The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-08
Weekly News Summary.



city.
QUITE number who went West from
Orange county this spring have returned,
Disguised with the country.
Nor less than three hundred students
were graduated from the college preparatory
schools of Vermont this season
CAsTLEToN has furnished thirty-fve grad
mates from different colleges, the most of
them from Middlebury, since 1915
THE opening exercises of Sauveur College
Of Languages at Burlington were held in the
Howard opera house on Monday evening.
THE st. Johnshury Granite Company has
just sent gang of men to Greensboro to
open quarry there which gives promise of
unusual value
THE slate business at Hydeville is thriv-
ing. Some concerns have received orders
which will keep them running nearly
through the year.
A GEORGIA woman has, in box in her
front yard, fig tree raised from the seed.
There are twenty-three figs on it this sum-
mer, of good size.
THE house, barns and outbuildings of III.
C.. Wiley near Saxton's River village, were
burned last week Tuesday night. Contents
partly saved Loss $1,000; insured.
THE officers of the Orange County Agricul-
tural Society have decided to hold the com
ing fair Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
THE Ruggles house at Hartland, which is
TO be taken down this summer, is one of the
oldest in town, it having been built in 1774
by Adoniiah, father of the late Judge Elihu
Luce,
THE Fairbanks Scale Company are work
ing on one of the largest orders for one class
of scales which they ever received. it being
for ninety-nine depot scales for grain eleva-
tors in the West.
TRAINMEN on freight train, which arrived
at st Adams Sunday morning found the
mutilated remains of a man on the track
near Georgia 1t is supposed he was struck
and killed by one of the night trains.
OTIS WITHINGToN, formerly of Barnard, a
son of Sylvester Wilmington was killed re-
Gently in Washington Territory, by being
run over by train of cars on which he was
brakeman. He was twenty-five years of age.
OWING to the death of Joseph Kidder, con-
tractor of the mail route from Enosburgh to
Enosburgh Falls, the performance of the
service for the contracted term falls upon
the sureties. A. j. Croft, being first surety
will perform the service.
THE Sheldon hose company of Rutland
recently ran eight hundred feet, stringing
three hundred feet of hose and making tw o
couplings, in forty-two and one-fourth sec
onds. They claim that this is the fastest
time ever made in Vermont
ROBERT ARTHUR of South Ryegate met
W1Un severe dcCluenU Wnlle CIOpplnP, re-
Gently. He went to cut off a limb and his
AK going through much easier than he ex-
pected, went into his foot, cutting cash
four inches long and nearly through his foot
JOSEPH AND ANDREW HAsTY of West
Barnet were working in the corn-feld last
week, when a large specimen of a black
bear passed near them. They at once pur-
sued it, but it made its escape into large
swamp near by and has not been seen since.
F. w. BALDWIN, Esq, of Barton is pre-
pairing biography of the members of the
Orleans county bar from 1900 to the present
time. The list comprises about one hum
bred sixty different names. The book will
contain engravings OF the prominent men,
bers.
THERE was prize fight at Thompson's
point, near Burlington, Saturday morning
between one Taylor of Burlington and Pat
Hennessy of Winooski, for 800 side and
gate money. Twenty-four rounds were
fought and considerable blood was spilled
There were no arrests.
TUPPER & MARTINS hardware store at
Bethel was entered by burglars Thursday
night of last week, the safe blown open and
some two or three hundred dollars stolen.
There is no clue to the burglars. This is the
third safe successfully burglarized in that
village within the last five years.
THE graduating exercises of the State
Normal School at Castleton began Friday
alumni were present, representing twenty
or thirty towns. Two of the graduating
class are already engaged as teachers, one
in California and one in Minnesota.
THERE seems but little doubt that within
few days two hundred fifty Edison incandes-
cent electric lights will be in operation in
Rutland The total cost of the plant, put in,
is S4,lOO. The lights are of thirteen candle
power, and can be turned on and off like
gas, and can be put upon gas fixtures.
THE safe in Houghton & Mastin's jewelry
store in Lyndonville was burglariZed last
week Tuesday night. The burglars entered
window in the back of the store, drilled a
hole in the safe and blew off one doo-. They
were frightened away by Mr. Houghton.
They secured no money, and the damage
will be about S75.
THE blue limestone in the vicinity of Ben
nington has been examined by architects
and builders, and is deemed by them suita-
BILE for building the Bennington monument.
but it has not yet been subjected to the tests
of science. This it is now proposed to have
done, and the committee of the Historical
Society have sent away samples of the stone
for this purpose.
THE new democratic internal revenue col
Iector for Vermont, George l.. Spear, an
nounces the following appointments; A. J..
Sibley of Montpelier, clerk and deputy col
lector of the home office; James A. Brown
ton; James A. Lillis, deputy collector at
Brattleboro; f. ID. Reardon, deputy col
lector at Rutland.
A COMPANY has purchased the mill priv
ilege ON the Ammonoosuc in Woodsvllle
and it is reported will build a dam this
winter and will next season erect large
building in which will be carried on the
business of foundry, machine works, sash
blinds, doors, etc, employing good force
of hands. In the company is Charles L.
Winslow of Groton.
INSPECTOR ID. S. MORGAN reports thor
ough inspection of the Vermont department
Grand Army of the Republic. There are
eighty -fourposts, witha membership ofthret
thousand four hundred four. The depart
ment is generally in good condition, the
records are well kept, work OF ritual fairly
performed, and comrades are full of enthu
siasm for the success of the department.
IT is reported at St. Johnsbury that the
comptroller of the treasury has ordered the
First National Bank not to pay its Jul,
dividend, on account OF its refusal to pay III
assessment on the Barlow failure. TIT
First National was assessed S3O,OOO, the
Merchants National $4,000, and the saw
ings bank $4,000. All three refuse to pa,
on the ground that, in reality, they did no
own the stock of the St. Adams bank as
sessed upon, but merely held 1t as collatera
security for money loaned Barlow
THE first yacht race of any importanc
which has occurred in Burlington bay TO
years took place Thursday evening, be
tween the sail yachts Mystic, owned by I'D
ward Johnson, Gipsey, owned by Will