The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-06
Weekly News Summary.



CUTLER BLoDGETT of Grafton hanged
himself last week Wednesday.
THE public schools in Rutland spent $50
for trees planted on Arbor Day.
A ROCK weighing about thirty tons re-
Gently fell on the track beyond Healdsville,
in Rutland county
Mr.. OLIN MERRILL of Enosburgh Falls has
bought the Bradley Barlow place at st. AL
bans, paying $4,000 therefor.
THE Dartmouth College juniors have in
vited the Middlebury juniors to join them
in union banquet this month.
THE controller of the currency has ex-
tended the corporate existence of the Gale
donia National Bank of Danville to May
4, 1905.
ONE hundred eighty-two brick makers
from Canada passed through St. Adams,
last week Wednesday, EN- route for West
Medford (Mass) brick yards.
JOURNAL correspondent: e. T. Kings
bury of Ludlow has forfeited to that town,
under the state tax law, 81 300, and some
others are somewhat troubled"
JOHN HARTNETT of Ludlow, twenty-five
years old and unmarried, committed suicide
on Tuesday night by cutting his throat
with a razor. No cause is known.
A QUANTITY of case-knives and other ar
ticles were discovered secreted in the New
fame Jail This was thought to indicate
another contemplated Jail delivery.
THE pastors of Rutland have united in ex-
tending an invitation to ID. l.. Moody to
hold a Christian workers convention in
that town during the summer or fall.
WILLIAM BROOKS of Bellows Falls now
carries in his body bullet received at Fort
Wagner. He was left upon the field and
was supposed to be dead, but recovered.
THE farm dwelling of James Silk, at Ben
nington, a brick structure, was destroyed
last week Wednesday afternoon by fire.
Insurance, $500; loss partial on furniture.
IT is stated that the marble business of
Rutland has trebled in the last ten years in
production and in wages paid. The total
amount of sales in 1884 approXimated 50,
100000.
G. H. GoLDTHwAITE, principal of the st.
Adams high school, has resigned to accept
a more remunerative position as private
tutor, and expects to sail for Europe in a
few days.
1T is said that one hundred seven barrels
of fish were shipped from East Alburgh
from the LIST of April to the 18th, and over
twenty barrels from Lacolle, all caught in
Missisquoi Bay.
Two boys named Ambrose and Brackway
who escaped from the reform school at Yer
gennes, were arrested just below Chester,
Wednesday afternoon of last week, and re-
turned to Vergennes.
AS G. C. p. Harrison, eighty-six years old,
of North Danvile, was walking across the
room recently he fell and broke his hip. 1t
is thought he will never recover from the
injury sufficiently to walk again.
THE Rutland Herald says that the steno-
graphers have taken and the type-writing
men have reproduced about 100000 words
of evidence in the Page trial-more than
the whole number in the Old Testament.
THE Young Mems Christian Association
building, recently dedicated at st. Johns
bury, is the third public building erected in
town by the Fairbanks family, the other
two being the academy and the atheneum.
Mrs. A. L.. CHILDs of Wilmington, who
some time ago was struck by lightning,
which came into the house on miniature
telephone line and took her shoes from her
feet, died Tuesday, April 10Th, having never
recovered from the shock
WOOSTER FLOOD, who has been in Jail at
St. Adams for some time past for attempted
burglary at Enosburgh Falls, in robbing a
wooden mill, was sentenced in Franklin
county court, Wednesday of last week, to
Windsor for eighteen months.
Four inmates of the Vermont asylum at
Brattleboro were discharged under the law
at the last meeting of the supervisors. Dur
ing the past month fifteen have been dis
charged and seven admitted, leaving four
hundred thirteen in the asylum.
HENRY H. MITCHELL, farmer at St. AL
bans Bay, met with serious accident last
Wednesday. He was drawing hay, when
the binder broke and flew up, striking him
on the front part of the head, tearing the
scalp away for some distance and severing
several arteries
THE farm Westinghouse and two barns
belonging to Albert Sowles, and situated on
the Newton road, near st. Adams, were
DESTROYED by fire last week Tuesday morn
10 a1 at IN.
surance, 81 800 on the house and 500 on
each of the barns.
THE secretary of the Rutland County His
torical Society has just received a copy OF
Hadden's journal, kept through Burgoyne's
campaign in 1776 and 1777, covering the bat
ties of Hubbardton and Bennington, up to
the inglorious surrender of the British forces
in October at Bemis Heights
JOHN SCOTT of Rochester, Union soldier
and brother of the young soldier whom
Pesident Lincoln pardoned on the point OF
being shot for falling asleep while on picket
duty, has received notice of pension hav.
ing been granted him of So per month and
back pay amounting to nearly $500
ASA MCCLELLAN, while going home on the
track from East Greensboro to Walden
last week, with gun on his shoulder, fell
down and the gun was discharged, the
charge entering his leg just above the in
step. He was attended by Doctor Kinney
who took thirty-four shot from the wound
There were no bones broken.
Two interesting old books belonged to
the late David Osgood of West Randolph
One is spelling book by Joshua Bradley
that was printed at Windsor, in 1915, by
Oliver Farnsworth. 1t bears evidence Of
much use. The other is Bible belonging
to his mother, Peggy Nasmith. 1t was
printed at Edinburgh in 1903.
The supreme court for Caledonia county
sits May -, with Judges Powers, Taft, Row
ell and Walker on the bench The docke
includes twenty-five cases The county cour
sits June 2, Judge Ross presiding Th'
docket contains one hundred four civil cases
four book account cases, nineteen state case
and thirty-two chancery cases
AN extra freight train of eighteen carr
and two engines, while going east on the st
Johnsbury 4 Lake Champlain road, me
with al accident one mile west of Morris
vile Thursday afternoon, caused by baC
joint and short piece of rail being thrown
out. Seven loaded cars were derailed, an,
the track was badly torn up for ten rods.
OSCAR MEYER, while expecting to die il
Jail at st. Adams, Thursday night, from tn
effect of an overdose of poison-sixty-thre
and one-eighth grains of morphine ant
some quicksilver from the back of a look
ng-glass-confessed to shooting Krause, O
whose murder he was convicted. He sale
he did not do it for money but in a fit o
anger.
AVERY WOOSTER, who died recently a
North Pawlet, aged seventy-three, was
son of Amos Wooster, who raised famil
of twelve children, seven boys and fv
girls. The boys names all began with A
A A l..