The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-23
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

postmaster at North Sheldon.
JOSEPH WHITE of Rutland horse dealer,
has filed petition in insolvency.
CALEDONIA county court closed last FRI
day. Three divorces were granted.
SKINNER & HALL of Orwell have recently
sold a four-years-old mare for $1,000.
GENERAL w. W. HENRY of Burlington
has resigned his position as United States
marshal for Vermont.
THE Rutland Herald says that the consul
late at Cork is at the disposal of DIR. j. ID.
Hanrahan of Rutland
THE plans for the new town hall at Bel
lows Falls provide for a structure that will
seat twelve hundred persons.
IRA G. ALLEN of Fairhaven has begun
proceedings to foreclose his $4,000 mort
gage on the Park View House.
THE valuable Mills farm in st. Adams
has been given to Mrs. Thomas Lavender
by the heirs of the late Lansing Mills.
THERE were one hundred ten inmates in
the house of correction last week, the largest
number that was ever in the institution.
COLONEL JOHN b. MEAD of Randolph rep
resents Vermont on the staff of commission
ers of the American exhibition in London.
JACKSON SMITH, the burglar captured at
Royalton, recently, was sentenced last
week to fifteen years imprisonment in the
state prison.
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and the University of Vermont closes to-
day The winter term at both colleges will
begin January6 6.
REV. JOHN NEWMAN, DID,, of Lincoln,
Neb., has given to the trustees of the Troy
Conference Academy, at Poultney, his large
and valuable library
A. G. BowLEY of Newport has been APP
pointed health officer and authorized to in
spect dwellings and order such sanitary
measures as he sees fit.
A FRENCHMAN at Jeffers' mill, in Victory,
fell upon a circular saw and cut his leg OIL
near the ankle, last week. 1t was the mans
first day in the business
IT is doubtful If the main line of the street
railroad from Rutland to West Rutland can
be finished this winter. If So the cars will
only run to Center Rutland.
A NINE-MoNTHs-oLD child belonging to a
niece of Mrs Benjamin Downing of New
port tipped a cup of hot water upon itself,
and death followed soon after.
Mrs. PATRICK AGAN of Fairhaven was
seized with fit of coughing, last week, and
cholxed to death in few minutes. She was
the Oldest person in that town.
ST. JoHNsBURY has voted to refund the
town debt of $4,000. Venner & Co. of
Boston will take half the amount, with
interest at four to four and one-half per cent.
THE President has sent to the senate the
appointments of +. w. McGettrck for post
master at St. Adams and John Robinson of
Bennington for United States marshal of
Vermont.
CALEDONIA county court gave Judgment
for the plaintiff of $1,000 in the case of
Shastney against the Farmers Mutual Fire
Insurance Company, which refused to pay
loss on some buildings on the ground that
Shastney fired them.
The Battle of Gettysburg was presented
at Rutland by the Kingsley Guard last week
ri nd n ssa1f ha
play. A. L. Woodward had his face burned
by an excited veteran, who insisted on firing
straight at the rebels instead of in the air, as
instructed by the stage manager.
The second assistant postmaster-genera
has ordered that " as it appears there exists
conspiracy at Dummerston to injure the
business of the post-office at that place"
the mail-carrier shall not receive mail ten
dered him upon his route by persons living
within the delivery of that office"
THE annual meeting of the Vermont As
ISOLATION of Road and Trotting Horse-breed-
ers will be held at the Van Ness House,
Burlington, January 18th. Members who
go over the Central Vermont or Burlington
4 Lamoille roads will be furnished return
checks by the secretary, F. w. Brownell
A WOODEN factory at South Danvile con-
tanning six sets of machinery, partly fin
ished factory building. store, dwelling
house and two barns, all belonging to Ben
Loss about $4,000; insurance $4,000. A
covered highway bridge was also burned.
Other Localities.
The average cost of session of congress
is $3,00O,0O0
Both houses of congress have adjourned
till January 9TH
A FIRE in in Wilmington, Del, destroyed
property valued at 100000.
THE personal estate of the late Vice-pres-
ident Hendricks amounts to $3.50
THE Houston (Texas) city bank has sus-
pended payment. Liabilities 100000.
THE Chinese are said to take S15 700 a
year out of California and send it home.
THE Missouri Cremation Society has 400
members, twenty-five of whom are women.
PROSPECT Park Lake, Brooklyn, is to be
lighted with electricity for the benefit OF
skaters.
Four New Jersey children bitten by dogs
arrived in Paris, last Monday, for treatment
by Pasteur.
Mr.. MOODY, the evangelist, is going to
spend few days in Montreal, beginning
Saturday, January I'd.
ELEVEN persons were killed and nine
wounded in an accident on the Georgia
Pacific railroad last week.
BY the caving in of mine at Nanticoke
Penn, last week, number of miners were
entombed, and probably all are dead.
EPIzooTIc has appeared at Chicago. Fifty
horses belonging to street-car company
have the disease and several have died.
LAST week Jacksonville, Fla, was visited
by a 100000 fire, the most disastrous
known in that place. Twenty large firms
were burned out.
IT is alleged that a dynamite plot has
been discovered in San Francisco for the
assassination of some of the most prominen
citizens of the city.
MORE than 700 bills have been introduced
in the senate so far. About 900 presiden
tial nominations have been sent in, but none
have yet been confirmed.
PRAIRIE fires have recently burned ove
an area of 5000 square miles near st. 10
seph, in the Pan Handle Of Texas, and Sc
we're losses are entaled to the cattle-men.
The tomb of William II. Vanderbilt il
carefully guarded day and night by armed
men, and sentry boxes have been PLACED
near the tomb. A registering alarm clocl
has been placed at the gate of the vault
CUSTOM officers in Brooklyn, N. Y, hav,
prevented the shipment of quantity o
arms and ammunition on the steamer Cit,
of Mexico" on the supposition that the,
were intended for the revolutionists in Cuba
ELEVEN Europeans have been massacree'
in Burmah.
SEVERE weather is being experienced il
South Italy
THE Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland or