The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.


of the Rutland municipal court.
ELLERY POTTER of East st. Johnsbury
lost an eye by nail flying into it,
Cook q WILEY, farmers of st. Johnsbury
have failed, with liabilities of about $1,000.
THE Sauveur school and its friends will
have an excursion, next Saturday, to Cha
teaugay chasm
NELSON PARKER town clerk of Chitten-
den, while skidding logs last week Tuesday
morning broke one of his legs.
A HORSE belonging to Nilsson Evans of
Putney ran away the other night and, TAX
ing quick turn, dropped dead.
THE Brattleboro Young Mems Christian
Association has made provision for about
seventy fresh-air children from New York.
LEWIS BACON of Charlotte dropped dead
last Sunday morning The cause of his
death is supposed to have been heart disease.
WHILE playing base ball on Saturday, at
Grand Isle, Asa Mooney was accidentally
struck on the head by club and severely
injured.
SERVICES to the memory of the late DR..
Prime, editor of the New York Observer,
were held in several churches of the state
last week
MONTGOMERY tub factories turn out be-
tween four and five hundred thousand tubs
year. in some years even exceeding this
last number.
THE stockholders of the Merchants Ma
tional Bank in st. Johnsbury have reduced
the number of directors in the bank from
nine to seven.
THE West River National Bank of Jamaica
proposes to close its affairs at the expiration
of its charter August H. owing to an I'M
profitable business.
THE trustees of Beeman Academy at New
Haven have engaged Professor Hoffnagle
and his sister of Essex, n. Y. to be princi-
pal and preceptress.
A. A. Brooks, pump manufacturer of
Swanton, is settling in insolvency, and A.
l.. Patro, grocer and provision dealer of the
same place, is reported failed.
A BARN and small storehouse standing on
the bank of the canal near the Central YER
mont railroad bridge at Bellows Falls were
burned last week Tuesday night.
Mr. b. G.. HARRINGTON of North Pomfret,
while moving, was thrown from the machine
in front of the cutter-bar and badly in
jured, one section cutting his hip.
RODNEY RICE, who disappeared from his
home in Newport Center about three years
ago and was supposed to be dead, returned
one day recently from New York.
THE work of putting in the electric lights
at Rutland began Monday. Several people
outside of the stock company have decided
to put them in their business places.
IT is expected that Francis Murphy, the
temperance apostle, and Rev. ID. Bolton of
Boston will again be among the speakers at
the Morrisville camp-meetings this summer
| Thus far about fifty fourth-cass post
masters have been removed in Vermont
under the rule laid down in the confidential
circular issued by Postmaster-General Villas
BURGLARS stole $500 from Peases hotel at
Hartford, Friday night, $3.50 of it coming
from the pockets of the sleeping clerk.
They tried to get into Governor Pipgrees
house, but failed.
THE slate-producers of Fair Haven and
vicinity met at that place, July II, and es-
tablshed uniform price of ten cents per
foot for stock delivered at the mill, to take
effect August LIST.
CYRUS SMITH of East Charleston met with
a severe accident while saving laths. While
exchanging saws the mill started and the
saw caught his glove, mangling his hand in
a shocking manner.
THE barns of Mr.. S. II. Weston of Wi
nooski, burned last week, We're partially in
sured, through the agency of General 7. S.
Peck, in the Continental of New York. The
loss is estimated at about $500.
THERE were thirteen thousand seven hun
dred sixty-seven kilograms handled at the
| Western Union Office in Rutland during
june an increase of six hundred sixty
seven over the same month last year
The contest over the will of the late Hon.
|
| son in whose favor the codicil was made
gives up his claim, and the property will be
| divided according to the provisions of the
original will.
REV. GEORGE S. GUERNSEY will preach in
Institute hail. Fairfax, under the auspices
of the late Ami Wilson fund, next Sunday
at two O'Clock in the afternoon. Subject,
The Universalist Church, and what 1t
| Stands For"
| The st. Jobnsbury Granite Company has
received a contract for a soldiers monument
to be set upon the field of Gettysburg for the
! One Hundred Twenty-seventh Regiment,
Connecticut Volunteers. The monument is
to cost $4,000.
The Waterloo Up. o. Adrertiser saws it is
rumored that the Canada Pacific is trying
to acquire control of the Central Vermont
line from Farnham to Sherbrooke, so as to
| form link in their railroad system from
ocean to ocean.
THE highest villages in Vermont are
Lunenburgh, Danville and Randolph The
highest cultivated land is in those towns.
III is cultivated in Lunenburgh to the height
of about three thousand feet. The lowest
land is about Lake Champlan.
Two prisoners escaped from the house of
correction on the 22d, and at last accounts
were still at liberty. They were the men who
broke into Huletts store at Wallingford
some time ago, and were committed to await
a hearing before the county court.
THOMAS MANNING, a brakeman on the
Bennington x Rutland railroad was caught
and crushed while coupling cars at North
Bennington. He walked a short distance
after clearing himself and then laid down
and was carried to his home in North
Bennington.
A MAN named Gebe, working on the bank
OF the True Blue Marble quarry at West
Rutland, Friday afternoon, lost his balance
and fell into the quarry, about fifty feet re-
ceiving painful injuries about the head and
body. AT last accounts the injured man
was doing well.
The horse of Charles Colburn of st. AL
bans ran away, one day last week, and Mr.
| Colburn, who was thrown from the carriage
and dragged some distance, was seriously
hurt. The wheels passed over him, smash
ing his knee-pan badly, and he was also cut
on the left cheek.
WHILE shooting at a target with q rifle, S.
ID. Damon of Ripton met with quite a Sc
rious accident. On firing, the breech-piece
was thrown up, the hammer back to full
cock, the base of the cartridge blown off and
Damon's eyes filed with powder. The sight
will not be destroyed.
ABEL MORGAN OF Pittsford has five
years-old Plymouth Rock hen that has
Matched at one setting eighteen chickens
and raised seventeen of them. She laid an
egg the other day that weighed eight ounces
and measured eight and three-fourths by
seven and one-half inches.
WILLIAM RoYEs, an old and highly re-
spected citizen of Cuttingsyille, committed