The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-25
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

THE dwelling and barn of II. p. Blake OF
Derby were consumed by fire on Sunday
evening Loss $500; insurance 81, 200.
JOHN WALKER, a Central Vermont brake
man, had a hand jammed last week Thurs
day morning, while coupling cars at Essex
Junction.
w. MoULToN of Castleton has been elected
town treasurer thirty-six times in success
sion. He has also held the Office of post
master twenty-four successive years.
THERE is to be an art loan exhibition at
the city hall, Burlington, for the benefit of
the Sherman Military Band, the proceeds to
be invested in new uniforms for that justly
celebrated organization
ACCORDING to the United States bureau
Of statistics Castleton, with its twenty-six
hundred inhabitants, consumes between
So 600 and $1,000 worth of Intoxicating
liquors and tobacco annually.
WHILE trimming an apple-tree Josephus
| Streeter of Amsden slipped and fell a dis
lance OF thirteen feet, striking on the crust
| in such a manner to injure his spine so
badly that it is thought he cannot recover.
Buffers steam mill in Franklin was en-
| tirely destroyed by fire, last week Tuesday
night, together with its contents. The en-
| CINE was ruined, and large number of
! logs, the property of l.. Hilton, were burned
RECEIVER HENDEE has declared dividend
of twenty per cent to depositors in the Yer
mont National Bank of St. Adams. This
makes thirty-two and one-half per cent
which the Vermont National has paid thus
| far.
LAWRENCE BARNES, Esq, has decided to
rebuild the spool mill al Burlington, and the
work will be begun at once. 1t will be ar
ranged substantially as before, and will be
occupied by Mr.. Holt in the manufacture of
spools and bobbins.
The Vermont Livestock Company has is
sued $62,50O of the treasury stock, all of
which has been taken by the stockholders.
| The company has Just made large pur-
chase of Colorado cattle, to be put on its
Western Dakota ranch in June.
BAYARD HOLMES, a North Hero boy, grad
uated from the Chicago Medical College, re-
Gently, with high honors, and took prize of
$3.50. He also gained the first appointment
in the contest for practice in Cook county
hospital (Chicago), where he is to be EN-
ployed at a handsome salary for the next
eighteen months.
THE ninth annual meeting of the Vermont
State Dental Association was held in Bur-
lington last week. The election of officers
resulted as follows: President, DIR. James
urer, Dr. Il. NJ Chase of Bethel, There
were two applicants for examination,
neither of whom passed
MRS CALVIN H. BLoDGETT, whose death
has been announced, had been an almost
hopeless invalid for more than two years,
anu uedJu was TeledSe LOT IeT from pro-
longed and severe suffering. She was a
most estimable lady; and the bereaved hus-
band and family have the sincere sympathy
Of our COMMUNICATIVE Press.
THE first regular postal service in YER
mont began in 1884, when the legislature
established post-routes, with five post
offices, one each at Bennington, BrattlebOro,
Rutland, Windsor and Newburg. This
service continued until Vermont was adj
mitted into the Union, in 1871. AS our pres
ent currency was not then in use, the rates
of postage were fixed in pennyweights and
grains of silver, the three lowest rates vary
ing but little from eight eleven and fifteen
cents. The first postmaster appointed by
the United States in Vermont was David
Russell, at Bennington, August %, 1871. In
1898 there were but ten postmasters in the
state.
The premiums for merino sheep awarded
to Vermont exhibitors at the New Orleans
exposition are as follows: H. c. Burwell of
BridpOrt, first premium on rams two years
old and over, 500; first on ewes, two years
old and over, 500; sweepstakes on ram and
flock of five ewes of any age, 500; sweep
stakes on ewes of any age, $50; second
on ewes, one year old and under two years
third on ewes over one and less than two
years old, highly commended. l.. S. Bur-
| well of Bridport, first premium on ram one
year old and under two years, $50; second
on ram lamb, $25. c. H. Smith, Bridport
second premium on ram one year old and
under two years old, $25. j. T. Stickney
, Shoreham, fourth on ram one year old and
under two years old, commended. The
whole amount of premiums awarded for
, sheep at the exposition was SS25, of which
amount it will be noticed that Vermont gets
, S475, and of this H. c. Burwell of Bridport
, gets 1915.
Other Localities.
!, AT Pekin, H., the other day, large gray
!, eagle swooped down on a little child anC
! was rising in the air with it when a farmer
. came to the rescue and killed the voraciou;
bird, which measured over eight feet from
tip to tip.
IT is announced that lenses for the great
Lick telescope in California have been sue
cessfully cast, and need only polishing to bt
ready for use By this telescope it is though
P, that the moon will be brought within thirty
miles of the earth, and in such case impor
, tant discoveries will consequently result
q A TERRIBLE state of affairs exists at Ter
: non, Willbarger county, Texas. An assas
sinaton society was formed there some time
ago, and three men have been murdered
: Twenty-three citizens are under arrest. i
is claimed that the organization was to rit
the country of cattle and horse-thieves ant
incendiaries.
a AN Englishman is travelling through Kan
sas with two pairs of ferrets, with which 1t
i. is making money by killing prairie dogs
u He visits ranches where there are indication
of prairie dogs and offers to clean out tn,
. dog town for one cent per dog. The cost il
< so low that the ranchman doesn't hesitate
5 to accept the offer. One ferret will clear
u out from one to fifty dogs before he tires out
+ and when one is tired out fresh one is pu
!. into service, and so on until the place is rit
i of dogs.
7 THE letter-carriers at Salt Lake City ar
: said to find it impossible to deliver thei
:; missives. On account of the arrests o
n polygamsts, all the Mormons have beef
q warned against talking to strangers or Civ
Il ing their names or residences. The carrier
- in their rounds knock at doors, and scurr
ensues inside. A child answers the call
g and often refuses to tell who lives there.
q doesn't know the names of the neighbors o
2 where its father and mother are to be found
d The uniform is a sign of the enemy, and n
|, information is to be had.
e WNTRY WINDs-It's all right for poets t
v sing the praises of the beautiful snow, an,
:. the merry sleigh-bells, and the ringing skate
d on the CLASSY ice, but they can't fill the bi
q. with that sort of stuff when one is sttin
l. with his feet in a tub of hot water, his hea
IS done up in fiannels, and with mustard plas
70 tiers on both sides of his chest. What pei
20 son needs then is a thorough dose of Kidne,
n Wort N act as n cathartic. for nothing wi