The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont,

WOODFORD IOlkS report bttlliB blItt DtdiS
in that neighborhood last week.
THE affairs of Cook & Wiley of st. Johns
bury will be settled in insolvency.
Mrs. HURLEY of Bennington, aged ninety
years. picked eleven quarts of blueberries
July 9th
A RANDOLPH firm will ship one hundred
fifteen thoroughbred Merino sheep to Mon
tana this week.
THERE is a birch tree on mountain near
Woodford which measures twenty-four feet
in circumference.
THE South Royalton families Of the YER
mont colony will go to Dakota about the
middle of August.
FOXES killed fifty-nine turkeys for one
Bethel man and thirty-two for another in a
single day last week.
THERE were shipped from North Troy
six thousand seven hundred pounds OF rasp-
berries one day last week.
WILLIAM LoBER, farmer was thrown
under his mowng-machine in Starksboro,
July 2Sth, and will lose leg.
A SON of Luther Ingraham of Swanton cut
one of his thumbs nearly off while splitting
wood with a Ratchet recently.
w. B. SPENCER, dealer in general mer-
chandise at Wells, is offering to compromise
at twenty-five cents on the dollar.
GEORGE b. HOWARD of Windham twenty
seven years old shot himself Thursday
night on account of failing health.
Mrs. l.. A. COLLINS, dealer in millinery
goods at Fair Haven, it is reported, has filed
a voluntary petition in insolvency.
ONE of the creditors of the st. Adams
Iron and Steel Company received check
for one cent, in settlement of his claim.
THERE is dissatisfaction in North Hyde
Park because the postmaster, man who
lost both hands in the war, is removed.
OVER twenty million five hundred thou
sand feet of lumber has been taken out of
CRANKY, Victory and Concord this year.
THREE st. Johnsbury women, while berry
ing one day last week were freed by mad
bull, which kept them there three hours.
FL. PETTIBoNE, farmer of North Pow
nal, had his left arm cut off at the elbow in
threshing-machne last week Thursday af-
ternoon.
A MAN named Billiard of Stanstead june
ton, p. O., was drowned in Lake Memphre-
magog, near Derby Line, by the capsizing
Of boat
SEvENTY-FIvE members of the Sauveur
School of Languages at Burlington will have
an excursion to Mansfield Mountain next
Saturday.
A CARLOAD of spruce lumber shipped from
East Berkshire, last week, was bound for
South Africa. 1t is to be used in the con-
struction of a school-house.
will transfer the custom-house to Colonel
b. b. Smalley until the middle of this
month or the first of September.
S. L. SMITHS dry goods and grocery store
at North Pownal was burglarized last week
Wednesday night and $500 worth of goods
taken. The safe was blown open and 500
taken therefrom
The postoffice at East Fairfield has
changed hands, and the boxes, mailbag
and a dozen postage stamps were trans
ferred last Saturday from a republican to a
democratic store.
HARRY son of S. Grout of East Dorset,
met with serious accident recently. While
he and other boys were at play with blast
ing powder piece of wood hit the eye and
upturned the iris.
CHARLIE WOODBURY., son of Mayor Wood
bury of Burlington, while camping on Lake
Champlain, killed rattlesnake which meas
ured four feet and four inches in length and
had seven rattles.
THE seventh annual festival of the Episco-
pal parish choirs of the state will be held in
St. Paul's church, Burlington, October 23d,
and will be conducted by Professor S. Is.
Whitney of Boston
AVAILABLE horse, owned by George Ham
mond of Mddlebury, died, the other day, OF
disease that prevails to considerable ex-
tent in the south part of the state and was
described by us last week.
AMONG the patents recently issued are the
following: Nathan G. Williams, assignor to
Vermont Farm Machine Company, Bellows
Falls, fruit drier; John Prince, West Ran
dolph, knife for hoop shaving-machines.
E. p. STEARNs, living three miles from
St. Adams on the Swanton road, had his
house broken into, in the absence of the
family, recently. The robbers took away
with them S25 in money, besides effects
amounting to $40.
A BUSINESS meeting of the Vermont di.
vision of the league of American wheelmen
was held at Brattleboro last week. F. E
Dubois was elected secretary and treasurer
and j. w. Drown representative of the
Vermont division.
IT is announced that l.. S. Mattock, doing
business under the style of the Lyndon Car
riage Company, Lyndon, has had petition in
insolvency filed against him by Mr.. Chase
of Rumney Depot N. H., and Randolph A.
Knight of Dummerston, VT
BEARS are making their appearance in
Lexington in more than usual numbers. A
large one was seen in pasture. the Other
day, viewing a flock of sheep, and it allowed
some men to come within a few rods before
it made tracks for the woods.
JUNE ., 1864, deposit was made at St
Johnsbury Savings Bank of S20.67, the
profits of lecture by Wendell Phillips
July 1, 1885, settlement of this account
was made. The principal and accumula.
tons of interest amounted to S67.9S.
CHARLES DAVIS, employed at Levi Bar
nard's in Ludlow, attempted suicide Sunday
night of last week by cutting his throat, but
the incision was not deep enough at the
vital spot. The reason is said to be thai
the course of his love ran not smoothly.
Tom MALLoN, who was arrested for aiding
and abetting the recent prize fight at Wi
nooski, and admitted to bail in the sum OF
$500 for appearance for trial at Winooski
is missing. The amount of his bail was fur
nished by Dominick Lawrence of Winooski
THE estate of the st. Adams Iron anC
Steel Works has been finally settled and thu
assignees, j. j. Burgess and Willard Pierce
discharged. The only claim against thu
company now outstanding is the judgmen
of Mr.. Remington of lion, N. Y, for abou
$4,000.
THE following are the postoffice appoint
ments for Vermont made during the pas
week Dudley G. Brown at Brandon, vic
John L. Knight, suspended; w. l.. Howar,
at Fair Haven, vice Harris Whipple, sus
pended; Randolph A. Knight at Dunn
merston.
THE house, barn and entire set of farI
buildings of Frederick b. Pier, Esq, c
Jamaica, including the Jacksonville post
Office were entirely burned July 9th. TIL
fire was caused by the breaking of a lanter
in the barn. The loss is partly covered b
insurance.
THE saw-mll of Clifford K Orcutt {
St. Johnsbury, situated at the south end {
Willoughby Lake, near the hotel, wa
burned Friday night, July oath, and all {