The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-01-14
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.


plain has disappeared.
BELLOWS FALLS has ten physicians, or
one for every three hundred inhabitants.
EDWARD S. SEARS of Boston is endeavor-
ing to establish the electric light in Rutland.
THE late George A. futile of Rutland had
an insurance of $1,000 on his life in the
Etna.
CHEsTER's new town hall is nearly done,
and will be appropriately dedicated in
short time.
The Caledonian denies that any of the st.
Johnsbury banks will pass their dividends
this month.
BUEL HARRINGTON, aged ten years, was
drowned in crossing the ice on Benton's
pond at Bennington.
A CALEDONIA county girl gave an exhibit
ton of roller skating in a kitchen, and es-
capped with broken arm
Rocks mining company of Plymouth re-
port for the month of December products in
gold to the value of S7,051.
FRED G.. FUTILE of Rutland drank a guam
tity of embalming fluid recently, in mistake
for cider. He is recovering.
THE country from Bennington to Airing
ton was flooded with water last week, and
considerable damage was done.
The annual meeting of the Champlain
Valley Bee-keepers' Association was held at
the Addison House, Middlebury, on the Sth.
IT is stated that the Transcript, a sheet
started six months ago at Bellows Falls, is
to change owners and become q democratic
organ.
ALBERT EMERSON of Barton has caught
twenty hawks, thirteen owls, and several
other birds in one steel trap during the past
five months.
A CAsTLEToN boy was lately escorted to
the house of correction in Rutland for sixty
days for intoXication and disturbing pub
1in tipfr inf Ia tfxxyr hn11
A NINE-YEARs-oLD st. Adams boy named
Blondin, while quarreling with a fourteen
years-old playmate named Bousquet in the
Elm street school-yard last week, stabbed
him in the temple with jackknife, infiict-
ing serious wound.
A PETITION is being circulated praying
the Bennington Battle Monument Associa-
ton not to adopt the design recently adopted
by the committee on design. 1t is the de-
sire of many of the citizens of the town to
have tall monument erected.
THERE are eight members of the Rutland
county bar who are over seventy years of age,
namely Reuben r. Thrall, 80; Harvey But
ton, 50; Edwin Edgerton, so; ID. e. Nichol-
son, ~; Roswell Buel, ~; Barnes Frsbe,
70; Ebenezer Fisher, 20; Morris II. Cook, 70.
ALBERT CoMsTocK of South Burlington,
high baiiff of Chittenden county, was found
by Sheriff Barton the other night at the
foot of the bank east of the Burlington post
office, to which place he had been rolled
while drunk. In city court he was fined So
and costs.
The boys of Boynton school district" in
the town of Andover, still cling to their love
for " licking the schoolmaSter." The pres
ent pedagogue recently had to use revol-
yer to enforce his refusal of afternoon re-
cess as penalty for msdemeanors earlier
in the day.
THOSE famous Fairbanks cattle of St.
,JOhrSburV have bppu To market and had
their hides taken off. Live weight at st.
Johnsbury, & 100 pounds; dressed in market,
1851; rough tallow, 374 At nine and three
fourths cents they brought S43,72. They
differed in weight only thirty-seven pounds.
ONE of Sherman Myers boys in Benning-
ton was fooling with pistol chamber in
which there was a cartridge. He wanted
to get the cartridge out and hammered it
with jack knife. 1t exploded, took chip off
one of his fingers, caromed on the arm of a
rocking chair, struck another of the chill
dren, but luckily did little harm.
THE Norman Williams Public Library of
Woodstock has just received a unique gift
in the shape of a set of scrap books made
by the late Lester A. Miller. The Wood
stock Standard says the books-four large
volumes-are repository of everything of
local history and biography that has APP
peared in the Standard for half a century.
RUTLAND banking institutions pay semi
annual dividends as follows: Rutland
County National, four per cent; Baxter Ma
tional Bank three and one-half per cent;
Killington National, three per cent; Glenn
ent National, three per cent State Trust
Company, three per cent; Rutland Trust
Company, three per cent; Rutland Savings
Bank, two and one-half per cent; Marble
Savings Bank, two and one-half per cent
THE Rutland democrats had " Jackson
banquet" at the Berwick House the Sth.
Toasts were responded to in the following or
E.I- N,
Reardon; Cleveland and Hendricks the
president and vice-president of the United
States" Hiram Atkins "Civil service re-
FORM" G. III. Davenport; "The republicans
of to-day" M. III. Goddard; Andrew Jack
son, the soldier and statesman" w. A.
wilkins; The plan, purpose and perpe-
tuity of our government" A. p. Childs.
Lucius Bigelow made the concluding speech
of the evening
c. w. GRAHAM of st. Johnsbury has
sent nine cases of taxidermy work to the
New Orleans exposition, all of which was of
much merit, but perhaps the most striking
of all was the Arctic Expedition, which
represented scene in the Arctic regions. of
some explorers who were dying, one by one,
of cold and starvation. This scene presents
an old tent with two explorers (squirrels) in
it, one dead the other Just able to move. In
the background is place where several
comrades have been buried On an iceberg
is a polar bear. Three of the party have
just arrived on the scene; two of them are
trying to capture the bear, while the third
raises the flap of the tent and discovers the
situation of the inmates dledonidR.
Hon III. G. HILL of Isle La Motto and q
party of four others, finding the ice too poor
between Chazy, N. Y, and Isle La Motto, a
few days ago, to cross with team, got Mr.
SAKE of the former place to take them across
on an ice-boat. When near the channel one OF
the runners broke through the ice and broke
the shoe, rendering it unfit to proceed with
Mr.. Hill then thought he would go the re-
naming distance on foot, but when only 8
few rods from the boat he discovered large
tract of open water just in front of him, AND
the ice where he was very thin. If the shoe
had not broken Just as it did they would
have sailed into the open water, and proba
bly, all been drowned. The day was still
and they could not distinguish between the
open water and the glare ice. 1t was
very fortunate escape.
Other Localities.
EARTHQUAKE shocks have been felt in sew
eral places in Northern Italy.
THE receipts of the New Orleans exposi
ton are now rather above its expenses.
THE cold weather is causing much suffer
ing in Kansas, especially among the coloret
people.
THERE is talk of inviting Hon. James G
Blaine to help dedicate the Washington
monument.
Mr.. CLEVELAND has turned over the OF
fee of governor of New York to the leuten