The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-08
Weekly News Summary.


postmaster at Peru.
THE St. Adams board of trade demand
lower insurance rates,
CARRIE NJ. POTTER has been appointed
postmstress at Belvidere Corner.
AN inmate of the house of correction has
made a life-like statue of Dickens in marble.
CORRESPONDENT throughout the state
continue to report cases of diphtheria and
deaths therefrom.
MRS. II. G. LUCAS of st. Johnsbury has
canary which, it is said, whistles tunes as
nicely as any boy.
THE trial of Francis Wells, aged seventy
four of East Burke for arson resulted in
verdict of not guilty.
REV. G. S. PRATT, formerly of st. Adams.
has been called to the rectorship of st.
James Episcopal church at Arlington.
A Sundays search for Michael Ryan of
Fairlee, who disappeared the night of the
storm, has given no clue of his whereabouts.
ST.. ALBANs will celebrate its centennial
on July % next If sufficient encouragement
is given to those who have originated the
movement.
REV. ALBERT j. DUTToN and wife Of Roy
alton have assumed charge of the Home for
Discharged and Disabled Clergymen in
birmingham, Mass.
The dwelling-house, shed and barns OF An
drew Wilmot of Union Village were burned
early Friday morning. Loss and origin I'M
known. Insured for 81 200
CHARLES e. HoADLEY, proprietor Of the
novelty or turned wood-works in Benning-
ton, has failed, with liabilities of about S26-
600 and assets of about $4,000.
VERMONT prisoners of the late war
have formed an organization, with ID. j.
Stafford of Morrisville president and John
f. Drenan of Hardwick as secretary.
RUTLAND is in imminent danger Ola water
famine, because of the excessive waste dur
ing the last few months by those who allow
the water to run continually to prevent its
freezing.
THESE patents have been issued to Yer
monters; II. j. Hotchkiss, South Ryegate,
mop wringer; j. A. Rouse, East Berkshire,
threshing machine; f. p. Moorhouse, Ben
nington, two patents on bottle stopper.
MALIGNANT scarlet fever is raging at
Thetford. One death is reported and sew
eral others are in a critical condition. The
inhabitants are intensely excited and there
are no school or church services.-F'ree Press
Dispatch.
THE executive committee of the prohibit
ton party of Vermont have accepted an in
vitation from the prohibition club of Mid
dlcbury to hold their state convention in
that place. The conference will be held
February a..
REV. GEORGE f. HUNTING, d. D., native
of Milton in this state, who was recently
elected to the presidency of the Alma
| (Mich.) College, has received a fattering
offer-S5,000 year-to assume the presi-
dency of a college in Oregon.
| A YOUNG man registering as from " Mont, !"
supposedly Montgomery, Ala, bought $3.50
worth of silks at Lyman & Aliens, Burling-
ton, on January 81 and then forgot to come
after them. 1t is thought he had a swindle
on foot but was frightened out of it.
THE Burlington 81 Lamoille railroad was
! h1pplxaI with from the o1th tp ia OStb
the towns of Cambridge, Underhill Jericho
and Essex on this road being cut off from all
mail facilities and rail communication with
the outside world for nearly five days.
THE oldest veteran at the Grand Army
encampment was Private Loren w. Young
of Post Chamberlin, st. Johnsbury, who is
in his eighty-fourth year. Mr.. Young en-
listed in Company d, First Vermont Cav
airy, October 2S, 1861, being then tifty-eight
years old.
AMoRETTE WHITNEY, widow of the late
Mather Adams, who was a prominent and
wealthy Marlboro farmer, committed suicide
by poisoning last week at the home of her
had been in poor health and respondent for
year past
IT is the intention of the contractor to
push the Bennington battle monument to
the height of 80 feet the coming year. a
! large force of men are at work this winter
III SntuS near lnt DdSe Ol lIt IlNlulHtul
cutting stone ready for the resumption of
work on the structure in the spring.
GEORGE A. PAYNE, deputy sheriff of Gale
donia county, brought to the house of cor
rection last week Jennie NJ. Hopkins SEN
fenced for three years for grand larceny in
converting hired horse and carriage last
fall, which she had hired at Sherbrooke
Canada The sentence was according to a
plea of guilty and without the advice OF
counsel. The prisoner is sixteen years OF
age.
Mrs. BISHOP of Readsboro apparently
died, it is said, the other day. She is eighty
years old and feeble. The body was arrayed
for the last rites, but in twelve hours SHE
returned to consciousness and is now con
valescent, She stated that she visited the
other world and there saw her deceased
husband and other friends who had gone
before. The occurrence has created a sen
sation in that locality.
JONATHAN ADAMS of st. Johnsbury East has
a cow three-quarters Jersey, from which he
has made since April /, 1887, 40 pounds o.
butter, sold go quarts of milk and used wha
milk and cream his family of two person.
needed. The cows feed has been grass in
summer and hay in winter, with the addi-
ton of one quart of corn-meal daily when
feed was short in summer and two quarts o
meal daily in winter.-CdtedOnidn
A REUNION of the Tenth Vermont Volun
teers was held in st. Johnsbury February
l. A goodly number were present. Majo
Valentine of Bennington was elected presi
dent and DR.. L. j. Foster of Waterbury
secretary. Lieutenant III. W. Kingsley OF
Rutland Colonel u. NJ. Mansur of Island
Pond, Captain l.. G. Leavins of Berkshire
and Captain j. S. Thompson of Lyndon
were elected a committee to plan for and cal
the next meeting.
The minutes of the Vermont Baptist ami
versaries for 1887 show that there art
600 people in the state who habitually
absent themselves from religious services
There are $50 evangelical churches in tn,
state. 1t is stated that 100 Baptist churches
have become extinct, though in more thar
30 cases new churches were organized
Guilford once had 400 Baptists and the town
of SALISBURY 4i0. Other denominations
are said to have suffered loss.
THE state monument to be erected on thu
Gettysburg battlefield will be a copy of tn,
Nelson monument in Trafalgar Square. Tn
contract for it has been awarded TO Carried
Brothers of st. Johnsbury, and it will COS
$4,000. The monument proper will stan'
fifty feet high. The base, twenty feet squar
and nearly two feet high, is massive blocl
of granite, the die of Barre granite, and tn
fiuted column twenty-nine feet long, o
Dummerston granite, with a carved cap.
IT is told that lively drummer for a Rostol
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