The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-19

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ish synagogue in the East. The Pentateuch
is written upon it in Hebrew.
URIAL CUTLER, one of the pioneers of
Woodford, was recently freed by a bear and
kept in confinement all night. In the
morning bruin and her cubs sauntered off,
and Mr. Cutler, with lameness in his
limbs, wandered all day before he found his
habtaton.
LIGHTNING entered the train dispatchers'
room at st. Adams, last week Thursday, and
took possession of the switchboard explod-
ing with loud report and blowing one of
the swtch-pns across the room. 1t stirred
the boys up considerably, but no serious
harm was done.
BERKSHIRE was visited by small-sized
cyclone Friday noon last, which took off
about a quarter of the roof of new barn
recently built by Mr.. Lovern, short dis
lance from East Berkshire village. 1t also
took up a quantity of hay, which was piled
in cocks, and carried it for about a half a
mile in the air.
WILLIAM b. JENNINGS, the American Ex-
press messenger who was killed in the rail-
road accident near Merritton. Province of
Ontario, was a Burlington boy. He was a
member of Company g, Twelfth Vermont
Volunteers, in the war. He leaves widow
but no children. His remains were taken
to Burlington for interment
WHILE Victor Shonyo was laying a new
sidewalk in st. Adams he found valuable
gold watch which A. w. Clark's son lost on
September 10, 1883, and Immediately re-
turned it to the owner whereupon the
| MESSENGER saws that Shonyo does not believe
that ito the Victor belong the spoils s"
Such a man does not need much watching.
As Miss Plankey, aged about eighteen,
was walking along the pike at Winhall, she
was suddenly seized by masked man, who
attempted to throw bag over her head.
She broke away from him and ran, but,
F.1l
lain, when Emile Gantart appeared on the
scene, at sight of whom the assailant fled
into the woods.
BURGLARS entered the German House,
Old Orchard Beach, last week Tuesday
night, and stole a watch and chain from Mr..
Pierson, the proprietor, valued at $3.50, and
S15 in CASH a watch from G.. H. Graham of
Springfield, Vt, valued at $50, and watch
from G. II. Parker of Vermont, valued at
| SO. The doors were forced with burglars
tools. There is no clue.
THE Vermont Marble Company has Just
finished at Center Rutland a monument of
a decidedly novel design. 1t is for the last
resting-place of a child, and consists of a
Similitude of a pile of stones covered by a
sort of plain-cloth drapery, on which two
little shoes and childs stocking are placed
in very natural-looking manner. The
whole is in one piece and is very creditaby
carved in white marble.
THE Vermont Bar Association has one
hundred forty-four members, four having
died in the last year. They were admitted
to the bar in the various counties of the
state as follows: From Addison, six; Ben
nington, three; Caledonia nine; Chittenden,
ten; Essex, two; Franklin, twenty-five;
Lamoille, twelve Orange, fifteen; Orleans,
eight; Rutland, eleven; Washington TWEEN
ty-two; Windham, thirteen; Windsor, fifteen.
A HEARING was held in Rutland, last
week, before Judge Veazey Sitting as chan
cellor), in the Brandon soldiers monument
case. The suit was brought by Lieutenant
| governor Ormsbee to restrain the town
from erecting the monument upon the site
selected in the street in front of his house
and so near it as to form serious obstruc-
ton. The hearing was to determine whether
the temporary injunction granted should
stand. Judge Veazey decided in favor of
the plaintiff, and the injunction remains.
Ex-GovERNoR PAUL DILLINGHAM; of Water
bury was eighty-four years old Sunday last
and is now confined to his bed with
broken leg. The governors eyesight is
poor, and recently, while endeavoring to
enter the bank at Waterbury, he made a
misstep, which now lays him up. On being
placed in chair and assured his leg was
badly broken he reached for his vest pocket,
and securing ten-dolar bill, said to Cashier
| Wells: " came down to get this money
changed for mother and / guess she will
need it now. '-Clipper.
Other Localities.
THE British parliament was prorogued
| last Friday until October 81
LORD HoUGHToN, the poet and critic, is
dead. He was born June 10, 1909.
CoToPAxI is again in eruption, and town
near the volcano has been partially de-
! stroyed.
Mrs. HELEN HUNT JACKSON, the well
known author, died last week Wednesday
evening.
SMALLPOX has broken out in Toronto,
having been brought there by a family from
Montreal.
THE political campaign in France grows
more bitter and exciting as the time for the
election approaches.
In Spain, during Friday and Saturday,
1896 new cases of cholera were reported
and 3,7OS deaths occurred.
TUTTLE's comet of 1858 has been discov-
cred at Nice. Being periodical, its return
has been expected for the past year.
In the Western Reserve of Ohio milk sells
for cent quart, and twelve and half
cents pound is an ordinary price for butter.
THE thermometer at MERGED, Cal, on a
recent Monday, marked from one hundred
four to one hundred ten degrees in the
| shade.
THE bishop of Quinhon reports that over
ten thousand Christians have been mas
sacred in the provinces of Biendnh and
Phygen.
CIVIL war has broken ont at Khartoum,
the treasury has been sacked and the
| Mahdis successor and other officials have
been killed.
RABBITS are such a pest in Buena Vista
valley, Nevada, that farmers are providing
the Indians with powder and shot in order
to kill them Off.
TWELVE men were suffocated in mine at
Macanaqua, Pennsylvania last week Sun
day morning. The accumulation of gas was
due to the breaking of the fan.
NEAR Eddyville, Iowa, last week Friday
there was a collision between two sections
of Adam Forepaugh's circus train. Several
employees were seriously injured.
CONSUL MASON at Marseilles says that the
cholera in that place is Asiatic and very
fatal. The deaths number forty daily. The
disease is spreading to the interior.
THE prices of nearly all Fall River mill
stocks have advanced, owing to a rise IN
the price of print cloths. The increase in
market value in ten days is estimated to be
$4,000 600.
A GIGANTIC whiskey swindle is believed tC
have been brought to light, by which the
government has lost heavily. Crooked
barrels are used, the stave opposite the
bung being very thick.
A TINKER at Atlanta Georgia, received
word few days ago that he had become
heir to a fortune of $4,000 in England. A
check for $3.50 was sent to defray his eX
penses across the ocean.