The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01
Weekly News Summary.

left an estate of about $4,000.
ST.. ,JoHNsBURY claims the handsomest
Masonic headquarters in Vermont
THE new Baptist church in Putney was
completed and dedicated a few days ago.
A COUPLE of Bristol men recently shot a
one hundred forty-four pounds black bear.
THE Central Vermont shops at Rutland
are working on nine and one-half hours
time now.
THE charter of the National Bank of Lyn-
don has been extended twenty years, to
March %, 1909.
A CENTRAL VERMONT woodshed and
three hundred cords of wood at Swanton
were burned Saturday
THE Vermont Merno strengthening Assoc
citation will hold public shearing at Mid
dlebury, beginning March 3lst ana con-
tinuing three days.
CooMBs, the Westminster West fre-bug, at
county court last week, pleaded guilty to
one fire and was sentenced to state prison
for three and one-half years.
THERE are seventeen patients at present
in the Mary Fletcher hospital The accom-
modations of the hospital have been taxed
to their utmost during the present winter.
THE village of Swanton, with only eighteen
hundred inhabitants all told, has more than
one hundred persons sixty-two years old
or more, and their average age is about
seventy-two
A NORWICH man, who recently returned
from Mount Vernon, brought white oak
lath from the banquet hall of the Washing
ton mansion. and his friends are having the
wood made into charms
THE estimated cost of the proposed iron
bridge at Winooski will be about ten thou
sand dollars, the town of Colchester paying
one-fifth of the expense. the balance to be
furnished by Burlington city.
THE supply of coal brought to the port OF
Burlington amounts to about siXty-fve
thousand tons, or six hundred fifty boat
loads, annually, OF which thirty thousand
tons are consumed in that city
KNowLToN e JACKSON of Brattleboro
have bid off eleven different government
contracts for carrying the mails, most of
which are in New Hampshire. They have
also put in bids for thirty others.
A HOUSE in Salisbury, belonging to Albert
Spencer of Boston, was burned on Sunday
morning The most of the furniture was
saved. The house was insured. The fire is
supposed to have been incendiary.
UPON the complete opening of the Canada
& Atlantic railroad it is expected that
lumber ward and dressing mill will be es-
tablished at st. Adams, and that the rolling
mill will be converted into this use
THE increase in the number of farms in
Vermont between 1870 and 1880 was five per
cent, which was the smallest increase of
any state in the Union. The largest in
crease during the same period was in Da-
kota, which was 913.7 per cent.
BRApLEY's building was burned Saturday
night at Bennington. 1t was insured for
$500. Noyes building was slightly dam
aged. The occupants are insured. The
losses are not as large as at first supposed
and are probably covered by insurance.
THE Mary Fletcher training school for
nurses opens at the Mary Fletcher hospital
in Burlington, May4. The course of instruc-
ton will consist of lectures, rectations,
demonstrations and practical teaching at the
bedside upon all topics which come within
the province of an experienced nurse.
H. C. BuRwELIs of Bridport, who was
awarded two sweepstake prizes for sheep at
the New Orleans exposition, is the same
breeder who took the sweepstakes prize on
sheep at the centennial exposition in 1876,
and the five first premiums at the state fair
last fall. Mr.. Burwell's prize money at New
Orleans amounted to nearly one-half of the
entire sum offered for prizes In the sheep
department.
THE listers OF Caledonia county met at
st. Johnsbury last week Wednesday, and
fixed the following rates of value per grand
list basis: Oxen, four and one-haf cents
per pound; cattle, three-years-old, four
cents: two-years-old, SIG one-year-old, IS;
cows, S2S Sheep, SO; swine four and one
half cents; bees, So per swarm; colts, three,
two and one-year-old, 500, S45 and $50 re-
spectively wool, eighteen cents per pound f;
hay, $40 per ton.
THE Montreal court of appeals issued a
mandate Tuesday of last week, ordering a
meeting of the shareholders of the Montreal,
Portland & Boston road. Receiver Hen
dee of the st. Adams bank regards this as
an important decision on the banks behalf,
since it will facilitate the sale of the BONDS.
He is now advertising for bids on the bonds,
which it is hoped will be disposed of by
midsummer, and a substantial dividend de-
clared to depositors.
THE St. Johnsbury Young Mems Chris
tan Association will occupy in about two
weeks its new building, the gift of Profess
building is fitted up in store, offices and
tenements. On the left, the association
home proper, is gymnasium, reading-room,
parlors, and large hall, and rooms for the
secretary and janitor. The association was
organized in 1855, with twenty-one mem
bers, which had increased to two hundred
fifty in 1882.
G. w. GRAHAM the taxidermist, says the
st. Johnsbury Caledonian, is constantly
making additions to his collections, so that
visit to his rooms on Main street is always
of interest. Among the latest curiosties is
chicken sent from Rhode Island, having a
double body-with two wings and four legs
but with one head. A rare animal re.
Gently received is a Brazilian sloth. par
ticularly interesting specimen is small
kangaroo, with a young one in its pouch. A
porcupne brought from England is of spe-
cial interest, as showing the difference be
tween the porcupine, which is not found III
this country and the native hedgehog.
Other Localities.
A TERRIFIC explosion, causedby coal dust
took place Friday in mine at McAllister
Indian Territory, by which eleven miners
were instantly killed. Their bodies were
all recovered.
THE excitement over the senatorial can
vass in New Hampshire is steadily growing
and indications all promise that it will cul
inmate in one of the hardest fights eve
known in the legislature.
THE Armour Packing Company of Chcag,
has received another cable order from thu
British war department for eight thousan,
additional cases of canned beef, represent
ing about 650,0 900 pounds
HANLAN was defeated on the Paramatt
river, Sidney, New South Wales, Saturday
by Beach The latter won by six lengths
Twenty thousand persons saw the race
The excitement was tremendous, and tn
people almost killed Beach with con
CALCULATIONS.
FREDERICK SEYMOUR WINSTON, presiden
of the New York Mutual Life Insuranc
Company, died from paralysis Friday night
at Fernandina Florida where he went tw
months ago, to escape the March winds. MI
Winston was native of Ballston Springs
N. Y, and was seventy-nine years old.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas has author