The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-02
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

reported inSovent.
THE st. Johnsbury skating-rink is being
transformed into a theater.
THE Congregationalists of Brattleboro have
voted to call Rev. Charles o. Day.
AN adjourned term of the United States
court will open at Rutland the 23d.
WINDSOR has voted an appropriation of
$4,000 to build a new school-house.
THE St. Johnsbury district preachers
meeting will be held at Derby Dec. 1-3,
BURLINGTON is to have toboggan shute
, seventy-five feet long and twenty-five high
REV. GEORGE S. GUERNSEY will preach in
Fletcher next Sunday forenoon and az
ternoon.
The governor has appointed William s.
Wright of Waltham as assistant judge OF
the county OF Addison.
DURING the past two weeks L. II. Nc
Clary of Greensboro has shipped 100000
pounds of maple sugar West.
I. L. STRONG of Huntington has been ap-
pointed by the governor collector of taxes in
and for the cores of Chittenden county.
JUDGE H. II. WHEELER is in New York
city, assisting Judge Wallace in the circuit
court. He expects to be absent several weeks.
EDWARD A. HALL, Central Vermont
brakeman, fell from car to the ground,
last week Friday, and was injured internally.
THERE were one hundred twenty-seven
pieces Ol Oduhuldu DdRRdRe uTOpDeu dJ
Richford for fumigation in one day recently.
GEORGE HOWE of Brattleboro has been
re-appointed special agent of the pension de-
partment, and is now located in New Jersey.
THE French people of St. Adams have
organized literary club and rented rooms,
where papers and magazines are kept on file.
FRANK PALMER, formerly of South Roy
alton, has been sentenced at Plattshurg, N.
Y, to life imprisonment for the murder of
Peter Bernard at Dannemora.
HENRY VINToN, who lost the ends of his
fingers in a neutrality-suspicious. at Holland
last week, has been taken with lock-jaw,
and his recovery is not probable.
JOHN HAYES Of Brattleboro fell from the
top of his train while it was on the bridge
at Miller's Falls into the river seventy-two
feet. He was injured but slightly.
Two Canadians visited st. Adams, last
week. disposed of good quantity of bogus
Canadian silver, and escaped across the
border before they could be arrested.
PATENTS have been granted to Vermont
ers as follows: Octave j. Terault Rutland,
necktie fastener; James NJ. Gilbert. Putney,
polishing mechanism for turning-lathes.
A SNEAK thief broke into the Valley Mill
Company's Office in Brattleboro last week
Monday night and carried off the money
drawer, which contained nothing Of value.
AT the recent tournament of the German
pionship gold medal in the broad-sword
contest was awarded to l.. Porter Ed
minister, formerly of Windsor.
RUSH PLUMLEY Of Shrewsbury last week
captured large black bear in trap. The
animal weighed nearly three hundred
pounds. Since then three others of the
same species have been seen in that locality.
In the storm of Wednesday last fourteen
inches of snow fell at Chelsea, twenty-three
inches at West Corinth and twelve inches at
White River Junction, and from eight to If
teen inches in different parts Of Washington
county
VERMONT STATE GRANGE, Patrons of Hus-
bandry will hold it's fourteenth annual
meeting at White River Junction next week
Wednesday beginning at ten o'clock in the
forenoon. All members of the order are in
vited to be present
JERICHO drover has taken over five
hundred head of young stock, mostly calves,
from this state this fall, and finds ready
sale Tor them on dairy farms near Peoria,
Ill. Calves bring from 50 to $l5 out there,
while yearlings sell at from SIS to S25.
MARY STEELE of Castleton, fifty-four years
old. was found dead on a lounge in heI
house. Saturday night, badly bruised and
somewhat cut about the head. The room
was In great disorder. She and brother
who lived with her had been ON pro
tracted spree.
THE partially decomposed body of Chapr
Marder, lighthouse keeper at Owls Head
in Lake Memphremagog, was found in bed
last week Friday. Appearances indicated
that death occurred two weeks before. Navi
CATION having been suspended, the absence
of the lights was not noticed.
THE Howe Scale Comnanv of Rutland ha,
recentlv nresented to the University of Yer
mont for use OF the COLLAGE commons. one q
thar nortahle nIatform scales yeiobino II,
tn six hundred mounds The same comnan'
hoe alao given to the library one of thei
th;rtv-two onnce letter balances,
A RosroN dsnatcb saws. at sturois Pot
+or ~ RoSton IsaIer IN oIayotoTs ba
fs;,ed Re has oenaraI stove of Groto
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THE buildings OF the summer resort o
the suburbs of Missisquoi Park, Highgat
Springs, known as " Sargents,' were Ell
tirely destroyed by hre recently. The prem
lses were leased anu run the past season .
l.. l.. Penniman. The origin OF the hre
not known. All the stores, provisions, etc
were burned insured Tor Sooo.
THE net earnings of the Ogdensburg
Lake Champlain railroad for Septemb,
were $4,000: for the six months endir
Sentember 3Oth. S131. 1862 .26 The ha
vear's fixed charges were 100000: whiC
leaves a surplus Of S26.OO5. If this is mai
tanned through the year it will be equiv