The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
Weekly News Summary.


was burned at Swanton recently.
MRS JOHN SIMON of Panton broke her leg
below the knee one day last week.
THE ice on Lake Champlain is about
eighteen inches thick and very clear.
JOHN UrroN of Morrisville has purchased
the trotting horse Earle " for 81, $50
WILLIAM CASE of Jay, while at work in a
saw-mill, had several teeth knocked out
JOSEPH Cook will lecture in Middlebury,
next Friday, on Does Death End All?'
A HOUSE in Bellows Falls owned by g.
w. Townsend was burned last Thursday.
The three-years-od son of e. p. Adams
of Newport Center broke his leg last week
The Massachusetts legislature has APP
propriated $4,000 for Bennington battle
monument
MICHAEL CUMMINGS of North Pownal was
thrown from his sleigh, last week, and badly
cut about the head.
The blanks for tax inventories are being
sent to the different towns in the state.
About 10000 are required.
FRANK Mason of Felchville, while work
ing in the woods chopping last week, had
the misfortune to cut his foot.
j. p. MEANWHILE of Middletown Springs
recently ran silver through two of his fin
gers, pinning them fast together.
REV. G. G. Cook, pastor of the Congrega-
tional church at McIndoe's Falls, has re-
signed on account of failing health.
CHARLEY, son of Louis Morris of YER
gennes, had his nose broken and his face
badly cut, last week, while coasting.
WILLIAM WHITE of Bridgewater, while
drawing wood, was knocked down by an
OK and run over, receiving severe injuries.
e. p WHITCHER of Burlington was struck
by traverse last week. His left shoulder
blade was broken and his head severely cut
Mrs. MARY A. Brooks of Durham, Que,
widow of the late Seneca Page of Bakers
field, has given 81 900 to each of the churches
in that town.
THE shipment of witch-hazel to Massa-
chuSetts from Vermont for making various
extracts is becoming an extensive business.
1t is worth So per ton.
SAMUEL EMERY of Eden had foot badly
jammed and two of the bones broken, the
other day, by getting it caught between
load of logs and tree.
SURGEON AUSTIN, who has been investi-
eating the smallpox outbreak just over the
border, reports that few cases exist and no
further trouble need be feared.
BENJAMIN LEAR of Bridgewater village
has invented foot-rest for shoeng horses
and has sold the right to sell the machine
in five western states for $1,000.
CHARLES BRoCKINGToN of Brattleboro was
severely burned about the face and hands
by the igniting of a quantity of oil used in
tempering kntting-machine needles
New postmasters: AT Belvidere, A. j.
Chaffee; Belvidere Corners, f. w. Davis
Ely, Ethan Dimond; West Danville, John
Holt; Chipman's Point ID. b. Merwin.
ROBERT EDGERToN of Dandy, while chop
ping, was caught by falling tree. When
found by neighbor he was nearly ex-
hausted with cold. His wrist was broken.
S. II. WARREN of the Centerville tannery in
Brattleboro is financially embarl assed with
liabilities of $1,000 or $4,000. The result will
probably be that he will go into bankruptcy.
A LOAD of wood got set on the railroad
track at Fairhaven last week. The driver
had only time to unhtch his horses, when
train struck the load, scattering it in all di-
rections.
New patents granted: To w. S. Isham
Burlington, rock-drilling machine; G.. G..
Johnson, Springfield, paper roller holder and
cutter; j. X. Fuller, Brattleboro, design for
organ case.
IT is stated that Mrs. II. Henry Baxter
and her son, Hugh H., are to furnish the
reference room and give 5000 handsomely
bound books of reference to the Rutland
free library.
JOHN w. CRAMToN, appointed assignee of
the West Rutland Marble Company, has
given $4,000 bonds and is at work with
Book-keeper Barnum in looking over the
company's books
A PARLOR car, containing about forty per-
sons from Boston, Waltham and other cities
in that vicinity, arrived in Burlington last
Saturday. The party came to that city to
attend the carnival.
A MAN named Caswell of Barnet last week
became excited at a tritling matter and shot
his wife, one bullet passing through the
lungs and two through the feshy part of her
arm. Mrs. Caswell has since died.
LUcTUs F. GOODRICH of West Rutland has
brought suit against the Dorset Marble Com
pany to recover $1,000 alleged damages for
allowing sand and debris from their mill to
run into stream, causing it to overflow
upon his farm.
JUDGE ASA l.. FRENCH of st. Johnsbury
died Sunday, aged eighty-one years. Judge
French won honor as an impartial justice
over the probate court in Caledonia county
for twenty-seven years. He was also once
senator in the Legislature.
Mrs. MARTHA JOHNSON died at Pownal
on Friday from the effects of a fright that
she received the day before. She was
age, and was told by drunken fellow that
her son had dropped dead in the street.
The story was not true.
THERE are seventeen Womans Relief
Corps in the state at the present time. The
total membership is 6SS. The relief fund
on hand is S739.53, and the general fund
now amounts to $329.32. The number of
corps will be more than doubled the present
year, as seventeen new applications for
charters have already been made.
THE Grand Division, Sons of Temperance
of Vermont, at its annual meeting held at
Newfane February Oil, adopted resolutions
extending thanks to the Central Vermont
Railroad Company for free return checks,
to the National Division for assistance
rendered, and to Lafayette Division of New
fame for courtesies shown the members of
the grand body at its meeting in that place.
THE Swanton Sentry is a cheeky thing.
In late issue it reproduces the story of the
doctor and lady patient in which it is re-
lated that the former, getting tired of the
lady's voluble talking, told her to put out
her tongue, which she did. He then said
Now please leave it there till you have
heard what have got to say to you" The
Sentry says " this yarn was told us by a
brother-in-law of the lady in question" AS
the "yarn " is at least twenty years old
and the incident took place in England, we
very much fear the Sentry is playing it u
on confiding public.
Other Localities.
THE Mormon elder, George @. Cannon
has been arrested.
DIPHTHERA has caused many deaths al
| Newmarket, N. III.
ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS of Baltimore has
been made cardinal.
THE relics of the Greedy expedition were
shown at the St. Paul ice palace.
| SENIOR MURUAGA has been appointed
! Spanish minister at Washington.
/ YApcE pnun haro f ligtinuuishal NAOMI.