The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-27
Weekly News Summary.


MARY FLETCHER HOSPITAL, Burlington,
has twenty-seven patients.
THE snow is still from two to three feet
deep in the woods in Stratton.
GEORGE II. TUPPER has received his com
mission as postmaster at Bethel.
G. f. DAVIS of Windsor, dealer in horses,
is said to be financially embarrassed.
THE Ludlow wooden mills were seriously
damaged by fire early Saturday morning
A BRATTLEBoRo gardener has raised over
a ton of dandelions for this years market
A STURGEON weighing one hundred pounds
was recently speared in the river at Wi
nooski.
Mr.. AND Mrs. HARVEY II. LOCKWOOD of
Woodstock recently celebrated their golden
wedding
Four ex-iudges of the Rutland county
court have died the past year-Seneca NJ.
Dorr, Daniel Crofoot Martin c. Rowe and
Bradley Fish
HORACE Fosters farmhouse in East
Swanton was burned Tuesday night of last
week, with all its contents. Loss, 50 800 in
surance, $1,000.
ONE thousand cords of wood belonging to
the Vermont division of the Boston x
Lowell road were recently burned at North
Concord. Loss, $4,000.
WILLIAM PRENTIss of Cambridge has lost
three head more of cattle, making twenty
broke out among his stock.
NORTH GEORGIA is to have a new enter
prise. A Burlington company has erected
a building there for the manufacture of
sugar by the new process-out of whey.
THE annual Congregational Sunday school
convention of Windham county will be held
at Jamaica, on Thursday, May 2Sth begin
ming at half-paSt ten A. NJ, and closing in
the evening.
The May term of Windsor county court is
to open next Thursday. The docket has
one hundred nine cases, of which seven are
divorce and fifteen state cases, and the
chancery docket contains nineteen cases.
In the case at Bellows Falls of several in
surance companies rs. Filton, the jury agreed
and found no evidence of fraud in procur-
ing insurance, nor was any evidence pro-
duced showing that Filton burned the mill.
VERY elaborate preparations are being
made for Middlebury College commence
ment. The senior class intend to have the
Ruggles' street church quartette and the
Blaisdell orchestra to furnish music at the
concert.
d. l.. MORGAN, department inspector, is
Just completing his examination of the vari-
GUS posts of the Vermont Grand Army of the
Republic. There are eighty-siX posts in
the state, with total membership of about
thirty-fve hundred.
THE George w. Baker & Bradford Paper
Manufacturing Company, at Bradford, has
filed its schedule of liabilities in insol-
vency, amounting to nearly $4,000; assets
nominally $4,000. Boston and Fitchburg
parties suffer heavy losses.
Mrs. CHARLES LIvERMoRE and her daugh-
ter, Ella Livermore, of SaXtons River, have
been arrested in Peru for manslaughter and
desertion of the daughters illegitimate
child last March The family is respectfully
connected, with some property.
ADDISON COUNTY COURT will begin Tues
day, June I'd, and Judge VeaZey will pre-
side. Assistant Judge K. A. Doud is sick at
his home in New Haven and is not expected
to live. There were only eight cases set for
the jury, and some of these have fallen
through
A HORSE belonging to Edward Phalon of
Pittstield began bleeding at the nose while
working in the field recently, and finally
from the nostril. The mouse was as lively
as ever and Mr.. Phalon had some trouble in
catching it.
THE Vermont Baptist Sunday-school Con-
vention will hold its sixteenth session at
Poutney, June 3, and 4. DIR. G. r.. Black
all of Philadelphia will conduct the exer-
cises and deliver several addresses upon
practical subjects connected with the Sun
day-school work.
SHERIFF ATHERToN of Waterbury made a
descent upon the illegal possessors of bass
and pike at Winooski, Saturday. In one
and at a private residence he secured eleven
bass. One party will pay 500 and costs for
his fish and the other will pay $50.
WORK on the new courthouse in Newport
was begun last week, and will be vigorously
prosecuted until its completion. The court
house will be fifty feet i'll width and ninety
feet in length, with a projecting porch
twenty-eight feet wide. The foundation
walls are being built of split granite and the
superstructure will be constructed of hard
cherry-colored brick.
In the United States circuit court as
Windsor, the case against Scott and Self
ridge for burglarizing the Bellows Falls
postoffice, which was tried at a previous
term of the same court in Burlington, was
finished Thursday, the jury disagreeing
again, the same as before. Immediately
upon the prisoners discharge they were ar
rested upon charge of skipping their board
bill at a hotel in Bellows Falls.
THE st. Adams listers have completed the
list for 1885. 1t amounts to $50, 1879 which
is $1,2l6.S5 less than that of 1884. The real
estate valuation for this year is 81 ,921 ;.
SS0.l4; last year it was 81 1893, 060.16. The
valuation of personal property for this year
is 1874 ,49S49; last year it was S942 ,600.57-
showing a decrease. The number of polls
this year is 1856, amounting to 1927 200, the
number of polls being twelve less than
last year
WHILE attempting to catch a ride" on a
Burt, the ten-years-old son of Mr.. Leslie
Brown of Vergennes, met with a painful ac
cident. AS he sprang on to the board his
foot caught in one of the wheels near the
hub and his leg was twisted entirely arounC
the axletree, and his body was carried
around the axletree and thrown nearly il
front of the wheel. His leg was broken il
three places, one bone protruding through
his pants.
A. W. ROLLINS of Chicago, who has jus
given $4,000 towards the new college re
Gently founded at Winter Park, Fla, will
unusually bright prospects, is a native o
Brandon. Mrs. Rollins is a daughter o
Captain John Bowman of Royalton. Tht
college is to be named for Mr.. Rollins
Colonel Franklin Fairbanks of St. Johns
bury is another large benefactor. Rev. T.
p. Hooker of Winter Park who has don,
much for the institution, is from Vermont
and was ten years at Middlebury. He ma,
be the first president of the new college
SHELDON ABBOTT, who died in Barton
May 18th, aged eighty-six, was the frs
white native of the town, and had livet
there eighty-three years of his life, three
years being passed in an adjoining town. III
lived life of industry engaging, in his ear
lier years, in teaming between Boston ant
Northern Vermont, at one time operating
saw-mill and always managing his farm
He had been physically and mentally vigoI
GUS until within a short time, when he sui
fered from a paralytic shock causing hi
death. He was four times married, the las