The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

1HE CUSTOMS reCelpbS W hlCulOTu lOr Une
| month of August were nearly $4,000.
A posT-oFFIcE has been established at East
Pittsford, with w. e. Edison as postmaster.
THE annual inspection and parade of the
! Rutland fire department occurs September
10Th.
Mrs. THADDEUs Brooks, living near Bel
lows Falls, attempted suicide last week by
taking ammonia.
G.. A. BALLARD of Fairfax has brought
suit against II. G. Perry for Islander. The
damages are set at $1,000
ALFRED, the fifteen-year-od sou of A. A.
| Norton of Burlington, was drowned in Lake
Champlain Monday while bathing.
THE body of John Lawrence was found in
the Missisquoi river by b. f. Brown of Swan
ton. 1t is undoubtedly a case of suicide.
MOSES VINCENT, who was the first of the
Burlington iail-birds to assail Sheriff Bar
ton in the recent escapade, gets five years
of hard labor in state prison.
WHILE Thomas Kirley of Swanton was
hauling stone his team took fright and ran
away, breaking one leg and otherwise in
juring Arthur, his young son.
THE annual meeting of the Vermont
branch of the Woman's Board of Missions
will be held at Middlebury next month.
The date has not yet been fixed
A CONTRACT for furnishing $50 900 worth of
building marble for the congressional library
at washington mas been awarded 10 Jne YER
mont Marble Company of Rutland.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the famous African
explorer, has been engaged as one of the
lecturers in the st. Johnsbury Young Mems
Christian Association course next winter.
Miss NELLIE A. DAVIS of Derby has a
charm quilt peced in diamonds, no two
pieces alike, containing 2,522 pieces. The
work was finished before she was ten
years old.
The assistant postmaster-general has ap-
pointed Stephen Weaver postmaster at
Walden, II. W. Heath at South Newbury,
L. Webb at East Granville and f. II. Fisk
at North Sheldon.
THE mills and shops owned by Human
Smith of Bloomington We're burned last
week Friday, with nearly all the tools and
goods in the buildings. The fire caught
from the stove while the workmen were at
dinner. Loss $1,000; insured for 81, 600.
THE French citizens of st. Adams had a
big celebration on the occasion of the bene-
diction of two bells of the new church now
in process of erection. The ceremonies
were elaborate and attended by over 1000
people. Bishop DeGoesbriand celebrated
high mass and preached sermon.
Two young men named Frank Morseman
and Charles III. Hinckley got into a dispute
at Salisbury last week Tuesday evening
and finally came to blows During the fight
Morseman stabbed Hinckley twice in the
left side under the heart, once in the upper
! right breast and again in the thigh, cutting
a fatal CASH Morseinan is now under arrest.
ALEXANDER NJ. HULING, a wealthy and
prominent citizen of Bennington Center,
died Saturday of apoplexy. The deceased
was born in Bennington in 1920. He was a
lawyer by profession, but had not practiced
law in number of years. Mr.. Huling had
held many public offices and was popular.
He was the candidate for states attorney on
the democratic ticket to be voted for Tues
day. He is survived by a young wife, to
whom he was married a little more than a
year ago
THE excitement in South Royalton con-
corning the great fire has mostly subsidized.
The ruins have been visited by thousands OF
people from towns in every direction. Most
of the merchants propose to start in bust
ness at once. Just what will be done about
rebuilding is not certain. 1t is proposed by
some that the several merchants unite and
build two mammoth brick and stone blocks
on the north side of Market street, to extend
all the way from Depot to Main streets, and
to throw the other side of the street into the
common, making that so much larger. Such
a course would greatly beautify the village
and render another such destructive fire fai
less probable. This is not the first time
that South Royalton has been visited by
destructive fire. Three years ago five large
blocks were entirely consumed and seven
years since three business blocks were
burned.
other Localities.
THE cigar leaf-tobacco crop promises finely
The raising of olives is new Mississippi
industry.
THE democrats in Arkansas have elected
their state ticket
THE national debt was decreased 81, SOL
69902 during the month of August.
DIR. ALBERT A. Crosby, a wel-knowr
New Hampshire physician, is dead.
LIGHT snow is reported from Helena
Montana, where there is a cold wave.
FORTY THOUSAND people attended tn,
Changers picnic at Williams Grove, Penn.
The Ohio State University, which wa,
founded in 1862, now has an endowment o
S1,100,000.
THE snow is so deep among the mountains
in Eastern Oregon that teams cannot trave
with safety.
Two persons We're killed and three in
jured by the explosion of boiler at Nortl
| Greenbush, n. Y
: FIRE in Jersey City on Saturday nigh
caused a loss of 500, 900 to the Pullman Pal
ace Car Company.
A LABOR conference in Hartford, Conn.
nominated a state ticket with Herbert q
{ Baker for governor.
REPORTS concerning the growing crops il
Maine show that hay, oats and potatoes
3 BY a collision on the Auburn branch
loss of S150,000 was entailed upon the New
York Central railroad.
, SOUTH BEND, Ind. is supplied with waite
from sixteen artesan wells, with a capacit,
., of 100000 gallons daily.
MANY southern cities have proclaime
A quarantine against Biloxi, Miss, where tn
yellow fever has broken out.
9 GENERAL GRANTS old regiment, til
l Twenty-first Illinois, will hold reuno
e at Nation, H., September 18th.
THE largest steamer ever built on tn
. lakes was launched at Buffalo on Saturday
She is built of steel and is 1913 feet long.
( THE New England agricultural fair wa
held last week in Bangor, Maine. Hon
George b. Loring delivered the address.
A sHANTY near Jamestown, Penn, occr
pied by twenty Hungarians, took fire an
o seven of the occupants were burned I
r death.
/, THE balloon which was to have ascendeC
: from the fairgrounds in Bangor, Maine
was blown over, ripped and temperate
ruined.
THE eight-year-old son of William Main
a of Georgetown, Maine, was accidental
: shot and killed by brother while shootin
!. at a mark,
: CLoUTMAN & BINGHAM, boot and sho
n dealers, Boston, have failed for $500, 00(
= Allen & Nolan, hardware, Boston, hay