The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05

/ ladder, winch was very nlHn, anu u SIOOu
so nearly perpendicular that it started to
tip back, when he jumped and struck the
ground with great force.
JAMES JOHNSON, a shifter in the railroad
yard at White River Junction, fell between
the cars on Monday night of last week and
was so badly hurt that he died early the
next morning. Deceased was about forty
years old and had been employed at the
! junction some twenty years. He leaves
| quite family to mourn his loss.
A SEVERE storm, accompanied by thun-
der and lightning, visited Western Vermont
last week Tuesday night. Lightning struck
and burned a barn filed with hay owned by
Edison Smith of Addison. Loss $500; insured
for $500. A barn, with hay, grain and farm
ing TOOLS in West Enosburgh, owned by
Oliver Donyew, was also burned.
The meeting of the Burlington yacht club,
| last week, to complete the organization, was
well attended. A constitution, bylaws and
sailing rules were adopted. The report of the
committee appointed to arrange for the com
ing race, recommending that it be open to all
pleasure-sailing yachts on the lake, that the
entries be free and that the race come off
to-day wednesday, at nine A. NJ, was ac-
cepted and adopted.
LIGHTNING struck and burned Henry NJ.
| Hills barn in Starksboro Tuesday night,
July 2Sth. Nearly all of this seasons crop
of hay (about thirty tons) was in the barn;
also three wagons, two traverse sleds, har-
nesses, shovels, forks and other farming
tools, which were all burned. The nsur-
ance on the burned property in the Yer
mont Mutual Insurance Company of about
5000 will not cover the loss.
POSTMASTER REDINGToN took charge of
the Rutland postoffice Saturday morning,
with f. A. Field as assistant, in place of
George D. Tutte Robert Graves, II. W.
Eddy and Jennie Pierce, of the old corps of
assistants, have been retained, and Mr.. Leeds
| Nelson, formerly employed in the office, and
| NJ xnyill tha t,la Of
Jones and Walker, and Edward Bruten will
be janitor, in place of Samuel Mcclure.
The Sunday-schools of Vermont responded
| so cheerfully and generously last year to the
call of the secretary of the Vermont Bible
Society, Rev. L. II. Elliot, for a thank-offer-
ing for the Bible that he asks for another
offering this year from all the schools in the
state on the first Sunday in September,
which he calls the children's Bible Sun
day" He suggests that the children earn
the money and give as many pennies as they
are years old.
THE following posts in the. department of
Vermont, G. A. r., have been organized
since March 81 1885: f. V. Randall, No. "a,
Danville, n. II. Page commander; Abra-
ham Lincoln, No. So, Hartford, S. M. Pin
gree, commander; Rollin S. Sherman No.
So, Essex, G.. ii. Brown, commander; /. l..
Clark, No. 81, Grafton, Charles w. Haskell,
commander; Judd NJ. Mott, No. SO, Alburgh,
George III. Sowles, commander; William p.
Russell, No. SO, Middlebury, A. Ii. Tracy,
commander; w. H. Greenwood No. 80,
Putney, l.. p. Bailey, commander. These
posts give the Grand Army an addition of
one hundred seventeen members.
THE worst smash-up that ever happened
on the Vermont division of the Boston q
Lowell railroad took place last week Friday
evening. A mixed train, with two engines,
left st. Johnsbury, bound west at six
o'clock When four miles from there it ran
into a washout. The engines went down
one side of the track and the cars the
other Six cars went off and one engine
was on top of the other. Both boilers burst.
Frank Place, fireman, was caught by the
leg between his engine and rock. Joe
Reed, an engineer, was badly burned or
scalded about the face, and the bodies of
Fred Lawrence, engineer, and Dan Gotta,
his fireman, on the first engine, were re-
covered about twelve o'clock Friday night.
Lawrence was instantly killed. He was
completely disemboweed, one leg was
nearly cut off, both arms were badly
crushed, an iron pin was driven through his
heart and the skull was more or less
TANNED in. The fireman. Gotta, on the
same engine, was badly scalded about the
head, and when found was standing on his
head in the water and had the appearance
of having been drowned. Their remains
were taken to st. Johnsbury. They were
both residents of that village, and their
families are receiving much attention and
sympathy.
The annual reunion of the Windsor
County Veterans Association will be held
at Windsor Wednesday, August II. Free
entertainment will be furnished veterans
during the day by William G. T. Tracy Post.
A business meeting will be held at ten A. NJ,
followed by procession through the prnci
pal streets. AT three p. NJ. an address of
welcome will be given by Governor Pingree,
followed by short speeches and responses to
toasts presented by Colonel George w.
! HOOkpr Hon William NJ Evarts IIuitp1
States senator, Hon. Charles G. Beaman of
New York, Lieutenant-governor e. j.
Ormsbee, Colonel w. L. Greenleaf, depart
ment commander of Vermont, Grand Army
of the Republic, General III. X. Ide, General
Stephen Thomas, General William w.
Henry, Colonel Stephen NJ. Pingree, Colonel
Thomas o. Seaver, Colonel George L. Childs,
Captain e. A. Howe, Lieutenant Hugh
Henry and Rev. H. A. Van Dalsem have
accepted invitations to be present and make
short speeches. The exercises of the day
will close with grand campfire at eight
O'Clock P. NJ, with campfire stories and
"reminiscences of the war by soldiers present.
and war songs by the Windsor glee club
play of fireworks. The railroads will carry
for half-fare
Other Localities.
THE gold product of Georgia is estimated
at 100000 yearly.
RUBNsTEN has just composed a sacred
opera entitled /" Moses"
THE cholera death-roll in Spain has
reached thirty-ive thousand
THERE were thirty-two fatal sunstrokes
at Philadelphia week before last.
THE times are so hard in Japan that the
city of Kioto is infested by thirty thousand
beggars.
IT is estimated that the national debt
has been reduced about S7,000,0O0 during
the past month.
NEARLY million copies of the penny
edition of the revised New Testament have
been sold in England.
MILWAUKEE has one hundred ffty-nine
thousand inhabitants, gain of forty-three
} thousand in five years.
A RECENT French invention is machine
by which man can cut his own hair as
easily as he can shave himself
BAINBRDGE, Georgia, handled half mill
ion watermelons one day last week. They
; sold slowly at twenty cents dozen.
! A VIOLENT storm at Fargo, Dakota, blew
down and twisted out of shape an iron cleo
trio tower one hundred sixty feet in height.