The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-24
Summary Of News.
Vermont.

netted over $1,000.
THE Bennington battle monument has
reached the height of 106 feet.
HENRY w SIMoNDs' house in Guilford
was burned Wednesday evening. Loss
5000; Insured for $4,000.
HORACE ELLSWORTH house and barn in
East Fletcher were burned on Tuesday with
all their contents. Loss $500.
THE st. Johnsbury post-office is to be
moved down to Railroad street. The Plain
people take it with Christian resignation.
Mrs. SARAH A. DAVIS committed suicide
at Richford, on Wednesday, by drowning.
She had previously attempted to take her
life by hanging.
f. A. ASHLAND has been appointed by
Governor Dillingham; justice of the peace
for the town of st. Adams in place of c. ID.
Rublee resigned.
THERE are now seventy-two inmates of
the house of correction, of whom ten are
females. Inman, the Poultney murderer,
is there, awaiting trial.
WHILE the fruit crop in most sections of
Vermont IA reported to be light, reports
from Grand Isle county indicate a large
crop and of good quality.
THE Universalists of St. Johnsbury are at
last out of debt and have a surplus in the
treasury. They have been struggling six
teen years to accomplish this.
r. ID. CLARK of Addison has returned
from Australia, where he went to sell sheep.
He sold several as high as 81 900 each to an
Australian who has large fiocks.
j. E. Fox of Burlington has been APP
pointed by Commander-in-Chief Abbott of
the Sons of Vererans a member of the staff
for Vermont, with the rank of colonel.
THE superb residence of DR.. w. Seward
Webb at Shelburn caught fire Monday morn
ing, but the flames were soon extinguished
by the doctors own hose and hydrants.
BY amendment OF its constitution, the
Vermont Medical Society will hold its meet
ings in Montpelier and Burlington alter
nately-at Montpelier in legislative years.
ALBERT DUqUETTE of Bridport aged
nineteen, shot himself through the head
few days ago, and died in half an hour. 1t
is thought it was caused by some love affair.
L. B. SCOTT secretary of the Rutland
Young Mems Christian Association, will
read paper on " Railroad Men, Organized
and Unorganized,' at the coming state con-
vention of the associations.
BURGLARS entered the jewelry store of
f. A. Hubbard in Brattleboro, Wednesday
night, and carried away some $500 worth
of plated ware which was afterward found
concealed in the freight-house.
GOVERNOR DILLINGHAM; has appointed
Sidney E. Russell of Charlotte as justice of
the peace to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the death of ID. w Hazard. His term of
office expires December l, 1888.
THE family of Leon Pinard of st. Johns
bury has been poisoned by eating canned
fish. His four year-old girl died, but a nine
year-old boy will recover. The can was
opened three days before the contents were
eaten; hence the poisoning.
IT is now denied by Governor Proctor
and others said to be interested that they
have ever had any intention of building
railway from Rutland to Greenwich, n. Y,
between the Bennington q Rutland and
the Delaware & Hudson roads.
FRIDAY morning the New York night
express ran off the iron just after leaving
Shelburn, breaking ties and rails for sew
eral rods. No serious damage was done,
though there would have been if the train
had been running at full speed.
THE following have been chosen direct
ors of the Vermont and Canada railway:
Jed p. Clark of Milton, j. Gregory Smith
of St. Adams, Edward G. Smith of st. AL
bans, Thomas II. Perkins of Boston, Will
lam G. Shaw of Burlington, Augustus Russ
of Boston.
WHILE out hunting near Miles Pond in
Concord the other day a Mr.. Couture saw
something moving in the bushes. Suppos-
ing it was fox, he fred 1t proved to be
his neighbor Mr.. Gilman. who received the
entire charge-over fifty shot. He was
punctured in many places, but will recover.
AS the Montreal train was approaching
Newport station last Friday, Mrs. Aikens
fell from the rear platform and suffered the
fracture of an arm and was badly shaken
up She was the wife of the son of eX-
Acknowledgements Aikens of Manitoba
and was on her way to visit her father in
Stanstead, member of the Dominion par
lament.
A FIRE in Gaysville. Monday afternoon,
totally destroyed the Gaysvile Manufac-
turing Companys mill and f. b. Kmball's
Ctgr Hla lngs an mill &c in,
sured for 100000. Kimball's loss is $4,000:
insured. The stock in the company is
owned by Chester Downer of Sharon, AL
bert Brooks and f. p. Holden of Bethel,
E. b. Kimball and Nelson Gays estate
of Gaysville.
Ex-Governor HENDEE, receiver of the
defunct Vermont National Bank, st. AL
bans, has secured judgment in the United
States court against certain Vermont banks
which had refused to pay assessments as
stockholders. He announces dividend of
twenty-five per cent, payable November l,
making an aggregate of sixty and one
half per cent 1t is hoped that the claims
will be paid nearly in full.
The six cantons of the department of Ver-
mont, Patrarchs Militant |. o. o. F., are
about to be organized into a two-battaion
regiment, to be commanded by lieutenant
colonel and two majors. An election for
these officers is to be held at the Odd Eel
lows hall in Rutland, October 26, at two
o'clock in the afternoon. Those entitled to
vote are the commissioned officers of the
cantons and the grand canton.
In regard to the recent dismissals, with
out warning, of so many Central Vermont
conductors, the officials of the road state
that it is not customary with them to give
the reasons for dismissal but that the men
can ascertain by applying at headquarters.
All this savors of the methods of a certain
African monarch who, after ordering a sub
ject's head to be cut off, would afterward
enquire into the merits of the case.
AT the hearing by the railroad commits
sioners in the Swanton railway accident,
the board found substantially these facts !:
Stephen Asetine, on August Goth, was
driving his horse in lumber-wagon from
his home to his farm. Reaching the rail-
way crossing he found it INSTRUCTED by a
freght-train at rest. Soon the train
started. He had driven nearly across when
the train struck his wagon, breaking it up
somewhat. The road is quite narrow at the
point of crossing and teams on the east side
cannot readily be seen. The board decided
"a That he was delayed at the crossing an
unreasonable length of time; (2) That when
the train drew up as it did he had right to
assume that il had started on and was JUS
tilted in attempting TO cross. The decision
~ ha hot no mill