The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16
Weekly News Summary.

THE grand list of Orleans county for 1885
is $95, 344.75.
Hon. EDWIN G. WATSON of Hartford is
dangerously ill.
PHILIP PARo was killed by a derrick at
the quarry in Isle la Motto recently.
THE grand list of Bennington county is
SSS, 5S06S, and the state tax $S,S5S.06.
THE Salvation Army has really arrived at
Rutland at last and begun operations.
The Rutland and Burlington post-ofiices
have been equipped with new lock-boxes.
THE Windsor county grand list amounts
to $50, 925.95, and the state tax to S19Oo3.50.
THE Free Press made its appearance
Saturday morning in new and enlarged form.
MERRITT WOOD, who was injured by the
fall of a tree, recently, at Wells, died last
week Wednesday.
IT is reported that the town of Barre is
free, for the first time in thirty years, of in
sane at Brattleboro.
THE eleven-years-old son of Samuel Roy
of st. Johnsbury had an ankle broken, last
week, while coasting.
CONRAD BECK of st. Johnsbury had
wrist cut and lacerated in the machinery at
the scale shops last week.
SENATOR MORRILL, has introduced bill
providing for the erection of bridge over
Lake Champlain at North Hero
HApGooD & ALDRIcH of Bellows Falls,
wholesale grocers have failed. Liabilities,
$1,000; nominal assets, about 81 200.
THE Middebury Register will discard
patent insides, have a new makeup and
otherwise put on new buttons with the new
year
The people of the town of Norwich or
ganized public library in 1880, have con-
stantly progressed, and now have over 900
volumes.
THE boiler in G. II. Hoden's steam mill
at North Chittenden exploded on the 18th.
John Rivers was killed and the engineer
badly scalded.
THOMAS FINNIGAN, an employee of the
merino mill in Winooslli, had his hand badly
lacerated recently, by getting it caught in
the machinery.
TowNsHEND has voted to raise eighty
cents on dollar of the grand list to pay the
tow expenses the last year and 81 900 OF
the railroad debt.
THE Orleans County Union Sunday-School
convention holds its annual meeting in the
Congregational church at Irasburgh to-
day and tomorrow
THE Burlington street railway has been
transferred from the construction company
to the street railroad company. X. b.
Walker is superintendent.
The iron bridge in process of construction
across the Winooski river near Burlington
gave way last week. The trestle and tenn
porary bridge were also carried away.
LAST week Wednesday night a second at
tempt was made to burn Northrop's block
at Fair Haven by saturating the stairs and
halls with kerosene and setting fire to the
same.
In Montreal, in the noted case of Mrs Mel
vim Smith formerly of st. Albans) for sepa-
ration from her husband, the court decided
in her favor and against her husband on
all points
ABOUT barrel of flour is consumed every
day at the house of correction. Bread is
made every day and sometimes twice a day.
Every Thursday the prisoners enjoy a
"biled dish"
strange cattle disease in Williston, all of
which proved fatal. The only symptom is
gradual wasting away, strongly resem-
bling consumption.
DIR. A. NJ. PHELPS of Chateaugay, N. Y,
has accepted an appointment by the medi-
cal faculty of the University of Vermont as
special professor of orthopRdic surgery and
mechanical therapeutics.
A STORE at Post Mills, owned by j. Pratt
and occupied by w. A. Dodge, was burned,
with its contents, Tuesday night of last
week. Dodge loses $1,000, partly insured,
and Pratt $500, with no insurance.
A SUBSCRIPTION has been started in Rut.
land for Rev. and Mrs. John II. Parr, who
were driven from Quitman. Ga, and the
school burned over their heads, on account
of their keeping school for negroes.
The chair of mathematics in the Uni
versity of Vermont has been temporarily
filled by the appointment of A. l.. Daniels
Ph.D. He is graduate of the University
of Michigan and studied six years il
Germany.
WHILE the young son of w. 7. Drake o.
New Haven was playing with gun, re
Gently, which he supposed was not loaded
the piece was discharged. The faces of two
young ladies were grazed with shot, but they
were not seriously injured.
THERE has been an encouraging increas,
in the number of Grand Army posts in th
state the past year, there now being ninety
two Several petitions for charters are nov
in the hands of Department Commands
Greenleaf for consideration.
THE house of A. L. Austin of Burlington
was broken open Saturday evening AM
robbed. The burglar broke open the from
door and ransacked the drawers in tn
house, till, finding one locked, he broke i
open, took from it sum of money and de
camped
ABOUT fifty men were discharged from
the mechanical and other departments 0
the Central Vermont road Saturday. Thi
move was made by the management be
cause the amount of work in the shops die
not warrant the maintaining of so large
force of men.
The Connecticut River railroad compan
will ask authority from the incoming legis
lature of Massachusetts to purchase TIN
Ashuelot road, that extends from Sout
Vernon, VT, to Keene, n. H., and to max
an increase of $4,000 in the capital stOc
for that purpose.
Two barns belonging to Hastings & Fol
lansbee, at North Concord, We're burne
Friday night, together with sixty tons {
hay, eighty tons of straw and lot of farm
ing tools. Loss about $1,000: some insur
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incendiary origin.
COLLECTOR SMALLEY's recent visit
Montreal was for the purpose of lookin
into the smallpox quarantine business, an
as result the mails coming from Montrei
are to be fumigated at this place. bull,
ing for this purpose is to be put up near til
depot.-MesSenger
AS nothing could be done toward bull,
ing the Bennington battle monument ii
spring, the Monument Association in IL
meantime has resumed the work of gettir
subscriptions, and has met with success
About $4,000 had been raised in this wa
when the work stopped.
THE Boston Post says: "Miss Nam
Howe of Brattleboro, Vermont, recent
sang before some well-known Philadelphia
critics. and so impressed them with her "
cal powers that even so eminent judge
Professor s. Behrens declared, enthusia
tically, that second Patti had been di
covered"
AS Engineer Shorey was backing his e
CINE on to the main track at Lyndonville, I
Gently, 1t was struck by the night expires
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