The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

The Northern Association of Universalists
meet at st. Johnsbury Wednesday and
Thursday, June oath and 25th
The Vermont Marble Company has re-
ceved an order from Australia for over one
hundred finished monuments
THE Belvidere special mail service and the
regular service from Brattleboro to West
Brattleboro have been ordered discontinued.
A GUN burst at Chester, Monday of last
week, while being fred by Ora M. Rhodes,
mangling his hand so as to necessitate am
putation.
f. w. ATWOOD and A. G. Jones have just
started new creamery at West Salisbury,
and are making fourteen hundred pounds of
butter week.
NEWS has been received at Rutland of the
deaths of Byron ID. Morgan and Charles
Cheney, Rutland men employed on the
Panama railroad.
ONE day recently James E. Sheldon of
Readsboro, while cleaning off his horses,
was kicked in the side and sustained the
fracture of one rib.
CAPTAIN A. e. X. DURHAM, lighthouse
inspector, has just made his annual trip of
inspection on Lake Champlan on the
steamer Mariquita.
The Union Soapstone Company at Ches-
ter is building a foundation for a new mill
near their old one for saving and working
their stone into blocks.
A TOWN meeting at st. Johnsbury last
week Thursday, held to see If the town
should refund its debt at lower rate of in
terest, adjourned without action. A war
rant is issued for special meeting for this
same purpose to be held Tuesday, June Odd
FRED CHURCH of Burlington brakeman,
was struck on the head and knocked off the
train at the "Oxbow bridge, three miles
south of Middlebury station, last week
Thursday. Mr. Church was about forty-fiye
years of age, and leaves wife and three
children.
j. M. CURRIER, secretary of the CaStleton
Memorial Association, has received a hand
some note of thanks from General Grant for
the resolutions of sympathy for him and
his passed by the citizens and veteran
soldiers at their memorial ceremonies in
Castleton.
THE grand jury of Caledonia county have
found indictments against Philip De Paris
for assault with intent to kill, Joseph Gil
christ for criminal assault, Van ID. Niles for
adultery, and James Pearsons, Charles S.
Wright, Charles Kittridge and Harvey
Stone for selling liquor.
ing load of goods up hill, near the village,
one of the horses baked, ran backwards
and pushed the wagon off the bridge at the
foot of the hill, down an embankment of
twelve feet, into the stream, completely de-
molishing the furniture and killing Mr..
Russell's Oldest daughter, Jennie, aged
eight years, who was on the load The
teamster and the team escaped injury.
H. H. CAswELL's jewelry store at New
port was broken into and robbed last week
Tuesday night of about 81 200 worth of gold,
seal and diamond rings, gold chains, watches
and neck charms, bosom pins some twenty
new gold watches, and two gold and one sill
yer watch in for repairs The robbers broke
into the back window. AS yet no clue has
been obtained. They were evidently ex-
perts, as they took only the best quality of
everything. A package under the counter
containing about 500 was left untouched.
Mr.. Caswell started in business last fall, and
his stock was all new and of first quality
Other Localities.
TEN miners were killed in a Mexican
mine last week by an explosion of giant
powder.
THERE has been a terrible gale on the
Newfoundland coast and many lives were
lost by the wrecking of fishing boats.
HAGGARD, who took the policeman's at
tention from Odlum on the Brooklyn bridge,
has been sent to Jail for eight months.
A TUNNEL caved in on reconstruction train
near New River, Tenn, last week. Six
persons were killed and twenty injured.
PRESIDENT JAMES II. RUTTER of the New
York Central & Hudson river railroad died
last week Thursday at his home in Irvington
THE largest business ever done by the
United States patent office, it is said was
that of April, when there We're 1859 appli.
cations for patents and S100,640 received
for fees.
BoUNTIEs on wild animals to the extent
of $4,000 have been paid by New Hamp.
shire during the past year, and it is the
opinion in that state that some of the an.
imals were imported for the sake of the
bounty
THE Berlin painters, Bracht, Koch and
Rochling, who executed the large panorama
of the Battle of Sedan, have received com
mission from the city of Chicago to paint the
Battle of Chattanooga on the same big scale
The artists are to spend two months in
Tennessee studying the theater OF the con
fiict, and then return to Berlin, where the
picture is to be painted.
A PASSENGER train on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railway was struck by q
cyclone last week Friday night, and every
car thrown from the track and smashed to
pieces. The accident occurred near McCook
a small station in Dakota. There were two
passenger coaches, baggage and a mai
car. The train was going at nearly full
speed when struck by the cyclone.
HEREAFTER, in France, when a number
of stamps are to be affixed to letter, they
must not be placed close together, but will
space between them. The reason is tina
if a considerable portion of the envelope is
covered with stamps it is easy for dis
uOutSU peTSOH W TeHlONt bHtiil, open bilt Ell
velope under them, abstract the contents OF
the letter, and paste them on again. Many
bank-notes have been stolen in this way
THE net profit of the Brooklyn bridg,
business last year was $128,7S4, and for tn,
month of May this year the net receipts wer,
about $4,000, or at the rate of S216,00O
year. The railroad across the bridge yield
about five times as much as the promenade
and carriage way together. The whole nun
Der of people who have crossed the bridg,
since it was opened is 26,455, 070 The tota
number of vehicles is estimated at ,306, $50
ADJUTANT-GENERAL DRUM has complete,
list of casualties in the federal army dur
ing the late war. The aggregate number o
deaths is shown to have been 359,496. o
these 49, 98 occurred among Union soldier
held as prisoners of war. The total numbe
of troops reported as furnished by the va
rious states under the various calls is 2,772
408. Some of the returns were duplicated
and it is estimated that the actual numbe
was about 2,500,O0O.
AT the request of the postmaster-genera
Superintendent Graves of the bureau of Ell
craving and printing has had prepare
half dozen new designs for the face OF
postal card. The poorest of these design
is better than the cheap and clumsy orns
mentation at present on the postal care
The best of the designs contains a fin
vignette of Benjamin Franklin, with the d
rections TO the writer in scroll work
will probably be substituted for the presen
design.
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