a man named Ballou de-
serted his wife and children at Lyndon Now
he is under arrest on charge of bigamy,
and Mrs. Ballou refuses to 60 and testify
against him.
EDWARD BADGER was arrested at St. Johns
bury recently for burglary, having entered B.
F. Browns store and taken considerable
quantity of cigars, tobacco and confectionery.
He was put under 5000 bonds and committed
to jail to await trial.
THE Castleton young man whom we reported
two or three weeks since as being offered thou
sand dollars If he would not qualify for GER
| tain office, has given six thousand dollars bonds
and entered vigorously upon the duties OF the
office. 1t was not that he loved his father less,
but that he loved office more.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Messenger writes
| to that paper that large quantities of pike are
| being netted daily at Rouse's Point, and that
the Canadians are catching fish night and day
| at MissisquOi Bay, shipping from Alburgh
| Springs to New York. AS many as forty bar
| rels (S,0C0 pounds) were shipped at one time
recently.
+. ID. PROCTOR, commanding the Vermont
division of the Sons Of Veterans, issues circu-
| lar requesting that all sons of veterans in the
| state at once join themselves together and form
| camps iu the places In which they live, 30 that
| on Memorial day they may be able to assist
their fathers in the proper observance Of the
uhy sO sdcrcu W tneuu
A STORE and tenement owned by A. A. Wy
man, and a dwelling owned and occupied by
| W. G. Stevens, in the village of Cambridgeport,
were burned Saturday morning. The fire
started in Mr.. Stevens dwelling. Loss about
| $1,000 The telegraph and post-office were in
the store. The mails were mostly saved The
furniture and country store stock were lost.
Insured in mutual companies.
PRoJEoT which has been going on at St.
| Johpsbury for the past month to build public
hall on Railroad street was settled at a meeting
held Saturday evening. b. G. Howe, proprietor
OF the Avenue house, is to put an addition on to
that house, he building q foundation and first
| story and the hall to occupy the second story
with frontage Of seventy feet, and depth OF
one hundred and twenty feet, TO cost $4,000.
The family OF j. D. Niles of West Charleston
is in deep affliction. March 3lst they buried
the eldest daughter, Katie, very promising
girl Of ten years of age; the next day the
youngest, a daughter of about two years, was
stricken down and lived but a few hours
Another child Charlie, is still very SICK and
still another Is Just up from the terrible disease
buried two little girls, then his only children,
with the same disease. e.-Monitor.
MEAD & KIMBALL of West Randolph have
just sold and shipped to Elwood g. Murray of
Maquoketa, Iowa, their entire herd of red Poed
cattle, with the exception of few that had
already been sold to parties in Ohio and Wis
consin. Among other prices, a July calf sold
for $500 and two-years-old hefers for $780, FL
wood Murray are well known cattle dealers
In Iowa, and this was the only place In the
United States where any of this breed could be
found for sale. Colonel Mead will soon i'm
port from England another large herd.