The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-16

the route now nave the opportunity to put
in bids. 60 The listers have been apprais-
ing the real estate the past week. -
Mrs. Charles Sanders and son. Louie, Of
Nashua, N. H., are spending the summer
with Mrs. o. w. Lord. &c. r. Gale is
able to be out again.
West Randolph.
THE annual State Convention of Congre-
gational Ministers and Churches held here
last week was well attended and very inter-
esting. The number of people present from
different parts of the state was large. The
next meeting will be held at Swanton in June,
1887. - A meeting OF the ladies in the
interest of the Mcintosh School in Georgia
was held in the Baptist church Wednesday
afternoon, Mrs. Henry Fairbanks presiding.
Miss Bertha Robertson, teacher in the
school, and whose letters during the year
have been much enjoyed by the Vermont
ladies, gave an exceedingly interesting adj
dress, showing how the work has enlarged
since the ladies of Vermont became inter-
ested in the school. This year the pupils
were formed into missionary society, and
have sent sum Qor them large) to the In
dians. Thus early are they learning the
blessedness of giving Miss Emerson, sec
rotary of the bureau Of woman's work, fol-
lowed with a brief address, giving an &C
count of her recent tour in the West. -
At the caucus last Saturday the following
delegates were elected: To the state con-
vention-Colonel John b. Mead, l.. p.
Thayer, e. S. Hall, n. L. Boyden and A. B.
Tewksbury. To the county conventional
Il. Grow, j. p. Cleveland, n. L. Boyden, ID.
W. Eaton, J. L. Moses, j. w. Fargo and G.
G. Paine. The state convention delegates
are supposed to be in favor of Batchelder.
- Mrs. o. A. Gay and her daughter,
Ola, will go to Connecticut the first of next
month. Ola is troubled with hay-fever and
change Of climate is necessary. -
Henry Booth kept forty hens last year
| and made SS5.25 from them in twelve
months. He will erect a hen-house over
one hundred feet long and keep. one hun
dred fifty hens this year. - Much corn
in this vicinity will have to be replanted.
- Mr.. Wright has pumpkin which is
as sound as it was last fall. j. G.. Bur-
leigh of Troy, n. Y, has made pencil
drawing of this village and will make a
Autograph if sufficient encouragement is
received - DIR. d. A. Whittlesey lost
his parrot last week. He offers $40 reward,
| but at this writing has not secured it. -
Charles Nichols of this place is the valedic-
torian of the class of S6 in Norwich Uni
liver his interesting lecture, "The Battle of
Gettysburg" in the church at Snowsville
this "wednesday evening. The proceeds
go to support preaching in that place and
at West Brookfeld. - Frank Riford and
wife are visiting in Bethel, their former
home. - n. S. Clark of st. Adams was
in town last week. - Miss Abbie Clark
of st. Adams is again teaching instrumental
music here. - Mr.. Bates the black
smith, is stating his house. - Edward
Rising continues very low. His recovery
is doubtful. - A. B. Thomas, ESQ, was
in Montreal last week. - Ulla Griswold
was at Bellows Falls over Sunday. -
Mr.. Camp, editor of the Newport Express
and Standard, was in town last week -
Frank Wright is now working in the Ber-
wick House, Rutland. - Rev. w. F. Pc
tiers is in New York. - Children's day
| was observed last Sunday.
STAFFORD.
On Monday Of last week a four-years-
son of William Sloan was reported missing
and neighbors searched the woods for the
child The next morning suspicion of foul
play on the part of the child's mother led
to search nearer their home, when the
dead body of the child was found in small
culvert. Subsequently, Mrs. Sloan con.
fessed that she killed her boy to spite hel
husband, with whom she had a quarrel or
Sunday. The Sloans are young couple
and very poor They had three children
one of whom is reported to have frozen to
death last winter, but some thought it wa:
months old is now living. Mrs. Sloan wa,
arrested and shows great fear. Later
Since the above (made up from press reports
was put in type, we have received the follow
ing from our regular correspondent: =" Th'
child, Oscar, was two and one-half year.
old. Many of the statements in the Boston
Globe and other sensational papers in regart
to the affair are entirely false, and Others
are gross exaggerations. There was no un
usual trouble between the parents unit
Monday noon, when Mr.. Sloan went int,
the house for dinner. His wife, who has al
ungovernable temper, at once began to scolC
and rave, upon which Sloan quietly left ant
, went to the house of his employer, Franz
Kendall, just across the road, and there oh
, tanned his dinner. This act of his increased
fhA fhnr 'G Atnfr hA l,.axr tNla
, ing in the highway near culvert whicl
crossed it, and out of sight of Kendall
windows, she rushed out of the house b.
, the back door with her three-months-ol,
babe in her arms, laid the babe down in tn
. grass, seized little Oscar and gave him
furious push that sent him off the road AM
near the brooklet, he falling upon his back
, his face near the upper side of the cul
vert. Selling small, partially decaye'
fence-post lying near, with 1t she hit tn
, little fellow in the face, the blow sending
him partly into the culvert, and anothe
, push sent him far into it, where it was en-
: rirely filed with water. She then ran t
the babe, took it up and hastily re-entere
. the house. 1t seems strange that after tn
paroxysm of rage had passed away som
feeling of conjunction, some return of ma
ternal affection for her bright little boy, di
i not enter her heart. Yet until the body wa
: found (some eighteen hours after the mul
. der) she was quiet and composed-conver'
ing, eating ana sleeping as though nOthln
/, unusual had happened. The only explans
ton for her strange actions is that she la
: not sufficient intelligence to fully compr,
: bend the enormity of her crime She is t
have hearing to-day (Monday), on con
!, plant of the states attorney, before n. /
q Cobb, Esq. and, if committed, il is eXpecte
that she will be tried this week before tn
county court, now in session at Chelsea.
5 - On Sunday last, while Charlie
7; Markham was drawing by the muzzle
u loaded musket from an ox-cart, the weapo
was accidentally discharged, its content
blowing furrow through the surface
his thigh, intlictng severe but not DANCE
y GUS wound Only few months since h
!, younger brother, while handling a sma
u pistol in school, sustained like injur,
u - Our citizens assembled in large nun
i bers in the forenoon of Decoration day at I'll
? upper village and in the afternoon at til
/ lower The weather was fine and, save
u hitch in the speaking promised us, all passe
> off pleasantly. STAFFORD band furnshe
'' good music and the singing was excellen
: An interesting feature was the attendant
IS of scholars from the different district school
> under the charge of their teachers, wit
u banners and in decorated carriages. II
/ exercises closed with stirring address L
o Rev. ID. Land, colored preacher, aboundir
l. in "reminiscences of his early life as a slav
e his experience in the rebel army and his e
:. cape to the Union lines. - The Ere
y Baptist quarterly meeting closed a thrt
o days session at South STAFFORD on Sunda,
Y the 9th. The attendance was large, IL