The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-08
Weekly News Summary.



DERBY LINE has tOboggan slide
r. f. JEwETr was found dead in Ben
nington saloon Sunday.
REV. G. j. BoYLAN of st. Peters Catholic |
church, Rutland, died Saturday.
ELI CuRRrER of West Burke has recently |
lost three children by dphtheria.
TIMOTHY HAYES house in Sandgate was
burned last Friday night. Insured.
CAPTAIN r. j. CoFFEY, provost marshal
of the First Regiment, has resigned.
THE two kilns at Leicester are getting out
one hundred forty barrels of lime day.
Miss ABBIE MussEY of Rutland recently
thrust butcher-knife through her hand.
AN evening school, with three sessions a
week, is to be opened in Rutland January l.
Mr.. AND Mrs. T. w. CHURCH of Bellows
Falls recently observed their golden we'd
ding.
GEORGIA PLAINS is to have a new union
church building. fund of $4,000 has al
ready been raised.
II. w. LOVE of Rutland has been admitted
to the United States circuit court The state
court shut him out.
AT meeting in Burlington last week it
was decided to hold the carnival probably
the second week in February.
THE thirteenth annual meeting of the
Bee-keepers Association will be held in
Burlington January Is and IA.
II. II. HURLBUT of Grand Isle recently
brought down four wild geese at one shot.
They weighed forty-fve pounds.
COLONEL TRUMAN c. FLETCHER of st.
Johnsbury has resigned his position as
trustee Of the state reform school.
CAPTAIN j. c. BABBIrT of Swanton, a vet
eran navigator of Lake Champain, died
November 29th at the age of seventy.
ALL the shares of the new st. Adams
Trust Company were subscribed within half
an hour after the books were opened
HENRY NJ. STANLEY the African explorer
who arrived in New York last Saturday,
lectures at St. Johnshury next Friday night.
AMAsA CAMERON, while running thresh-
ing-machne at Alburgh last Saturday had
one of his arms taken off Just below the
elbow.
JOIN CAMERON. living on Buffers Island,
while chopping wood cut his foot from the
heel to the ankle He will be laid up all
winter.
THE Ladies' Yacht Club of Burlington has
already raised about $500 toward the pur-
chase of a challenge cup, to be sailed for on
the lake next summer.
AFTER six years of service in that capac-
ity, DR.. A. j. Willard has resigned his
position as superintendent of the Mary
Fletcher Hospital at Burlington.
PLIMINGToN DAGGETT of Rutland has sued
the Rutland Street Railway Company for
S2.OUU. alleging tldt ne was dSSdUlueu anu
forcibly put off car a short time ago.
FIRE at Proctor, Saturday night, destroyed
four wooden buildings of the Vermont
Marble Company and the railroad depot
Loss, So, 000 insured in Vermont Mutual
THE six largest Grand Army posts in
Vermont are Rutland with 1871 members
Burlington, 1867 St. Johnsbury, 149; Brattle-
boro, 1885, Bellows Falls, los; ST. Adams, ST.
CHARLES H. SMoNDs. for nearly twenty
E,ra cta at Naruapnpg died
suddenly of heart disease last week. He
was about fifty years of age and highly re-
spected.
THOMAS O'RoURKE of Rock Island, p. O.,
was arrested at Newport last week for
smuggling clothing and held in $4,000 for
appearance at the February term of court
in Burlington.
Mrs. H. r. SMITH, who is eighty-seven
years old, has until about four years ago
carried on a Northumberland farm in
Hinesburg since the death of her husband,
fifty-seven years ago.
REV. l.. b. HIBBARD, formerly editor of
the Ludlow Tribune and chaplain of the SEN
ate in 1878, has accepted the presidency of
the Leland University for Colored Teachers
and Preachers in New Orleans.
ALEXANDER B1Bo, the Frenchman who
had his leg crushed by the cars at West Rut-
land last Friday, had the leg amputated
near the hip. He lived about half an hour
ALICE HoGABooM of Hyde Park has been
engaged by the proprietors of a Boston
museum to be exhibited as a fat girl. She
is twenty years old and weighs nearly 400
pounds. She goes to Boston December 20.
Mrs. A. BARNES has been appointed post
mistress at Chimney Point in place of her
deceased husband. The office has been in
the family since 1917, which was during
Polk s administration and while the Next
can war was in progress.
A. f. HIGLEY of Castleton has traded his
homestead and farm near the village with
Rollin Gleason of Benson for the latter 5
farm The homestead and farm of the
Higley family have been in their possession
since 177S, when the first family of that
name came from Connecticut and settled
there.
ROBERT W. JOHNSON of Sycamore, Ill.
Henry Ct. Billiard of St. Johnsbury, Paul p
Harris of Wallingford and George Graves
of Burlington, all members of the sopho
more class in the University of Vermont
have been indefinitely suspended by the
faculty for disfiguring the statue of Lafayette
on the college green.
THE " sea-serpent has worked his way
up into Lake Champlain. S. w. Clark o.
Willsboro Point and several other persons
saw a monster +" about the length of the
steamer Vermont " in the lake off Willsboro
Point last Wednesday. The water foamed
as he swan along with great speed and
twenty feet into the air.
In General.
WASHINGTON has good sleighing.
THE Turks are making warlke prepare
tons
TEN inches of snow have fallen in middle
Alabama.
A SLIGHT earthquake occurred in Soutl
Carolina Thursday.
THE public debt shows a decrease TO
November of $4,000, 249.67.
SEVERAL persons were seriously injure,
in riot in Cork last Sunday.
HERzoG's opera-house in Washington wa
burned Sunday. Loss $4,000
Hon FREDERICK A. PIKE of Calais, Maine
formerly member of congress- is dead
THE Mormon church has nearly ,1O
missionaries scattered over the South
JAMES G. BLAINE, Jr. has accepted pc
sition on the staff of the Pittsburg Times
AN explosion in the Durham colliery, En-
gland, last Thursday, killed thirty miners.
Hermann FALKENBERG, tailor, i
charged with corrupting the McQuade jury
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has been confne
to his room for several days by rheumatism
LAST month was the coolest Novembe
known at the Northwest for TWENTY-FIVE
years.
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