The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-28
Vermont State News.

RUTLAND furnishes twelve Memorial day
orators for other towns this year.
BISHOP BIssELL confirmed class of fourteen
persons at st. Paul's church, Burlington, the
22d instant.
COUNTY temperance meeting for Orleans
county will be held at Barton village on Thurs
day, June 8.
ABBY CRAWFORD of East Concord was
drowned in the Connecticut river, the other day,
while crossing in boat.
FORTY million feet of logs are going down
the Connecticut river and have passed the
ffteen-mile falls above McIndoes.
THE Vermont State Spiritualist Association
will hold its next quarterly convention at
Barton Landing, June Goth, 2lst and 22d.
WILL COLLINS of Csst.eton, young man Of
about twenty years, attempted to get on a
train there on Thursday night and was killed.
THE valuable co lection of stone implements
belonging to the late Judge Halbert of Essex
has been given to the University of Vermont.
RArTLEsNAKE forty inches long, five inches
in circumference and with eight rattles, was
captured on Wantastiquet mountain by Ver-
mont man.
The steamer Vermont will begin her season
trips on Lake Champlain on June 2, and the
Horizon on the same day will begin her trips
on Lake George
NEARLY 5000 has been subscribed in Burling-
on the annual field day at the University, which
occurs on June 9th.
b. n. j. HALE of Barnet has quite recently
received another little windfall of $780, 600 from
his grandfather estate, which makes him the
| richest man in town,
IT is expected the free delivery of lett ers will
be begun in Rutland July l. special officer
of the post-ofice department has been in Rut-
land making arrangements therefor
CHARLES r. MILES of Wheelock was held for
trial in $500 at st. Johnsbury, on the 23d on a
charge of entering and stealing sugar from o.
Wards sugar-house. He was commit ed to jail
THE General Convention of Congregational
Churches and the Diocesan Convention of Epis-
| copal Churches both meet at St. Adams, June
| 10th, and continue in session about three days
The Middlebury wool market is active Just
| now. U. d. Twitchell has bought ten or twelve
| thousand pounds of the new clip. The prices
are eighteen to twenty EIGHT cents for un-
| washed
THE residence of Hon. H. G. Root at Ben
nington was partially destroyed by fire Mon
| day afternoon. Most Of the contents were re-
| moved. defective chimney was the cause of
the fire. Fully insured.
THE United States senate has passed bill
| to authorize the construction of highway
| bridge across that part of the waters of Lake
| Champlain which lie between the towns of
North Hero and Alburgh.
| P R. HOLT, hotel Londonderry, has settled
a claim of 81, 149, on which he was recently
attached, for thirty cents on the dollar. He
| has given up business and what his other
| creditors will receive is not known.
| JOHN CRoNAN, brakeman on the Passumpsic
| road, was killed last week near South Barton.
| He fell from the train and was found by the
express following. His head was severed from
| his body. He was unmarried and lived in
| Waterville, P. Q.
THE case of George Weeks against the town
| of Lyndon for damages received on highway,
which has been in court for several years, has
| been settled. The town pays Weeks 81, 800,
| each party paying its own cost, which is prob
ably about 81, 500 each.
AT least eight towns in Windham county
| show an increase in their new grand list over
| that of last year, when, as rule it was larger
| than ever before. Bellows Falls shows the
largest gain, this years list being S34, ,524 as
against S33, 492 last year.
THE new grand list OF Rutland shows that
| over one hundred and thirty buildings have
been erected during the past year, nearly all
| of which are dwelling houses of moderate cost.
| The appraised value of all the new buildings
and improvements, by the listers, is S240 200.
On Friday Frenchman named Freddette,
| an employe of the Vermont Marble Company,
| West Rutland, while working near cutting
machine, had his clothing caught by the rap
| idly revolving belt, and was drawn into the
machinery and terribly, and probably fatally,
| mangled.
GEORGE TIFFANY, son of Postmaster Tiffany
| of Bennington, who absconded short time
| ago, has been taken to Windsor by Deputy
| United States Marshal Robinson for trial at the
| United States circuit court for alleged irregu-
lsrities in the Bennington post-office. Several
| citizens of Bennington have been subppnaed.
| Tiffany will be defended by j. X Batchelder
| and Boston lawyer.
| QUARTERMAsTER-GENERAL II. X. IDE of st.
Johnsbury has reported to the acknowledgement
the following time for the June drills of the
companies of the state st. Johnsbury COM
| pany 18th; Bradford, 10Th; ST. Adams, 23d; (;
Burlington, oath; Brandon and Rutland, 25th !;
Bennington, Goth; Northfeld, 9th; Montpelier,
2Sth; Newport, 90th, and the Fuller Battery,
| Bratteboro the 2Sth.
WEST DUMMERsToN is considerably excited
| over shooting affair. A Frenchman named
| Peter Angey, about twenty-three years old, re-
Gently married, went 20 the hotel Sunday
| night, intoxicated, and called for something to
drink, which was refused him. He threatened
| the landlord, F. f. Sampson, and pursued him
| to his bedroom, where it is said, Mrs. Samp-
| son gave her husband revolver for his pre-
| lection. During the fracas the Frenchman
was shot through the leg. 1t is believed he will
| recover.
| THE more radical portion of the prohibition
| lists of Addison county are going to hold a
county mass convention this year and nomin-
| ate complete county ticket IN advance OF the
regular republican county convention. This is
a new departure, as the temperance people
| have usually waited to see what action the re-
| publican convention would take before pro-
ceeding to take any action themselves. But
this year they won't wait and will hold the
convention in Middlebury on June IL, six days
before the meeting of the republican con-
| vention.
THE national woo-growers convention has
issued an address setting forth that the sad
condition of the wool-growng interest has
been brought about largely, IL not entirely, by
adverse congressional legislation, and that