The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11
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A. b. FISHER was at home over Sunday,
returning to Burlington the first of the
week.
GEORGE Il. FARNHAM is at the residence
of his sister, Mrs. Smith, sick with inflam-
matory rheumatism.
Mrs. s. G. DuRKEE, living with Mr.. and
Mrs. George Wheeler and mother of Mrs.
Wheeler, died, after short illness from
pneumonia, last Sunday.
WE are indebted to the courtesy OF DIR.
Nichols for the facts stated in the item re-
garding Mrs. Fletcher, for which we wish to
make due acknowledgment.
WILLIAM MEARs drove into the village,
beauties-dark red and well matched They
tipped the beam at 1900 pounds, and are
soon to be taken to market.
| ACCORDING to the returns of the clerk of
the village school district, it will probably
| soon be necessary to again enlarge the school
| house, there having been thirty EIGHT births
and twenty deaths in the district the past
| year.
| IT is rumored that II. Webster and b. r.
| Durham are to erect a steam mill on the
west side Of South Main street, just beyond
the bridge and near the ice house, for the
purpose of dressing lumber, polishing gran
lite aud grinding grain, and that the work of
construction will be pushed as soon as
spring opens
| WEnow have a weather signal service in
town, it being located at the telephone ex-
change in Perley Chambers jewelry store,
thus giving us the indications some twelve
hours ahead of the daily papers received
here. Mr.. Chandler is using II. l.. Bixby's
system, description of which was given in
Chelsea items last week.
Miss MAUD T.. HosFoRD of Terre Haute,
Ind, will give public reading at the town
hall on Saturday evening next. Miss Hos
! ford is pupil OF Professor Mark Bailey of
| Yale College and has studied with Professor
Peabody Of Princeton, n, j., and other emf
nent elocutionists. She will give a variety
of selections, including dramatic, humorous
and pathetic pieces.
DAVID MCCRnLIs, an old gentleman liv-
| ing with his son Levi, died very suddenly
last week Tuesday evening. He sat up
little later than usual and retired about ten
o'clock, not taking lamp with him. He
went, or started to go, upstairs, and fell
either from the top or part way up. He
struck in such a manner as to apparently
break his neck and one wrist, cutting quite
cash in his head He died instantly of
| course.
WE are sorry to announce the death of
Mrs. Carrie Tilden, wife Of Frank Carleton
of Somervile, Mass. She had been sick
some two weeks, and last Saturday was
thought to be on the gain. Mr.. Tilden got
letter from Mrs. Tilden, who was there,
calling her better, but fifteen minutes later
a telegram came, announcing the sad news
Oh ner ueabn. Inc remains were brought
here Tuesday morning for interment. Mrs.
Carleton leaves three small children, her
husband and adopted parents to mourn her
early death.
On Wednesday afternoon of last week,
just at dusk, John Brassau and Frank Hunt
of Montpelier, somewhat under the intlu-
ence of liquor, drove to the house of Mr..
Fletcher, on the Fred Gale farm, and Bras
sau went into the house. Finding that Mrs
Fletcher and her small child were the only
members of the family at home, Mr..
Fletcher not having returned from his days
work, Brassau sat down on the sofa and
began to talk pretty Familiarity to Mrs.
Fletcher, making indecent proposals to her.
AS she is a small woman, young and timid,
she became alarmed and went out at the back
door, thinking to go around the house and
into the road, to near neighbours, for as
sistance and protection. AS she came to the
corner of the house she saw a man standing
between her and the road and, supposing it
to be Hunt, went back and waited few
moments; she then tried again, but the man
was still there. Not daring to pass him, she
again turned back and this time crossed out
into the field, through the deep snow, where
she found wood road. 1t then occurred to
her that it would be best to go up the road
! and meet her husband, as it was time for
him to come home. She followed the road
;, some distance, but, darkness coming on,
she lost her way and wandered around in
the deep snow, falling down an embank-
ment, some six feet, into small ravine. She
, followed that down some distance, crossing
and recrossing a small brook four or five
! times in a short distance, getting her cloth.
!, ing wet each time. By this time she had
! become very much exposed and chilled from
: the cold, having nothing on but the clothing
!, she wore about the house. She then turned
= back and went up the ravine, thinking she
, could retrace her steps and perhaps find hel
/ way home She came to the head of the ra
a vine, where she fell over some stones, cut
! ting and bruising her hands in the snow and
, crust. She then attempted, at five or six diff
. ferent points, to climb up the embankment
= but without avail, as she was benumbeG
with the cold and exhausted. Realizing
a that if she went to sleep she would doubtless
freeze to death before help came, she com
menced walking back and forth for shor
: distance; and this she continued to do a:
: long as she was able to hold out, but finally
sank down in the snow. In the meantime
y her husband came home and, not finding
4 her, searched the house and barn thoroughly
n He then discovered her track, followed it
q and succeeded in finding his wife about tel
n o'clock When found she was curled dowI
! in the snow, her apron over her head ant
> all her clothing frozen stiff, and was per
:. fectly rigid and unconscious. He removed
I, - her to the house and sent for DIR. Georg
!. Nichols, who quickly responded. When tn
n doctor arrived he found Mrs. Fletcher still
: unconscious, with just a faint tluttering o
!. the heart. Her husband, with the assist
I dutt vi htlShboiS, hdu Dtth apic W Scl Ic
!, arms only relaxed, taking her fingers out o
- her mouth, where she had placed them 70
. warmth in her last conscious moments
The doctor went to work in earnest for he
. relief, and at about two o'clock in the morn
% ing succeeded in rallying her, and she
D. now doing as well as could be expecte
70 under the circumstances. She remember
y distinctly up to the time of sinking down i
D the snow, and then of moving her hea
~ backward and forward in her endeavors t
. keep awake. 1t is wonder how she SUI
le vived, and especially strange that there ar
= no very serious frost-bites upon her person
y the worst being across the tips of her fiji
y gers She is suffering severe nervous pros
~ tration on account of the shock. 1t appear
le that Brassau and Hunt went away 500
~ after Mrs. Fletcher left the house, AS Ere
u, La Bounty, a near neighbor, called in of a
y errand early in the evening and foun
H. Brassau there. He asked him where Mr.
" Fletcher was the reply was that she ha
o. just gone out Brassau asked him q
&c Bounty to stop. He replied, " No; hay
~ no business here, nor you either. She is
timid woman. Come away and leave her.
Brassau then followed him out and prob
e. bly, left soon after. There may be no law
: punish adequately such lecherous, drunke
III towards as Brassau, but il there is not |
ne wants to keep out of this community, as |
o. would he liable to thorough coat of +,
and feathers and a free ride out of the plac
~ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. King returned {