The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-01-07
Vermont State News.

OVER five thousand natives and residents
of the state died last year.
EBEN KEMP of Royalton was killed last
Saturday in the woods by falling tree
For the year 1884 the real estate trainers
in Burlington aggregated S319,631, against
$3.50 600 for 1888.
HERBERT b. PIERCE, aged seventeen, of
Jericho, committed suicide on New Years
day by shooting.
A BARN belonging to Warren o. Kidder,
in Swaton, was burned New Years night
Loss $500 to 81 GOO.
LAKE CHAMPLAIN at Benson landing is
frozen over. A. l.. Hale, ferryman crossed
on foot last week Thursday.
ID. G.. BARNEY's woodworking establish
ment at Arlington was burned last Friday.
Loss $4,000; insurance small.
A WHITE maple tree was found budded,
ready to blossom, on the river road from
Newport to Bloomington recently.
THE scarcity of hay in some sections of
Rutland county has induced many farmers
to purchase western corn as substitute.
PUTNEY has issued new bonds for $4,000,
which have been taken by Connecticut
man at four and one-half per cent interest.
THE Fall Mountain Paper Company of
Bellows Falls made each of their employees
a Christmas present of two suits OF working
clothes.
A TwENTY-MoNTHs-oLD grandchild of
George Bates of Essex recently tipped a
dish of hot water on itself and died from
the effects.
A YOUNG man named Lamphere, recently
teacher in Chittenden and insane from
over-study, has been taken to the Brattle-
boro insane asylum.
MERwIN ADAMS of Halifax, twenty years
old, was fatally injured by large stone
falling on his head while he was engaged in
cleaning out spring.
AT aschool meeting held at st. Johnsbury
it was voted to abolish the teaching of
music in the public schools. The basis of OBJ
lection was high taxation.
THE Brattleboro milkmen have reduced
their price to five cents quart, to cores
pond with their new wine measure and
averted threatened milk war.
The prospective assessment on account
of the Vermont National bank of st. AL
bans has induced the st. Johnsbury banks
to omit their regular January dividends.
A RAID was made on Ben Wooley's estab-
lishment in Rutland, which he calls an
"oyster saloon" and eghty-one packs of
cards and large number of faro chips were
seized.
HERBERT AND DAVID GUINDoN of Bel
lows Falls, arrested by Sheriff Lowell for
stealing two horses from A. +. Minis of
Walpole, N. H., Sunday of last week, have
been committed to jail
T.. A. MAxHAM has sold the Barnard pam
ther to Colonel j. b. Mead, who will take
it to the New Orleans exposition this
winter and will place it in the state cab
met at Montpelier in the spring.
THE village of Proctor formerly Suther-
land Falls) was organized on the Both ult.
under the charter granted by the last legis-
lature. Ex-Governor Proctor, for whom
the village is named was elected president
THE duties payable on the goods entered
nt . Of A 1n,v
weell-including those in bond and those
on which duties were paid there-amounted
to So, 1913, and the goods themselves were
valued at $31 JIG.
HENRY GILLETTE of White River June
ton has a curiosity in the shape of a con-
federate newspaper, which is printed on
wall paper and one side only. The paper
was brought from the South by his broter-
in-law, who was in the war.
JONAS j. Snow, who was convicted of
murder in the second degree at st. Johns
bury for shooting a peddler and sentenced
to prison for life nearly eleven years ago,
was released New Years day upon a con-
ditional pardon from Governor Pingree.
The members of the Brotherhood of Con-
ductors connected with the Central Ver-
mont had supper and social time in their
lodge room at st. Adams on Saturday even
ing, with some of their fellow-conductors
not in the brotherhood, and their wives.
A THIRD soap-stone quarry has been dis
coverd upon George l.. Fletcher's lands in
Chester, in a straight line with the soap
stone quarres in Perkinsville, the Davis
quarry in Chester, near Grafton line, the
quarry in Grafton and the one in Towns
bend.
PATRICK LAHEY, treasurer of the Father
Mathew Society, Bennington has absconded
with $500 of the funds. George Miller,
manager of the telephone exchange, for
merly of North Adams, Mass, has also left
town, taking, it is said, over 500 of the
company's funds.
THE dwelling-house of George Smith, at
Bridgewater village, narrowly escaped be-
ing burned recently. A small child, who
was playing with matches in a sleeping
ROOM set "a stand and its contents on fire,
which were destroyed, but the fire was dis
covered in season to save the house.
AT a recent meeting of the directors of
Fletcher Hospital, in Burlington, Drs. Fas-
sett of st. Adams, Holton of Bratteboro and
Atwater of Burlington We're elected consult
ing physicians for the ensuing year. and
| Drs. Little of New York, James of Water
bury and Allen of White River Junction
! consulting surgeons.