The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.


AN Episcopal mission has been e. tablished
at Westmore
THE Vermont state republican commtte
have received $500 from Sen ttor Edmunds
THE Estey Organ Company of Brattlebor o
shipped twelve hundred and ninety organ 8
in July.
The Winoc ski river is very low, and can be
waded at almost any point 10 the vicinity of
Burlington.
A. & w. A. FELT's steam mill at Ardover
was burned Sunday morning Loss 81, 800;
NJ insurance.
A CYCLONE in Stockbridge turned over a
cart-load of hay, covering up a man who was
on the top Of the load.
Hon c. II. BLoDGETT of Burlington mourns
the death of his famous Waikiki stallion. The
horse was valued at $1,000.
GEORGE LEWIS of ST. Johnsbury, for burglar
izng G. S, Pages hide house in Hyde Park,
was held for trial in the sum of 5000
BURLINGTON had an enthusiastic republican
flag raising in t. e second ward Friday night,
about two lhou'and persons attending it.
THE cases of Meyer, the murderer, and Ellis
the train wrecker, are to come up at the Sep
TENDER term of the Franklin county court.
LION w. BoNNETT, injured in the railroad
ya'd at Newport few days since, died from
blood poisoning on Tuesd " of last week. He
L. II. RICHARDSON slipped on the floor of
the slaughter ouse at Brattleboro, the 18th,
and fell into some pals of hot water Both
his arms were very severely scaded.
LIZZIE ABBOTT, a domestic, was, while walk
ing on Loomis street, Burlington, at ten o clock
Sunday night, the 18th, with Joseph Shepard,
the victim OF an outrageous assault in which
five men participated.
NJ 2. SPAULDING, formerly assistant pay
master of the West Shore railroad at Amster-
dam, N. Y, and late of Burlington, has been
arrested on charge of stea ing 5000 from
the company there over year ago.
RECENTLY, at Burbank & Williams mill in
Coventry, son OF J. A. Sancler fell into the
fiume and WIS drawn upon the wheel The
wheel stopped, and in seeking the cause the
body was found, mang.ed and lifeess.
LAST week Tuesday morning the BODY of
William j. McKeon was found in a lumber
yard at Hoosick Falls, N Y 1t is supposed he
fel from lumber pile, McKe was twenty
five years old and formerly of Bennington.
THE supply of honey in the vicinity of Wall
ingford this season falls considerably short Of
last years product. One apiary of bee col
onies, which furnished last year thirty-fiye
hundred pounds this year produces only about
seven hundred pounds.
SAMUEL BIXBY of Guilford has found TWENTY
six black snakes eggs in nest about four
opened two OF them and found snakes nine
inches long He is now experimenting TO see
If he can hatch them artificially
Two men from Burlington went over to the
fishing grounds near knights and Diadama
islands the other day and took forty bass. The
fish were kept alive, and, with others, are to
be tr nsferred to various ponds in the state
under the direction of the fish commissioners.
GRAssHoPPrRs are making sad havoc with
pastures in the southern part OF Ludlow. Some
parts of the neghboring towns OF Plymouth,
CaveI dish and Reading are being fearfuly
ravaged, in some Instances cattle in back
pastures having nearly starved before their
situation became known to their owners.
MONTGOMERY boasts OF a willow tree whose
trunk measures eighteen feet in circumference
two feet from the ground. The branches ex-
tend about forty-tiye leet each way from the
trunk, akiDg ninety feet from the extremity
OF the branches ON one side to the extremity on
the other side and covering nearly thirty rods
OF ground
grand celebration of the b title of Piattsburgh
September IL. Liberal prizes are offered to
hose companies, and among the organic tions
and Howard Of BuIlingt n and companies from
st. Adams, st. Johnsbury, Rutland, Whitehall
and other places.
ORLEANS county democratic nominations
Senator's John L. Edwards Of Newport and
Wyman Wylie of CrafIsbury Judge of probate,
J. c. Burke OF Albany; assistant judges, j. s.
Young of Troy and W. +. Robinson of Barton
states attorney, Nelson Rand OF Craftsbury