The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-11
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN is higher than it ever has
been before at this season.
JOHN REED of Montgomery, who fell at q
barn-raising, recently, is dead.
BENNINGToN's ten heaviest men weighed
2,496 pounds. Five are still living.
1r is said that Whitmore & Clark's min.
strel show cleared S12,565 last year.
LEWIS DIcKERMAN is to be postmaster at
North Tunbridge vice G. A. Wright.
GEORGE BARDwELL of Brattleboro was re-
Gently bitten through the nose by dog
SAMUEL WAIT of Benson, ffty-six years
old, dropped dead in the road last week.
CHARLES FoGGETT of Springfield fell from
tree and broke his left leg in two places.
Two carloads of articles for the New
Orleans exhibition left Rutland last week.
THOMAS HAcKETT of West Rutland was re-
Gently fatally injured by a carriage accident.
A GoLD-MINING company has bought a
claim in Bridgewater, and is to begin work.
The First National Bank premises in st.
Adams have been sold to G. II. Morton for
$1,000.
The late John p. Howard bequeathed
$4,000 to the Home for Destitute Children
in Burlington.
REV. GEORGE S. GUERNSEY will preach in
Essex Center Sunday, November 10Th, fore
noon and afternoon.
A CHILD belonging to Daniel Lezot of
Winooski was burned to DEATH last week,
byits clothes taking fire.
RUTLAND uses 100000 gallons of water a
day. The commissioners think that quarter
of this amount is wasted.
THE youngest daughter of Collector Smalley
OF Burlington died of diphtheria last week.
Her age was seven years.
THE remains of the wife of General Benia-
min Alvord, paymaster-general of the army,
will be buried in Rutland.
A NEW tool-car for the use of the bridge
department has just been finished by the
Central Vermont railroad.
AT st. Adams on the 9TH 9th and 7th,
seventy-seven carloads of wheat, peas and
flour were bonded for export.
THE deaf mute killed on the Troy & Bos-
ton railroad, last Saturday, has been identi-
fed as John Welsh of Arlington.
The duties collected in st. Adams in Oc-
tober amounted to S13,49313. The free
goods entered were valued at $113,071.
SMALLPOX has appeared on the border
again, opposite North Troy, in Waterloo.
Seven cases are reported and four deaths.
The Vermont Livestock Company of
Brattleboro takes its first shipment of beeves
to Chicago this week from its Dakota ranch
Gaysville; George ID. Percy, Newport Cen
ter; Stephen Burrows, Bloomington Center;
Denis l.. Mcclure, Albany
AT a meeting of the creditors of S. H.
lift of Morrisville, insolvent debtor, II. c.
Fisk was chosen assignee. Claims amount
ing to about $4,000 were proved.
THE December term docket of Windsor
county court contains eighty-seven law
fifteen divorce and nine state cases. The
chancery docket has twenty cases.
THE cars for the Burlington street rail-
way, which are four in number, are named
sc. ID. Haines," 81. ID. Hatch, gu. A.
Woodbury." and F. c. Kennedy"
GEORGE BULLET of North Pownal, while
returning from Hoosick Falls in his wagon,
collided with another team and was thrown
out 1t is feared he is fatally injured.
GAINES steam stave-mll in South Starks-
boro was destroyed by fire early Sunday
morning. The fire is supposed to have been
the work of an incendiary. Insured.
c. G. HARVEY of Passumpsic had an old
fashioned husking the other evening. There
We're over one hundred persons present, who
husked seven hundred bushels of corn.
EDWARD SMITH has been arrested at Gas
sett's Station, charged with stealing regis
tered letter and money from the post-office.
He has confessed, and is in Burlington Jail.
COLONEL w. L. GREENLEAF, department
commander, G. A. r., has received applica-
lions and granted permission for the organ
lZation OF two new posts-one at Dandy and
the other at Fairfax.
WHILE engaged in sinking the water main
in Burlington, last week. to avoid FROST the
workmen discovered the skeleton of me-
diminished man. 1t had doubtless lain
there for many years.
G. f. KENT of Middlebury, charged with
robbery and assault fifteen months ago, has
been arrested near Mendon, Mass. He had
been arrested before and was bailed, but
jumped the bail soon after
PROFESSOR MIETzKE of Rutland has full
orchestral score of DR.. Blumner's musical
composition for the Twenty Psalm,
presented by the composer for use at the
Rutland musical festival next May.
THE town of Ferrisburgh is in trouble
with its constable and collector Harvey c.
Martin, who is reported to be behind in his
accounts His bondsmen have been at
tached to make his deficiency good.
THE committee of the Kingsley Guards to
whom was referred the settlement of the
damages with the Central Vermont railroad
for the loss of their outfit, which was burned
on the way to st. Adams, last August, have
accepted 500.
DIR. FRANK N. LEWIS a graduate of the
classical and medical departments of the
University of Vermont, has been elected
house surgeon of the Eye and Ear Infrmary,
New York city. This institution is the largest
of its kind in America.
WHILE taking bath shortly before mid
night last week, G.. G. Dunn of Rutland
heard some one enter an adjoining room
After the stranger had stumbled around for
awhile, Mr.. Dunn became suspicious, and
opening the door, found a burly-looking
tramp. A lively scuffle ensued, but the
visitor escaped uninjured.
THE outcome of the recent Young Mems
Christian Association convention in st. Al
bans will probably be the organizing of an
association there. 1t is reported that ex-
Governor Smith is very enthusiastic over
the matter, and that in an address he urged
the matter and promised to help the project
in any way he could.--Free Press
A BRILLIANT social event at Rutland was
the marriage of DR.. Charles S. Caverly and
Mabel A. Tuttle, only daughter of Harley
G. Tuttle, on Wednesday evening of last
week. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. G. A. Reese of the Baptist church
The reception was held at the Bates House,
which was handsomely decorated.
MRS A. M. STETsoN of Boston, whose hus-
band owns much land at Norton Mills,
while on recent visit to that place found
liquor illegally sold at a hotel that was a re-
sort for loafers. She raided the place, had
the bar torn down, the liquor emptied into
the street and the bar-room transformed
into a reading-room. Then she visited the
loafers and secured one hundred names for
her pledge.
Other Localities.
SERvIAN officers have been ordered to act
on the offensive.
THE late Josh Billings left an estate
a