The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-13
Vermont State News.

THE Union National Bank at Swanton has
been closed.
RUTLAND is not likely to have the electric
light before next fall.
A VILLAGE improvement association has
been formed at Swanton.
THE reform school at vergennes has sixty
nine boys and eighteen girls in it.
BRADFORD has five couples who have
passed their golden wedding days.
HOMER LYON of Shaftsbury caught bear
the other day in trap set for panther.
THE Congregational church of Strafford
has extended a call to Rev. Charles Mills Of
Andover. Mass.
BRATTLEBoRo had a revival of Pima
fore +" last week, under the auspices of the
philharmonic Society.
MINISTER PHELPS will not only occupy
Minister Lowell's ministerial shoes, but his
London residence as well.
ELEVEN grand lists of Wilmington people
have been doubled this year because of
their failure to file inventories.
JOHN b. ROGERS, dealer in general mer-
chandise, Walden, has been petitioned into
insolvency. The libilities are $4,000; light
assets.
FRANK MooR's store, at Morgan Center,
was entered Wednesday night of last week,
and watches and jewelry to the amount Of
about $50 stolen.
ALEXIS SKrFF of Hinesburg was found
dead in his bed, Saturday morning, May 2.
He was an old gentleman about eighty, and
was living with his granddaughter.
In Castleton, it is stated, it will cost thou
sands OF dollars to repair or rebuild the
miles of dilapidated farm fences, caused by
the destructive high winds the last winter
THE duties collected at St. Albans during
April amounted to S22,07l, ,95. For the first
four days of the present month the duties
collected amounted to very nearly 1000
day.
u. A. MARSH, one of the older and most
prominent men of Bridgewater, died Friday
last He had been postmaster in that town
since the days of Lincoln, and has held many
town offices.
NONE of the bids made to Receiver Hen
dee of the Vermont National Bank at st.
Adams are high enough to make the banks
debts good, and assessments on the stock
will probably be ordered soon.
The members of the Rutland county
Sheep Breeders Union did not respond to
the call for public shearing at Castleton.
Not man nor sheep appeared. The in
dications are that the union is defunct.
HERE is the March customs report for the
district of Vermont Value of imports,
| $2S9, $50 duties, S62, ,223 "a; value OF dOmes-
! tic exports, S14 ,O63 amount of entries to
! be transferred to other districts, S43,S75.
PROFESSOR SABIN's position in the Univer-
sty of Vermont and as state chemist is be-
ing temporarily filled by DIR. Comey q re-
cent graduate of Heidelberg. The medical
class now numbers nearly two hundred.
THE case of l.. A. Drew as. Rev. Thaddeus
F. Stewart, an action for slander, that has
been in the courts since 1888, has been
settled, the defendant writing letter of
apology and paying the plaintiffs counsel
$40 and costs.
WHILE Mrs. Jay Pierce of Starksboro was
washing her dishes she said to her children
that she thought she was dying, and, lying
down on her bed she expired Immediately.
She was aged about thirty and leaves five
small children.
TWENTY-FIVE men were discharged from
the Boston & Lowell repair shops at St.
Johnsbury, Thursday night, only six or
eight being retained to clean up wrecks and
do small repairs The bulk of the repairs
already goes to Concord, n. II.
Mr.. AFRO F. SoULE son of Mr.. James M.
Soule hotel keeper at South Strafford died
Sunday. He had been in the employ of s..
f. Frary & Co. twelve years or more, and
was a young man of uncommonly good busi-
ness abilities, who will be missed by all his
friends.
PowNAL planted one hundred trees Ar
Dor Day; Franklin, two hundred fifty;
Richford, five hundred Arlington, one
hundred; North Springfield, one hundred;
dred; Cornwall, two hundred, and Rutland,
three thousand.
The Brattleboro high school children
have a fire drill part of their regular
exercises, the children falling into line at
a given stroke of the gong and marching
out in proper order. Trial of this method
shows that the building can be cleared in
less than sixty seconds.
Mrs. MIRANDA A. KELLOGG, widow of the
late Judge Daniel Kellogg and daughter OF
the late Judge Asa Adds of st. Adams, died
at her home in Brattleboro, aged eighty-two
Sunday-and exactly ten years after the
death of her husband. She left her large
estate to her brother, Judge Adds, of the
southern claims commission.
THE st. Adams foundry has recently
shipped to Smyrna Asia Minor, one OF
their two horse powers and threshers com.
plete for cleaning and threshing grain, and
large sized fodder shredder They have
been filling orders in Sweden and other
foreign countries, besides many from differ
ent parts of the United States.
THE court at Rutland refused to grant q
continuance in the state cases against Haven
on the motion made by Judge Dunton, sup
ported by affidavits of himself and Mr.
Haven, that a fair trial could not be had OF
account of the prejudice against Haven, en-
gendered by the Page trial The court init
mated that events might arise which would
warrant continuance, but did not thinl
anything now sufficient.
THE Russell Paper Company of Bellows
Falls is building another MILL in which
they will put the largest paper machine in
the United States. 1t is to be Harper
, Fourdrinier machine over one hundred
forty feet long The drive-rolls are tifty-foul
inches in diameter and over ninety inches
long This machine is designed for news
paper, and makes three sheets at one time
1t will cost about $4,000.
THE third annual encampment of the
) Sons of Veterans, Vermont division, was
held at Rutland, Wednesday of last week
The following officers were elected and in
: stalled by Post Commander, Louis " Greer
: of Rutland; G. Il. II. Jenne of Brattleboro
9 commander; George Il. Terrill of Under
= hill, lieutenant commander; j. S. Drenar
of Hardwick, vice lieutenant commander
and o. h. Leonard of Brattleboro, chaplain
PATRICK TIGUE. a sawyer in Sheldons mil
: at West Rutland, recently had narrow es
cape from death. While adjusting som'
= stepped on plank which gave way and h
!, = fell on the moving saw beneath. With grea
. presence of mind he managed to draw hi
, body near an opening and to drop unde
= : the framework of the gang and thence to
: place of safety. He escaped with fey
= bruises,
y FMCK NIGHT of Wallingford, about twenty
r two years of age, returned from day
4 hunting excursion, and, being somewhat ex
[ hausted, drank from a bottle which he sur
5 posed contained liquor, but which proved q
: be alcohol and aconite, that had been pre-