The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-01
Weekly News Summary.
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III. C. MCMAHON has been appointed post
master at Stowe.
AN effort is to be made to establish ma
tional bank at st. Adams.
LYNDoNvILLE is to have a temperance
picnic on the Fourth of July.
MICHAEL ID. HURLEY has been commits
stoned as postmaster at North Hartland.
THE Congregational church of Brandon
will celebrate its centennial July 10 and 20.
WILMINGTON has been visited with fire
which destroyed property valued at about
$1,000.
BURLINGTON dry goods merchants have
decided to close their stores every Friday at
one P. NJ.
COMPANY f, Second Vermont Regiment,
will hold its first reunion in Tunbridge,
September II.
THE West Salisbury creamery is making
about one thousand four hundred pounds of
butter week.
SEVERAL hundred thousand slate pencils
have been sent from the Castleton mill to
market since June |.
THE New England Dental Association
will meet in Burlington, October Z, and the
session will continue during two days.
ONE of the latest victims of yellow fever
at Panama is Byron Morgan of Rutland a
locomotive engineer on the Panama railroad.
THE Mountain Maid " steamer on Lake
Me1npDremdROp, Newport, has Deen SOlu W
the Central Vermont railroad for about
$4,000.
IT is estimated that the annual product of
the marble quarries of Vermont is 100000
cubic feet, with an increase of about 10000
feet year
THE Sons of Veterans are making ar
rangements for holding a union camp at
Lake Rescue, Ludlow, some time in the
latter part of July.
wv, H., a.
department of the University of Vermont,
was given the degree of Master of Arts by
Trinity College last Friday.
SENATOR EDMUNDs' fee of 800, 000 received
in the Drawbaugh telephone case, has been
invested by him in his new house on Massa-
chusetts avenue, Washington.
OSCAR MEYER, the condemned murderer
suicidal tendencies and is quietly attending
to his duties in the shop at Windsor.
The late Dudley p Hall of Lyndon willed
5000 to the Lyndon Literary Institute the
income to be devoted to the education of
poor scholars at Lyndon, Burke and Kirby.
ST. JoHNsBURY has voted not to refund
the bonded debt. 1t is believed that the
town can borrow money at more favorable
rate than that proposed-four and one-half
per cent.
NJ II. GODDARD of Ludlow, who bid off
the mail route to Wilmington, has sub-let
the route between Brattleboro and the West
Village to j. A. Taylor, proprietor of the
village coach line.
GREAT preparations are making for the
celebration at ST. Adams on the Fourth.
There is to be a grand street parade, la
crosse game, balloon ascension and fire
works in the evening
Upon inspection of the postoffice at Yer
gennes the accounts of the postmaster re-
vealed shortage, and general mismanage-
ment was found to exist. Thereupon Post
master Johnson resigned.
BENNINGTON men found cub in one OF
their bear-traps on the mountain last We'd
nesday, a reward for several years of tramp
ing and hunting. The cub weighed only
about thirty pounds, and was considerably
emaciated by hunger
GEORGE F. OATMAN aged twenty
was found drowned in the Wallenmauck
river at Bennington on Tuesday afternoon
of last week. The deceased was a noted
fisherman and went, Monday evening, to try
new kind of fishing-tacke.
VERMONT must look to her laurels. A
patent has been got for making imitation
maple syrup. Hickory bark is soaked in
water and an extract is thus got which,
added to cane sugar or glucose, gives il
the maple taste and smell"
HERE is the customs report for the district
of Vermont for May Value of imports
$272,45O, falling off from the previous
month of $71 ,56S; duties, S55, 39i.S2; value
of domestic exports, S130,S18, a gain oveI
the previous month of $15,4S7.
RECEIVER PRICE sent out, Saturday, the
checks covering the forty-fve per cent divi-
dend to the stockholders of the ruined First
National Bank of Brattleboro, which the
comptroller has signed since the decision OF
the supreme court against Waite.
ALL of the machinery, tools and stock Of
the Highly Sewing-machine Company Of
Brattleboro has been sold to Editor George
E. Crowell for $1,000. This sale will mel
the stockholders So share. 1t is said that
there is a probability of the formation of 6
new company.
EDDIE BULLARD of North Hyde Park, ar
rested at Burlington last week Wednesday
had hearing at Hyde Park, Saturday, on
three charges-first, of stealing horse
second, of forging an order on Stearns &
Son for 81, and, third, for se-breakine
and robbery. Examination was waived anC
bail fixed at $1,000.
ANDREW EsTEY, employed by the Bellows
Falls Canal Company on the boom and dam
stepped in front of an express train from
Rutland, when entering Bellows Falls las
week Thursday, and was thrown off tn,
track by the engine while it was unde
rapid Roadway. He miraculously escaped
with slight bruises.
PAssUMPsIc lodge of Masons of st. Johns
bury dedicated their new hall last weel
Wednesday. The dedicatory ceremony wa
performed in the forenoon by grand lodg
officers, after which dinner was served
A procession was formed in the afternoon
which paraded the principal streets. Al
address was delivered by Colonel Haskin
of Brattleboro.
THE Boston * Albany and New Yorl
Central railroads have completed arrange
ments to establish ticket agencies up tn
Connecticut river as far as Windsor, wit
the principal Office at Bellows Falls maxim
low rates to all points west by way G
Springfield and making good connection
with the Connecticut river road and tn
fast train from Boston.
THE supreme court at Brattleboro ha
given decision denying the motion of Sila
M. Waite for re-opening of the case of tn
First National Bank of Brattleboro agains
his insolvent estate. The courts heard tn
motion last February and it was their de
cision that the comptroller of the currenc
awaited before paying the forty-fve per cen
dividend TO the stockholders of the RUNE
bank
The comptroller of the currency has d
rected Receiver Hendee to bring suit
against the Baxter National Bank, the tire
ST. Johnsbury banks and the Brandon banl
on account of their failure TO come to tim
on the first part of an assessment recent
made on them as stockholders in the d,
funct National Bank of st. Adams. TIL
assessment amounts to $4,000 and half {
IL is now due.
Hon. j. w. STEWART announces that a