The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03
Weekly News Summary.

the Grand Army encampment at Portland.
THE farmhouse of Henry O'Gannon, in
Danville, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday
of last week.
Ex-GovERNoR PRocToR is fitting up at
his own expense a public playground for
Rutland boys.
THE central creamery at New Haven is
turning out eight hundred pounds of butter
per week at present.
THE Brattleboro listers have completed
heir work, and the total grand list is in
creased about S2600 over that of last year
THE Fairbanltses of st. Jobnsbury are
putting up building for thirty-cow
creamery, to utilize the milk from their
herd of Jerseys.
THE Stanford quarry at North Pittsford
has been compelled to close, as the marble
is unsound. The concern had more orders
than it could fill.
THE Methodist church in Craftsbury,
which has been undergoing very thorough
repairs, costing probably $4,000, was re-
Gently dedicated.
A LIVE toad was found imbedded hard
and fast in the clay, four feet from the sur
face, by men digging post hole near the
Methodist church at Rutland.
ST. JoHNsBURY Masons are preparing for
a demonstration June "a, when they will
receive visitors with parade and have a
formal dedication of their new hall.
VERMONT has furnished three governors
for the state of Michigan-Alpheus Felch,
born in Woodstock, John S. Barry, born in
Rockingham, and Japhredtes Rawson, born
in Townshend.
THE case of State rs. Arthur Scott of
North Adams and j. S. Sefridge of Salem,
Mass, for jumping hotel bill at Bellows
Falls, was tried recently. They were fined
$40, and paid at once.
The Chittenden County Institute of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union was
held at the Congregational church in Char
lotte last Friday and Saturday, with large
attendance and interesting exercises.
PATRICK MCCORMACK, a workman in Gill
son & Woodtin's quarry at West Rutland,
had one of his feet badly crushed last week
Tuesday. While moving a cutting machine
1t suddenly tipped over and fell upon him.
He had a narrow escape from serious injury.
THERE is some dissatisfaction in the town
of Troy with the appointment of b. f. Ham
mond as postmaster there. It'll alleged that
Hammond left the republican party only a
short time before the presidential election,
and has been a resident of the town less
than two years.
N. B. HARDWOOD, native of Bennington,
died by accident or suicide at his orange
grove in Florida few days ago. He had
insurance amounting to S2OO,0O0 on his life.
Harwood failed for $2,000,000 in st. Paul,
some years ago, but made a second fortune
of 100000 in Florida.
THE fine-bred colt Almont Clay" three
years old bred by General w. s. Writers of
Lexington KY, is now the property of the
Grand Isle County Horse breeders Assoc
citation. This is probably the best horse
ever brought to Vermont for the improve
ment of stock, at cost of 1920.
AMONG the fourth-class postmasters COM
missioned, Vermont has the following; John
r. Priest, East Wallngford; Patrick ii
Dolan, Center Rutland; Joseph Battell
praa naf Tn r
Groton Pond; Benjamin r. Beal, South
Barre, and Charles A. Williamson, Sharon
WILLIAM WOODS of North Bennington, a
laborer, while at work at the well on the
school lot, Tuesday morning, May 26, was
seized with fit and fell into the well
was seriously injured about the head his
scalp cut, his nose broken and his face
bruised. He will recover.
HERE is list of some of the heavy tax
payers of st. Johnsbury, as shown by the
valuation just completed: E. & 7. Fairbanks
1888; w. p. Fairbanks, S3O,91O; Horace
Fairbanks, $23,735, Franklin Fairbanks
$16,422; f. Fletcher and wife, $40, 10l f
d. & E. w. Blodgett, $2l,20
THE lawsuit of Kenny u.s. School Distric
No 20, at Chester, 80 recover 1920 fol
lumber furnished for building the new
school-house, which was refused payment
on the ground that the building committed
declined its appropriation, has been decided
by the county court in favor of the plaintiff
for the full amount of the bill and interest
FIVE thousand persons attended the dedi
cation of the soldiers monument at Chester
last Saturday. The address was delivered
by Rev. w. johnson of Springfield. Tn,
monument is of granite, surmounted by
statue of a soldier in bronze, and on eacl
side are panels of white bronze, on which
are inscribed two hundred and forty names
~ lf atnr rl,.Nt
of the rebellion. The cost of the monumen
was about 81 400.
THE steam engine is apparently to b.
abolished in Sheldon & Sons deep quarry
where some men were suffocated during thu
hot weather in April. A condenser TO
supplying compressed air through pipe t.
run the quarry machinery has been got a
work in the mill, and the results are so ia
vorable that a large arrangement of TIN
same kind is being put in. This does ava
with all gas, steam and smoke, and supple
pure air down in the depths.
THE second annual musical festival a
Rutland closed Friday evening with the pei
Torrance of Hande's noble oratorio, tn
Messiah" The festival began Tuesda
and was conducted by Professor Loui
Mas, the celebrated pianist of Boston
The chorus numbered about two hundre
trained voices and the instrumental musi
was furnished by the Germania orchestrf
twenty-eight pieces. The soloists were Mr.:
Gerrit Smith and Miss Ella A. Earle, So
pranos; Mrs. Ella Cleveland Henderson
contralto; Charles V. Slocum, tenor; Avo
D. Saxon, baritone; ID. M. Babcock, basst
and Louis Mas, pianist. Six grand col
certs were given and the Messiah" Ma
Bruch's Fair Ellen 3" and Gades Ell
Kings Daughter were among the prom
nent works rendered. Financially the fe
tival was very successful considerably MOI
than paying expenses.
Other Localities.
A SEVERE tornado visited some portion
of Pennsylvania last Sunday.
A MAN leaped over the precipice at Ma
ara Falls, Friday and was killed.
The friends of ex-Presdent Gonzal,
threaten another revolution in Mexico.
The Youths COMPANION Office in BostC
was damaged $1,000 by fire last week Thur
day night.
A STEAMER from Liverpool landed fol
hundred Mormon emigrants at New You
last week Thursday
THE statement of the public debt SHOW
that the decrease of the debt during ii
month of May was "a ,225 GOO.
GREAT damage to property and conside
able loss of life resulted from terrific raj
storm at Waco, Texas, last week.
THE people in New Mexico have suffert
terribly from the Apaches, and appeal f
enough troops to crush the savages.
COLONEL SNowDEN, superintendent of Il