The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04
Vermont State News.

horse-race on Lake Bomoseen on Thursday.
Mrs JUDGE BoTTUM of New Haven, now
ninety-four years old, is in very comfortable
health this winter.
FRANK GILES of Windham accidentally
shot himself in the hand, Wednesday of last
week, necesstating amputation.
A MINERAL spring has been discovered in
Lowell, the waters of which are said to cure
salt rheum and other skin diseases.
FRANKIE, the two-years-old son Of j. A.
Ramsdell of North Troy, was fatally scalded,
the ODD, by falling into pail of hot water.
The spool factory of Bailey & Co. at Bar
net, operated by Il. j. Bonnet, was burned,
with all its contents, Wednesday of last
week. Loss $4,000; insured for $4,000.
A SON of Superintendent G.. ii. Babbitt of
the United States & Canada Express Com
pany broke his thigh while tobogganing at
Bellows Falls, Wednesday afternoon OF last
week.
THE Cutter Marble Company of Middle
bury has sold to M ID. Brooks, its former
manager the finishing department of its
works, with the machinery, marble and
granite on hand.
THE roof of the postoffice at Bellows Falls
was crushed Saturday afternoon by a large
mass falling from the roof of an adjoining
building. There was no one in the post
Office at the time.
WILLIAM Cross, a resident of the village
of Charlotte, met with a sudden death last
week Thursday, about noon. A tree, which
he was telling, struck him on the head and
fractured his skull.
NINE golden weddings have been cele-
brated in Castleton within few years, and
all the persons concerned still live except
one. Six couples are between eighty and
eighty-seven years old.
IT was David II. Campbell who died at
Windsor on the 18th ult., who about six years
ago divided $4,000 between the towns of
Windsor, Grafton, Westminster, Athens,
Chester and Springfield for the support of
the poor.
A LEAK in Burlington water main this
winter burrowed hole along the pipe over
eighty feet long, several feet wide, and in
some places deep enough for man to stand
upright in. 1t is supposed that the earth
went into the sewer.
JUDGE WHEELER, in the United States
court at Burlington, Thursday, sentenced
Patrick II. Hickey and his wife to hard work
in the state prison-the former one year and
a half and the latter two years-for sending
indecent matter through the mails.
A VERMONT man bid off mail route on
the east side of the state, for four years for
four cents The trips made over the road
during the four years will aggregate 80, 552
miles, and the mail carriers quarterly drafts
on the government will be one-fourth OF
cent.
THE town of Wilmington adopted the
town system of schools year ago, and now
the school board report that the town has
better schools, greater equality of taxation
and greater equality of school privileges,
together with a money balance of S115 in
favor of the town system, as compared with
the previous year
AN item from Troy says the first rat ever
seen there was killed February II. Rats
have come to farm-houses in lrasburgh,
along the Coventry road three miles, and
toward Barton Landing about the same dis
lance; the rest of the town has never
known a rat, although now they may be ex-
pected at any place.
JOHN GRAY of Burlington, twelve years
old, had his leg broken by, traverse, while
coasting, last week Wednesday evening,
and Edward Day of Brooklyn, n. Y, palace
car-conductor on the line between New
York and Burlington, met with a similar ac-
cident while watching the cOasting in the lat
ter city on Saturday evening.
JOHN CLEMENT of Lyndon is enjoying new
potatoes in midwinter. When he was look
ing over his cellar the other day he found
that some of his potatoes had become
covered with dirt, and, in spite OF the cold
weather, had been growing through the
winter. He picked out about peck of new
potatoes as large as hens eggs.
Mrs. PETER WHEELER was arrested at
Simondsville, Thursday morning of last
week, charged with taking money from a
drawer in the store of Henry Stannard, the
postmaster, in whose family she had been
employed. Her stealings will probably
amount to $500. She had borne a good rep
utation for honesty prior to this.
Mrs. WILLIAM HILL of Burlington was
kicked in the mouth by horse last Satur-
day afternoon. Two of her upper front
teeth were knocked out, taking small por-
ton of the jaw bone with them, and two
gashes were cut through her lower lip, so
large as to require stitching. Mrs. Hill is
siXty-four years Old but she is quite strong.
1t is thought no serious results will ensue.
On Friday Constable Melendy of South
Londonderry took Sidney l.. Holt to the
asylum at Brattleboro Seeing Mr.. Melendy
in front of his fathers house Holt asked
him if he might ride back with him to South
Londonderry, not thinking of the purpose for
which he came. But when they had reached
the place and were going toward the depot,
Holt began to understand what was up and
refused to proceed. When the sheriff at
tempted to use force he was Immediately
thrown down by his prisoner, who is very
muscular. Help Immediately came to the
rescue of Constable Melendy and after a
severe struggle Holt was overpowered, but
not until after he had drawn his pistol and
threatened to shoot. He had been in the
asylum once before and had an especial
horror of ever being sent there again, and
had declared that he would kill any one
who attempted to take him.
WALLINGFoRD was excited recently by a
case OF cruelty to child which would be
hard to equal. Eleven years ago the father
of Ida Terry, now thirteen, went West,
leaving his daughter in the care of Joseph
White and his wife, paying them 500 year
for their guardianship. Lately they have
violated their trust grossly. When the
neighbors caused the arrest Of the Whites
the girls feet were bistered from being COM
PEELED to stand on hot stove, and her ears
bore the marks of pins, by which she had
been fastened to the wall. Her guardians
had at other times run needles through her
tongue into the window casing and pumped
water on her until she was exhausted. Her
back was mass of ridges raised by whip.
The justice let White off with s. fine and
his wife with $40, but the next night three
masked men caught the man in his barn,
and after beating him drove the brutes from
town. Both the Whites have since been ex-
PEELED from membership in Wallingford
church.
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