The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-15
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

dooryard.
A. G. MATTHEWS of New Haven has sued
Alvin Sturtevant for SANDER, laying his
damages at $1,000.
II. l.. DOYLE of West Burke.has been APP
pointed postal clerk on the route from Rich
ford to Springfield Mass.
A cRAyoN portrait of the late Chief Justice
John Pierpont has been placed in the county
clerks Office at Burlington.
The convention of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary society closed successful ses-
sion in Middlebury Friday.
w. L. DAVIS of Island Pond committed
suicide last week by shooting himself. No
cause can be assigned for the act.
REV. CHARLES CLARK HARRIS, formerly
rector of st. Michael's Episcopal church at
ttleboro, is dead at Parsons, Kansas.
j. r. HALL of Newport has just completed
handsome threestory brick block, fifty by
seventy-six feet in size, at a cost of $4,000.
CHRISTOPHER GORDON has been appointed
postmaster at Wnooski, John j. Barrett at
Center Rutland and Mrs. c. l.. Russell at
Dover.
IT is rumored that the Boston q Lowell
railroad is negotiating for the possession of
the road from Sheldon junction to East
Franklin.
G. w. GRAHAM, taxidermist, of st. Johns
bury has lately received n suit of Japanese
armor, such as was worn hundred or two
years ago.
ALEXANDER RIELLE of Rutland has been
fined for conducting gambling house. His
patrons were boys from fifteen to twenty
years of age.
A LITTLE daughter of A. Dubuc of
Winooski, aged eighteen months, fell into a
tub of boiling water Saturday and was ia
tally burned
FIRE at Brattleboro, December Q, burned
Estey, Frost & Co.'s mill and stock of grain
and Benefits machine-shop. Loss $4,000;
insurance $1,000.
WILLIAM ID. WEEKS of North Pawlet has
captured within the last few years one hun
bred forty foxes, seveuty-seven of which he
caught in a steel trap
LOUIS BENNETT, while cutting timber for
W. II. ii. Chapman of Ludlow, was in
stantly killed by falling limb. He leaves
wife and six children.
ALBERT G. PuRDY of Manchester fell from
a hay-oft to the barn floor, striking upon his
back, njuring his spine and causing paraly
sis in his limbs for time.
THE whole number of students reported
in all the departments of the Burlington
University is three hundred forty-Seven,
against three hundred fifty-four last year.
COLONEL SAWYER of Hyde Park was
agreeably surprised recently by receiving
$50 which he had loaned to a felow-otficer
while in the service twenty three years ago.
THE Burlington, St. Adams and Rutland
ing, which indicates that the merchants in
these places intend to get all the trade
they can.
REV. S. F. DREW, who has been acting
pastor of the Congregational church at
Charleston for the past three years, has ac-
cepted a call to the pastorate of the church
at McIndoe's Falls.
THREE of the present members of the SUI
preme court of Vermont were born in 1856
Hon. Russell S. Taft, January 2S, Hon. III.
Henry Powers, May 80, and Hon. Wheelock
G. Veazey, December 3.
CAPTAIN ELLIS B. EDWARDS of Company
A. First Vermont Cavalry, formerly of
Wnooski but now a resident of New York
city, has just been appointed general super
intendent of the New York City & Northern
railroad.
REV. JOHN II. WOODWARD of Milton,
Familiarity known as chaplain " Wood
ward, died December 6, aged seventy-eight
years. Mr.. Woodward was taken with a
chill the previous Friday. Pneumonia de-
veloped and proved fatal.
ARTHUR ALLEN was skating on Lake
Champlain at Dresden and pushing a cut
ter containing Edith and Ralph Flannery,
aged twelve years and five years respect
lively. In attempting to cross the lake to
Maple Bend the ice gave way, and Allen
and the two children were drowned.
AMONG the patents granted last week are
the following to NermonterS: Rodney e..
Rritton SnTingfeld velocinede. + s
Hntcbinson e "a Enoshurgh Fails. remedy
for anonlexv and other kindred dis
aoseo ltrade 'marlS. f 8 Hutchinson &
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AT meeting OF the oihcers OF the flrst
Vermont Regiment 10 eiect colonel III
place OF Colohel W. H. 1reehleai' VINO mas
Just been elected brlgauler'geheral't he on
GERS were promoted IN oruer as lolioWs'
Leutenant-colonel D. j.. Estey OF brattle.
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IN tne burlington clty cours; alleI ouuie
ats+ fr nav nant,, ~, foroarv ,eiddle'aaed
man With bnsby hair and grizzly WHISPERS.
who was standing on seat in the rear of
the room. cried out, "Will YOU please read
that over again so that we can understand
it? There are lot OF big words there
me cour' d. one 9rtSleG tnu ni,an 'a '.,,
no u ,o',ant, ~" s'rnrSad that he roo"as,
vas not granted was nsbered ont Nv the
officers,-Free Press.
AT the annual meeting OF the state grange
in South Rovalton. last week, the secretary's
report showed that there are now fifty six
subordinate and seven Pomona oranges
Inc present membership IS Two thousahIi q