The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-21
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

vermont.
N. NJ. HASKELL, a Wilmington farmer,
has gone into insolvency; liabilities, $1,000.
A LARGE number of the Central Vermont
brakemen are off duty" now as a result of
vaccination.
EDWIN DECKER of Swanton has been
challenged to wrestling-match with p.
Crowley of New York.
TOBACCO has been produced as follows in
Vermont: In 1910, $50 pounds; 1860, 49,
245; 1870, 72671; 1880, 13l ,432.
THREE boys named Burnett, Merritt and
Floody at st. Adams have been sentenced
to the reform-school for theft.
THERE will be a reunion of Company l,
Fifteenth Vermont Regiment at the post
hall, Barton, tomorrow Thursday after
noon.
LITTLE Lucy Brunette of Middlebury was
run over Saturday morning and, although
no bones were broken, her injuries were
serious.
THE creditors of l.. l.. Shacxford, dealer
in harnesses, West Concord, have been
offered thirty cents on the dollar by way Of
compromise.
REV. DIR. E. L. MACON of Philadelphia
marked his seventy-ffth birthday, on the
10th, by giving twenty valuable books to
the Proctor library.
Two colts were found dead in George
Tenney's pasture in Albany recently. A
pOSU-1nOrte1n examination TeNedleu lHe dC-
ton of a corrosive poison.
THE body of Herbert l.. Moulton, car
penter, was found in canal at Manchester,
n. III. Moulton leaves a wife and one child
living in Chelsea, this state.
POSTMASTER REDINGToN of Rutland has
six hundred signatures to petition for
free delivery. He will present it to the
Washington authorities soon.
Mrs. Fl. NJ. CLARK of Ludlow has pressed
and vanished twelve hundred autumn
leaves this fall. She has beautiful speci-
mems of oak and maple leaves.
REV. GEORGE S. GUERNSEY will preach at
Fairfax, in the institute hail. next Sunday,
October 25th at two o clock in the afternoon.
Subject, by request, The New Birth"
WORD has been received from Hamilton,
Ont, that Lawrence Brainerd is in that city,
together with half dozen or more Ameri-
can defaulters and fugitives from justice.
Mrs. WILLIAM PORTER of South London
derry who has been periodically insane
during the summer, recently committed sui
eide by taking tea-spoonful of Paris green.
To all appearances the horse railroad will
be a success in Rutland. All but $1,000 of
the $4,000 bonds necessary for running the
road to West Rutland have been subscribed.
PROFESSOR PETTY of the University of
Vermont has been obliged under advice of
his physician to relinquish for a year the
professorship of mathematics, which he has
held since 1854.
EDWARD Snow, a railroad brakeman,
caught his foot in the rails at Chester, last
week Thursday forenoon, and two car
wheels ran over his leg above the knee,
badly mangling it,
PETER STRONG, employed at the freight
car shop at st. Albans died suddenly, last
Friday, of heart disease. He had been dis
cussing the sudden death of Josh Billings at
the moment of his own DEATH
FRANCIS NOBLE of Waterbury, aged sew
enty-two, was found lying helpless in his
wagon, as he was driving to the Center.
He had fallen from stroke of paralysis,
and will probably not recover.
ADRIAN HAMMER, for whose apprehension
reward of 500 had been offered by j: x j.
Rogers Iron Company at Ausable Forks,
n. Y, was captured last week Thursday
evening in the town of Lincoln.
HARRY BUNDY met with painful acct
dent in b. w. Safford's shop at Arlington,
last week Wednesday. By some means his
left hand was drawn on the saw he was
tending and was badly mangled.
WILL REED of West Charleston left his
horse attached to his lumber wagon and
went into the house for a few moments. On
returning he found the horse and wagon in
the river, near by. The horse was drowned.
THE title of Mrs. DORIS new volume of
poems, to be published by the Scribners, has
been changed from Four O'Clock ;" to
" Afternoon Songs" because it was found
that volume issued some years ago had
the former title.
DURING a recent storm in Westmore
large rock, weighing some forty tons, was
dislodged from near the top of Mount Pts
gah and came crashing down from the al
most perpendicular height of $500 feet and
lodged in the road.
CHARLES TAYLOR, an employee of the YER
mont Marble Company at Rutland, was
crushed by two slabs of marble at the West
Rutland mills, last week Thursday, and
died soon after. He was twenty-five years
old and unmarried.
A LITTLE son of Charles Graves of Barton
was thrown down by another boy at school,
one morning last week. and suffered the
fracture Of the collar bone. He braved il out
all day at school without crying, and did
not have it set till evening.
IT is claimed that Fred Terry of West
Randolph has a seventeen-years-old son I'M
like any other boy in that vicinity. He has
no blood veins, the blood flows under the
skin, and if the skin is cut or fractured it is
hard work to stop the blood flowing.
THOMAS PURCELL of Vergennes, brake
man on freight train, attempted to jump
onto the locomotive, after turning the switch
at Bellows Falls, Tuesday of last week. but
slipped and fell, one wheel of the tender
passing over his foot, crushing it badly.
PosT ROBERTS of Rutland has voted to
give the drama of six acts entitled " The
Battle Of Gettysburg" for six nights, about
the middle of December. An effort will be
made to have some of the men take part in
the play who engaged in the real battle at
the 'front.'
w. S. SPAULpINo, son of e. N. Spaulding
of Roxbury, postal clerk between Brattle-
boro and Palmer, Mass, had his case exam
ination on Massachusetts the 29th of Sep
TENDER. He made every separation cor
rectly, and handled correctly eight hundred
nine out of eight hundred twelve cards.
EDWARD A. MORTON, for fourteen years a
faithful and efficient route-agent between
st. Adams and Boston, has been removed
or offensive craftsmanship. Mr.. Morton