The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-23
Weekly News Summary.

RUTLAND talks of getting r. l.. Hastings,
the Boston publisher-preacher to reply to
Bob Ingersol.
THE Baldwin dry-air refrigerator took the
hrst premium at the Wisconsin state fair, at
| Madison, last week.
SYLvANUs CLARK's Wilmington dwelling
house was damaged $500 by fire early Tues
day morning. the 10Th.
REV. GEoRGE S. GUERNSEY will preach in
| Fairfax next Sunday September 27th at two
o'clock in the afternoon
DIR. CHASSIS little daughter, Susie. fell
| from the piazza at her home in Bethel
breaking her COllar-bOne
IT is said that the American House in
| Brattleboro has been made to pay $500 and
costs for ten oiienses against the liquor law
CARS for the Burlington street railway
| are now being built in Philadelphia and the
ties will soon be shipped from Fort Ann,
n. Y.
A NEW slate-mil is being built in Castle
ton by Bolger Brothers. This is the eighth
| and one of the largest mills there. 1t Il to
be completed in February.
JONATHAN ORMEs, an old resident of Fair
| haven, had the misfortune to break his col
lar-bone, "A few days ago, and on account of
his age there is doubt of his recovery.
\. w. POWERS, aged seventy and a native
of Vermont, has committed suicide at Hol-
lister, Cal. He had been accused of incen-
diarsm and poisoning his neighbours stock.
u, II,
at the Queens Hotel, Hamilton, Canada.
Detective Wood, however thinks he is Sc
creted near St. Paul, Mimi, and offers S10,-
600 reward for his recapture.
THE New England branch of the Womans
Foreign Missionary Society of the Metho-
dist church has accepted an invitation to
hold its sixteenth annual meeting in Bur-
lington, October 18th and Sth.
NORMAN w. LAvoCK, the seven-ye ars-od
Burlington lad who was missing from
Thursday, the 10th, to the following Tues
day, was found, lying face downward, on the
bottom of the lake near the steamboat
landing.
POSTMASTER DERBY of Burlington an
nounces the appointment of Joseph l.
Fugere and Edward ID. Farrar special de-
livery messengers for the ten-cent delivery
system in that city, which goes into opera
ton on October LIST.
CHARLES BURRITT and Henry Harrington
of Shelburn met with a serious accident
while driving home from the state fair In
turning out of the road their carriage ran
I into a hole and threw them both out, injur-
ing Mr.. Burritt badly.
A RIcHFoRD dispatch says: Smallpox
. has not reached this side of the Canadian
. boundary yet, and the supposed case at SUIT
: ton proved otherwise. So the epidemic is
confined TO Montreal city and probably will
q not spread to the states"
G OF twenty-six candidates examined for
e admission to the Normal School at Ran
0 dolph, only nine passed the examination
If and were admitted. The youngest of those
rejected was over sixteen years of age, and
six of them had taught school.
ID. r. PoMERoY, assistant in the st. AL
bans postotce, met with an accident on
Sunday at his home in East Fairfield.
> While he was adjusting blanket on a
, horse in the barn, the animal kicked him in
# the bowels, injurng him very severely.
$ The new railroad which Ex-Governor
to bI1il hptyppn
IF don Springs and Pittsford will at first be
If operated by horsepower. 1t is solely for
A. the transportation of marble between
l. quarries and mills and points of delivery for
IS market.
T. WILBER PERRIGo, who stabbed Officer La
). rose at Burlington, some time ago, and sub
ID sequently escaped from jail, has been ar
n rested in Chicago and brought back to Bur-
V. lngton. His address was learned by means
Of of an express package sent to him by his
As mother
ID PETER vALMAIRE of winooski has been
&c IL troubled for some time by having grapes
%, stolen from his vineyard. Last week
" Wednesday night four young men entered
10 his garden and, being discovered, were fired
at with shotgun loaded with small shot
The parties yelled /" am shot murder,
- etc., but were able to elude their pursuers.
20 PAPERS were served last week Thursday
III in the suit brought by Mrs Stella E. Brown
d. of Concord, n H., against the Central Yer
NC mont Railroad Company to recover Sl0,0Ot
U.s. for the loss of her left hand at CharlestowI
rn December TO- 1880. The accident occurred
he at highway crossing, through the alleged
negligence of the employees of the corpora
ton.
,is ALL but five of st. Johnsbury's sevent,
m telephone subscribers protest against thu
' advance in rates. The advance began il
o vi. Rutland and Burlington the 18TH In Rut
~, Od land twenty out of one hundred forty-seve
re telephones have been taken out and IL
30 30 Burlington thirty out of two hundred thirty
ON three. The st. Adams service VIII proDaDl.
L. be discontinued.
at THE acknowledgement has announces
on the appointment of the following fourth
nd class postmasters; Taftsville, Clark Newton
st. Leicester, Mrs. Ida NJ Bushey; East Brook
IN, field, William A. Robbins; Morristown
in William NJ. Alexander; Cabot. II. b. Whit
va tier; East Warren, Miss Sela l.. Drew
he Mount Tabor, Adolphus o.. Nicholas; MOI
elk risville, Charles y. Rich.
lite A SHORT time since Mrs. d. S. Meeker o
Milton went to Cottage City, Mass, t.
spend a few days on the beach for he
health While going down stairs she wa
stricken with paralysis and fell, striking o
'as her head and shoulders. She never re
80, gained consciousness, and died on the morn
RS, ing of the 9TH instant Her remains wer
Use taken to Milton for burial.
to IT is announced that L. j. Joslin {
no Waitstield will exhibit at the coming horst
10 breeders exhibition the noted stallion
" "Phil Sheridan, Jr.," and some of his stock
Use "Phil Sheridan, Jr., is a half-brother {
NY the mare " Phyllis" now the most note
err trotter on the turf Mr.. Joslin sold fou
me four-years-olds, by I" Phil Jr., last spring
me for something more than $1,000.
his THE Milton correspondent of an exchang
's SAYS: " o. f. Coon, the man who said, at til
ma time General Grant died, that his bod
' he ought TO be embalned and sold to p. 7. Ba
ate mum and exhibited through the countr
are with the monkeys, is the newly-appointe
Ir postmaster in this village Other serior
nd charges have been made agaist him, o
a. which he was to be court-martialed b
ri; Post Reynolds on Saturday"
eir AN express train from Whitehall struc
of Luman Potter of Castleton in his carriag
on, on the crossing near the Fairhaven fa
cen grounds, last week Wednesday afternoon
ley seriously injuring Mr. Potter. The hors
nto escaped without injury, but the wagon wa
en- wrecked and Mr.. Potter was taken insei
tits sible on the train to his house. Althoug
he seventy-tive years old and seriously il
hey jured, he will probably recover.
lce AMONG the patents granted TO inventiN
VAS Vermonters for the week ending Septemb,
we 18th, are the following: Elton =. Kenda
the and A. S. Vose, Windsor, beading too
tilt, Leondas and A. Y. Gray, Middleton