The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-08
Weekly News Summary.

land will get its new bills April 10Th.
bella RICE, a weathersfeld farmer, hanged
himself recently to beam In his sugar
house.
Coal is selling at the cars at Vergennes
for $3.50 ton. The coal yards are ex
hausted.
THE town of Gaysvile is one hundred
years old, and there is talk of celebrating
the anniversary.
LANDLORD r. B. FLINT of the Cottage
Hotel, st. Johnsbury, has a Newfoundland
dog which weighs one hundred seventy-ive
pounds.
THE locating committee of the Vermont
colony left Royalton for Dakota, Tuesday
night, to select site for the town the colony
is to build.
IT is estimated that Wndham county
farmers have been obliged to buy nine hum
bred tons of hay in consequence OF last years
short crop.
RUTLAND county farmers are sadly look
ing forward to the periodical visit Of the
seventeen-year locusts, which they predict
for this summer
A PORTION of trestle near Danville, on
the st. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain rail-
road was burned last week Tuesday night,
causing several hours delay to trains.
THE Carpenter Organ Company of Brattle-
boro has large and very elegant organ
nearly ready for shipment, which is to be
used at an exhibition at Kensington, London.
SOME OF the Bellows rails young men are
organizing Mother Hubbard polo club,
who will play in Mother Hubbard costumes
and use brooms instead of regular polo
sticks.
THE Woodstock village school district
elected three women as officers. Mrs. f. b.
Merrill, Mrs. o. 7. Marsh and Mrs. f.
Powers are to help enforce the compulsory
education law.
FLAvIUs FORBES, who recently died in
winchester, N. H., was for several years
prominent trader at Wilmington where he
held several town offices. He was about
eighty years of age.
AT the Bennington annual school meet
ing it was voted to continue the Benning-
ton graded and high schools by a majority
of twenty-six, after an exciting canvass.
The district debt for building is SIG, 450, a
decrease during the year of $4,000.
THE st. Johnsbury Young Mems Chris
tan Association expects to take possession
of its new building Saturday, April %,
with simple dedicatory exercises. On the
Goth, the association expects to hold its
anniversary exercises in Music Hall.
THE injunction placed on Carrick Broth
ers stone cutters, in st. Johnsbury by the
st. Johnsbury Granite Company for in
fringement, has been partially removed by
Judge Ross, allowing the Carricks to use
the terms crystal granite " in their bust
ness. The st. Johnsbury Granite Company
sued for $10,000 damages.
ALVIN ALLEN, aged thirty-one years, of
Wolcott, while being pursued by posse
at Manson, Iowa, who wished to arrest him
for forgery, fred four bullets at his pursuers
and fifth through his own brain. Letters
found on his person indicate that he was
fugitive from justice elsewhere and re-
solved never to be taken alive.
WHILE e. Knight of Guildhal was adjust
ing a section of water pipe one end OF
piece OF iron pipe, four inches IN diameter
and ten feet long, fell several feet and
struck him on the forehead, cutting an ugly
cash from the hair to the brow of the right
eye. Had he stood an inch further for
ward, the blow would have been fatal.
MEYER, the suspected murderer Of Her
mann Krause, has occupied his time while
at Windsor on some very artistic work with
the pen and the jack-knife. His pen work
consists Of floral designs in red and black
ink, and his carving propensities have been
devoted to working up whole shingle mill
equipment inside of a four or five ounce
bottle.
THE duties received at the port of st. AL
bans during the month of March amounted
to $25, 1855. This does not include the
goods forwarded in bond on which duties
are paid at destination. On one day during
the last week in March seventy-two horses
were shipped through from Canada to points
south: their value was 1882, and duties on
them amounted to $1,S7O.
MRS. FITzsIMMoNs, wife of Professor Fitz-
simmons of st. Joseph's College, Burling-
ton, met with a distressing accident last
week She was sitting near table and
holding little child, when the latter pulled
the lamp over. The oil took fire and before
the flames could be extingushed one of Mrs.
Fitzsimmons' hands and one of her feet were
severely burned The child escaped injury.
THE funeral of Hon. f. r. Green was
largely attended at Richmond last week.
He had been member of the Congrega-
tional church nearly fifty years and deacon
over forty. He had represented his town
in the legislature, also the county in the
senate, and was two years assistant judge
OF the county, besides holding many import
ant positions of trust His age was seventy
nine.
THE Sprinqfeld (Mass.) Republican says
professor A. L. Perry of Williams College
was in the city yesterday and called on ex-
Governor Hiland Hall of Bennington, VT,
both being much interested in the proposed
monument of the battle of Bennington. They
are in favor of noble shaft that shall fiji
the site and dignity of the event, and sc
oppose the design offered by Professor
Weir OF Yale College and advocated by d. j
Phelps of Burlington. The matter will bt
settled by the monument association at 1T:
meeting August IS, and the departure o.
Minister Phelps will greatly weaken the
Weir forces"
THE Highly Sewing machine Company O
Brattleboro at its annual meeting reelected
George f. Crowell, G. f. Thompson, o. ID
Esterbrooks, ID. A. Abbott, T. j. b. Cud
worth, e. II. Van Doom and s. A. Smith
directors. They were instructed to sell thu
stock and machinery and wind up the affair
of the company as soon as practicable. Th
is done because of the unprofitabeness o
the business, owing to the cost of manufac
turing the new machines. The company
was organized about three years ago will
S75, 900 capital, about $24 900 of which ha
been paid in by local stockholders. Quite
number of the machines have been made
but not many have been put on the market
AT the fourth annual shearing of the Yer
mont Merino strengthening Association a
Middlebury, last week, the ram " Durr,
owned by j. l.. Buttolph & Son of Middle
bury, sheared thirty-eight pounds and thr
teen ounces, beating the best previou
record by two ounces, and taking the priz
for the heaviest shearing ram of any age
l.. s. Burwell of Bridport got the prize fo
the heaviest shearing ram lamb, the fleec
weighing twenty-six pounds and six ounces
The prize for the heaviest shearing eve wen
to Henry G. Burwell of Bridport, the heec
weighing twenty-one pounds and min
ounces, and the prize for the heaviest shear
ing eve lamb went to j. b. Hamlin K Son
Cornwall, the weight of the fleece being fl
teen pounds and five ounces. The prize
for the best six shearers were awarded will
out preference to G M. Clark of Addison