The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
Weekly News Summary.


ers receive over 81 900 every three months.
j. A. DOUGLAS has been appointed post
master at East Middlebury, vice M. E. Day.
THE fourteenth annual meeting of the
state grange, p. of H., opens at White River
Junction to-day.
PEAcHAM concludes to have street lights
A dozen posts have been set and the lamps
arrived last week.
THERE have been over twenty-six hun
bred cases of vaccination which took in
Burlington this season.
BISHOP HARRIS of New York will dedicate
the Methodist Episcopal church at White
River junction tomorrow.
G. W. DRuMMoND, recently in the tea bust
ness at Brattleboro, has got into trouble in
New Jersey for false pretenses.
COLONEL j. j. EsTEY, who has been trav-
cling in the South and West on business
trip, has returned to Brattleboro
e. A. MORSE has sold his interest in the
Bates House, Rutland, to his partner, Mr..
Quinn and retires from the business.
GENERAL NEAL Dow of Portland will lee
ture at McIndoes Falls Thursday, Decem-
Der 18th, and at Lyndon Friday, the 18th.
HOMER Cook of Cambridge, twenty-eight
years old, fell from the roof of a shed which
he was shingling and was fatally injured
FRANK BLISS of Brattleboro while rum
ming circular saw, last week, had his left
GEORGE MONTGOMERY of Hyde Park
while chopping, last week, was struck on the
head by falling limb and severely injured.
IT is said that an old couple, each over
seventy years OF age, who separated two
years ago, were remarked last week at
Rutland.
A. b. HOWE returned to his home at North
Thetford, recently, after an absence OF six
months, during which time he travelled
$1,000 miles
THE national board of fire underwriters
offer reward of $3.50 for the arrest of the
person who set fire to the skating-rink in
Bristol last October.
THE Windham county grand list is $780,
606.47 and the state tax $14, 56064. The
grand list of Addison county is S136, IA
and the state tax $13,6567S.
THE timbers which supported the roof of
the rolling mill at st. Adams gave way last
Saturday afternoon. Henry Barney, a car
penter, was severely injured.
MICHAEL HrGGINs, an Irish boy of Brat
tleboro, fell backward through hatchway
at the Estey shop, Thursday of last week.
nd received serious spinal injury.
THERE is a house in Windsor that was
built in 1902. 1t was frequently used as a
military store-house during the war of 1872,
powder being stored in brick cupboard in
the cellar.
The suit of j. H. Cray Us. town of Rock
1ngna1n, Drought 10 recover damages caused
by the washing of dirt from highway into
the plaintiffs cellar, has been settled, the
town allowing Cray $500.
THE directors of the Howe Scale Company
have elected James H. Williams of Bellows
Falls director and president of the COM
pany, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Ex-Governor Page
FARMERS institutes are to be held this
winter at Middlebury, Rochester, Hartford,
Brattleboro, Pawlet, Alburgh, South Hero
and Poultney The dates of the meetings
have not yet been determined.
THE ten-years-old son of j. A. Sheldon of
Rutland, while playing with pane of glass,
recently, drove large piece into his thigh.
He was placed under the influence of ether
while the broken glass was taken out.
LOUISA H., sister of the late Hon. John p.
Howard, has presented to the Howard Re-
lief Society of Burlington a deed of one
third of the Exchange block on Church
street. The property is valued at $4,000.
THE making of sate-pencils began at
CaStleton about 1850 in small way. The
industry has reached such proportions that
it now gives employment to between thirty
and forty hands during the summer months
EDWARD ARBo of North Pownal was badly
burned last week. While in the act of re.
loading hole in rock that had just blown
out the powder ignited and the whole
charge took him in the face. He may lose
his eyesight
THE horse-b barn and carriage-house con.
nected with the residence of Prosper Merrill
in Woodstock were burned last week. The
loss is about $1,000, nearly covered by in
surance. The fire is supposed to be of in
cendiary origin.
THE Windsor country court opened at
Woodstock last week Wednesday, Judge
Taft presiding The Orange county court
opens at Chelsea the 18th, with 1879 law cases
on the docket and 80 in chancery. The jury
calendar contains 20 cases.
On Wednesday of each week until further
notice a warm car will leave the Fitchbure
railroad depot in Boston for all stations or
the Central and Rutland divisions of the
Central Vermont for the transportation o
fruit and other perishable property.
THE annual encampment of the depart
ment of Vermont, G. A. r., will be held il
Burlington January % and %, following thu
meeting OF the Officers Reunion Society
An elaborate programme is being prepared
Stannard Post will entertain visitors.
THE directors of the Burlington Philhar
monte Society are to make arrangements
soon for festival, to be held next spring
1t being the experience of the society tina
rehearsals held about the holiday season are
SHINY attended active preparations will
not begin until early in January.
MRS ALICE NJ. DAY of st. Johnsbury
who was sent in June, 1883, to serve thre
years sentence in the house of correction
Tor horse-steallng, has been pardoned b.,
the governor. The notorious DR.. Stokes
who is serving a sentence of seven year
in Windsor for malpractice, is her father.
AT Windsor, last week, workmen un
covered two skeletons while digging in j
A. Wilder's yard preparatory to laying
water-pipe. When or by whom they wer
buried cannot be told. They must hav
been in the ground many years, as only few
traces remained of the box in which the
had been placed.
THE mail train, Monday morning, sout
over the Passumpsic railroad struck one
horse sled, driven by a son of Joseph Ivers c
st. Johnsbury, to whom the team belonged
at railroad crossing above that village
killing the horse and injuring the boy some
what. TWAS showing hard at the time an
the boy did not see or hear the train.
SOME of the matters connected with Law
renee Brainerd's insovent estate involvin
controversy over the Ballard farm i
Georgia, have been adjusted and the estat
gets decree of 5000, payable Januar
18th. This will enable Mr.. Writers, til
assignee, to pay an additional dividend
three per cent, and will complete the clio,
ing up of the estate.
ID. l.. MOODY, the evangelist, held a serie
of meetings at the Congregational church i
st. Adams last Saturday and Sunday. SUI
day regular services were suspended i
most of the churches. In the afternoo
nearly 200 people listened to his dscours
on Goods Love-" and thrty-seven person
for ha iot al I,