The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-29
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

ARRANGEMENTS have been made for the
proper observance of Arbor Day in Rutland.
YOUNG GEORGE PRoUsE, who stabbed To-
bin at st. Adams, has been put under $500
bonds
BE. & II. f. GAINES of Panton have
failed. They owe over $4,000 to immediate
neighbors.
Two Glover young men recently signed a
$50 bond not to use any liquor or tobacco
for one year.
THE Good Tempars of the state will hold
a camp-meeting this summer, probably at
Lyndonville, July 4.
ST. ALBANs miitiamen expect to have the
next muster of the National Guard of Ner-
mont held in that place.
THE selectmen of Bratteboro have sub
mitted to the government plans for new
postoffice in the town hall.
THE Vermont Marble Company is filling
an order for over 10000 square feet of tiles
for the New York state reformatory at Ell
mira.
THE mercury Mt White River Junction,
last Wednesday, at eleven A. NJ, registered
ninety-two degrees in the shade, and at four
p. NJ. ninetv-one.
THERE have been two cases of smallpox
just across the river from Windsor. The
sick ones are both recovering and no new
cases are reported.
OVER two hundred fifty applications have
already been received for rooms and board
for scholars of the Sauveur summer school
of languages at Burlington.
THE third annual strengthening of the
Rutland County Merino Sheep-breeders'
Union will be held at the Bomoseen House,
Castleton, Wednesday, May 9Th.
RECEIVER ROBERTS of the First National
Bank of st. Adams expects to make divi-
dend amounting to twelve and one-half or
fifteen per cent in the near future.
Mr.. WILLIAM T. GILCHRIsT of Bethel,
while handling a colt last week Tuesday, re-
ceived injuries from a kick in the stomach
which caused his death the next morning
A DRIVING club has been organized in
Highgate, and they are to commence work
on their track about the first of May, which
they claim will be the best trotting park in
the state.
THE Passumpsic road has purchased, one
half mile north of White River junction,
two acres of sand hill, which will be soon
broken into for ballasting the side track at
Olcott Falls.
THE body of a child, which had apparently
been born alive and smothered, was found
in the ice under a barn in Hyde Park re-
Gently There are only suspicious as to who
the guilty persons are.
PROFESSOR EBEN ToURJEE of the New
England Conservatory of Music, Boston, has
rented the seminary at Lyndon for the COM
ing summer vacation, and will occupy it,
together with his teachers.
SEVEN iron bridge companies have put in
bids for building the superstructure of the
Grand Isle bridge, and four of the seven for
the substructure. The amounts named
range from $4,000 to $4,000.
THE water in Lake Champlain rose three
inches last week Wednesday, The water was
then one inch higher than at any time in the
spring of 1888, which year it reached the
highest mark for many years.
AN immature infant child was found in the
snow back of the courthouse at st. Johns
bury. 1t had no clothing and was evidently
thrown out there by the murderer or accom-
plice some time during the winter.
II. B. BARNEY of Underhll has purchased
fourteen thousand gallons of maple syrup
along the line of the Burlington & Lamoille
railroad for d. NJ Hazen of Cambridgeport,
Mass, amounting to about $4,000.
THE Young Mems Christian Association
of st. Johnsbury dedicated, with appropri-
ate exercises, on Saturday evening, the
handsome and spacious building erected for
them by Professor Henry Fairbanks.
AT Chester, April %, the mercury stood
at eighty degrees in the shade. In some of
the surrounding towns the roads were i'm
passable on account OF snow, which in
places was then drfted six feet deep.
THE repairs on the five-mile level of the
Champlain canal are being pushed rapidly
forward. One hundred men are now EN-
ployed. The probabilities are that the water
will be let into the canal by the 10th of May.
THE Fair Haven Agricultural Association
is enlarging its fairgrounds, putting up a
grand stand that will accommodate one
thousand people and building a special
barn for trotters that will contain eleven
bOX-stalls.
A SCIENTIFIC testing man made sixteen
pounds and one ounce of butter in a week
from Jersey COW belonging to Frederick
Billings of Woodstock at cost of fourteen
cents pound. The cow had only her ordin-
airy food and care
AS William Powers of Leicester, with
Jennie Fuller, was driving in Brandon, last
Wednesday evening, the horses became
frightened by the breaking of the harness
and ran away, dangerously, if not fatally
injuring both the occupants of the buggy.
THROUGH the efforts of Governor Pingree
prominent officer in the Old Vermont
Brigade, Abraham Lincoln Post, No. So, G
A. r., will be established at Hartford. The
post will start off with forty members and
will be mustered by r. j. Coffey, chief mus
tering officer
A YOUNG man eighteen years old stole a
ride on the train from Montpelier to Essex
few days ago, riding on the platform of the
baggage car next to the engine When the
train slackened at the Lamoile crossing he
jumped and, it being dark, fell and dislo.
Gated his shoulder.
ANDREW CLARK, the fifth man who es
capped from Newfane Jail and was not re-
captured, is an American forty-five years
old, five feet eight inches high, dark com.
plexion, gray eyes and hair, and black
moustache. Sheriff Kidder offers reward
for his apprehension.
AT Rutland, telephone connection has
been established with Mechanicsville anC
Mount Holly, and those places are able to
reach through to Bellows Falls directly
The Rutland exchange now has communica
ton with nearly all the small places to the
Connecticut river and some beyond.
WILL PENNELL, a young man living al
Swanton Junction, lost the ends of two
fingers and a thumb, last week Tuesday
evening, by the explosion of a nitro glycer
inc blasting cartridge. He was picking al
the end of the cartridge with a darning
needle, trying to find out what it was
made of.
THE Jacob Andrea Monumental Works o
New Haven, Conn, have shipped to Bur
lington fine imported red granite monu
ment for the family burial lot of Hon. e. j
Phelps. The monument is of rock face
work, and bears a large laurel wreath il
bas-relief on the front. 1t is said TO be al
exceedingly fine piece of monumental work
ABOUT fifteen members of the granite cut
ters union of South Ryegate were tried a
st. Johnsbury for alleged boycotting o
scabbing of the non-union men at worl
in r. f. Carter's sheds at South Ryegate
The union at South Ryegate is the frs
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