The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-02
Peculiar People.

AN elderly old maid, who for many years
resided in New Hampshire town, died the
other day, and neighbor who was commits
stoned to make an examination of the house
after the funeral found an extensive collec-
ton of various articles which the old maid
had been boarding. Only portion of the
house was looked over, and following is a
partial list of what was discovered: Eighty
dresses, seventy-fve pieces for dresses, fifty
six aprons, sixty-four pairs OF cotton stock
ings, fifty-seven pairs Of wooden stockings,
fifty-eight pillow-cases, seventy-fve sheets,
sixteen dish-wipers, sixty.eight towels, nine
teen pairs of new boots and Shoes six pairs
of rubbers, one hundred forty small rem
nants of calico, a large pile of cotton cloth
remnants, between seventy-five and one
hundred handkerchiefs and twenty cats.
THE conjugal infelicities that have led
Elizabeth S. Nichols of Shrewsbury to ask
for divorce from her husband, Charles e.
Nichols, had their beginnings, according to
the testimony, in the sublime egotism and
vegetarian crankiness of the husband The
case was heard at Boston recently, by Judge
William Allen, who reserved his decision.
The pair were married at Shrewsbury seven
years ago and some time afterward moved to
Boston. He was vegetarian and believed
she should be also, so the wife, who is a
woman of refined and good appearance,
grew so poor that she had to return to her
Vermont home. Letters alleged to have
been received from her husband were read
in which he told his wife that he knew more
than anybody in the state and declared that
he thought more, knew more and felt more
than all Rutland county put together, whose
inhabitants he regarded as barbarians. In
short he tried to show his wife that he was
the wisest of men and would, If she would
come back to him and submit to more
rigid course of vegetarian diet, give to her
family alone the benefit of his great discov-
cry of how to live on little or nothing.
AsENETH WEATHERHEAD, about seventy
years old, recently died in Guilford, where
| she had lived with her bachelor brother and
maiden sister on the old Weatherhead farm
since childhood. The trio had, by the most
scrupulous economy and miserly disposition
carefully saved nearly $4,000, which the
brother and sister, who died some years ago
wiled to their sister, if she survived them
otherwise to their nephews and nieces
Aunt Aseneth's will, which it appears was
IN AIDE at the time and with practically the
same provisions of the others, gave to eacl
of her three surviving brothers So, one o.
whom has recently been compelled by his
poverty to call upon the town of GuilforC
| for help. Since Aseneth's death seventeen
bank books ON different banks have been dis
covered, representing deposits aggregatinl
several thousand dollars. The personal eff
fects of the deceased, including homemade
bedding, linen, and great variety of arti
cles both useful and unique, were sold a
auction. Chests of old-fashoned vests, pan
patterns and innumerabe articles of tin
ware were found in every nook and corne
of the old homestead, which had been takeI
some of them many years ago, in barter TO
butter and eggs and other farm products
1t is related that when the brother Newis
died many a promissory note, and ever
money, was found hid away in the corners
about the house.