The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
Weekly News Summary.


Edmunds are on their way from England to
this country.
CHARLES the ten-years-old son of Mrs. A.
ID. Pierce, broke his leg while playing at
Fairlee, recently.
The Bennington wooden mills began work
on Monday, August 3D., after being idle
nearly two years.
A MUD-TURTLE was found on the railroad
track at East Coventry that filled com
mon-sized wash-tub
f. II. WALcoTT, for some time on the
editorial staff of the Rutland Herald, goes to
the st. Johnsbury Caledonidn.
THE annual Mad River Valley fair will
be held at Waitsfield on Wednesday and
Thursday, September I'd and 3d.
A COMPANY of young Winooski brigands
are committing depredations in that town,
burning and breaking into buildings.
A CHILD of II. Martyr HARDWOOD of Ben
nington Center was severely kicked in the
abdomen by a horse on Tuesday, the 4th.
THE Passumpsic railroad directors made
three and one-half per cent semi-annual div
idend at their meeting in Boston recently.
On Wednesday of last week the little son
of II. A. Brush of Milton, while playing at
school, fell from the stove and broke his arm.
Lucy A. COLLINS, milliner, FairHaven has
liabilities of $1,000 and nominal assets of
5000 She is settling her affairs in insol-
vency.
ABOUT fifteen million feet of logs are in
the river at Bellows Falls, and only one
third of them will be taken by the paper
company.
HARVEY & HIGGINS Embarrassing mill
and quantity of lumber at West Concord
were burned last week. Loss, about 50 600;
no insurance.
+. II. ORvIs of Manchester has formed a
syndicate of Boston and New York capital
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Palatka Florida.
WIDOW HOWARD, mother of Horace How
ard of West Randolph, committed suicide
| Tuesday morning, August 4th, by hanging.
| No cause is assigned.
Ex-Governor SMITH and portion of his
| family are spending some time at Saratoga.
During his absence Mr.. e. G. Smith is act
ing-president of the road
REX PATcHEN, valuable stock horse be-
longing to Jerry Drew of st. Johnsbury,
died in his stable last week He was val
ued at three thousand dollars.
REV. l.. l.. BEEMAN, A. NJ, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church, st. Johnsbury
has been offered, through Bishop Mallalieu,
the presidency of college in Nebraska.
Ex-GovERNoR ID. H. CHAMBERLAIN OF
South Carolina, now in Burlington, deliv-
cred the address at the Grant memorial
service in that city last Saturday afternoon
THE Brush-Swan Electric Light and
Power Company of Burlington has been in
corporated, under the general laws of Yer
mont, to furnish light and power in that city
The road case of the Union Soapstont
| Company against the town of Chester ha:
finally been settled The town will build
road, the company paying 800 toward tn,
same.
As Warren Hulett of Pawet was reach
ing for piece of pork in barrel he caugh
a spotted adder three feet and two inche
long, which he threw across the celler. Th
reptile showed fight when removed from thu
cellar.
DR.. j. DRAPER, superintendent of tn
Vermont asylum for the insane, recentl
received from State Treasurer Dubois
check for S36,231 for the expense of the in
sane people of the state in that institution
for the past year.
MOSES GERMAN, an employe in Holt
bobbin shop at Burlington, was struck jus
below the right eye with a block of WOO,
thrown from one of the Sitting saws. TIL
eye was terribly injured, but the sight i
thought to be unaffected.
w. G.. SEARS, a well-known Richford boy
according to the Chattanooga Times, bid
fair to become immortal through the inver
ton of machine for picking cotton, whic
promises ito work complete revolution i
cotton-growing in the South"
THE Connecticut Valley Poultry and Pc
stock Association at Bellows Falls ha
elected these officers: President, A. \
swain; Vlce-presldents, DE- y. w. fhelp'
r. A. Bodies, -. a. Day; secretary, A.
Halliday; treasurer, A. H. Blssell.
JAMES MATTHEWS, an employe in Taft I
| Morgans factory at burlington, While Ell
l gagged Friday in running mortsing-mi
, chine, met with an accident, the knife, {
. chlsel, OF the machine passing entlrel
through the center OF his lett hand.
A BELLOWS FALLS woman has an orang
plant that was brought from Florida owe
, seventy years ago by the late William I
, Bradley OF Westminster, when he was
member of congress from ermont, and it ht
, | since been in the possession OF his tamil
and descendants.
4 WILLIAM MORRISON, an emplove of Taft
/. Morgan, Burlington, had the misfortune
, seriously crt his right arm on the slittin
a saw last week Thursday, severng the cord
t two or three inches above his wrist. Thel
? is chance that he may lose the use of tw
) of his fingers.
SOME of the citizens of Winooski al
against taking water from Colchester non
: to that village. They say it would cost fro
: $50, 900 to SiOO 900 to get the water Their
. for which sum they are not willing to bon
: the village. The receipts from the waite
. works in Wlnooskl net about S4,OOO yeaI
TRAINS on the Boston & Lowell, Concor
o Passumpsic and Southeastern roads, are b
!, ING eouipped with a new electric signal. II
:. through train between Boston and Montre
;, being the first to use it where several roa,
| form a limo Tbraa trains IN ha Rnatnp