The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-10
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

A STRAWBERRY weevil is reported to have
made its appearance.
GEORGE SHAws house and barn in East
Lyndon were burned on Saturday.
CHAPLIN x SouIERs, boot and shoe dealers,
New Haven, have been petitioned into in
solvency.
THE star postal service has been ordered
discontinued from Highgate Springs to Swan
ton after July II.
In an unworked marble quarry at Rut-
land ice, formed last winter is still eight
feet in thickness.
THE effort to start shoe factory in Rut-
land has failed, the subscriptions being too
small by $4,000.
HENRY l.. DANFoRTH, twelve-years-old
Rutland boy, caught four hundred four
brook trout in May.
THE new savings bank at Lyndonville has
already three hundred thirty depositors,
with $4,000 in deposits.
IT is said that upwards of seven hundred
cases of measles have been reported to the
health officer of Burlington.
A PAIR of horses for which President
Cleveland is said to be negotiating were ex-
hibited at Tunbridge recently.
REV. Mr.. GREEN, the late pastor of the
Bellows Falls Baptist church, has given up
the ministry and gone into business.
COLONEL ROBERT G. INGERsoLL proposes
TO lecture in Rutland. His agent is trying
to make the necessary arrangements.
THE comptroller of the currency has ex-
tended the corporate existence of the Castle
ton National Bank of Castleton to June D,
1900.
f. A. BATCHELDER's four-years-old boy
was run over by heavily loaded team at
Andover, Friday, and severely if not fatally
injured.
ID. L. MOODY, the evangelist has an
nounced that he will be unable to accept
IN
Rutland.
by the White Brothers of Barre, formerly of
Rutland, have opened a branch establish
ment at Albany, n. Y.
THE Green Mountain Association of Uni
versalsts will hold its annual session at
Felchvile next week Wednesday and
Thursday, June IL and IA.
THE Rutland musical festival was not a
financial success, and the members of the
guarantee fund have been assessed two dol
lars each to meet the deficit.
AN effort is being made to secure the par
don of Arson +. Hayward of Windham
county, who has served eleven years on a
twenty years sentence for arson.
The Messina quails, imported into Rut-
land few years ago, have returned this
spring. 1t is a well-settled fact they will
live in this climate and rapidly increase.
FRED j. PRESTON, Southeastern brake
man, had the first two fingers of his left
hand badly crushed while coupling cars al
Richford Wednesday forenoon of last week.
II. c. WHEELER of Peacham, lumber
dealer, has failed and gone out West. The
assets are in the hands of Frank f.. Palmer
as assignee. The creditors have as yet re-
ceived nothing.
w. G. LANDoN of Rutland lost a pair OF
horses, Saturday afternoon, valued at 81 800
The animals became frightened and, run
ming up the railroad track, fell through 6
bridge and sustained injuries resulting il
death.
SUPERINTENDENT JOHN l.. SAUNDERS o.
the Brattleboro Sewing-machine Company
was thrown from his carriage in a runaway
accident last week Wednesday. His jaw
was broken and he lay unconscious unit
Thursday morning.
The corporation tax of st. Adams viii
amount to fiftv-tive cents on the dollar thi
year. The total town tax, announced a.
eighty-one cents on the dollar, includes no
only the state school tax, but also the stat
tax of ten cents on the dollar.
GEORGE HALL of Grafton, eighteen year,
old, was thrown from loaded team head
long to the ground last week Tuesday even
ing. One wheel passed over his chest
breaking one rib and otherwise severely in
jurng him. His recovery is doubtful.
SUTHERLAND FALLS is still used on tn
railroad to designate the thriving village OF
the north border of the town of Rutland, in
stead of Proctor, the new name. trail
conductor, being asked why, laughed an,
said they had no tickets printed for Proctor
EDWARD p. Butler, superintendent of TIL
Vermont Marble Company at Proctor, wa
run over by the cars, Saturday morning, an,
lost an arm. He is twenty-five years old
highly esteemed, and his loss is sad one
but the company will keep him in his posi-
ton.
Exru rati hain mad
by Post Roberts of Rutland to attend tn
national encampment at Portland, June g
About sixty members will 60 and the Rut
land cornet band will accompany them. !
number of guests will make the journe
with them.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES KoUNTZ of tn
Grand Army of the Republic has announce
the appointment of large number of add
tiOnal aids-de-camp from different states TO
the national encampment, among whom ar
q. A. Bundy of Arlington and M. j. Leacl
of Wolcott.
THE Burlington University chapel ha
been given stained-glass window in men
Dry of President Marsh by the class of 1871
The window is eighteen and one-half feet b
four, and is rich in coloring and symbolic i
design. 1t is the work of Edinburgh, SEQ
land, manufacturers.
FARMERS announce that grubs are maxim
sad work, destroying wheat, corn and pc
tatoes. In some places so destructive Ia
been the work that farmers are harrowin
up their corn and sowing barley and Indi
wheat. One instance is recorded where
man took eleven of these pests from on
hill of corn.
FRANK MCBRIDE was arrested at Middle
bury, last week, charged with committin
rape on one Mrs. Strewant, and the case Ia
since been before the court On Monda
the case was given to the jury, VIII
promptly returned verdict of guilty, an
Judge Neazey sentenced Mcbride to tiy
years at hard labor in the state prison.
CHARLES c. SPAULpING, who was at wor
by himself clapboarding Hayward, Taft
Co.'S mill, Proctorsville, fell about lively
feet, Thursday afternoon, broke his nee
and never moved again. His watch VIZ
thrown from his pocket and stopped at
quarter past four, but he was not foun
until half an hour later. He was abol
sixty-fve years old and leaves a family.
THE following fourth-class postmaste
have been commissioned: Henry Il. Wi
son, Barnet; Ames b. Perry, McIndoe
Falls; William Weaver, Westford e.
Seaver, North Troy; Norman Hawkin
South Salisbury; f. G. Harrington, Ea
St. Johnsbury; Francis Richardson, vii
oughby; Flora j. Peake, Orange; Edwal
ID. Plimpton, Wardsboro; S. b. H. Stuff
bean, Sheldon; Alonzo A. Curtis, Lo
donderry.
THE new iron bridge at Winooski is to
of two spans, each one hundred thirty-sev'
feet in length and the driveway is to
eighteen feet in the clear. On each 81,