The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-30
Weekly News Summary.



in insolvency.
AT East Barnard Henry Hancock's little
boy, Edgar, slid off a bay-mow and stuck
broken fork-stail into his leg.
THE Baldwin Manufacturing Company
received the first premium on their refriger-
ators at the Minnesota state fair.
A NORTH Troy dispatch saws the board
ing-house at the old iron mine has been
burned from a defective hue. Loss So, 900:
insured.
WILLIE THOMPSON of East Craftsbury.
while at play with a pitchfork recently,
thrust tine through his cheek and nearly
to his eye.
DURING a fracas at Bennington, the other
night, William Guiltnan was seriously cut
about the head and body by Frank Conner,
a German.
THE National White River Bank of Bethel
has just placed in its banking house an ele-
giant Moslers safe, weighing fifteen thou
sand pounds.
A JOINT session of the preachers associa-
tons of Springfield and Montpelier districts
will be held in West Randolph, October
18TH 18th and 14th.
HASTINGS 81 FoLLANsBEE's store at North
Concord was burned Saturday night. The
fire is supposed to be of incendiary origin.
Loss $4,000; insured for $500.
THE New England branch of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society, which met last
year in Portland Maine, meets this year in
Burlington, October 9TH and Sth
The village trustees of Bennington offer
reward of 500 for the arrest and conviction
OF the scamp who recently mutilated the
| top buggies belonging to Dr. Il. S. Wilcox.
WILBUR PERRIGo, the Burlington desper-
ado, was sentenced in the Chttenden county
court, last week Wednesday, to seven years
at hard labor in the state prison at Windsor.
AARON SMITHS two-years-od child fell
into a hog-pen in Danvile and a cross hog
snatched it, chewing one arm badly, break
| ing it, and biting its face. The child will re-
| cover.
THE International Company of Newport
| is about putting in one thousand feet of
iron pipe throughout its lumber yard. and
placing five or six hydrants in different
| parts of the same.
THE excursion to New York city, last week
Tuesday, over the Central Vermont railroad
from Burlington, numbered about two
hundred fifty people. The train consisted
| of ten passenger coaches.
HENRY PEARsoN's house. horse barn, car
riage-h house and sheds, at East Middlebury,
were burned Saturday. The house had been
vacant since last spring. Estimated loss,
$1,000. The buildings were insured.
WARD & CALLAN's store, at st. Adams, was
burglarized, recently, and relieved of a few
small articles. The parties concerned in this
a light of glass in one of the back windows
The somewhat famous libel suit of the
Bradley Fertilizer Company of Boston
against DIR. Cutting, secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, has been settled, Dr.
Cutting signing paper satisfactory to the
company
JOSEPH BELLRosE of Swanton met with a
very serious accident at the marble mill
A staging under which he was at work
broke down and buried him beneath tor
or two of sand and marble, breaking one rt
and an arm.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made last
week Wednesday night to break into the
store of w. II. Tibbetts in Coventry. 1t is
believed that the burglary was undertaken
by three suspcious-looking characters who
had been lurking round there of late.
THE St. Johnsbury Granite Company
has sent to the Gettysburg battlefield
monument to mark the spot over which
the Twenty-seventh Connecticut regimen
charged, July 9, 1868. The monument il
rustic in design. Its cost was about 81, 000
WORD comes from Manchester that Rout,
Agent g. ID. Millington found package
of dynamite cartridges in the mail bags las
Wednesday. If the package had dropped
on the floor an explosion might have re
suited that would have demolished the car
GOVERNOR PINGREE made an official tou
last week among those asylums wher
vermont mas Denencldr1eS. lie VISITED I'M
BrattIeboro asylum the American asylum
Hartford, Conn, Perkins Institute of Bos
ton and Clark Institution of Northampton
Mass
, DAN MARDEN Of Landgrove was driving
) with Warren Wright and his little son, Carl
. in South Londonderry, when the kngbol
came out, tipping the buggy over and throw
. ing the three to the ground. The boy, Car
, was badly injured about the head an
stomach.
DANIEL ROBERTS, eX-receiver of the broke
st. Adams Bank, after vainly appealing t.
Controller Cannon, has referred the matte
to the President, and asked that he may b
permitted to know the cause for his remova
and the instrumentalities through which
was secured.
The Estey Guard of Bratteboro has form
ally presented handsome silver pitche
3 and cup to Caterer e. l.. Cooper, as "A mar
of appreciation of his services at its IT
| cent encampinent at st. Adams. Capital
G.. II. Bond made the presentation speec
and the regimental band furnished music.
9 THE next term of the United States eli
: cult and district courts opens in Rutlan
i October d, at two p. NJ. There are eighty
4 one cases on the docket, thirty-seven {
l them law cases and forty-four in chancery
1t is expected that young Pierce, charge
! with robbing the mails at Rutland will b
l tried this term.
, bridge of Nergennes and situated near tn
reform school, were burned, with their COZ
. tents, Sunday. There was in the barns
. quantity of hay, unthreshed oats and barley
. The fire is supposed to have been set b
some boys and the loss is estimated to /
$1,000; no insurance.
A TENEMENT-HoUsE in West Rutland, o.
:, cupied by William Brewster, was burned I
the ground Tuesday of last week. Nearl
: all the household articles and furnituI
!, were saved. The building was owned b
y c. g. Bardin. The fire probably caugl
. from a defective chimney, and the damag
: will not exceed $1,000.
o The following fourth-class postmasters +,
: Vermont have been appointed since our La
ii issue: North Windham, III. L. Griswol,
/. Newbury, A. W. Chamberlin; Coventr
4, Holland Thresher; Williamsville, Able
II n. Sherman; Pittsford, Robert Ii. Drak
IS Hardwick James III. McLane; Guilfor'
n Caleb b. Lawson; Wolcott, f. n. Harris
Ii BYRON WILKINS, Henry Howard, Fran
=" Stevens and another young man of Chest'
J. went hunting recently. All of them we
l. under the influence of liquor and they g
1t into row, and wilkins struck Stevei
across the back. nearly breaking the spin
with his gun, and broke Towards arm
the same means. 1t was thought at fir
i that Stevens could not live, but he is no
= somewhat better. wilkins has been place
- under arrest.
:. THE Grand Army boys had the most e
m joyable reunion in its history at Belloy
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