The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-24
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.


five thousand pounds of milk daily.
FERNANDO c. HARRINGTON has been com
missioned postmaster at st. Johnsbury
A BRISTOL firm has shipped twenty-one
thousand pounds of maple sugar to western
Iowa.
THE Bennington & Glastonbury Railroad
Company is doing a monthly business of
from "a, 900 to $4,000.
ST. JoHNsBURy Granite Company has re-
ceived an order for $1,000 soldiers monu-
ment from Smthport Penn.
WHILE adjusting a belt in a mill in Nor
ton, on the 10th instant, Felix Grenier was
caught in the shafting and instantly killed.
PROFESSOR ToURJEE, with about forty of
his students, takes possession of the Lyndon
Institute, July LIST, and will remain till Sep
TENDER list.
A CONCORD man caught live eagle in a
trap. 1t measured seven feet and one inch
from tip to tip of the wings, and two feet
eight inches from beak to end of tail.
Mr.. AND Mrs. f. c. PERKINS of Factory
Point have a two-years-old daughter who
has six living grandmothers and great
grandmothers, the last being seventy-nine
years old.
will put ten thousand Pacific salmon into
the Passumpsic river--fve thousand near
st. Johnsbury Center and five thousand at
Lyndonville.
THE trustees of the Brattleboro insane
asylum propose to erect in Hinsdale, n. H.,
monument to the memory of Mrs. Marsh,
who many years ago made a large gift to
that institution.
THE Readsboro & Hoosac Tunnel railroad
is nearing completion. About one hundred
fifty hands are at work on the road, and it
is rumored that cars will run over the road
from Readsboro to the tunnel July 4th.
Il. f. HATHoRN, commander of Howard
Ig.aN .NfI .l1....y al
from Brigadier-general j. r. Jones. as a
contribution to the posts museum of relics
his uniform dress-coat with the insignia of
rebel brigadier.
Mrs. GREEN BRIMMER died from apoplexy,
last week, at North Pownal, death being in
Simultaneous. She was in her SEVENTEEN
year. Mrs. Brimmer was conversing with
her family and apparently in good health
when her death occurred.
A YOUNG man named Jones, living in
Wolcott was instantly killed, Tuesday of
last week, while chopping in the woods be-
tween Morrisville and Wolcott. A falling
tree struck log, which was thrown upon
him, crushing him to death.
SYDNEY COTTON of Sherburne, who has
fifteen bear-traps set in the town of Wood
ford, recently captured bear that weighed
more than four hundred pounds. Bruin
showed fight when shot at by Mr. Cotton,
and for a few minutes it was nip and tuck
Mrs. ALLEN of Georgia, over sixty years
old, was burned to death last week Thurs
day morning Her grandson set the barn
on fire with some crackers. She went into
the building to save some property, when
her clothing caught fire, and she was burned
so that death followed in few hours.
SABIN GARTIN of Windsor, while chop
ping wood on Ascutney mountain last week
Tuesday, cut his leg with an ak so severely
that he bled to death before assistance could
reach him. Gartin was forty-ive years old,
and the accident is all the more distressing
as he leaves widow and nine children.
THE senior class and teachers of Vermont
Academy, to the number of twenty. five,
were delightfully."- entertained on June 10th,
at the beautiful home and grounds of Colonel
Fuller of Brattleboro. A dinner was given
them at the Burke House, where the Phil
harmonic Society of which Colonel Fuller
is president, furnished excellent music.
The comptroller of the currency has de-
cided not to pay the dividend just declared
to stockholders of the ruined First National
Bank of Brattleboro until the supreme
court of Vermont has decided the applica-
ton of Sias NJ. Waite for the opening of the
case of the bank against his insolvent es-
tate, which was heard last February at
Woodstock.
THE South Ryegate Stone-cutters' Union
prevents the granite company from getting
stone-cutters outside the union without com
plying WIN Jne union demands, Dut the
granite company manages to keep the sheds
lively. The company has an advertisement
for men in the Boston papers, and the union
hasanother advertisement under it, advising
men not to respond to the call of " scab
shops"
On petition of over one thousand citizens
Governor Pingree has conditionally par
doned Arson Hayward of Windham, who
was convicted at the May term of court in
1874 of maliciously burning his own build
ings in Weston, and sentenced to twenty
years Imprisonment. Governor Pingree
has also conditionally pardoned Wilfred d.
Sprout of Norwich convicted in December
1876 of arson, and sentenced to fifteen years
imprisonment.
A YOUNG lady rode down Marble street,
West Rutland, in gale, recently. Her
head-gear, small bonnet about the size of
an English shilling, was lifted from her
head and floated away into the neighboring
swamp, while the owner rode on, entirely
unconscious of her loss. Some urchins dis
covered the pretty thing and proceeded to
some ladies who just then appeared, iden-
titled and took the waif under their pro-
lection.
THERE was a remarkable escape from a
serious accident in the Fall Mountain Paper
Company's pulp grinding mill at Bellows
Falls, last week A large and rapidly-revov-
ing stone burst in the first story, throwing a
piece weighing nearly ton up through the
plank floor into the second story. making a
hole ten feet square into room where a
large number of operatives We're at work.
The stone went clear through the roof and
fell back through the basement into the
wheel-pt, smashing considerable valuable
machinery in its course, but injuring no one.
In the Caledonia county court, at st.
Johnsbury, in the case of State against Flint,
for selling liquor, the bonds were reduced
to 500 and paid. Edward Aldrich, for burg
larry, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
the work-house at Rutland for two years.
In the trial of State Us. Phillip De Paris, for
assault with intent to kill, the evidence
showed that De Paris lived at South Rye
gate, and became jealous of Carlo E. Brown,
on account of girl whom De Paris was pay
ing attention to. One evening when Brown
was there De Paris went outdoors and shot
at him through window, but the ball
glanced and did not hit Brown. This was
De Paris second attempt at shooting for the
same cause.
AN unsuccessful attempt to rob the safe
in Hewlett's store in Wallingford was made
on Tuesday night of last week by three bur-
glars. One stood guard outside, while the
other two made their way into the store
with the tools and explosives for breaking
open the safe Mr.. Hewlett, who rooms
over the store, hearing some suspicious
noises, proceeded to investigate, and dis
covered the burglars in the act of breaking
omen the safe He mana0al to oct ont of tn.