The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-06
Weekly News Summary.

prosecuted lOr hOlolng puDuC raffle III his
bar-rOom.
j. e. PORTER of Rutland was run over
while on his way to Castleton, recently, and
badly bruised.
THE wife and child of Alvin Bulls,
colored, were burned, probably fatally, De-
cember 31st, at Hinesburgh
THE late Ex-Governor Hiland Hall had
eighteen surviving grandchildren and
twenty-five great grandchildren.
EIGHT thousand, five hundred and sixty
pounds of maple sugar were shipped from
Enosburgh Falls last week Monday.
Or the $4,000 men Vermont sent to the
front during the war, it is estimated that not
over 5000 are now living in the state.
The next quarterly meeting of the Ver-
mont Spiritualist Association is to be held
at Ludlow January 22d, 23d and 24th
SNEAK thieves stole about fifteen dollars.
worth of clothes from lines in Owen Mar
rons yard at St. Adams the other night.
MARTIN BARRY of South Burlington fell
twenty feet through a railroad bridge on
Christmas Eve, but was not dangerously
hurt.
GALUsHA BUNDY of st. Johnsbury was
probably fatally injured last week Mon
day morning, while riding with his grand
daughter.
THE hearing in the case of Hadley, for the
killing of Hayes at Lyndonville, last week
Monday night, resulted in the discharge of
the defendant.
EACH students room in the Vermont
University at Burlington has been fitted
with gymnastic apparatus by w. j. Van
Patten of Boston.
THE death of Hiland Hall leaves a vacancy
among the United States commissioners Tor
the district of Vermont. He occupied the
position fifty-three years.
ALL but about $4,000 of the Rutland
horse railroad stock has been quietly bought
up by Rutland parties, and the road has
passed into their control.
ONE of the oldest and largest trees in
Castleton Is poplar, almost hundred
years old, on the grounds of the Holt home
stead 1t girths nearly twenty feet
f. A. MORTON recently " counted out " of
the mail service between St. Adams and
Boston, has purchased printing establish
ment in st. Paul, and is doing thriving
business.
The house belonging to f. c. Fay of Jeri-
cho, which was recently burned, was one of
the old landmarks of the town, having been
built nearly one hundred years ago by Noah
Chittenden.
and Ryland Fletcher were buried, it is
said, from the farms on which they were
born-the former in Bennington and the lat
ter in Proctorsvlle.
MRS JERRY CRoNAN of Rutland, who was
serving out sentence at the house of cor
rection, for selling Intoxicating liquors, was
granted a conditional discharge therefrom
by the governor ON New Years
The Burlington Commercial Travellers
Association that has one hundred thirty-sX
active members-one hundred of whom
represent Burlington frms-held the fifth
annual reunion in that city last week.
SHERIFF PEABODY searched the Willard
house at Pittsford to find booty stolen by
Stephen Pike, who is now in the worShouse.
Several suits of clothes were found in the
attic, and a silver watch, all of them hidden
away.
GOVERNOR PINGREE has appointed David
j. Foster, Esq, of Burlington examiner for
the State Normal School at Castleton and
Professor S. W. Landon of the same city
examiner for the State Normal School at
johnson.
IT is said that S. NJ. Waite, who ruined the
First National Bank of Brattleboro, now
serving six years sentence in the house
of correction at Rutland, is fast failing in
health, and probably will not live to see lib
erty again.
THESE postmasters have been appointed
in Vermont: At Felchville, Burton NJ. New
ton; Greensboro Bend, Henry Klr; Groton
Pond, Robert Newman: South Windham,
Ransley Harrington; Waits River, Orange
A. Dodge.
EDITOR ALLIs of the Ludlow Tribune sues
Principal John Pickard of the Portsmouth
IN. H. schools for $40. This is one of the
issues in the local trouble of last summer
over the Black River Academy semi-cen-
tennial celebration.
A LITTLE daughter of n. G.. Williams of
Bellows Falls met with a severe accident on
Henry street last week Wednesday after
noon. She was out walking with her aunt
and became frightened at dog, and, start
ing to run, fell on the ice, breaking an arm.
RUTLANDs trustees last week Wednesday
night voted to dismiss the police force, the
street commissioner, the village attorney,
the gas lighters and all employees of the
village, and to eXtinguish all gas-lights on
the streets. This was because the treasury
was empty.
FIRE was discovered in f. w. Gray &
Sons dry-house at Middletown Springs,
Thursday of last week. The flames were
kept from spreading to the steam saw and
grist-mill machine-shop and foundry, which
are in close proximity, but the lighthouse,
with between 600 and 5000 feet of lumber,
was entirely consumed No insurance.
List of patents granted to Vermonters for
the week ending December 30th: G.. F. At
wood of Swanton, buckle; p. f. Comstock
of Ascutneyville, tool sharpener; r. Lear
of Woodstock, foot-rest for shoeing horses !;
M. Il. Sprague of Plymouth, automatic dis
charger for evaporating pans; p. III. Binet
of East Brighton, belt-tightener; j. Curtis
of North Dorset, steam engine; III. Donelly
of Sutherland Falls, stone-dressing machine,
Other Localities.
A SEVERE snow-storm is raging in the
northwest.
FLOODS have done $1,000 900 damage in
Pennsylvania.
THE Grant fund at the close of the year
stood Sl13.215.
PROFESSOR SANBoRN of Dartmouth Col
lege died Friday.
THE decrease in the public debt in Deem
Der was S9000,000,
A DESPERATE attempt was made to burn
Titusville, Penn, Sunday.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has given 500 to
the Grant monumental fund.
BEARS are unusually numerous in the
Rocky Mountains this winter.
TEN thousand dollars per annum is the
salary of the mayor of Boston.
SENATOR EvARTs is now reported opposed
to continuing the silver coinage.
JAMES G. Bailey, formerly United States
senator from Tennessee, is dead.
THERE have been 5000 changes in fourth
class postmasters under Cleveland.
IT is estimated that over 5000 people
shook hands with the President New Years
day.
THERE are between 400 and 800 applicants
for teachers positions in Buffalo public
schools.
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