The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-13
Weekly News Summary.

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ness at CRANKY this fall.
Mr.. O'HEAR, aged one hundred one, of
Sheldon, died last week.
T.. w MEIGs of Georgia has raised and
sold this season 5000 bushels of potatoes.
THE Orleans county conference of Con-
gregatonal churches will meet at Green's
boro, Oct 27.
The Orange county Snnday-school asso-
citation holds its annual convention at West
Randolph, Oct. r.
THE auditor of accounts has paid 81 800
for bounties on bears and lynxes for the two
years ending July 81.
CURTIS WELLS and family of Burlington,
have gone to Los Angeles, Cal, where
they will take up their residence.
A BARN in West Rutland was burned
Thursday evening with quantity of hay.
1t belonged to Mr.. IL. G. Sheldon and was
insured.
PRESIDENT SMITH, General Manager Ho-
bart, Vice-presdent E. &. Smith and Col.
George L. Childs have gone West, to be alb
sent about ten days.
THE Carrick Brothers of st. Johnsbury
are to cut the Brattleboro soldiers monu-
ment at their yard. 1t will be largest monu-
ment in the state when completed.
V1NToN's new two-story frame building,
! in Brattleboro was destroyed by fire Mon
day; loss about $500. Timothy & Co.,
grocers had stock in it and lose 81 800
FANuEL SMITHS dweling-house, with con-
! tents, and another dwelling adjacent occu-
pied by Mrs. Thompson and daughter were
burned at Dover, Monday. Loss about
5000; insured.
A sEMI-ANNUAL three and a half per cent
dividend on Connecticut and Passumpsic
river railroad bonds, Is, 1893, has been de-
clared and also three per cent dividend
on st. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain, Is,
1910.
THE arguments in the De Fargo murder
case at st. Albans concluded Wednesday
and the case given to the jury. After being
ont a short time, the jury returned a ver
diet of " not guilty" The prisoner was dis
charged.
THE $4,000 which the late John p. How
ard made condition of his gift of $4,000
for the endowment of the girls department
of the Vermont Episcopal Institute at Bur-
lington has been raised, and the plans will
be drawn up at once.
JAMES FoLLEN, aged thirty-one years,
while shoveling cinders from construction
train at st. Adams Thursday, was knocked
from the car by its being struck by another
train and had an arm taken off close to the
shoulder. He bled to death within an hour.
ADIRONDACK " MURRAY, for the past
year a resident of Burlington, was married
last Monday to Miss Frances NJ. Rivers of
Montreal. Mr.. Murray being a Protestant
and Miss Rivers a Catholic, the ceremony
was performed by Justice of the Peace ID. j.
Foster of Burlington.
THERE is good reason for believing that
the Canadian Pacific Railway Company will
run branch from some point on the main
line this side of its bridge across the st.
Lawrence near Caugnawaga to Rouses
Point, making connections with the Della
ware and Hudson and Central Vermont
lines to New York and Boston.
SUNDAY night all the prisoners, three in
n m bpr aSpanpl from the RpppiOotop iail
They sawed the lock of an iron door and
sprung it so that they could crawl through.
Two of the prisoners were Italians, arrested
, for boycotting, and the other was Edward
Perrault, in custody for embezzlement from
the Singer Sewing-machine Company.
Hon JOHN e. CHAMBERLIN, widely known
in the Connecticut River Valley, died at his
, home in South Newbury Thursday, aged
seventy-nine. Mr.. Chamberln was for
many years engaged in railroad construc-
, ton and was largely interested in the work
i, of building the Boston, Concord and Mon
trea railroad from the Connecticut river to
the White Mountains.
THE mail train over the Boston q Lowell
Friday was thrown from the track three
miles west of St. Johnsbury by the breaking
of the forward truck on the engine. 1t went
, down an embankment, twenty-five feet,
: carrying the engineer and fireman with it,
the fireman being somewhat bruised. The
{ baggage car was tipped up on its side
The passengers were uninjured.
AT the annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Rutland and Woodstock Railroad
Company Monday, these directors were
chosen; lockwood Barrett, j. w. Cramton
l.. G.. Kingsley and w. c. Dunton, ID. w
Taylor of Sherburne, Warren G. French
+ and f. n. Billings of Woodstock. The di,
rectors organized by electng Mr.. Barrett
president and General Kingsley clerk
BUSINESS is brisk at the Fairbanks scale
( works pf the bpin0 ODlippu
work nights in order to keep up with the
orders. The regular business of the works
: is decidedly improved, while an unusual
' number of special orders for large railroad
scales and large hay scales are in hand
Between $500 and 5000 business letters Were
received by the company in September and
, all the straws point to improved business
a now and still greater gains in the immedi-
' ate future. Caledonidn.
l IT will be remembered that Mr.. John p
{ Howard bequeathed the sum of 100000, in
3 his will, for the erection of a building for q
3 girls department of the Vermont Episco
+ pal Institute, on the condition that the ad
( ditional sum of $4,000 should be raised fol
5 the endowment of The girls school, by the
10th of October, 1886. A subscription fol
t the endowment has accordingly been in
circuation and we are happy to announce
B.. thas the needed sum of $4,000 has been Sc
{ cured which will make Mr.. Howard's be
p quest binding. 1t is understood Mr.. Julius
, | VI, NOytS ol new 1OTh sun
: scribed the considerable amount needed
: Free Press.
b. Mr.. HAZEN sold his yoke of big oxen fol
5 $500 to Bella Hastings and Sherburne Moore
3 who took them to Boston the same day to eX
: hibt them at the big fair of the Bay State Ag
ircultural Association They expect to eX
/ hibit them in different places for some time
Q to come. Since the above was writer
Y Messrs. Moore and Hastings have rented
the cattle to a company for exhibition fol
e four weeks, the owners receiving 500 {
f week, which is fairly good interest on theil
f investment The managers of the fair Offered
: them 500 for exhibiting the cattle for two
; days, but the offer was declined, of course
= 500 being somewhat better than $100.-T
: JohnsburY Republican,.
9 A PARTY of Burlington gentlemen Went
to Nalcour island to witness the operations
of the divers on the Sunken wrecks at thai
e place. The two divers were sent thither by
{ Brandon man, to see what they could recover
S from this ancient hulk that has been burieC
# underneath the wave for so many years
i For about two days they had been at work
i and had recovered quantities of bullets
$ cannon balls, and bar shot, all of which
e show that our primitive grandfathers didn't
e fight for fun simply. The bar shot espe
y cially would do terrible execution. Many
n old-fashioned silver spoons were found,
# much resembling the ladies of to-day. II
n is not supposed that much of use was dis
J. covered, though the divers were reticent as
l.: to their finds The customs authorities