The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30
Weekly News Summary.



destroyed by fire last week.
CHARLES MURRAY has been appointed post
master at Clarendon Springs.
THE new Burlington City Directory con-
tains sxty-siX hundred names.
THERE are 2,200 volumes in the Vergennes
library, which was founded June 1, 1876.
S. M. MAcoMBER & Co. of Grand Isle have
shipped car of corn-planters to Australia.
THE Hawkins Bridge Company is soon TO
occupy part of the st. Adams rollng-mill.
Two men were recently arrested at Rut-
land for disturbing the meeting of the Sal
walton Army
WINDSOR county will pay tax of two
per cent for the years current expenses,
amounting to S703.
REV. n. j. EMERY of Bellows Falls has
declined a call from the Universalist church
of Springfield, Mass.
A. e. PERKINS of Pomfret has invented
yankee corn and potato-planter." Farm
erS say it is a success.
THE Grand Army post at Bellows Falls,
which started in 1880 with forty members,
now has 107 members.
CASHIER CURTIS WELLS of the Howard Ma
tional Bank, Burlington, in search of health,
is reported as improving.
THURSDAY, the 31st instant, is the last day
allowed by law for towns to pay their state
tax to the state treasurer
DANIEL j. PERRY, native of Swanton,
formerly an artist of great promise, died in
a New York hospital last week.
THOMAS Fox, an employee of the Burling-
ton woolen-mills, was badly scalded last
Saturday by falling into the hot dye.
THE liquor saloons in st. Johnsbury were
raided last week. The fines amount to S164,
and sixty bottles of beer were conhscated.
JOHN MEIGs, aged sixteen, of St. Adams,
who was so terribly injured by the acct
dental discharge of gun, died on the DIST.
GOVERNOR PINGREE has appointed Frank
lin Scott of Bennington special prosecutor
of criminal offences under No. 772 of the
acts of 1884.
THE Lyndonvile water-worlls are a sue
cess. The company agrees to give water
for fire purposes if the village will put in
the hydrants.
THE congressional party which goes to
Boston this week as the guests of the Bos-
ton Merchants Association includes Sena-
tor Edmunds.
CAPTAIN j. II. SIMoNDs, proprietor of the
Windsor House at Windsor, died Deem
Der 18th. He was eighty-three years old
and leaves no family.
IT is said the insurance companies will
reduce rates twenty-five per cent in Bethel,
because of the effective apparatus recently
put in for fighting fire.
The gross receipts from the drama given
*,
reached S1,070. The expenses will amount
to fully one-half of this sum.
THEmusket used by" Sim Scudder" in the
play of the Battle of Gettysburg at Rut-
land, last week, is Ethan Aliens old fowl
ing-piece now owned by Dr. Charles
Allen.
IDA HASTINGS, who works in the Ludlow
wooden mill lost finger in loom recently.
Mike Kelly, another employee, had his hand
caught in the shears and will lose three
fingers.
AN Italian, name unknown, was found
badly frozen in boX-car at Sunderland
last week He was taken to a house near
by, but died soon after. He was buried by
the seleCtnen.
Burke attacked companion with knife,
recently, intlicting a wound nearly three
inches long on the side of his neck and two
or three wounds on his hand.
WHEELER & PERKINS of Burlington were
awarded the first premium on pair of Ply
mouth Rock chicks at the great poultry
show at Winsted Conn. They also re-
ceved two special premiums.
GEORGE e. PELToN and Fred A. Field of
Rutland propose to start The Vermonter,
monthly magazine, to be filled with the
best efforts of the states literary lights and
personal and historical sketches.
Four masked men entered the general
slore ol Abraham " farker " Son at Pow
nal, the other night, blew open the large
safe in the office and fled with considerable
sum of money and many valuable papers.
A NoRTHFIELD passenger brakeman named
Moody is troubled with messages from va
Fioqs cities urging him to hold series of
revival meetings at these places. He al
ways declines in favor of his namesake in
Mortified, Mass,
THE state committee of the Young Mems
Christian Association has organized. Pro-
lessor Henry Fairbanks is president: c. L.
Page, secretary: ID. NJ, Camp, treasurer.
The secretary will look after old and or
ganize new associations.
EX-GOVERNOR HILAND HALLS death
leaves Robert c. Winthrop of Boston and
John h. Reding of Portsmouth, n H., the
Oldest living eX-members of congress in
New England. Both served in the twenty
seventh congress, from 1871 to 1913.
A. LECLARE of Barton went to his shed
before daylight, one morning recently, when
somebody struck him a blow with club
which broke his cheek-bone, nearly putting
out his eye. The assailant escaped unseen
but it is believed that he will be captured.
THE remains of the late Ex-Governor Hall
were laid in the old revolutionary cemetery
at Bennington Center, by the side of his
wife, and also by the side of and in line
with three other eX-governors and their
wives-Moses Robinson, Isaac Tichenor and
John S. Robinson-making four eX-goVer-
nors, and all of Bennington.
MOSES Brown of STAFFORD who recently
became insane, but was considered harmless
became violent, one night last week, and
fired several shots from a revolver at his
brother, one of the bullets slightly wound
ing him. The neighbors came to the res
cue, and the maniac was subdued after
hard struggle. He will be taken to Brat
tlebOro asylum.
THE commissioner of agriculture at the
New Orleans exposition wishes to remind
the farmers of Vermont that freghts must
be prepaid on products intended for the eX-
position and the goods consigned to the
shippers own order and not to the director
general All cash premiums yet due ON ex-
hibits at the exposition of last year are to be
paid Immediately.
EDWIN w. SMITH of Chester for robbing
the mails at Gassets, and Frank Libby for
were last week indicted by the grand jury
of the United States court. Smith pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to year in the
house of correction. No indictment was re-
ported against e. A. Sowles, the ex-bank
president of st. Adams.
DUMMERsToN people are excited over the
shooting of IA farmer named Frank Dodge by
Morton Davis, schoOl-teacher. The
schoolmasters attempt to discipline a
scholar brought Dodge to the school-house,
where, after an exciting scene the farmer
was shot in the thigh, though probably not
fatally. Davis surrendered himself TO the
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