The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-05-05
Weekly News Summary.

Bellows Falls.
w. II. TIBBITTs has been appointed post
master at Coventry.
THE enrolment at the public schools in
st. Johnsbury is 400
DIR. II. A. CUTTING put 10000 trout into
Greensboro Pond recently
THE old medical college building in Cas-
Teton was burned recently.
WARNER o. BATES of Sherburne recently
cut u severe cash in his foot.
MAY DIST has been fixed upon as field day
at the University of Vermont.
THE depot at Wells River was slightly
damaged by fire the other day.
BELLOWS FALLS people bought 100 copies
of " Vermont in the Civil War"
The Swanton Suspender Company has
opened branch office at Chicago.
A MAN named Clark, while running logs
at Craftsbury, had an arm broken.
FIRE has burned over 100 acres of land on
the mountain west of Fairlee Pond.
DARTMOUTH students will soon produce
Julius Caesar " at West Randolph.
ARTHUR BooMHowER of Craftsbury got
hand badly cut in a saw-mill last week.
The wages of section men on the Central
Vermont have been raised ten per cent.
ABOUT $4,000 pounds of maple sugar and
strip have been shipped from Woodstock.
THE Windsor Journal has declared its pref
erence for Speaker Batcheder for governor.
A TRAIN on the Rutland road ran into
drove of cattle last Friday. Five were killed.
JOHN CARY was instantly killed at Col
chester, last week, while getting off an ex-
press train.
A LARGE area of timber-land has been
burned over on Eaton Mountain, in the
town of Monkton.
I'M. LADD's steam mills and H. III. Hollis
harm of North Tbatfor1 hurnpl last
week. Loss $4,000.
A Two-HoRsE team owned by j. G. Parker
of Quechee backed off into the river and one
horse was drowned
TwENTY-oNE persons were confirmed by
Bishop Bssell at Zion church, Factory
Point, on Easter day.
THE St. Adams Trust Company depositors
have received a third dividend-twelve
and one-balf per cent
THE banks of Brattleboro and some of the
stores were closed on Arbor day A large
number of trees were planted
GEORGE BAKERS steam mill, two miles
from West Rochester, was burned Monday
night. Loss $1,000; no insurance.
A SwANToN fisherman had barrel con-
tanning "a pike seized at st. Adams last
week, and was fined 50 for each fish.
THE body of William Deavitt sixteen
years-old boy of Rutland who disappeared
last January, has been found in the river.
E. S. HORTON of Brattleboro recently cap
tured a rattlesnake four feet two inches in
length and seven inches in circumference.
FRANK LOCKWOOD of South Reading, while
in somnambulistic condition, jumped from
his chamber window to the ground, dislo-
eating his shoulder.
PATRICK NOLAN of Brandon, crazed with
drink, amused himself by running into the
stores and shooting at the clerks. None of
the shots took effect.
MICHAEL KENNEDY of Rutland, sentenced
eight years ago to state prison for twelve
years for highway robbery, has been par
doned by the governor.
RoxANNA FROST, about eighty years old,
widow of the late G. G. Frost, a noted sci
enlist was found dead in bed at her Brat
tleboro home last week.
THE docket of the May term of Windsor
county court contains 104 cases, of which -
are divorce and ten are state cases. The
chancery docket contains only Is cases.
ID. w. G. BLANCHARD of Braintree drew a
load of ashes into his barn, recently, letting
it stand over night on the floor. The next
morning he discovered that the wagon was
on fire.
M. O'LENA of St. Adams was wounded in
the leg at the battle of Stone River some
twenty-five years ago. The other day a
piece of the bullet about the size of bean
came out of his leg.
been formed by union of the University of
Vermont, Middlebury College and Norwich
University mines. Two games will be played
with each college, The first of the series,
between Burlington and Northfeld, will be
played at Burlington next Saturday.
other Localities.
The Fitz John Porter bill will pass the
senate.
APACHE murders are reported from Puma
county, Arkansas.
PROFESSOR BROOKS of Phelps, n. Y, has
discovered another comet.
SAMUEL j. TILDEN is said to have made
81, 900 out of an iron mine.
THE Baltimore & Ohio railroad has COM
pleted it's New York connection.
BRIGHAM Young left over $1,000, 600 and
his children are fast going through it..
The reported engagement of President
Cleveland to Miss Folsom is confirmed.
A NORTH CAROLINA gold mine has been
sold to Pennsylvania parties for $4,000.
JEFF. DAVIS made several speeches in
Alabama last week, and visited Atlanta.
THE estimated decrease of the public
debt for April is eleven millions and half
Four persons bitten by mad dog in
Chicago have gone to be treated by Pasteur
THE business portion of the town of Key
stone, Iowa, was destroyed by fire last week
down because of the demands of their en-
ployes.
EXTENSIVE damage has been done by
floods in Mississippi, Arkansas and Other
Southern and Southwestern States.
THE family of ex-President Arthur are eX
ceeding hopeful that he will get well. He
has been improving for several days.
A MOB of strikers made an attack on thu
Mccormick reaper works in Chicago OIL
Monday, but We're repulsed by the police.
THE eight-hour movement is rapidly ex
tending. Few employers will concede thu
demand unless wages are corresponding.
reduced.
Four thousand strikers for eight hour
marched through the streets of Chicag
last Saturday, carrying a red flag. No vic
lence occurred.
The richest grain fleet that ever sailec
from any port in the world, estimated to b.
worth $4,000, 900, moved out of the port o
Chicago last week.
GENERAL HANCOCK incurred an expens
of nearly 81 000in connection with the York
town centennial celebration in 1881, whicl
the government never repaid him.
MR.. BOOTH, the tragedian, received a fal
while playing Othello " in New York las
week. The fall was due to vertigo, accord
ing to the generally expressed opinion.
A BOY fourteen years old was found II
charoe of ia hOilarS and anpinp-rOOm in