The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

The celebrated Barnard fox that has de-
stoyed so much poultry has been killed.
THE amount necessary to bring the Carpenter
organ works to Brattlebore has been secured.
THE annual meeting of the Windsor county
agricultural society will be held at Woodstock
on Thursday January GOTH
UPWARDS ofS4 100000 worth OF goods are
sold annually by Burlington wholesale dealers,
exclusive of the lumber trade.
MR.. AND Mrs GEORGE W. NEwcoMB of
Westminster celebrated the sixteth anniver-
sary of their marriage January 1st
THE mail carrier between Rutland and Wood
stock got stalled In the snow last week, and
had to carry his bags two miles on foot.
FRONTIER POST No. 70, G. A. R., was duly
organized and mustered at Rchford December
31st, with twenty-four charter members.
STOCK company is being formed at Swan
ton to manufacture the New Eclipse Suspen-
der" The capital required is $4,000 and
$4,000 has already been subscribed.
ST.. ALBANs received S75 $50 worth of dut-
able goods last month, and collected 49, 55
worth Of duties on them. The customs officers
also passed S26, 1916 worth of free goods.
MRS. NANCY (THoMPsoN), wife of Hosea
Wright of Essex, died recently from dose of
corrosive sublimate. She had been in poor
health, and was possibly temporarily insane.
FIRE in St. JohDsbury, Tuesday morning of
last week, In the building owned by e. Cowdry,
caused loss on the building Of 50 900. M. W.
Angler, boots and shoes, loses So, 800; partially
insured.
THE store of Ames B. Perry at McIndoes
Falls was entered by burglars Saturday night,
and goods of the value of some $500 were
taken, consisting Of two watches, chains,
rings, etc.
SHOE and leather dealers Of Lynn, Mass
are negotiating for the rent Of the factory and
tenements formerly occupied by the North
Bennington boot and shoe company at North
Bennington.
THE state has two thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four manufacturing establishments,
which employ seventeen thousand five hundred
and forty hands. Windsor county has the
largest number.
ST.. JoHNsBURY complains that although its
fire losses are small, and the village has just
been saddled with debt Of 100000 for a wa
ter supply, the insurance men have nearly
doubled their rates.
THERE seems to be strange mortality among
the cats at Derby Line. One family, who have
been caring for sixteen, have lost seven or
eight, and several others one or two each,
within short time.
G. JARvEs HURD Of Sandgate caught pair
OF Green Mountain eagles recently in a big
steel trap. The male measured seven feet
seven inches from tip to tip, and Barnum
offered S75 for it. The female measured six
feet, and is dead.
AT Newport, while telephone wire across
Main street was down undergoing REPAIRS
o. s. Dorman came driving along. The wire
took his horse on the neck, and his speed was
sufficient to turn the horse over backward. No
serious damage was DONE
THE new year was inaugurated in st. Adams
by the shooting Of black bear weighing one
hundred and twenty-five pounds. Bruin was
eighteen months old and was the last remain
ing pet in the Weldon house menagerie,"
belonging to Clerk Mortified.
RUTLAND banks have declared these divi-
dends Baxter national, three and one-half per
cent; Rutland county national, four per cent;
Clement national, three per cent; State trust
company, three per cent; Marble savings two
and one-half per cent Rutland savings, two
and one-half per cent.
THE Houghton farm in putney has just re-
ceived thirteen head of young Holstein hefers,
selected from the best herds in Friesland and
North Holland. The dams of these cattle have
milk records Of fifty-six to eighty pounds a
day. Windham county farmers are coming to
like this breed of cattle.
SILAs BEARNouT of North Royalton, while
walking on the railroad track near Royalton,
Wednesday, was struck by the engine of the
limited express south and almost instantly
killed. He was we'll known and much re-
spected citizen Of the town. His age was
about seventy.fiv years,
HARRY GoRMAN, a young man of Danville,
who is totally blind, Is wonderful for his in.
genuity in canvassing from town to town
without a guide, telegraphing with remarkable
facility and correctness. The repeating OF a
message once in his hearing is all that il
needed; he never misses word.
MRS. BILLINGS, an aged widow woman who
has lived alone in her house in Castleton fol
twenty years, was found about noon, one day
last week, on the floor of her bedroom, in al
unconscious state in which 1t is supposed sh,
ha6 been for hours, from the effects of wha
will doubtless prove fatal stroke OF paralysis
A NEW feature in the mercantile life of Rut
land has been inaugurated by the association
OF A. w. Higgins, w. Z. Greene and c. Fl
Hyde in partnership, for the purpose OF car
rying on a wholesale drug establishment ant
the manufacture Of pharmaceutical prepare
tions, fluid extracts, eixirs, syrups, gelatine
coated pills. etc,
FRANK WHITB, a brakeman on the Sullivan
railroad. was instantly killed Friday night a
Windsor. His lantern had gone out and h
was walking toward the saloon car to re-ligh
1t, when he slipped between the rear car an
the saloon car and the latter passed over hi
chest death being instantaneous. He wa
about twenty-five years old, unmarried, an
lived with his father and sister at Windsor
STOCKHOLDERS of the proposed Bratteboro
at Bennington on Tuesday of last week, an
elected Edward Crosby, W. w. Lynde, J.
Estey and Kittridge Haskins Of Brattleboro
O. E. Butterfield and j. H. Kidder Of Wi
mlnRtOn, w. L. JONES ana H. ". fOrter
Jacksonville and A. j. Tucker of Halifax, a
directors; s. C. Barnard OF Wilmington, L.
Fuller of Brattleboro, and M. L. Stepson
Jacksonville, auditors; F. W. Childs clerk.
BENNINGTON people heard five pistol sbo
the other night, and some one tried to crea
the impression that there had been duel.
cheeky young printer named Cheeseman c
the Banner has been counting lilly Goldsmith
TO her fathers great disgust. The father TO
babe the young man the house, and then SON
one started the story of challenge"
practical joker took advantage Of this, ar
fred the shots to convince Goldsmith th
Cheeseman had been trying to shoot him, bl
the trick was exposed
FIRE broke out Thursday night In the gr
Gerry store Of j. A. Edison in Merchants f
change block Rutland, and before 1t W
extinguished damaged corner of West al
Grove streets j. A. Edison, groceries, sto
probably total loss, insurance So 600; II.
Moore, tinware and stoves, no insurance; 4.
Kathan, groceries, no insurance; Nj. Graz
tenant, loss slight, no insurance; DR.. d.
rymple, dentist, loss slight; G. f. Richardso
publisher of the Rutland Standard, loss slig
on stock, insured; j. X. and G. +. Richardso
building, insurance about 81 ,0O0
Other Localities.
GENERAL GRANT is able to leave his room
using crutches.
A GREAT depression exists in the Lake s
perior iron ore trade.