The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-08
Personal.

tor, will spend his summer at Windsor.
COLONEL KrTTRIDGE HAsKINs of Brattle-
boro was the Fourth of July orator at South
Londonderry.
WILLIAM ID. ROBINSON has been appointed
to be supervising inspector of steam vessels
for the ninth district. That district includes
Burlington.
PRINCIPAL c. G. COVE of Beeman Acad-
emy, New Haven, has resigned, to take the
position of principal of Monson Academy,
Monson, Mass.
DANIEL r. LONG, Brattleboro boy, has
just been elected city councillor of James
town, Dakota, after close fight, by very
complimentary vote.
FRED FARNHAM of West Fairlee, dem
ocratic member of the last Legislature, has
been appointed railway postal clerk, to
succeed Samuel Chapman on the Newport
and Springfield route.
DIR. l.. NJ. BINGHAM of Burlington has
been elected professor of surgery in the
medical department of the University of
Vermont, to succeed the late DR.. James H.
Little of New York city.
C. II. SAGE of st. Johnsbury, state secre-
tary of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton, left Tuesday of last week for New
York, where he engages in similar work.
No one has been engaged to take his place.
S. b. PETTENGILL, formerly of Grafton,
and for some time editor of the 81, Albans
Messenger, has bought the Portland tOregon)
Standard, morning paper, and announces
that he will continue to publish it as dem
ocratic daily
THOMAS w. HAMILTON of st. Johnsbury
member of the Acme Iron Works Com
pany, was struck on the head by a falling
timber one day last week and died the fol-
lowing night He had been married only
twelve days and was thirty-six years old
E. H. BUTCHER of st. Adams has accepted
the principalship of the system Of graded
schools at Brandon. When Mr.. butcher
resigned his position at Barre he intended
to take up the practice of his profession, the
law; but has decided to accept the Offer
from Brandon, which was unsolicited.
The Rev. DIR. G. n. Webber, professor a,
Smith College, Northampton, Mass. and
formerly of the First Presbyterian church OF
Troy, will act as president of Middebury
College in place of President Cyrus Hamlin
resigned. The prospects are that DIR. Web
Der will eventually accept the presidency
COLONEL j. G. STEARNs having seen his
successor fairly seated in the internal rev
enue office, has returned to his residence il
Bradford. The colonel's four years sojourn
ing in Montpelier has made him new friends
and confirmed old ones. He has displayed
great efficiency in the affairs of his office
and he has shown frankness, candor an,
manliness when he has differed with mel
either in politics or matters of opinion.
JOHN H. CONVERSE of Philadelphia, VIII
has been elected trustee of the Universit
of Vermont, vice Henry p. Hickok de
ceased is graduate of the institution il
the class of 1861, and is a member of tn
firm of Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co
proprietors of the Baldwin Locomotiv
Works of Philadelphia, an establishment
that employs some two thousand operative
and turns out ten or more locomotives
week. He is a native of Burlington, tn
Oldest son of the late j. X. Converse {
that city
G. M. ALLEN of Burlington was kicked 10
his horse Saturday. He started to enter TIA
, stall for the purpose of feeding the anima
when the horse struck him in the face
knocking him against the side of the stal
He fell almost directly under the animal
feet, and the horse again kicked him in tn
, face. He finally succeeded in draggin
himself from the stall. His face was bruise
in frightful manner, his upper and lowe
, lip being cnt by the calks of the horse
shoes, two teeth being knocked out, and
slight scalp wound being inflicted just abov
the forehead. None of the wounds are of
severe nature, but ii was a narrow escap
from fatal accident.