The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20
Weekly News Summary.

SroCKBRIDGE will celebrate its centennial
anniversary in August.
G. w. RICHMOND OF Woodstock has sugar
made from sap which ran May 18th.
Ice is two feet thick in the bottom of some
of the marble quarries at West Rutland.
A "CARBoY' of the Sheldon spring water
Is forwarded to General Grant every week.
A. w. GRAY's Sons of Middetown Springs
have received orders for two horse-powers
from Asia.
THE grand list of Brandon will not vary
much from S1,0350 900, being about $4,000
less than last year.
FIVE boys were suspended from the Rut-
land high school, last week, for playing base
ball in school hours.
Miss BETTERs of West Derby has COM
pleted a bed-quilt with nine thousand five
hundred ninety-five pieces in 1t.
ELLIOT HOWARD, a bachelor sixty-four
years old, was run over and killed by an
ox-team at Brattleboro last week Tuesday.
Hon. FREDERICK Billings has large force
Of men setting out trees at Woodstock. The
intention is to set out nearly three thousand
naples.
The Pittsford station was broken into and
some five dollars and a large number of
tickets taken. The burglars entered through
the ticket Office window.
The comptroller of currency has declared
a first dividend of twelve and one-half per
cent in favor of the creditors of the First Ma
tiona Bank of st. Adams.
THE comptroller of the currency has ex-
tended the corporate existence of the ma
tional banks at Newbury and Wells River
for period of twenty years.
The Howe scale works at Rutland are run
ming on full time with force of two hun
bred fifty men, and are said to have a good
outlook for the summer and fall.
AT South Woodstock, on Tuesday of last
week. Gilman Thomas eighteen years old,
accidentally shot himself. His shotgun dis
charged its contents into his side.
A BARN belonging to n. w. Bristol, a
short distance from Vergennes, on the Addi-
son road, in the town of Panton, was burned
at about eleven o'clock Sunday night.
THE Vermont state prison contains six
persons serving life sentences for murder;
three Others are serving ten, twelve and
twenty year sentences for manslaughter.
EMERSON CARPENTER, aged twenty-three
years, committed suicide by hanging in the
house of his brother in Watervile. The
cause of the crime was dependency caused
by long sickness.
THE Rutland trustees have ordered the
barber shops closed on Sunday hereafter,
at the request of nearly all the proprietors
of the shops. Those failing to comply with
this mandate will be proceeded against.
LAST week officers undertook to arrest at
Springfield notorious burglar, named X.
Watson, who has been committing depreda-
tons throughout the state the past year. but
he escaped after exchanging shots with
them.
BLACK RIVER ACADEMY, Ludlow, closed
its fiftieth year last week. The number of
scholars in attendance has been one hun
dred twenty-eight, making it the largest
number at any term but one for more than
ten years.
CHARLES II. WAsHBURN of New York, a
former Vernon boy, is the inventor of the
electric ship-steering apparatus, recently
and successfully exhibited to number of
experts on the United States steamship
Dispatch.
The postoffice and w. d. Balls store at
Ludlow were broken into last week Tuesday
night Nothing was taken at the postoffce.
Balls safe was blown open, but from ap-
pearances the rogues were frightened away
without taking anything.
Two prisoners confined in Burlington
Jail escaped last week Thurday night They
stood on bench, or table, and cut hole
through the ceiling into the room above,
which was unoccupied and thence reached
to the roof of the piazza.
AT the machine shop of G. w. Miltimore
of Arlington a lathe has Just been manu-
featured for Chicago parties designed for
turning down the worn tires of car wheels.
1t costs $1,000. Mr.. Miltimore has orders
for other machines of the same style.
A CAsTLEToN correspondent says an apple
tree there, eighty years old and nine feet in
circumference, "yields from twenty to thirty
bushels of fruit every other year of these
varieties: Pound Sweets, Russets, Seek-no-
farthers, Golden Pippins and common APP
pies"
THE Delaware & Hudson Company has re-
paired its track through the " drowned
lands" near the head of Lake Champlan,
with heavy blocks of marble from the Rut-
land quarries, and it is believed this will Sc
cure it against further damage from high
water.
The greatest number of loaded cars ever
hauled out from White River Junction over
the " Summit by single locomotive was
hauled by the " Paul Dillingham;" May 18th.
The train consisted of forty cars, of which
thirty-nine were loaded full-equal to sew
enty-nine empty cars.
THE democrats of Burlington intend to
try once more to sustain democratic paper
in that city, and are making arrangements
to start weekly, under the title of The
Burlington Independent. Alderman Alger
is mentioned as to be connected with the
editorial control of the sheet.
JONES, LAMsoN & Co. of Windsor, being
unable to meet their payments according to
the terms of the compromise made with
their creditors one year ago, the property
reverted, May 18th, to the creditors trus-
tees, agreeably to the terms of the mortgage
bond executed at the time of the compro-
mise.
MRS. MAGGIE K. SMITH, wife of John III
Smith, pilot of the steamer A Williams
threw herself from a state-room window OF
that vessel while the boat was sailing from
Essex, N. Y, to Burlington, Thursday, and
was drowned. She is supposed to have been
temporarily insane. Her body has not YET
been found.
The two state cases against John b. Page
for the ENLIGHTENMENT of Rutland railroad
funds has been nOUe pressed by the states
attorny, because of the result of the civil
cases of like nature, recently tried and
decided in Ex-Governor Pages favor. The
four cases against j. NJ. Haven for embezzle
ment have been continued to the next term
OF the county court.
PREPARATIONS are being made for tn,
payment of dividend of forty-five per cen
to those stockholders of the ruined First Ma
tional Bank of Brattleboro who paid the as
sessment of twenty-five per cent levied b,
the receiver soon after the failure of tn,
bank to pay the creditors. This is the frs
dividend to be paid the stockholders, and i
will amount to nearly one-half of the assess
ment collected.
FIRE at Burlington, Monday, PARTIAL
consumed the lighthouse of Booth Wood
bury, occupied by the Burlington Shade
roller Company. The stock OF the Shade
roller Company is almost a total loss
between fire and water. j. II. Booths doc
shop and Wing & Smiths stock wer
slightly damaged by water. The total los
is estimated at $4,000, all of which is GOV
cred by insurance.