The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
Weekly News Summary.

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initiated eleven recruits.
THE demand for houses in st. Adams is
greater than for some years.
JAMES DwIRE of West Charleston, while
scuiiling, broke his collar-bone.
THERE were GA marriages III births and
81 deaths in st. Adams last year.
THE United States court in session at Bur-
lington has adjourned until April 9th.
BENJAMIN Il. WILLARD has been ap-
pointed postmaster at West Dummerston.
BRArTLEBoRo voted "a, 900 for a soldiers
monument and 81 200 for public library.
GEORGE ID. KIDDER has been appointed to
be postmaster at Planfield and II. j. Glea-
son at Waitsfeld.
THERE is a gang of fre-bugs at work in
Fairhaven, and all attempts to ferret them
out have so far proved fruitless.
G. r. GUERNSEY, nominated for postmas-
ter at Windsor, is a son of Rev. G.. s. Guern-
sey, the Universalist clergyman.
A. S. MooDYs dweling-house at Iras-
burg was destroyed by fire last week Thurs
day. Loss 81 800; insured for $1,000
DIR. f. G. BURBANK of st. Adams Bay
died March ., of pneumonia, aged sixty-fve.
He had some reputation as cancer doctor.
THE spring detachment of the Vermont
colony, located at Loyaton, Dakota, started
last week from st. Adams. 1t numbered
forty persons.
RECEIVER RICH of the st. Adams Trust
Company has sold the Norwood Lumber
Company property to a New York syndi-
cate for $4,000
JOSEPH MERCHANT of Windsor, Thursday
afternoon, while handling a revolver, shot
his four-years-old daughter in the head.
She died in a few hours.
THERE is prospect of Vermont college
baseball league, of which the University of
Vermont, Middlebury College and the Lewis
College clubs will be members.
The members of st. Paul's church, Bur-
Hngton, are trying to raise the $40, 900 named
in Mr.. Towards bequest of $50 900 for found
ing school for girls at Rock Point.
HOLLIS l.. POWERS, the deceased proprie-
tor of the Grand Central Hotel at New
York, set apart in his will $4,000 for the
erection of his monument at Ludlow.
THE Charles p. Harris Manufacturing
Company of Rutland have recently re-
ceived an order for 10000 chairs from a
Massachusetts house. They also have large
orders from New York.
DEPUTY COLLECTORS ARLINGTON and
Kelley resigned from the st. Adams Gus
tom-house March 1, and Edward German
and j. n. Culver have received appoint
ments. Mr. Kelley has been elected consta-
BILE in st. Adams.
G. M. SPAULDING, president of the Bur-
hngton trust Company, resigned last Mon
day. General William Wells was elected
in his place. Mr.. Spaulding retains his in
terest in the company and the executive
committee remains the same
FRED BRATToN was arrested at Fort Ann,
n. Y, last week, on a warrant charging
him with stealing cattle from farmer at
Stamford, where he formerly resided. Brat
ton owned that he and others had stolen the
cattle, and was taken to Stamford.
ton, who has been in the employ of the
Central Vermont railroad on repairs at
Windsor until recently, has been taken to
the insane asylum at Brattleboro His con-
dition was brought on by overwork.
QUARTERS have been secured at the Bates
House for Governor Pingree and staff and
the officers attending the school of officers
of the First Regiment this week. The visit
ors will also be given a complimentary ban
quet at the Bates House this evening.
WILLIAM X. VANDERBILT of New York
has ordered from S. o. Miner, local fan
cier at Brattleboro, lot of eggs for $3.50
rosewood incubator which was recently
bought at the Madison Square poultry show.
Miner took the first prize there on Silver
spangled Hamburgs.
AT the meeting of the state committee of
the national prohibition party held in Bur-
lington, recently, Rev. George l.. Story of
st. Adams, w. L. Pearl of st. Johnsbury
and Alvah George of st. Adams were chosen
committee to prepare plan for organza-
ton in full detail for the coming year
FRANK CARPENTER, who was lieutenant
in the Eighth Vermont Regiment, has among
his rebellion relics copies of the Richmond
Daily Inquirer, published in 1864. He was a
subscriber of the sheet while in Libby
prison, paying $50 for three-months' sub
scription. He got word to his family of his
whereabouts by paying Sc for a personal in
the sheet, which happened to be copied by a
New York paper.
COLONEL GEORGE A. MERRILL of Rutland
recently brought suit against Dr. Billiard of
St. Johnsbury to recover pair of andirons
valued at SIG. Colonel Merrill sold house
in st. Johnsbury and when he removed his
furniture left the andirons. DIR. Billiard
bought the house sixteen years ago and the
andirons with It,. Judge Landon ruled that
Colonel Merrill had lost his title to them
and the case will go up on law points.
JOHN II. DUTToN of Sherburne, the bach
elor who during the past few years has be-
come somewhat noted as a maker of curious
bedquilts, has just completed quilt which
Is said to be curiosity and a remarkable
illustration of what can be accomplished by
patience and perseverance. The quilt il
seven feet by eight and one-fourth feet in
size, and contains 1877 ,00S pieces, ,OOO, ATS
stitches and forty-two yards of cloth
Forty-two spools of thread were required t.
complete it, and 720 hours of work. The
sewing of this quilt was done on machine
AMONG the articles exhibited at the recon
art loan exhibition in Castleton were a pew
ter teapot 300 years old, commentary OF
John Calvin 300 years old, prescription
written by DR.. Gridley in 1773, pewter plate.
and pieces of china 200 years old, silver
cup 100 years DID, pair of bellows that blew
into flame the first fire kinded in Cornwall
Vt, a cane made from the jawbone of
whale 100 years ago, Dutch fiddle made il
$780, brass lamp made in 1927, pitcher
brought to America by Christopher Colum
bus in 1892 The whole was supplemented
with finely painted portraits in oil of man,
of the early settlers of the town.
THE Boston express train was thrown
from the track and down into a meadow
near st. Adams one morning last week
The engine kept the track, but the baggage
car, Pullman and coach went into tn
meadow. In going down the baggage-ca
was upset, but the other two cars LITERAL,
pushed the rear end of the baggage-car on
of their way, and went along for severa
rods remaining right side up. Nobody wa
injured. Another train was made up imme
diately and left for Boston only about hal
an hour late The track was promptly re
paired and freight trains were delayed but
short time. The cause of the accident i
supposed to have been the spreading of tn
rails.
Other Localities.
THE Morgan picture sale in New Yor
realized 1886, 300,
THE American House, Boston, was dan
aged $4,000 by fire last Saturday.
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