The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-12
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THE body of John Beknap of St. Johns
bury, drowned last week, has been found,
after protracted search, only five rods be-
low the dam. 1t was in thirty feet of water
and partly covered with sawdust and sand.
During his lifetime he put thousands of new
knife-blades into old handles Belknap's
blades were widely known for their superior
excellence.
GARDNER W1NsLow of Pomfret has an
interesting aud much-prized relic of the
revolutionary war. His maternal grand
father, while Continental soldier in that
war, met a British soldier whom he had
known in England and they exchanged
powder-horns. The one in Mr.. Winslow's
possession is rudely carved and bears the
inscription, " His horn, John Orr, 1880"
CANDIDATES for the Bellows Falls post
Office have been springing up since the
election by a sort of a mushroom growth.
The term of the present incumbent does not
expire for nearly two years, but the hungry
aspirants, realizing that the early bird
catches the worm, have taken time by the
forelock The more prominent candidates
are G.. f. Morgan, G. e. Capron annd G. f.
Meacham.
THE South Congregational church of st.
Johnsbury, on which about $4,000 has been
expended during the past four months, was
occupied for the first time Sunday. II is
tastefully frescoed, with coored glass win
dows, four of which are memorials for
James X, Colby, Ephraim Jewett, Joseph
p. Fairbanks and Thaddeus Fairbanks.
The elegant chandelier was the gift of the
late Miss Emma Taylor.
JUDGE TYLER has served an injunction
on the trustees of the village of St. Johns
bury to restrain them from carrying out the
contract with the Thompson Houston Com
pany for lighting the village. The grounds
are that the trustees exceeded their au-
thority; that the contract is illegal and void /;
| that the trustees are interested parties, in
| asmuCh as they are owners in the power to
be used which they leased to the above
| company.
A SERIOUS accident occurred last Saturday
at the River street railroad crossing in Rut-
land Mrs. Timothy Leary of Shrewsbury,
who was walking across the track, was
struck and knocked down by train switch
ing. Her left arm was crashed by the wheels
| passing over it just above the wrist The
| njured limb was amputated, but her re-
covery is doubtful, as she is over sixty
| years of age and the accident has proved a
severe shock to her system.
A sMAsH-UP occurred to a freight train on
the st. Johnsbury & Lake Champlan
railroad last Saturday. A wheel on one of
the cars broke, throwing it off the track.
Seven other cars followed their leader -
and after jogging merrilv along on the ties
for about two hundred yards and strewng
the track with debris, went over steep EN-
bankment and made kindling-wood of them
selves in the ditch below. The damage is
estimated at $4,000 or more.
THE Grand Isle people want the earth,
with a fence around it painted in three
Colors Within the last eight years the
| Grand Isle people have had S57 900 of the
states money, and even now they are not
satisfied No one blames the Grand Isle
people for wanting another bridge to con-
meet them with the mainland but look at
| Brattleboro; she needs, sorely, too, bridge
across the Connecticut river, but is obliged
to furnish a share of the money to build it.
One thing is sure. and that is that the pas
sage of the Grand Isle bridge bill was due
to trading and log-rolling. - Bennington
| Banner.
Two Ryegate young men, possessed with a
laudable desire to visit their " best girls -
and make favorable impression, apointed
their locks with turpentine, supposing it to
be Embarrassing. The young ladies' olfac-
| tories were more sensitive than their own,
and they met with far from cordial recep,
ton. Some years ago, in another town, a
loafer of the species which afflcts nearly
every country village was in the habit OF
spongng his hair-dressing at the village
store. One evening, wishing, as he said, to
look feroshus,' he freely used the same
old bottle. But the boys had put up a
job i" on him and had filed it with mucilage
Reader, draw on your imagination for the
sequel
In General.
THE wife of Jay Gould is very i'll and it is
feared she will not recover
Two of old Hutch's" clerks have alb
seconded with $4,000 of his money.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY of Illinois is receiving
many threatening letters, presumably from
anarchists.
THE skeleton of a man has been found in
the woods about sex en- miles from Hart
ford, Conn.
The cut rates on west-bound freights will
cease in a few days and the old rates will
be resumed.
SEVERAL Canadian towns were shaken W
on Friday last by an earthquake shock
which lasted about a minute.
JOHN BRIGHT is gradually growing
weaker. He had a shivering fit on Sunday
which greatly exhausted him.
THE republican county committee of New
York has almost unanimously expelled
John j. O'Brien from the committee.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt at various
points in the Province of Quebec last Fri
day, but no material damage was done.
GENERAL HARRIsoN's daily mail has
reached enormous proportions. He re
cieves about five hundred letters daily.
THE lawless gang called "White Caps -
has served notices upon houses of ill-fame
III Lima, ONO, tnat tney must leaVe town.
THE Troy Press, of which Governor .
George e. Eaton was part owner and one o.
its editors, has been bought by republican
The reports of domestic infelicity in the
royal Cleveland family at Washington are
Indignantly denied by Mrs. Secretary Whit
ney.
GEORGE |. ROCKWELL who is said to have
been the oldest hotel man in the country
died the other day at the age of eighty
years.
RAILWAY train collded with Detroit
street car the other day, demolishing it and
severely injuring ten of its passengers
Five will probably die.
THE director of the French copper syn
dictate has written to a mining journal de-
NAL of the accusation of incendiarism in the
Calumet and Hecla fire.
BRITISH steamer arriving from Zanzibar
reports a lively fight with the insurgents
The town of Bagameys, the scene of the
conflict, is a total wreck.
THERE are reports Of great distress in al
parts of Ireland, and many of the inhabit
ants are asking for contributions to enable
them to go to South America.
SPAIN is to have new cabinet. The
queen regent has intrusted Senior Sagasta
IL.