The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22
Weekly News Summary.


cat in Mendon last week
ID. f. QUINN shot a silver-gray fox in
Huntington the other day.
Miss ELIZABETH b. FOLEY of Burlington
died in Florida few days ago.
THE State Board of Agriculture held
meeting in Swanton last week.
A SUCCESSFUL Suuday-schoo convention
was held at Windsor last week.
ASA SMITH, native of Grand Isle, has
been elected mayor of Keene, n. II.
GEORGE WRIGHT of weybrdge fell, one
day last week on a pail and broke several
ribs.
JoHN WORTH aged six years. was prob.
ably fatally hurt by runaway team in
Derby
THE Advent church at Castleton has ex-
tended call to Rev. Mr.. johnson of Alb
ington Conn.
COLONEL A. b. JEwErr of the Vermont
division of the Boston & Lowell road is i'll
at st. Johnsbury.
JUDGE l.. II. THOMPSON of Irasburgh
whose health is poor, is going to the south
of Italy for the winter.
DIR. w. b. MAYO of Northfeld has been
reelected president of the Vermont Homeo-
pathc Medical Society
BISHOP DEGoEsBRIAND of Burlington is
feeble and not able To leave his house. His
condition is not alarming.
at South Royalton was a subscription of $50
for the missionary society
REV. SuAs WlGGrN of Sutton committed
suicide by hanging on Saturday. He was
about seventy-tive years old.
A BURLINGTON firm has just shipped five
carloads ofdoors, wndow-frames and sashes
bound to Cape Town, Africa.
The St. Adams trustees have decided to
enforce the village law against coastng in
the streets and on the sidewalks.
THE annual meeting oe the Vermont
Dairymen's Association will be held in st.
Johnsbury January II, Is and 10.
Mr.. LUCE of Stowe, aged eighty, was
thrown out of his sleigh Monday, breaking
his neck and killing him instantly.
THE third annual meeting of the Vermont
Womans Suffrage Association will be held
at Barton Landing January II and 49,
THE adjourned October term of the United
States circuit and district court will open at
Rutland December 81 at two o'clock P. NJ.
THE Foster will case at St. Adams has
been decided in favor of Minnie Hayes, the
principal legatee. The case involved $50, 600
PosT-oFFICE has been established at
East Peacham, with E. ID. SOmers as post
master, and the office at South Peacham
has been discontinued.
THE annual meeting of the Vermont
Merino Sheep Breeders Association will be
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Wednesday, January II.
MICHAEL PHILLIPs of South Burlington,
about seventeen years of age, was arrested
on the charge of stabbing his father. He
claims it was done in self-defence.
THE Underhill Camp of Sons of Veterans
now ranks first in the state in point of
membership, that at Brattleboro ranking
second and that at Burlington third.
DENNIsoN DANFoRTH of Island Pond fell
from ladder the other day and received
injuries from which he died the next morn
ing. lie was seventy-four years old.
The annual conference of the Christian
Endeavor Societies of Vermont was held in
Burlington last week, and several profitable
meetings were enjoyed by delegates in at
tendance.
THE st. Adams Ddily MESSENGER is now
the only daily in the state that does not use
"plate news matter, the Rutland Herdld
having recently succumbed to the eco
nomical practice.
THE Champlain Transportation Company
expect to build a new steamer this winter
for use on Lake Cham plain. 1t will be two
hundred feet long and finished in fine style
for passenger traffic.
JOSEPH C. Brown of Burlington has been
granted patent for machine for measur-
ing and packing seeds; Eugene A. Brown
and f. Lasker of Bennington for stop-mo-
ton knitting-machine.
THE President has sent the following
nominations for postmasters to the senate:
Asa NJ. Dickey, Bradford; Dudley c. Brown,
Brandon; Warren l.. Howard, Fair Haven;
Moses Brasher, Newport,
GENERAL MANAGER HOBART of the Cen
trail Vermont road, who has been confined
to his room by sickness several weeks, says
that his health is steadily improving and
he hopes to be about again in short time.
"CHUB." SANDERsoN, well known in
Franklin county as an od-tme stage man
and later member of the famous firm of
Barlow u SanderSOn, western mail route
contractors, has just sold his interest in a
Colorado silver mine for S375,000
GOVERNOR ORMsBEE has appointed COM
missioners to erect monuments at Gettys-
burgh, among whom are Fred f. Smith of
Montpelier, Cassius Peck of Brooktield, f.
S. Stranahan of St. Adams, William Wells
of Burlington and Z. o. Seaver of Wood
stock.
PHILIP PEPPo, crazy man of Fairfax,
who insists that he owns the whole world
and that all other people are trespassers
upon his domains, was intercepted in Rut-
land last week, on his way to Washington
to see the President and returned to his
friends in Fairfax.
RIGHT REV. l.. DEGoEsBRIAND has made
the following appointments, togo into effect
Immediately after Christmas: Rev. Father
Gaffney of Dorset to Rutland; Rev. Father
Glynn OF Rutland to Dorset; Rev. Father
Langevin of EnoSburgh to Shoreham and
Orwell; Rev. Father ID. Daignault, lately
received into the diocese to Enosburgh;
Rev. Father Mclaughlin of Brandon has
been given charge of Pittsford, which has
heretofore been a portion of the Rutland
charge. The bishop has appointed Rev.
Father Gaffney, one of his consulters, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Rev.
Father Boylan.
Other Localities.
STANLEY sailed for Europe last Wednes-
day.
LORD SALISBURY has reduced his Irish
rents
DAKOTA Indians agree to take land in
severalty.
FRESH disputes have arisen concerning
the Afghan frontier.
THERE was heavy fall of snow in the
west of Ireland Sunday.
A DECREASE of the cholera epidemic in
South America is noted.
THE British cabinet is divided with refer
ence to the coercion policy.
THE British army occupying Egypt is to
be at once reduced to 1900 men.
DRosE, now vice-president, has been
elected president of Switzerland.
The Russian government is advertising
for military stores in great quantity.
THE Nordheimer hall block in Montreal
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