The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-01-28
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

the stock of the new Rutland bank.
w. j. BRAY, contractor and builder at st.
Johnsbury, is financially embarrassed
A DERBY man recently felled maple tree
that made ten cords of twenty inch wood.
THOMAS MAST, the celebrated carcaturist,
will entertain a Rutland audience in Febru-
airy.
THOUSANDS of barrels of apples remain
unsold in the fruit-growing districts of this
state
THE son of Ira Strong of West Addison,
fourteen, was drowned while skating on
Lake Champlain last week
JUDGE II. II. WHEELERs steam mill at
Jamaica was burned the Goth instant. Loss
estimated at $1,000; insured.
PERLEY MASON, flour and grain dealer of
Fairlee, has gone into voluntary insolvency.
Liabilities $4,000; assets $1,000.
ARTHUR Russ of Hartford was instantly
killed by a board thrown by saw at North
Hartland Tuesday of last week.
MRS POWERS of Rutland through her at
torney, has brought suit against G.. +. Rich
ardson for $4,000, under the civil damage
acs.
REV. II. W. JONES, pastor of the North
Congregational church at St. Johnsbury,
has accepted a call to Nacaville, Cal, and
leaves this week.
The Battenkill National bank of Manches-
ter announces that it is closing up its affairs
and requests creditors to present their
claims for payment.
JOHN CREE of Burlington, sixteen, who
was locked up by request of his parents for
threatening their lives, have been sent to
the reform school for five years.
THERE is an opinion among railroad men
that the Lebanon Springs railroad will be
consolidated with the Bennington and Rut-
land road before the LIST of March,
j. N. NORTH of Shoreham has been elected
president of the Addison County Agricul-
tural Society, and the next fair will be held
August 3lst and September LIST and I'd.
A CINCINNATI crank created a sensation
in Brattleboro Friday by calling on de-
tective and requesting that his hand be cut
open and the contents scraped out with a
razor.
THE Boston Herald says: &C. S. Grain, a
well-known Boston manufacturer, will start
a shoe mandatory at Rutland, VT, il local
business men will organize a stock COM
pany."
Mrs. DR.. S. A. JONES of Sheffield was ia
tally burned on Friday last by her dress
taking fire from a stove. She died on
Saturday, and leaves husband and two
children
A NJ. V. HAGAR, chair stock manufac-
turer, Jacksonville, is settling in insolvency.
His liabilities are estimated at $1,000, of
which $1,000 is scured Actual assets are
about $1,000
THE seventeenth annual railroad ball un-
der the auspices of the employees of the
Passumpsic railroad, to be given at Lyn-
donville, February 9TH, will prove one of
the leading events of the season in north
eastern Vermont.
THE Rutland county agricultural society
Wednesday elected these officers: President,
Seneca Root; vice-presidents, Jesse L. Bill
lings and Redfeld Proctor; secretary, G. G.
Pierce; treasurer, H. II. Dyer, Last year
5000 was spent in improvements.
MRS MARY j. POWERS of Rutland whose
husband was killed by jumping out of
three story block last March, while crazy
drunk from liquor alleged to have been pro-
cured at the Berwick House, has sued Land
lord Richardson for $4,000 damages under
the civil damage act
BURLINGTON is now connected by tele-
phone with Newport via Montpelier and st.
Johnsbury. The city has the largest num-
Der of subscribers of any place in the state,
there being over two hundred instruments
in use there. The calls at the central office
average about six hundred daily.
SOME Windsor physicians have made in
teresting and successful experiments with
cocaine, the new anesthetic. A few drops of
the per cent solution placed upon the eye
ball of a patient rendered a delicate opera
ton upon that organ entirely painless. A
few drops were placed in the cavity of a
tooth, and it was extracted without pain.
BY an act of the last legislature, clerks of
school districts and of incorporated villages
are required to make and deliver to the
clerk of the town in which such districts or
villages are situated, statement of all
taxes assessed by said districts or villages
during the year ending December 31st last,
giving the amount of the grand list, the rate
per dollar, and amount OF all taxes assessed.
THE February term of the Windham
county supreme court is likely to be an I'M
usually brief one, only five cases appearing
on the docket. One of these, however, is
particularly important to number of peo-
pie, being probably the final hearing in the
much litigated case of Waite against the
receiver OF the First national bank of Brat
tleboro. After this hearing, it is believed
that the unfortunate stockholders will get
their proportion of the surplus now in the
hands OF Receiver Price and the commits
sioners Of Waites estate
The new Billings library of Vermont uni
versity at Burlington will be dedicated at
commencement in June. 1t is of Long
meadow stone, one hundred sixty-fve feet
long by forty-six feet wide, and con-
tains reading-room forty-fve by forty
four. The main book-room Is sixty-two by
forty-one. The capacity Of the building is one
hundred thousand volumes, the university
library now containing about thirty-three
thousand volumes. The librarians room is
in the center of the building, and there are
also several TOOulS LOT SptCldi StuttieS III VIC
building The gift of 100000 by Frederick
Billings of Woodstock for the erection of
this spacious and fire-proof building is the
most conspicuous and muniticent gift ever
received by the university.
THE Hartland correspondent of the Wind
sor Journal gives the following curious ply
Biological facts: "When the hand and arm
of A. l.. Davis, so badly mangled by circu-
lar saw as to necessitate amputation near
the elbow, and mentioned in this paper three
weeks since, was buried, those who at
tended to that duty did not wash and clean
it previously. Soon after Mr.. Davis COM
planned of bad feeling in the hand, and
said il felt as though it was full of sawdust,
insisting on having it dug up and washed,
but no special time was set for doing it,.
Sitting in room with his wife, neither of
them knowing that the eXhumation had
taken place, all at once the armless man ex-
claimed they are pouring warm water on
my hand This was thought TO be magma
ton, but on going to a back room, 1t was
found the men had dug up the hand, which
was undergoing the very operation de-
scribed by its owner.
Other Localities.
A REPUBLICAN mayor has been chosen in
Wheeling, West Virginia, the first in twenty
years.
SECRETARY TELLER has been elected
United States senator from Colorado to sue.
coed Senator Hill.
THE will of the late Schuyler Colfax dis
poses of property valued at S55O,oOo' NC