The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23


THE summer arrangement for the running
of trains on the Montpelier & Wells River
railroad goes into effect on Monday June
2S. Passenger trains will leave Montpelier
as follows: Mail, s: 40 A. NJ; mixed, 10: 45 !
A. M; White Mountain express, 1: 10 r. NJ,
and accommodation, 4:40 P. NJ. Arrive at
Wells River at 10: 10 NJ. and 2: 90, 2: q and
6:0SP. NJ. Trains arrive at Montpelier as
follows: Mixed, 9:10 A. M; accommoda-
tion II: 30 p. NJ; White Mountain express,
A: 10 P. NJ, and mail, 8: 10 p. NJ. BY this ar
rangement passengers can leave Boston at
.: 90 A. NJ, on White Mountain express, ar
rive in Montpelier at 4: 10 P. M, or leave at
100 P. NJ, arriving in Montpelier at 8: 10 P.
NJ Parties from Montpelier wishing to make
a trip to the mountains and return the same
day can do so by taking the $40 A. NJ. train
from Montpelier, arriving at Fabyan's at
II: 10 P. NJ; leave Fabyan's at 4: 40 p. NJ, ar
irving at Montpelier at 8: 10 p. M.-thus hav-
ing four and one-half hours in the noun
talns and be gone from home but one day.
The 4: 40 p. NJ. train from Montpelier will
run daily. The Sunday paper train will ar
rive in Montpelier at o: 80 A. NJ.
The event of greatest public interest dur
ing the past week in this vicinity was the
capture by Sheriff Atherton and Mr.. G. e.
Moody of Waterbury of two burglars in the
road under the second dry bridge this side
of Middlesex at about half-past nine o'clock
last Wednesday evening. The robberies of
the hotel of William Hudson at Middlesex
and the stores of f. G. Taylor at Waterbury
and H. G. Mcmahon at Stowe were re-
| ported last week. They are all believed to
have been committed by the same persons,
and from Stowe the men were traced to
| Waterbury Center, where they stole team
from Eaton Hutchins. This was followed
through Middlesex notch, where it was left
n fhn do Mo-, tr,atr tod fN
watch for stragglers and Wednesday even
ing Mr. Atherton learned that they were
headed for Montpelier. AT the hour above
mentioned he and Mr.. Moody were stationed
upon the bridge and as the men passed un-
der it the officer dropped to the ground near
them and accosted them. The thieves re-
piled with charge from their revolvers, but
fired "wild." They then ran a short dis
tance, but were soon overtaken by their
pursuers and hand-to-hand struggle en-
shoulder from Mr.. Atherton's revolver and
the other a cut on the head from Mr.. Moody's
billy. With great difficulty the officers sue
ceeded in getting the handouts upon their
men, whom they brought to Montpelier the
same night. They had preliminary hear
ing here Friday on charge of carrying
burglars tools. They gave the names of r.
Il. Ferguson and j. f. Brown, and were
held in 81 800 bail each and committed to
Jail in default of the same to await the
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Both men, when arrested carried heavy re-
volvers, and they had a dark-lantern, rub
Der overcOat and a nice brown leather
satchel with shoulder-straps, which con-
tained-besides two pairs of stockings, a
handkerchief a collar, a box of blacking
and blacking-brush- eighteen drills four
punches, six small steel wedges, four knives,
four skeleton keys, four screw-h hooks, pliers,
powder-spout, ammunition, a quantity of
fuse, thirty-three exploders, two rolls of
,fna 80
to seal the door of safe to the casing, so as
to render the cavity within perfectly air.
itight), several pieces of jewelry, about $40
In money (some $50 of which was silver), two
watches Zone. of which has since been iden-
titled by Hudson as the one stolen from him
on the 9th instant), and memoranda giving
names of places visited and dates of visits.
Among them were the names of several
places in Vermont, New York and Canada,
including Middlesex and Waterbury. "June
9, Middlesex, Vt, made SS75," was among
the notes. When it is remembered that
Mr.. Hudson reported the loss of between
eight and nine dollars, the above, together
with the identification of the watch, will be
rather damaging evidence. The fellows
were photographed by Mr.. A. n. Blanch-
ard and good likeness of one was OBJ
tanned. The other was refractory and the
best negative which could be secured showed
him with eyes closed, mouth drawn out of
shape and head lowered upon his breast
thn 49, 40 e.lsaS uS p'l L; IN s aiiu
M ie iri'teN oni nnsel VI ms ieIC uahu ID gone
d. ne fo tooueis "f melo taken 10 w Wlnusor MOI
Attorney Kemp.
THE exercises of the graduating class of
the Washington County Grammar School
were held on Friday evening of last week
in Blanchard opera-house, which was filled
with parents and friends of the school.
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Aho iionO se"'S "elo reserNeu ior nieinoeIs
OF the Grammar School and for the pupils
OF Montpelier Union School. The stage
was adorned with profusion of flowers
and pot-plants, while the presence upon it
OF Messrs. E. M. Guernsey, j. II. Lucia, ID.
! II. Kemp, Z. III. Heath, L.. L. Gleason,
Hiram Carlton, 7. 7. Pitkin, Charles
Dewey, f. E. Smith, j. g. Houghton and
Revs. j. III. Hincks, II. F. Hill and j. e.
Wright-members of the executive COM
mittee and others-was suggestive OF the
public interest in the occasion. Principal
Joseph A. DeBoer also occupied seat OF
honor upon the stage, while his co-laborers,
) Miss Flora M. Terrill and Miss Margaret ID
Stone, were content to occupy less digni-
fed position in the body of the house
Promptly at the hour appointed the eXer'
! cises opened with prayer by Rev. Mr.
! Hincks. The school, under the direction OF
Professor n. II. Thompson, their compe.
tent instructor in music, sang "My Native
Land" and choruses were interspersed
during the exercises of the evening. The
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