The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

hundred nifty students
LAKE BoMosEEN is said to be higher than
has been known for years.
THE fall term of the University of Yer
mont opens September 10th.
HENRY G. BRUCE, dealer in general mer-
chandise at East Charleston, is reported
failed.
RousE's POINT is to have break-water,
and the contract for its construction has
been let.
NEARLY two hundred persons were vac
cinated at the health officers office in Bur-
lington last Monday.
10. SMITHS large barn and contents
were burned last week Thursday at Wind
ham by an incendiary fire.
LITTLE son of Charles Hyland was
drowned in Robbins and Daley's mill-pond
at Derby last week Tuesday.
THE Troy IN. " board of health gave no.
tce on Saturday that a train from Montreal
left smallpox patient at ST. Adams.
ALEXANDER II. DouLEY of Windham,
aged eighty-one, took Paris green, Sunday,
and will die. Cause, temporary insanity.
THE yearly meeting of the Free Baptist
society commences at Corinth September
10, and will hold over the following Sunday.
G. f. OvITT g. Sons new stone dam at
West Enosburgh, which was finished only
last week, went out last Friday. No one was
injured
THE Estey Organ Company is breaking
ground for an immense building in New
York in which to carry on its increasing
piano business.
ALEXANDER NJ. HuLNG, a Bennington
Center lawyer of sixty-tive, was married last
week Wednesday to Miss Mary Green,
twenty years of age.
DURING the raspberry season this year
Hoyt & Miller of Westfield took in 14,6SO
pounds of berries, paying four cents pound,
or doing business of S5oI 70.
THE work of setting up the two dynamos
for the electric light at Rutland was finished
last week. They run at speed of sixteen
hundred revolutions minute
JUSTIN GREENE fell from mowing-ma-
chine at Maquam Bay, last week, and re-
ceived several bad cuts upon the head be-
sides having one finger amputated.
THERE are sixty entries for the races at
the state fair The records of the horses
entered indicate that the races will be the
most interesting ever held in Vermont.
POSTMASTER L. w. REDINGToN goes to
Washington, as soon as the September term
of the county court is ended, to try and get a
free-delivery system introduced in Rutland.
LUTHER RUSSELL, station agent at North
Concord, on the Vermont division of the
Boston & Lowell railroad, was crushed be-
tween the cars while coupling. Several ribs
were broken
LAST Friday evening James Dunning of
Swanton, while under the influence of
liquor, fell from his buggy, the fall produc-
ing conclusion of the brain. He soon recov-
cred, however.
A LOSS of three weeks of time and damage
to the extent of hundreds of dollars were
caused last week by thousands of tons of
earth sliding into the pit of the Union soap
stone quarry at Chester, filling it up.
JOHNNIE ALLEN of Panton, a ten-years-
son of c. w. Allen, won the first prize Ia
suit of $40 clothes) in northumberland
running match, against four competitors, at
Melville Gardens, Boston Harbor, August 20.
The acting postmaster-general has APP
pointed the following-named fourth-class
postmasters: Waterford, Seth p. Moulton;
South Barton, Burleigh G., Berry, Bakers
field, Nahum Brigham Shoreham, Richard
H. Preble.
OFFICER DURKEE of Pittsfield took Frank
and May Townsend (brother and sister, of
that town to the work-house last week
Thursday. They are charged with breaking
into Caroline Lewis house, in Pittstield, and
stealing S25.
"SILENT" DARBY, man seventy-fve or
eighty years old, well known to most people
around Bennington for his many diosyn-
barn on the old Nichols farm, and was buried
by the town.
THE Boston & Lowell is going to regrade
portion of the st. Johnsbury ~ Lake
Champlain railroad, and finish laying steel
rails. 1t is probable that before long the
business of the colored lines will be resumed
over this road.
GEORGE NJ. CoREY's barn and contents at
Westminster West were burned last week
Sunday. Loss about $50; covered by in
surance. The fire is thought to have been
set by tramp who was seen hanging
around the day before.
FAIRS are held this week as follows Adj
olson nv or MiII1abnru tbn lat Oh and
Sd; Franklin county at Sheldon, the LIST, I'd
and 3D. Mad River Valley at Waitstield
the I'd and Sd; Union Exhibition Society at
st. Adams, the Sd, 4th and 9th.
Two couples while boating in Burlington
bay, Sunday evening, were upset. All four
chung to the upturned boat and, after float
ing in the icy water for more than half an
hour, succeeded in attracting the attention
of boatman, who went to their assistance
THE centennial anniversary of the founda-
ton of the Brandon Baptist church was
celebrated at that place last week Wednes-
and now eighty-four years old, delivered the
historical address. large number of for
mer members were present.
AN abandoned horse and carriage, sup.
posed to be stolen property, were found IN
the woods at Westminster last week
Wednesday by Sheriff Lowell of Bellows
Falls. A man and woman who had left II
there were arrested-one at Springfield anc
the other below Bellows Falls.
w. l.. JACKSON of Rutland had leg
bruised badly last Friday. He was at work
inside boiler and a fellow-wor kman, who
did not know that he was there, threw il
from above an iron " ram " weighing thirty
pounds, which narrowly missed Jackson
head and struck his leg heavy blow.
HIGH SHERIFF MELENDY of Londonderry
assisted by Constable George Moody, mad
descent on the Avenue House of A. Nc
Donald and the restaurant of Frank Morgan
at Bellows Falls, Selling quantity of liquo
in each place. AT subsequent trial thu
former was fined 1926 and the latter S102.
THE motion to mortgage the Vernon
copper mines at Vershire, now in the hand
of receiver, was denied Monday by Chan
cellor Rowell at Randolph. The debt
amount to $4,000 The mortgage was t,
raise $1,000 with which to settle the claim
but was opposed by most of the creditors
"AREN'T you afraid of smallpox" W,
said to a train-man whose duties lee
him into Montreal every day. "No," h
said, " they don't worry about it there a
all. You hear more about it here thar
there. They don't worry enough over it il
Montreal-that's the trouble. messenger.
AN Essex man had OCCASION the othe
day, to pay a debt of $4,000 to a Willsto
man, and by way of agreement he paid
all in silver. The box weighed three hun
dred sixty pounds, and the Willston ma
was obliged to call in the assistance of al
his hirad man bafnra ha could rarnnNa III