The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-15
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

RUTLAND has subscribed $4,000 for the
shoe factory which it Is proposed to estab-
lish in that town.
THE Sherman military band of Burlington
will realize something over $500 from the
art loan exhibition.
THE Good Templars Of the state will hold
q camp-meetng this summer probably at
Lyndonville, July 4th.
c. H. CLARK of the Central Vermont
bridge department is engaged on plans for
the North Hero bridge.
THE steamer Maquam Is reported to have
been purchased by the agents of the Boston
Il Lowell Railroad Company.
THE steamer Reindeer will run as last
year between Burlington and Rouse's Point,
stopping at intermediate points.
BY the will of Glorianna Wright of Bed
ford, Mass, $500 is bequeathed to the Meth
odist Episcopal church in Springfield.
THE Boston clothing store at Richford
was broken into last Saturday night, and a
quantity of jewelry and dry goods stolen.
JOHN MANNING, who had his right hand
crushed while coupling cars at st. Johns
bury, has been obliged to have the arm am
putated
THE Memphremagog House at Newport
will reopen May l under the management
of Mr.. w. F. Bowman, the popular landlord
of last season.
CAPTAIN GEORGE w. FoGG, well known as
the popular commander of the Lady of the
Lake, died at his residence in Derby, April
I'd, after a long illness
CHAMBERLAIN Posi-, G. A. r., of st. Johns
bury, held campfire on Thursday evening
at their hall to celebrate the twentieth ami
versary of Lees surrender.
EDWARD IsHAM Chicago lawyer, and
once partner of ex-Secretary Lincoln, will
fit up the old homestead of his grandfather
at Manchester as summer residence.
IT is reported that Bellows Falls is soon
to have a new and large enterprise in the
shape of a car-wheel mandatory, which, 1t
is said, will employ one thousand hands.
THERE are thirty railway postal clerks in
Vermont and the applicants for these posi-
tons are numbered by the hundred. The
pay ranges from eight to thirteen hundred
dollars year.
THE Burlington sheriff raided three more
or less odorOus places, Friday night, and
captured in all half barrel of cider, two
barrels and one case of beer and fourteen
gallons of whiskey.
THE case of j. & T. M. Tierney of st. AL
bans against j. b. Kendall & Co., for dam
age to valuable horse through the use of
the so-called Kendall's SPAWN Cure, is to be
tried at this term Of Franklin county court.
MOSES BERNAU, section man on the Pas
sumpsic road, was struck by Especial freight
a mile north of Newport last Sunday after
noon. lie was lying on u Hdnu-CdT uruuk
His skull was fractured. He died soon
after.
A WOMAN near Newport Center, who has
not missed doing her washing on Monday
for the last forty years, was recently COM
PEELED to put off this very important job
till day later on account OF the want of
water.
THERE was remarkable phenomenon in
pasture in Benson recently. A strip of
sod measuring two or three by ten feet was
thrown up, as if by a volcano, and water
spurted up from the place, it is said, to a
height of sixty feet. Many people have
visited the place, but nobody can explain
the thing.
The directors of the Burlington Philhar-
monte society have elected the following
officers for the year ensuing: President, Ed
ward Lyman; vice-president, Z. K. Macom-
Der; treasurer, George f. Johnson; secre-
tary, F. H. Fisher; executive committee, G.
w. Hindes, G. E. Macomber, NJ. n. Hutch
inson w. B. McKillip and Horatio Hickok.
THE through freight on the St. Johnsbury
u Lake Champlain railroad, leaving Swan
ton at five o'clock last week Thursday morn
ing, ran into a washout near East Sheldon.
Four cars laden with Western corn were
dumped, one carload being spilled. Con-
ductor Smith was somewhat hurt in the
shoulder Trains were obliged to carry by.
In addition to the academy st. Johns
hundred siXty-six scholars attending them.
There are some three hundred students in
attendance at the st. Johnsbury Academy,
of which number one hundred twenty are
residents, who have their tuition paid by the
town. Besides the village schools and the
academy there is a school of four grades in
the outlying district of Summerville having
one hundred fifty scholars, and Catholic
parish school in the village, which has one
hundred fifty pupils. The public school debt
was reduced some $500 during the past year.
The people of Essex Junction are deeply
agitated over the mysterious death of Miss
Cynthia Hapgood, aged seventeen, which
occurred Saturday morning She COM
planned of severe pains in her stomach, but
was unwilling that physician should be
summoned. She grew worse rapidly and a
physician was sent for, but she died early
Saturday morning, short time before he
arrived. A post mortem examination dis
closed traces of poison, and it is probable
that the unfortunate young lady took the
fatal dose in a fit of dependency, although
there are various rumors in regard to the
case.
AS Engineer Sanford II. Potter was round
ing the curve south OF the Lull brook iron
bridge in Hartland with freight train, re-
Gently, he discovered two tramps about
midway of the bridge. There was not time
to stop the train, nor could the men turn
back and clear the bridge before the locomo-
eternity. So thought the Mortified engineer.
Not so the knights of the footpath, for coolly
swinging themselves over the side of the
bridge, they hung some hundred feet above
the stream below until the train had passed.
Then they drew themselves upon the bridge
again, and proceeded on their course, APP
parently as unconcerned as If meeting a
train on a narrow iron bridge was an every
day occurrence.
EMILY BLACKMAN, a woman about sixty
years of age, who had made it her home
with different families in Williston and who
had not been seen since the fore part of last
January, was found dead last Saturday in a
swamp in Essex, by large party who were
searching for her. She was lying upon
one side with her clothes intact and her
head completely covered with her shawl
She had one of her rubbers in her hand and
her knitting work in her pocket. No satchel
or bundle, with $40 in money, which it was
supposed she had with her, was found. The
flesh from her head and face had been much
eaten, probably by mice. The deceased
was a respectable maiden lady, small o.
stature and badly deformed and had been
engaged in selling albums and books.
VERMONT has just had come to the from
most wonderful horse, a PAGER, named
Hiram Hamilton. He was sired by Black
stone, he by Rysdick's Hamilton, dam stree
blood or both sides. This animal was breC
by III. Hamilton of Fairhaven. The horse
is tall and handsome. His favorite gait wa
a walk, and formerly he was hardly eve
driven out of it. Last fall the Bolge
q 1Atg n.a1 Int.