The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-26
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

"A RATTLESNAkE lOlC letb lOuR was hllltu
by picnic party at Inman pond.
JAMES r. B. HUNT of North Troy has been
granted a patent for a saw-gummer.
WILLARD GoRDoN's house, Grand Isle,
was burned Wednesday of last week.
A cATAMouNT has been around on Birch
hill, in Brandon, doing some damage to
cattle.
J.E. SEVERANCE of Middlebury has started
for San Antonio, Texas, with carload OF
Merino rams
THE steamer "Ticonderoga on Lake
George, broke her walking beam, causing
loss of $4,000.
A PASSENGER on the Central Vermont had
his head badly bruised by. striking against
the Bethel bridge last week.
BURGLARS robbed the grange store of $500
in cash and Thurber's bakery of $40, in
Brattleboro, Saturday night
DEPosIToRs in the Vermont National
bank at St. Adams expect another divi-
dend of ten per cent September 10.
ARRANGEMENTS are made for the annual
operatic festival in Newport. 1t will take
place the first week in September.
ST. ALBANs has a company OF young
singers known as the Tuesday Night Glee
Club, under the tutelage of DIR. Sheerar.
A COW belonging to s. b. Martin of North
Ferrisburgh was struck by lightning during
the storm Friday night, and instantly killed
CYRUS ORAMTON y DdTn Ill lluIHOulH w DO
bnrned by lightning Friday; loss 500. Also,
Adna Browns barn in Springfield; loss
$4,000.
PREPARATIONS are being made for fire.
mans muster at Rutland, to be held about
September 10. 1t is hoped to offer $500 in
prizes.
p. PERKINS, an aged citizen of Man
chester, fell from the roof of a house while
shingling, and received serious If not fatal,
injuries.
FRANK Cole, clerk for DIR. Cutting of
Lunenburgh, was so badly burned in his
face with nitric acid that he may lose the
sight of both eyes.
BATES horse-barn at Pittsford was struck
by lightning Monday evening of last week,
and burned, with some six tons of hay. 1t
was insured for 800.
DURING a thunderstorm, Friday night,
Worcester Benton's barn in Union Village
was struck by lightning and burned. Loss
about $500; uninsured.
MOSES JOY, Jr., president of the Milford,
Mass, waterworks, has concluded negotia-
tons to put in water-workS at Bennington,
and work will begin Immediately.
THURSDAY will be governors day at
the muster when the troops will be re-
viewed by his excelency, and there will be
sham fight and other military mannuvers.
THE Passumpsc railroad is putting in new
rails between Newport and North Derby.
ln1S, WIFI II INK DtIWttl llltblOl'l anu uHC
Junction, will give them steel rails the whole
length of the road.
A LITTLE child about four years old, be-
longing to a Welsh family that had lately
arrived in this country, while playing in the
water, was drawn into culvert in Fair
haven and drowned.
THERE is a man living in Barre, it is said,
who has heen there ever since the railroad
was built, and never was on the Barre train
until last Saturday. Whenever he visits
Montpelier he goes with team
THE Vermont Central Baptist association
holds its next annual session at West
Randolph, September . and g. An extern
sive programme has been prepared. Several
prominent speakers will be present.
GILBERT boutwell,, an employee of the
insane asylum, was hit by heavy rifle ball
while sitting at his window. The bullet
came, probably. from sportsman, and cut a
wound in the shoulder six inches long
XAVIER r EvoIR, employed on Ex-Governor
Smiths farm at St. Albans was hitching uI
one of the horses, recently, when the animal
for some reason became frightened and
kicked Revoir over, breaking his collar bone
FRED CLARK of Poultnev shot blue heron
last week in what is called the little pond
which is the upper end of Lake st. Cath
crime, that measured five feet nine inches
from tip to tip, and stood four feet and six
inches.
WHILE Frank NJ. Mclean of Rutland was
running his printing-press, recently, his
little daughter, two years old, put her hand
in the press and the thumb and fore-tingel
on the right hand were cut off just above
the nail.
THE first prize of S75 in the recent hose
race at Whitehall n. Y, was won by the
Sheldons of Rutland, who ran seven hun
bred feet, strung three hundred feet of hose
and made coupling in ffty-fve and three
fourths seconds.
THE lightning was unusually lively in the
telegraph office at Rutland Friday night
The operator felt repeated shocks. One flash
went from the wires to the stove and al
about two o'clock in the morning a discharge
spoiled couple of instruments.
THE annual conference and camp-meeting
of the Seventh-day Adventists opened in
Burlington the 18th. The meetings have
been addressed by able speakers from
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan and Iowa
and the attendance has been good
WHILE Mr. Henry Ingham of Vergennes
was returning load of benches that had
been used at his brothers. funeral, the load
tipped over and portion of it fell upon him
He was picked up insensible. He was
severely but not dangerously injured.
A MAN went into the old American House
at Burlington, Thursday night of last week
and tried to get the clerk to open the safe
saying he wanted to deposit some money
and finally knocked the clerk down ant
CHOktu Hill. All dldTIH w as gwen, Du1 viz
man escaped.
CHARLES O'NEIL, a machine-tender in the
Fall Mountain paper mill at Bellows Falls
was caught on pulley, last week Wednes
day. and carried over the shafting One
thumb was torn from the socket, the cords
were torn out to the elbow and leg wa
badly bruised.
STEPS have been taken by the Bennington
Monument Association to secure the paymen
of the appropriations voted by congress AM
Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hamp
shire, and it is hoped to get the foundation
laid during the coming year, ready for tn
superstructure.
THE safe in the depot at Lyndonville wa
burglarzed last week Monday night thu
thieves obtaining $50 thereby. The nigh
operator left the depot as the night trail
came in, and returning twenty minutes later
found that the money which was in the SAT
had disappeared.
SEVERAL of the Central Vermont engine
have been so fitted that the air brak
can be connected at the front end as well a
under the tender, and thus many mile
travel will be saved, since it will not b
necessary to turn the engine before couplin
on to cars for short hauls.
THE directors of the Howe Scale Compan
at Rutland have reelected John b. Pag
president. The board consists of w. /
Page, w. w. Reynolds George S. Studwe
of New York and Henry G. Gleason {