The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-04
Weekly News Summary.


VEsTA DAY was arrested at Tunbridge
Monday for burglary from the residence of
Dana Wright on the night of June 18th.
The creditors of Fred M. Barber, lumber
dealer, Bellows Falls, are offered thirty
cents on the dollar. He owes about 1900.
THERE was $1,000 recently deposited in
the town treasury at North Hartand, the
amount willed to the town by the late d. II.
Campbell.
The Ottaquechee Wooden Company of
North Hartland is at work on q contract of
10000 yards ofcloth, which they are shipping
to Cincinnati.
THE Harris Manufacturing Company of
Rutland has just made the first lot of one
hundred chairs for the Bermuda Chair Com
pany of st. Adams.
THE internal revenue collections in the
state for the fiscal year ending June 30
were S32, SOB, the smallest showing made by
any state in the Union.
MARSHALL ANDERsoN's barn at East
Wallingford, containing about thirty tons
of hay, was burned one evening recently
1t was insured for $500.
A YOUNG son of Edward Crosby of Brat
tleboro broke his leg in three different
places in jumping from piazza in Maine,
where he is summering
IT is announced that the appointments of
l.. w. Redington and G.. f. O. Kimball,
as postmasters at Rutland and Vergennes
have just been confirmed.
g. +. WooD of Woodford shot a heron on
the lake the other day which measured six
feet and three inches from tip to tip of wings
and was five feet in height.
THE United States court met last week
for the second time, and adjourned to Au-
gust oath for the want of funds. Important
cases are awaiting trial by the jury.
SANFORD SMITHS Westinghouse at Gull
ford, occupied by Albert Bixby, was struck
by lightning last week and destroyed, with
its contents. Loss on house, 5000; insured
for $500
A BARN belonging to Reuben Niles at
West Newport was totally destroyed by fire
the other night. Two tons of hay were
burned 1t is thought the fire was of in
cendiary origin
THREE tons of Congressional Records
passed through Rutland last week Monday,
which were directed to Hon. George f. Ed
munds at Burlington and Ex-Governor Stew
art at Middlebury.
FIRE broke out in the Central Vermont
railroad sheds at Milton Monday. The
sheds with three hundred cords of sawed
and split wood, were consumed. The loss
to the railroad company will be $1,000.
WHILE John Busky was out on Lake
Memphremagog below Georgevile his boat
was caught in the wake of the Mountain
Maid and capsized. His hat and the boat
were picked up, DuU no trace OF Jne BODY
has yet been discovered.
A FEW days since the ferryman at Lara
bees Point was seriously injured. A spirited
team attempted to pass off the boat before
the apron was let down, and as he fastened
to let it down the lever flew up and hit his
head. He was picked up insensible.
THE camping ground of the National
Guard during the annual muster will be the
Englesby lot in the south part of Burlington
irst II off, nf tIa
Fifth Artillery has been detailed by the
secretary of war to inspect the camp.
IT is a somewhat singular fact that the
three deaths which have occurred in the
Scovell family of Cornwall within the past
fourteen months have all been upon Sunday
and on the communion Sundays at the
church which they were accustomed to at
tend.
SEvENTY-FIvE Vermont state officials
went for a two-days excursion to Lake
George last week Wednesday. The party
included Governor Pingree, Lieutenant
governor Ormsbee and other prominent
persons and was arranged by Superintend-
ent Fairbank of the state reform school.
THE Central Vermont Railroad Company
has just bought another boat of the Stoning-
ton line for carrying freight between New
York and New London, its freight business
having grown so much of late that it is
more than the two boats of the line can
handle. Freight traffic from the West over
the line via Ogdensburg has also greatly in
creased.
Mrs. A. C. LOWELL of Chester tried to kill
her four-year-old daughter Wednesday of
last week by cutting its throat with razor.
The childs grandmother interposed and
took away the weapon, but not until the
woman had drawn it across her own throat,
in an attempt to commit suicide. Neither
the mother nor daughter are thought to be
fatally injured
THE rivermen run the last of the logs over
the dam at Bellows Falls last week Wednes-
day. About 100000 feet have been left at
the Falls this year, the greater part of which
is TO be cut into lumber, being some 3,OOO,-
600 feet more than last year. While the
rivermen stopped they purchased of local
dealers about 200 worth of groceries,
S400 worth OF meat and nearly 81 600 worth
OF clothing.
ANOTHER terrific hail storm passed through
Georgia and Milton Thursday night, cutting
down corn and other crops and breaking
numerous lights of glass The storm was
accompanied by incessant and vivid light
ming, but little thunder. The same storm
swept through Chateaugay, n. Y, and
damaged hops and other crops to a great
extent, besides making terrible havoc with
window glass.
A MONUMENT to Free Masonry in Yer
mont will be placed in the form of a monu
ment on the summit of Birds mountain the
latter part of August by the Lee lodge OF
CaStleton. Each mason attending the cere
mony will furnish a brick or a stone o.
similar size, engraved with the owners
name and the name and number of his lodge
and this material will enter into the con
struction of the monument.
YOUNG man working for Elijah Fillmor,
of Bennington went to North Bennington t.
be married one evening last week. He haC
forgotten to get the license and went bacl
to Bennington after it. Before the tow
clerk had it ready the storm came on ant
the expectant bridegroom could not ge
started for North Bennington until afte
midnight But the bride was waiting TO
him, and they We're married on his arrival.
JUDGE TAFT of the supreme bench, befor
whom the case was heard, has just made
decision which authorizes insolvency pro
ceedngs against Albert Sowles, cashie
of the defunct First National Bank of st
Adams. The other party had previousl
sought TO put Sowles into insolvency, bu
its being decided that his claim was no
sufficient to warrant action in the case, the
National Bank of Middlebury, which wa
interested to the extent of some S1O,OOC
took up the matter and pursued it till de
cided as above in its favor,
The directors of the st. Johnsbury
Lake Champlain Railroad Company hav
just held an important meeting in Boston
1t is understood that Ex-Governor au
Colonel Franklin Fairbanks rendered thei
designations as members of the board an
their places were filed by the choice of e,
Governor Hendee and II. e. Folsom, Esq
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